Planet-side 2

Use the Planetside 2 Wikipedia entry to answer the following questions:

1. What is Planetside 2?
2. What genre does the game belong to?
3. Planetside 2 developer/publisher:
4. When was it launched?
5. How does the gameplay work?
6. What are the six different player classes in the game?
7. What is the story or narrative to the game?

What is PlanetSide 2:

PlanetSide 2 is a free-to-play massively multi player online first-person shooter published by Sony Online Entertainment and released on November 20, 2012. It is the remake to Planet Side which originally released in 2003. 

What genre does the game belong to:

The genre for this game would be Massively multiplayer online first-person shooter game as it's originally designed for people particularly like them. The game has such qualities that delivers truly epic, massive combat on a scale never before seen in stunning, breathtaking detail which suggests it's also for people who are interested in action games, games that are similar to call of duty Black Ops, Modern Warfare and Battlefield. 

Planetside 2 developers and publishers:
The developers of this game is Sony Online Entertainment and also the publisher is Sony Online Entertainment 

• ^EU ProSiebenSat1 Games (P7S1) which is a company located in United States and Canada.

Launched:
The game planet side 2 was launched on November 20, 2012. It was officially announced on July 7, 2011 at the Sony Fan Fair.

Gameplay: It is a faster paced game than the original PlanetSide and holds the ability to feature potentially thousands of players. It also features familiar first person shooter elements such as sprinting, iron sights, and regenerating shields. An important aspect is that player skill and teamwork are major determiners when it comes to being able to kill other players and overcome opposing teams.

The 6 different player classes are:  

• The Infiltrator- is a sniper class with special abilities of cloaking and hacking, and can use sniper rifles, scout rifles and submachine guns to deliver a devastating effect.
• The Light Assault- class is a scout who uses carbines, submachine guns and shotguns. The Light Assault's special ability is Jump Jets, which allow them to fly through the air for a short period of time.
• The Combat Medic- is a healing class. Their weapons include assault rifles, shotguns and submachine guns. The Combat Medic's special abilities allows them to heal and resurrect other players.
• The Engineer class- has the special ability of repairing vehicles, turrets, and MAX Units. The engineer also has the ability to build anti-infantry and anti-vehicle turrets. The Engineer's weapons include carbines, shotguns submachine guns and battle rifles.
• The Heavy Assault- class has light machine guns, submachine guns, shotguns, batte rifles, and also Rocket Launchers, which are effective at destroying enemy vehicles. They also have the special ability of shields to help them endure heavy fire.
• The MAX class- has a mobile armored suit that allows them to take significant damage before dying. However, due to the suit they are also the slowest class. They have access to anti-infantry, anti-vehicle, and anti-air weapons. Max units cost resources to use.

Story to the game:  

 PlanetSide 2 is a science fiction massively multiplayer online first-person shooter set approximately 300 years after the discovery of Auraxis, although the chronology of the game universe starts a few years before. After the Earth has nearly come to ruin following a devastating war, the world's governments came to a consensus and united under one banner: the world-wide Terran Republic (TR).

Newsflash: PlanetSide 2 was announced for the PlayStation 4 video game console on June 5, 2013. Only last year.