I mean, seriously.  Is this game just being forgotten?  Does MW2 completely overshadow it because its the same genre?  Seems like every GOTY list on every site is focusing ONLY on games that were released in the last couple of months.  I guess Batman is the exception.
 
It's a shame because I got many many hours of playtime from this game and it gets zero attention.  I think it was nominated on some of Gamespot's awards but I don't recall it getting anything.  I've seen just a few other people complain about it on this site.  The BEST GRAPHICS award...this game should of instantly been on at least the honorable mention list if not win.  BEST MP, again should of at the very least been nominated (of course expect MW2 to win).
 
Yes, it's all opinion but it's a shame when a deserving game gets completely left in the dark and after receiving great reviews (5 stars here and not even a mention when GOTY comes around?)
 
Just thought it deserved some attention...even if just on a forum by someone whining.

I don't think it has i think people have forgotten about it and thought like it came out in 08 or something.

Overall I feel the game has been ignored by everyone (not just GOTY awards).  Best FPS I've played in years (in terms of single player gameplay, level design and such) and it's getting mostly overlooked.

Trine and Bowser's Inside Story both got five stars here. They haven't gotten a mention as far as I know.  
 
I guess it just didn't stick with the guys. If they truly thought it was GotY material they wouldn't have forgotten about it, they'd have been playing it and  talking about it throughout the year. Obviously they feel it wasn't deserving.

I find it unfortunate, the game was fantastic and I remember Jeff giving it quite the praise.  It almost seems like the time of release has made them forget about it, but I just find that way too hard to believe.  As of now I would say KZ2 and UC2 are the two best looking games (graphically) on consoles that I have seen, and KZ2 didnt even get a mention.  Oh well.

It looks nice, but the aiming was clunky, and honestly if the main mechanic of the entire game is clunky, then I think that overshadows the nice graphics.

" It looks nice, but the aiming was clunky, and honestly if the main mechanic of the entire game is clunky, then I think that overshadows the nice graphics. "

wasnt street fighter relased near this time period and in my opinion its managed to hold on to more appeal than killzone 2 

" It looks nice, but the aiming was clunky, and honestly if the main mechanic of the entire game is clunky, then I think that overshadows the nice graphics. "

" wasnt street fighter relased near this time period and in my opinion its managed to hold on to more appeal than killzone 2  "

I actually thought that overall it was a better game than MW2 (FLAMESHIELD ON), but since none of my friends had it, I only rented it for a week.

" @Diamond: @handlas: The patch for the controls still didn't help that much. It just feels clunky. And they should have added keyboard support to the multiplayer. Many people don't have mics on the PS3 and many PS3 exclusives have keyboard support, like Metal Gear Online and LBP. "

Apparently they didn't like it as much as you did.
 
Oh, and it winning Gamespots shooter of the year, competitive multiplayer, and most improved sequel awards don't seem to mean anything to you. 

" I actually thought that overall it was a better game than MW2 (FLAMESHIELD ON), but since none of my friends had it, I only rented it for a week. "

Jeff gave is 5 stars and still left it out of his list.

Killzone 2 it was a good-decent game in my opinion ,  you should hold your own game of the year list/awards and sight it as one of yours Goty. Just a thought 

" @handlas: Unlike LBP and MGO, MW2 is not a PS3 exclusive. And it's not a matter of making it feel like CoD, I've played many FPS's that have better controls than KZ2 that came out before CoD. "

It won GOTY in Gamereactor Sweden, but thats about all I know

It's on my list.
 
In all seriousness I don't think Killzone 2 has many outstanding qualities outside of being a loud action game.

" Jeff gave is 5 stars and still left it out of his list. "  

" It's on my list.  In all seriousness I don't think Killzone 2 has many outstanding qualities outside of being a loud action game. "

The lag in the controls was the 'feature' (bug) that made me give up on KZ2 after about an hour.

it wasn't even nominated for best graphics, lmao.

The longer you follow certain critics, the more you learn how their taste differs from yours.  If you love Killzone 2 while the GB crew is ignoring it, use that to temper your opinion of them, not the game.

actually I'm wrong about it getting no attention.  I guess I missed a few awards at Gamespot.  It got Best Competitive MP, Best Shooter, and Most Improved Sequel.  
 
That's better.  At least it got something and shockingly got Best MP and Shooter.  Which I think it deserves but would not expect it to receive.  Their GOTY list was a little buggy for me...kept sending me back to the main page for some reason.  Still no Best Graphics tho but at least it was nominated :p.  They had Artistic and Technical categories.  Still think it deserves technical best graphics...it did stuff that I've never seen in games before after all.  Like bullet holes that actually make holes in walls (for example).

it came out too early so it got forgotten. but seriously, any site that did not at least nominate Killzone 2 for graphics is fucking stupid.  
i think gamespot was the only site i agreed completely with most of the awards handling, despite me still having zero interest in demon souls. i guess im going to have to play that now grrr. im not a big rpg fan at all. 

