It’s also useful for floating down from high ledges without taking falling damage or drifting down to safety from the pilot seat of doomed aircraft or accessing rooftops to crouch down and pick off unsuspecting enemies running around below. The Light Assault class’ jetpack, for instance, can lift you over a rock in the landscape to escape incoming fire. While that may not sound too exciting, each class is far more versatile than they might seem at first. The Medic heals and revives, the Engineer repairs machines and sets up turrets, the Heavy Assault class gets light machine guns and can use rockets to fight back against enemy vehicles. The basic classes should be familiar to any shooter fan. While that may sound overwhelming, SOE makes it manageable with excellent class design. Victories require not only accurate shots, but intelligent target prioritization, situational awareness and a willingness to work with others and sacrifice personal glory for the benefit of the team. There’s so much room for creativity regarding how you assemble, attack and defend, and so many variables in every fight that keep the action from stagnating, and yet despite the constant mess of explosions and gunfire, the gameplay never feels completely out of control. Or you could give up and go attack a different base. You could sneak into hostile territory with cloaked Infiltrators and hack all of your foe’s vehicle spawner consoles. You could airdrop an attack force right behind the enemy’s front lines. You could roll 30 tanks through a valley to hammer the side of an Amp Station while 20 Light Assault soldiers jetpack over the base’s outer walls. SOE provides the map, the tools and rules for capturing territory, but beyond that the direction of approach, makeup of the attack force and method of assault is entirely up to you and your squad.

PlanetSide 2’s power is that all its frenzied conflicts are player-generated.

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