Planetside 2

1. What is Planetside 2? PlanetSide 2 is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online first-person shooter published by Sony Online Entertainment and released on November 20, 2012.
2. What genre does the game belong to? Massively multiplayer online first-person shooter game
3. Planetside 2 developer/publisher: Sony Online Entertainment 
4. When was it launched? November 20, 2013

1. What are the six different player classes in the game? 

• The Infiltrator is a sniper class with special abilities of cloaking and hacking, and can use sniper rifles, scout rifles and submachine guns to deliver a devastating effect.

• The Combat Medic is a healing class. Their weapons include assault rifles, shotguns and submachine guns. The Combat Medic's special abilities allows them to heal and resurrect other players.

• The Engineer class has the special ability of repairing vehicles, turrets, and MAX Units. The engineer also has the ability to build anti-infantry and anti-vehicle turrets. The Engineer's weapons include carbines, shotguns submachine guns and battle rifles.

• The MAX class has a mobile armored suit that allows them to take significant damage before dying. However, due to the suit they are also the slowest class. They have access to anti-infantry, anti-vehicle, and anti-air weapons. Max units cost resources to use.

      7. What is the story or narrative to the game?  PlanetSide 2 is a science fiction massively multiplayer online first-person shooter set approximately 300 years after the discovery of Auraxis, although the chronology of the game universe starts a few years before. After the Earth has nearly come to ruin following a devastating war, the world's governments came to a consensus and united under one banner: the world-wide Terran Republic (TR). Some time later a wormhole, one which scientists fail to explain, appears and then disappears without a trace. Ex-President of the Terran Republic, Tom Connery, believes that the wormhole is a sign of existing extraterrestrial life and launches several space expeditions.

The three factions

The Terran Republic: Honer, justice and duty

The Vanu Sovereignty: Strengths, intelligence and wisdom

The New Conglomerates: Payback, oppression and freedom

Planetside 2: Target audience

• The target audience for Planetside 2 could potentially range from 18 - 35 years old
• 80% male and 20% female
• Social class: mainly middle class
• Students in college and university
• Towns and cities
• ABC1 demographic

The Terran Republic- Mainstream- ABC1 demographic - requires tactics

The Vanu Sovereignty- Resigned- ABC1 Demographic; requires new technology and education/employment

The New Conglomerates- Succeeder's- Age 18 - 24 - rebels especially as this game focuses on this particular aspect. Doesn't necessarily require someone to be in employment

What is the story or narrative to the game?

Planetside 2 is a re-imagining of Planetside, featuring the same world, factions and taking place at roughly the same time period. As in the previous game, it features territory control in an open-world, large battles featuring up to 2000 players per continent on foot or in land/air vehicles. The territory system differs greatly from that of the original, being more free-form and based on a hexagonal territory control system. SOE has been taking into account balance issues from the first game. As stated by creative director Matthew Higby, they reward combatants on lower population empires through mechanics such as proportionally increased advancement rates and resources to aid the balance of overall empire saturation on each server as much as possible without force-restricting players from being able to play with their friends.