It was really good, but the aiming is laggy.  I got into it for a while, played like 24 hours of the multiplayer over the course of a week... but when I stopped for a while and came back, I found I didn't like the aim and didn't want to try and get used to it again.  Oh and I totally thought that was a 2008 game.

I got nauseous playing it, so I have no say. Well made game, but the controls suck. I wanted COD controls, since those are more natural.

The controls in that game were brutal. So loose I couldnt play. It was an attempt of a Gears of War series for PS3.

i liked it, but to me the only think it had going for it was the graphics to be honest. i only finished it months after getting it at launch, its a good game, but nothing else. I had fun with a shitload more games this year than with KZ2 im afraid, even games that are technically inferior. Hell, I had more fun with wolverine than with KZ2

It was Gamespot's Best Shooter of the Year. I can agree that it has the best shooting mechanics and the cover system is still the best for a FPS. However, the game lacks any kind of narrative value and the dialogue (especially Rico's) was just god awful. You can rag on games like Halo or Gears for their terrible story but  they are certainly doing something right because people want to know what happens to Master Chief or Marcus Fenix. Killzone 2 lacks that Master Chief effect and there's nothing here to keep people caring about the characters. It's probably the very reason that most people have forgotten about the game. The multiplayer is awesome but I doubt any game journalists have the time to play a single game for more than a month or two.

I want Guerrilla Games to just drop the Killzone franchise and use that shooting mechanic in a better fiction. Or just hire some amazing writers to salvage the mess they created in the first two games.

It honestly doesnt deserve anything for GOTY. So many better games came out this year..its easy to forget KZ2. While I dont think MW2 deserves GOTY anywhere either, like it or not, its going to get it in some places without a doubt, and KZ2 definitely wont get shit really anywhere.

" @ieatlions said:

" wasnt street fighter relased near this time period and in my opinion its managed to hold on to more appeal than killzone 2  "

I doubt that street fighter 4, which is a totally different game and genre, overshadowed Killzone 2... "

No, and it shouldn't either, I through it back in the other day only to remember just how fucking jacked the controls were, especially considering how much MW2 I've been playing. That game had amazing EVERYTHING, but they fucked up on the very most important part of the game: the controls. Still pisses me off when I think about it.

It has a place on my list, I enjoyed it plenty.

it had the best graphics this year. overall uncharted 2 probably looks better, but it had no where near the amount of awesome effects going on constantly.  
the audio was incredible too.  can't really say the same for uncharted 2, the audio is good in that but it ends there. 
the story was more then good enough to carry me through the excellent gameplay of the campaign.  i was so engrossed in the gameplay that i couldn't care less about the story, but i thought it was still bad ass, and quick enough to the point to keep me getting straight back into the gameplay. 
the online is top-notch and definitely set the bar high for FPS's that follow. you can see many things in MW2 that were obviously put in place because of its success and design in K2.  map designs in KZ2 online are the best I've ever played and the fact that they contain  all the badass effects going on that you see in the SP is just sooo awesome. when you play cod4 online it just feels like a straight forward videogame, but online in KZ2 feels like everytime you hop into a match, you just walked into a fucking war. 
 as for awards, mostly every site (with a staff that has any brains) nominated it for technical awards and in the shooter category and so on.  

Gamespot awarded KZ2 several awards by the way, 

Most Improved Sequel 
Best Shooter 
Best Competitive Multiplayer 

It's been nominated on several sites. For best graphics and best multiplayer... I think.

well now we can listen to the bombcast and here the justification.  Which they justified their reasoning pretty well.  Except they pretty much settled on Infamous being a top 3 right off the bad which I completely disagree wtih.  But it just comes down to opinion.  And, my favorite game, Demon's Souls was pretty much out of the running right off the bat :p

Yeah i too found it weird that it good little attention as it defiantly has some very good qualities to it. Great music/sound, graphics, Art Direction, animation, gameplay/controls (debatable), deep multiplayer, and great villains except some of the ISA characters who were questionable.

It's not even the best game on its console. Why would it be in line for a GOTY award?

I didn't forget about it but I just didn't like it very much.  Not on my top ten games of the year, that's for sure.

Uncharted did deserve best looking game of the year, but killzone 2 definately deserved to be nominated, dunno why giantbomb dudes dropped a bomb on that.

" It was really good, but the aiming is laggy.  I got into it for a while, played like 24 hours of the multiplayer over the course of a week... but when I stopped for a while and came back, I found I didn't like the aim and didn't want to try and get used to it again.  Oh and I totally thought that was a 2008 game. "

I think it picked up best multiplayer on a few sites. 

It was on my list, but I think what kept people from playing this game is the control scheme.  Which is a shame, really because I think the developer should be applauded for trying something new.  The precision setting helped a bit, but as much as I enjoy Killzone 2 multiplayer, I find myself fighting the controls even still.  It's difficult transitioning from Killzone to just about any other console FPS, and then back again.