Killzone 2

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  • Release Date: Feb. 27, 2009
  • Price: $60.00
  • Publisher: SCEA
  • Developer: Guerrilla Games
  • Platform(s): PS3
  • Genre: Action
  • ESRB Rating: Mature
  • Intense Violence
    Strong Language
    Blood and Gore
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Killzone 2 for the PS3 (exclusive) is a first-person shooter. Taking place two years after the Helghast assault on Vekta, the ISA is taking the fight to the enemy's home world of Helghan. The ISA goal is direct: capture the Helghast leader, Emperor Visari, and bring the Helghast war machine to a halt. Assuming the role of Sev, a battle-hardened veteran and a member of the special forces unit known as the Legion, players lead a group of highly trained soldiers on a mission to take out the Helghast threat.

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Pros Cons
Amazing visuals [34] Unresponsive controls [15]
Intense action [26] Poor storytelling [9]
Fantastic multiplayer [16] Doesn't live up to expectations [9]
Addictive gameplay [15] Not enough content [4]
Awesome audio [15] Terrible multiplayer [4]
Just plain fun [12] Repetitive gameplay [3]
Engaging story [7] It's boooring [3]
Innovative concepts [7] Braindead computer AI [2]
Tight controls [5] Lousy camera/viewpoint [2]
Loads of content [4] Annoying audio [2]
Epic boss fights [4]
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Killzone 2 - PS3

Pros Cons
Tight controls Braindead computer AI
Fantastic multiplayer Annoying audio
Amazing visuals  
Awesome audio  
Intense action  
A Gun Made of Lightning!

I'll admit, after a few levels of Killzone 2 I was pretty bored - not the first couple of levels, those are great, but the level after the fight on the bridge, where the bomb is stolen by the Helgast; the level that has you go to a desert in search of an electrical mineral source I believe. Its drab, and brown and has no real climax or remotely exciting moment, worst of all its the longest of all the games segment. When it finally ends you are thrown onto a moving train that isn't not as exciting as it sounds as the background is the same tunnel, crane, tunnel, crane, tunnel, etc. This is where I gave up and stopped playing for four months, it was just so boring - but the other day I decided to give it another go and it was a good decision. Right after you get off the train you enter what maybe the best level in the game: its a simple factory but you get what is quiet possibly the best gun in any game, ever - the lightning gun.

It has an official name, like arc canon or arc gun, but it really is a lightning gun; it fires lightning and has unlimited ammo (though a long reload time as it must recharge by, what appears to be, absorbing the electricity out of the air) it fries you're enemies and makes you pretty much invincible. This is also the level where the story picks back up after getting bogged down in the previous level and has some genuinely engaging scenes. After this the game moves quickly towards its somewhat disappointing ending (its just a set up for a third title so depending on your feelings on set ups you may really enjoy the finale). The journey to the ending though, it great with a mech segment that is a great amount of fun and a final level that is everything an action fan could hope for in a final battle (not the final boss fight, but the courtyard section, though the fight was fun).

The first few levels are also good but are plagued by some terrible dialog from your teammates, who are just obnoxious - again, after the desert and train levels this seems to just disappear. Its the reason why I put "annoying audio" in the cons and "awesome audio" in the pros, its somewhat contradictory I know, but the audio in the level and from the gun fire, and just the overall sound effects are fantastic but the voices from your squad are so distracting that it detracts from the overall feel of the game. Visually, obviously, KZ2 is stunning, great lighting and effects, but in game cutscenes aren't so good, the characters (except for Garza and Sev - the player) are all really, really, REALLY ugly and poorly animated resulting in some cringe worthy moments when they just look like total sh*t. It leads me to wonder why they chose to do it in-game and not alter it a little (a la RE5) in order to make it look more real, especially when in other scenes these things look perfect. Its a minor nitpick though, and arguably more personal than a real criticism, I'm sure many wouldn't even notice.

Finally the multiplayer, it was something I couldn't get into (more because of my ear destroying Sony Blue Tooth headset and lack of friends playing than anything else), what I did play however was solid and really entertaining. The on the fly mission structure and tactical but fast paced feel was something I really enjoyed but without any communication (seriously that headset that comes with Socom, and is the official Sony headset feels like its sodomizing my ear, sorry for the vulgarity) I felt lost and couldn't get backup when I was going to complete an objective or coordinate a proper defense during an assassination so I stopped playing. What I did play though was great, awesome level design and a real feeling of war, good stuff.

Overall a great FPS that slips up a little in the middle but picks back up for just a fantastic final act (though its ending feels like more of a tease than a real conclusion...) and has great multiplayer and a gun made of lighting! What more could you want?

Killzone 2 - PS3

Pros Cons
Intense action Poor storytelling
Fantastic multiplayer  
Awesome audio  
Amazing visuals  
Addictive gameplay  
Tight controls  
One of the best games ever!!

This game has REALLY INCREDIBILE grafics, great gameplay, wonderful sound and multiplayer, and it's really infinite!! And Helghast's A.I. is really incredible!!

Killzone 2 - PS3

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Fantastic multiplayer  
KILLZONE 2 IS THE BEST

Killzone 2 - PS3

Pros Cons
Engaging story It's boooring
Amazing visuals Doesn't live up to expectations
Halo Killer?

Halo 3 outselling Killzone 2
184 OXM UK reports that Halo 3 is currently outselling Killzone 2
, some 20 months after Bungie's landmark FPS was released.

Sales data shows that in the battle of the console FPS exclusives, Killzone 2 sold 58,000 units last month while Halo 3 sold "between 57,000 and 74,000 units."

http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/News-331274.aspx

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Killzone 2 - PS3

Pros Cons
Intense action  
Addictive gameplay  
Tight controls  
Fantastic multiplayer  
Loads of content  
Engaging story  
Amazing visuals  
KILLZONE 2 Better Than The First

One of the best games of the year. The weapons the characters are all put into the perfect story. i love killzone 2 i had the first one when i had a PS2 now i have a PS3 i think they should come out with KillZone 3 that would be awsome.

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