PlanetSide 2 is a
free-to-play massively multiplayer online first-person shooter published by
Daybreak Game Company and released on November 20, 2012. It is a sequel of
PlanetSide which originally was released in 2003. Officially announced on July 7, 2011 at the Sony Fan Fair, the second installment used a new game engine, supported thousands of players in continuous large scale conflict, and featured in-game integration with
Twitch.tv. As in the first
PlanetSide,
PlanetSide 2 chronicles the efforts of three factions as they fight for territorial control of the planet Auraxis.
PlanetSide 2 was released for the
PlayStation 4 in North America on June 23, 2015.
PlanetSide 2 holds the
Guinness World Record for the biggest first-person shooter battle with 1158 players in a single battle.