I miss games like RTCW/ET where you'd have a variety of objective/classes and you can pick out your load-out and work with teammates against another team to win. Sadly, the last decade has been plagued with yearly mediocre BF/CoD games.
This is basically Planetside 2. While capturing each territory ALWAYS comes down to holding points for a certain amount of time, in order to achieve that, you might need to..
- Be an Engineer: Fix generators and emplacements with your repair gun, resupply your troops with ammo, lay down tank mines to destroy enemy vehicles, place down a turret to give them cover, or heal MAX units.
- Be a Medic: heal troops, place down passive healing domes
- Be a Light Assault: Use your enhanced mobility to fly to places others can't get to (which is GREAT for placing a squad beacon) and ether infiltrate enemy territory or provide support from higher angles.
- Be a Heavy: Use your rocket launcher to fight enemies and use your overcharged force field to soak damage.
- Be an Infiltrator: Use your ability to go invisible to stalk the enemy or penetrate their defenses, put down motion tracking darts to keep track of the enemy, or hack enemy turrets/consoles to deny the enemy access or to support your team. Or snipe.
- Be a MAX: Wield the strongest firepower and armor on the field as you trug along.
- Be a pilot: Fly a support fighter to take down harassing fighters... or fly a Liberator to bombard the enemy from the air with cannon fire. How about flying a Galaxy and providing your platoon with a way to airdrop into enemy territory?
- Be a driver: Command a tank to fight enemy units. Use a Harasser to perform quick attacks on the enemy. Or drive the Sunderer, providing your side with a ground based mobile spawn point and possibly a means to repair/rearm their vehicles.
It's a WAR and it's going 24/7, with random ALERTS that provide enhanced experience for contrbuting. Don't like the fight you're currently in? Go to a different territory and start a new front. Things are too intense everywhere on your current continent? Go to one of the other two and try your luck there. There is literally always a fight to be had.
You also have tons of class customization (though it takes certs to get new weapons and those might take a few days/weeks to get if you don't want to buy them). You can pick the kind of armor you want, the kinds of tools you want, the kinds of guns you want and what you want on those guns. You can even customize your vehicles (like my Sunderer has a grenade launcher and a flak cannon, with the ability to give allies ammo and drive through force fields).
The only stuff you HAVE to buy in the game are customization options like camo, different helmets, and some of the specially colored weapons. Everything else can be bought with certs. 1 Cert = 250 XP. You get bonus XP and a discount on everything if you sub though... and subbing gives you full access to several Sony games, including DC Universe Online. It's a good deal if you like their other titles or just want to buy stuff/get XP faster.