but if i had to choose, i would say MAG.

MW2. "host" servers. if the "host" aka a normal player leaves the game (since hes getting owned, since his mommy called him in for dinner, since his ps3 froze, since he went out to the mall, for whatever reason) the fcuking game just ends. thats right. it just ends mid game. u go back to the lobby and restart with a new "host". i cant tell u how fcuking gay that is. well, i can try. its very gay. on top of that, theres the 50% chance that u will get connected to a "host" that lives in Siberia or Alaska or Tazmania or wherever is very very far from YOUR home, and u will lag. its just dumb. to be perfectly honest, i would say that i had to quit out of 40-50% of the games i played in because i had less then 3 connectivity bars. i never played on less than 3/4. even at 3, its a bit laggy. only 4 bars ensures a stable game. just sooo nerve racking and time consuming to keep having to quit out of games, find a new host, and even if u have a stable game u run the chance of him pussying out and quitting.... to repeat this endless cycle.

i did very much enjoy COD4 though, when i had a stable connection and a non-pussified host. but its just too much hassle. u can see how difficult it is just for ONE player to find a stable game, so u can just FORGET ABOUT trying to ever organize anything involving several clan members. different locations. 1 guy will have 4 bars. 2 guys will have 3 bars. and the rest will be stuck with 1-2 bars of shitty lag. the more i recall my experiences, the more im so NOT looking forward to doing it again. not only this, Infinity Ward could give a rats ass about PS3. they had terrible customer support. they never wrote on the official forums. they barely fixed any problems. and they are gonna be the same for MW2. F-that. great graphics. great game mechanics. great weapons and sound effects. shitty servers. shitty support. no thanks.

i dont know much about MAG though other than the few vids ive watched. they are trying to break everything down into squads of 8. so that its not a total noob fest ala "swarm the bacon!" and having everyone run to the same place. i will be interested to know how things work out, though. im rooting for them. if they can make that many ppl work on their servers, it will put every game before them to shame. it will make MW2 look like fcuking idiots for not even being able to get a few dozen players lag free, when they have 256 players doing it. a very difficult task though. and what if alot of players DO come together in one place on the map? how will that work out. maybe they make it so that will never happen. i dunno. too many unknown variables for me to invest into this game. what will the gameplay be like? graphics?

will post later about battlefield bad company. getting tired. sry for long post.

So i am really pushing for mag, will see what happens...

its hard to take your opinions too seriously. (a lover of KZ2 and hater of COD4 *lag notwithstanding)

ive already made my mind anyway on BBC2. unless Electronic Arts decides to remove a bunch of included features or push back the release date by months and months, there is not much to swerve me from buying the game.

MAG sounds fun, that is if teams actually work together. but that hardly ever happens in my experience, thats why i opt for BBC2. great fun to be had in 2-4 man teamwork.

Answers regarding Kuzu's questions. There are vehicles, the beta only has two of which people can drive. I'm going to vaguely answer the question about the perks and ranking. There is a skill "tree". As for noobs, you can tell who the noobs are, lol. One thing you may hate Kuzu, is the sound for the sniper rifles. I'm pretty sure that's how they sound in real life because knowing Zipper they like the weapons to be authentic, but it sounds like an air soft gun or paintball gun, lol. Sniping is hard shit, if you thought sniping in Killzone is hard wait until you play MAG.

thx though. if u change ur mind on telling us more secrets, could u tell me about the # of players in a game? i mean, do u usually play in full games of 256? or what has the setup been like so far?

and double lol@"killzone being hard to snipe".. that game is the easiest game in the world to snipe in! u get a target, that stays with the enemy. u can zoom in on someone indefinitely (no holding breath). and the 5x scope is extremely helpful. (speaking of sniping, i went 312/63 last night, sniping only. FUN TIMES).

yah i love sounds. KZ2 sniper rounds are pretty good, but the rest of the weapons suck balls.

and i totally agree with u about COD4s lag. that was the main factor in ruining what, to me, was a very very fun game. but that one factor makes me not want to get the game. i also agree COD4 was very much a solo-mans game. *because of the lag, it meant i couldnt team up with clanmates anyways, thus forcing me back in the lone-wolf cycle). it was a very up-close, run 'n gun type game. which i liked *cuz i was good at it. but now i want to focus on sniping, in a game with huge maps, with tons of weapons to chose from.

The closed beta does not offer match types with the full 256 players, but they do offer 128. I'll tell you how the system works when the open beta arrives on Sept. 17, lol.