Anyone play this yet? It looks like Empires, a HL2 mod I played back in the day, which was pretty fun. The game looks fairly consolized, and I hear the factions aren't well-distributed. Any experiences with it?

I've been looking into this game as a multiplayer alternate to Borderlands coop for me, my dad and my uncles to play.

My friend tried to show me the Beta but it kept giving him an error every time we tried to load it...

Sounds like a lag nightmare though

I've heard lag isn't a problem, server crashes occurred on launch day but it's stabilized now. To compensate, the animations and effects are pretty simplistic and textures are low resolution. I can live with that, but knowing the average console gamer, I'm worried about the staying power of the game. There's a fair bit of Ramboism in the game currently, but I'm sure most of those people will start playing Battlefield: Bad Company 2 when it comes out.

Since picking up a PS3 last month, I've bought MW2, Uncharted 2, Borderlands and I'll be buying Demon's Souls today all as multiplayer games. I don't have time to play all those (most of the time I don't have time to play any) and I don't want to spend $60 on a game that I might not even start playing until the multiplayer community is already dead in the water.

I wish for a game with 240 players on the battlefield. Does it deliver?

I miss the days of Battlefield 1942 with 64 players.

I really should try it.
I agree Echo, I don't get why games have actually shrunk for the most part.

My guess is due to people always wanting better graphics. When you have tons of characters on screen, delivering really Uncharted II, Crysis, or Gears of War II quality graphics is hard to accomplish.

1942s graphics were pretty par for the course at the time, and at times even really good.

I was looking forward to MAG until I found out it was PS3 only which made me sad. :C