MAG Official Box Art + Statistics from the Beta

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We’ve been exceedingly grateful to those of you who participated in our MAG beta tests over the last several months and couldn’t be happier with how everything turned out.

Naturally, with the end of our beta cycle, comes the countdown to our final release on January 26, and what better way to start that countdown than to reveal the final, “official” box art that you’ll find in the United States and Canada. Have a gander!

MAG Packfront Final!

Pretty sweet isn’t it? Yeah, we like it too.

Now that you know what to look for in the future, let’s go back to the past for a moment and talk about some interesting information we gathered over the last month.

  • More than 42,000 matches were played over the course of the full public beta (August 17 – December 5).
  • During October’s beta period alone nearly 534,000+ miles were traveled in-game by MAG players each week.
  • During the final month of the Beta 4 and 4.5 periods (November 9 – December 5):
    • Of the more than 65,000 players that logged on, 17,000 of them qualified for Squad Leader, 3500 people qualified for Platoon Leader, 1100 folks made it all the way to OIC, and 206 dedicated warriors made it all the way to the level 60 experience cap.
    • Nearly 18 million kills were made and an excess of 700 million shots were fired.
    • The Top 3 most played maps all belonged to the Sabotage mode. They were, in order, Syr Darya Uplink, Darien Network, and Copper Hills Relay.
  • You can check out some of our dedicated Beta tester all-stars over on the Official MAG Blog.

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  • I like the box art.

  • Looks good! Great choice!

  • Loved the beta. Not too fond of the box. Looks too cluttered.

  • Great stuff. but certain two PMCs will be pissed :)

  • first person box art.

  • Woo… looks great i played in the beta and can’t wait for MAG to come out.

  • Great Box Art!, When is this set to be relased? And is this a 1st or 3rd person shooter?

  • sexy!

  • *Rushes to wallet* “TAKE ALL OF IT!”

  • Looks like a 10 min collage in photoshop.

  • If you don’t like the box art something is wrong with you, from someone who does a lot of photoshopping and works with graphics that is one fine looking box cover. Also there is an error in that blog post, no such thing as “700, 000 million” should be read as “700 billion”.

  • I don’t care…. GET BACK TO SOCOM !!!

  • Nvm Jan. 26

  • Nice box art.

  • nice cover, I just hope the support for the game is as good as it should be. hopefully they have new maps and modes and don’t charge an arm and a leg for them

  • @MR_Shank

    It’s all subjective, regardless of your “photoshopping” skill.

    Personally I don’t like the cover at all, its campy, cluttered and looks like it belongs on the cover of a 70’s war movie, or perhaps just the new GI Joe movie.

    And for your information, there IS such a thing as Seven Hundred Thousand Million, look it up, not everyone lives in the USA.

  • You guys had better get those servers ready for nuclear holocaust, ’cause when this game crumples under the pressure on day one (like every other PS3 game), you’re gonna take it in the rear. Don’t wait for it to happen!

  • Thats pretty epic. kinda reminds me of the Crysis box art. Hopefully the server matchmaking is ALOT better/faster and the game tells you what you need to do better. Can’t wait

  • MAG is a definite buy for me :)

  • that box art SCREAMS EPIC and runs at you with a rambo knife

  • As a Graphic Designer, something is throwing me off.

    I like the First person Perspective idea, but the Giant behind MAG, has to go….

    I would have enjoyed maybe a Heli with soldiers rappelling out of it better than the big dude that is killing the perspective.

  • Hmmm… I’ve heard mixed feelings about the beta. I have not yet played it myself so I will wait to see the reviews.
    The concept is awesome but being able to pull it off is what matters.
    Skeptical yet curious.

  • Can’t wait. Is there a possibility this will be a downloadable game as well as disc based? Cuz I love not having to get out of my recliner.

  • Ouch, that cover sucks.

  • Ok maybe not rappelling, maybe try to show off more of the game assets, like Paratrooper support.

  • why is the cover a Raven one XD

  • I think you guys should keep the 256 player multiplayer on the underline of MAG. Let the shopper know what this games about, otherwise I would think its just another war game

  • Thats a awesome cover for a awesome game! Iam so excited for the full game to be released. That 9 vs 9 game (mw2) is so ****ing boring compaired to this. Anywho keep up the good work and Thanks for the beta!

  • What is the price point?

  • I didn’t get to play the demo but hopefully this game brings something new to the genra!

  • k ill buy mag if it has a better game install system took to long to update than had to restart bc it would get stuck at 90% than i didn’t like it took long to join a game than respawns sucked

  • The part that says online multi-player only should be inbetween the ‘only on PlayStation’ and ‘Playstation Network’ parts, then it would look a bit more organised, although it is a great box art to start off with.

  • Great game, horrible name. I’ll be buying Massive Action Game day one.

  • MAG isnt so bad..but its not all that..yeah 256 at the same time is intense but its also wierd.Also i didnt see any deathmatch capture the flag or free4all options…so im not really impressed.:/ as far as the art cover it look fantastic..just hope the game is too :p

  • Does this game allow you to fly the helicopters/jets, etc?

    Or drive in vehicles?

  • Soo… Raven gets to be on the cover? How’d that decision get made? Final beta stats?

  • Ha, I guess you can’t please everyone. After all, this box art was made by the company that made them game. It wasn’t made by you, I think the company could put pretty pink flowers all over it and I would still like it. Just because YOU don’t like it doesn’t mean its bad.
    MAG was fun, I enjoyed the beta, and I will enjoy the game after release. Don’t listen to these losers, there is a reason they aren’t the ones making video games. :)

  • good to see the games crummy FOV made it into the box art :)

  • I forgot to ask, will this game also get a PSN release? A game like this, I’d much prefer having it installed so I can boot it whenever I like.

    • Sorry rbanke, it will be disc-based only. But trust us, the game is so huge when moving everything off-disc, your hard drive is secretly thanking us.

  • First the boxart, then the battlefield. Raven shall rule it all!!! Muhwahaha!!

  • Love the box art and also enjoyed the beta… there are too many good games. :(

  • The box art is the best part of the game. xD

  • Why you remove “massive action game” sub title?

  • @16 please explain what you mean by “crmbles under the pressure on day one like every other ps3 game” i can only recall MW1.5 doing that.give me a list of “every other ps3 game” please??????

  • This is one of the best Multiplayer FPS games on the market that isn’t on the market yet. Call of Duty needs to watch out, the amount of focus on actually being tactical and working as a team will take away those grenade chucking rambo idiots. This game ROCKS thanks for the hard work Zipper!

  • looks like i’ll be getting this for my B day: Feb 10. Love the box art!

  • @32

    I feel bad, but i kind of agree.
    “Massive action game” sounds kinda corny, but at least they abbreviated it to make it sound cooler.

  • Havent played the game. Dont like the cover. Looks like a poster for some indian movie. Too much going on! Look at CoD and MoH covers. Much better and simpler.

  • Thanks Zipper for this great game, guys keep doing new projects, and forget about SOCOM, it was a good game, but its dead now.

  • MAG ownes SOCOM its still was beta and accomplished overwhellming expections too me… I stopped playing my socom game for this MAG was awesome dont let it get as bad as socom is now th campers end the camping please!!!

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