The name of the game

In Texas, bigger is always better. So as a proud Texan, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to play Sony's new gigantic first person shooter – MAG (Massive Action Game) on Playstation 3.

MAG allows two hundred and fifty-six players to play simultaneously online. This is huge news for gamers since previous games have been limited to about 16-32 players as the standard (with some games such as Battlefield 2 going as high as 64). MAG takes the futuristic shooter genre into uncharted territory by allowing a massive amount of people to play together in a beautifully rendered world.

The single player story line is about dwindling fuel resources blah blah blah – this is a First Person Shooter. Who cares about story line when you can go online and wreak havoc? With an army this large, you gotta have grunts. Players can fight face to face in the battle with grenades or snipe each other from afar undetected. Alternatively, you can attempt to become the commander – assigning orders and leading a 128 person army.

MAG enables you to customize, upgrade, and personalize the weapons you use in your arsenal, which includes driving destructive vehicles and taking control of stationary turrets that rip through your opponent's pixels. MAG has a few minor glitches right now, but I'm sure they will be fixed soon via a downloadable patch.

If you are a fan of military first person shooters such as Killzone 2 or Call of Duty 4, you should find this ambitious and original game enough to satisfy your shooter cravings. It's like an all you can eat buffet of gunshots, explosions, and multiplayer mayhem, only super sized!