PlanetSide 2 on PlayStation 4 offers complex, rewarding battles — but only if you have time for it

I hated the first few days I spent with PlanetSide 2. I kept getting lost, and I barely lived long enough to figure out what was going on. But all that changed after sticking with it for two weeks.

The free-to-play massively multiplayer online shooter pits thousands of soldiers against each other on the alien world of Auraxis. Instead of fighting on small self-contained maps, players move through four huge continents with dozens of battles happening at any given time. You can make a character based on one of three factions: the Vanu Sovereignty, the Terran Republic, or the New Conglomerate. PC players have been waging war in PlanetSide 2 since 2012, but developer Daybreak Game Company (formerly known as Sony Online Entertainment) recently released the PlayStation 4 version (which I played) on June 23.