Killzone 2 Makes Me Wish My Friends Owned PS3s
Killzone 2 provides both a fantastic single-player campaign and an engrossing multiplayer experience. If you enjoy shooters of the first person variety, you will almost certainly enjoy this game. I played through the campaign on Veteran difficulty (KZ2 is similar to Gears of War 2 in that the default difficulty is almost too easy for gamers who play shooters regularly), and I didn't encounter too many frustratingly difficult moments. The pace was good, the levels are varied and well-designed, and the vehicle/mounted gun segments are brief and serve well to break up the running and gunning action.
I'm five hours into the multiplayer, and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. It reminds me a lot of the original Team Fortress (or at least my memory of Team Fortress) in that the maps are big, the teams are big, and, if you're not careful, you can find yourself funnelling through choke points where you and your teammates get continually slaughtered by well-positioned opponnents. Given that greater varieties of weapons and abilities are given as rewards for earning match points, I think the game will play quite differently at higher levels, but I'm only speculating. If, like me, you've been playing a mix of CoD4 and CoD: World at War for the past year and a half, the multiplayer will take a little getting used to, but once you do, it is awesome.
This was the first time I'd played a shooter on the PS3, so it took a little while for me to get the hang of the controller and to come around on how the game should be played, but once I stopped trying to play it like a Call of Duty game, everything clicked and I had a blast. My only wish is that Killzone 2 came bundled with twenty PS3s, so I could play it with my friends who are still busy playing CoD4 and Left 4 Dead over Xbox Live.
I'm five hours into the multiplayer, and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. It reminds me a lot of the original Team Fortress (or at least my memory of Team Fortress) in that the maps are big, the teams are big, and, if you're not careful, you can find yourself funnelling through choke points where you and your teammates get continually slaughtered by well-positioned opponnents. Given that greater varieties of weapons and abilities are given as rewards for earning match points, I think the game will play quite differently at higher levels, but I'm only speculating. If, like me, you've been playing a mix of CoD4 and CoD: World at War for the past year and a half, the multiplayer will take a little getting used to, but once you do, it is awesome.
This was the first time I'd played a shooter on the PS3, so it took a little while for me to get the hang of the controller and to come around on how the game should be played, but once I stopped trying to play it like a Call of Duty game, everything clicked and I had a blast. My only wish is that Killzone 2 came bundled with twenty PS3s, so I could play it with my friends who are still busy playing CoD4 and Left 4 Dead over Xbox Live.
