PlanetSide: en duplicación

El esperadísimo FPS multitudinario o­nline de Sony saldrá a la venta este próximo 20 de mayo, es decir que desde ese día la raza podrá crear un alter ego y formar parte de un mega clan en eterno combate por la supremacía del territorio. 
Para los fanas de los first person shooters, es como un sueño hecho realidad. Cabe acotar que el famoso Trinity de John Carmack y su compañía id Software tiene esto último como objetivo, un FPS o­nline, pero PlanetSide llega con cerca de seis meses de adelanto y con todos los chiches tecnológicos necesarios, como comunicación por voz. Los micos de Sony son responsables de esa maravilla en juegos de rol llamada EverQuest. Veremos qué pasa. Ya estamos ahorrando para comprarlo original: ¡ESO hay que fichinear sí o sí!
Pueden leer el boletín de prensa en esta misma noticia. Sony Online Entertainment Inc. (SOE), a worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online gaming, announced that its highly-anticipated massively multiplayer online first-person action game, PlanetSide(tm) will make history when it launches on May 20. The groundbreaking game will allow thousands of players to fight online in an all-hours-of-day global war that has never been seen before in the first-person action genre. The company also announced that it will add squad-based voice chat functionality to PlanetSide, further enhancing the experience of fighting together with a squad and working as a team. PlanetSide will be available on May 20, 2003 in North American retail stores.

“There has never been an online action game as ambitious as PlanetSide. We are combining a game world that can support the fast action of a first person shooter with the character growth, development and scale of an MMORPG,” said Michael Lustenberger, director of product marketing at Sony Online Entertainment. “The result is a truly new and unique experience as players are immersed in battle with thousands of other people from across the country, while they hone their skills and become elite combat units.”

PlanetSide has a suggested retail price of $49.99, which includes a 30-day free trial subscription to the game’s online world. Additionally, the game will carry a monthly subscription fee that will be announced at a later date for continuing access to the game world. Players can subscribe for additional months using a credit card, or purchase PlanetSide 90-day Game Cards, which open the PlanetSide universe to those who choose not to use a credit card.