Killzone 2 9.0 at GS
By BlackBond 1 Comments
I'm not really surprised but I'm sure as hell impressed with the critical reception that this game is receiving. I mean lets be real on this. There were a lot of doubters, a lot of people who thought it would be crap, and a lot of people who just didn't want to hype the game and instead decided to wait it out.
Initially I was one of the people that thought it would be crap. I mean the CGI passed off for real time, the PS3 struggling graphically at the time, the PS3 underperforming compared to the 360 and lastly coupled with Killzone 1 didn't leave me feeling confident.
*Chicago Cubs fan above lol*
Then on top of that you had the Mad Cows on the scene. These guys were praying, hoping, going to church, just trying to find anything in order to hype this game. So circa 2007 I asked myself and I asked others? Wtf are you hyping? Graphics? Because really what else have you seen? You haven't seen game modes, vehicles, multiplayer, online options. Nobody had seen anything but the CGI trailer and even then the game was hyped to the moon. So in the end of this early going stages I made ignorant remarks towards this game. With lines from what I remember why are people hyping this garbage or something like that. Essentially in my eyes a game that hadn't yet shown anything shouldn't be a game to be given so much hype.
So 2008 rolls around. Still really not that much Killzone 2 information and yet the hype train is still going strong even inspite of Insomniac showing off their new Resistance Fall of Man 2 game. This game was announced after Killzone 2 and yet it was coming out before it. Insomniac even laid out the ground work and showed us everything from campaign, to multiplayer, to indepth demonstrations. Now given the fact that a proven FPS dev in Insomniac is showing off their game while we still don't know anything about KZ2 to me was just mind boogling.
*What in the hell?*
I mean you have Killzone 2 a sequel to a bad game from an unproven FPS dev and yet this game is still recieving more hype then RFOM2 the sequel to a pretty good FPS that launched on the PS3. My mind set, what in the hell are people thinking!?
Regardless of others opinions after I attacked this game on early for what many could see as reasonable claims I decided to back off a bit. I wasn't going to hype Killzone 2 but I wasn't going to put it down either. I decided to take a wait and see approach. If its good then hell yeah its good. If its bad then well hey I wasn't stupid enough to hype a game by an unproven FPS dev that had failed to deliver before. I mean really no matter how good the game could have turned out to be to me it was never something that deserved to be hyped. It was something that I just hoped turned out well.
*Interesting...*
So here we are mid-late 2008. Positive preview are coming out, we are actually getting to see the alpha, demonstrations ect and yes I start to get curious. This game may not live up to the hype that the mad cows have put towards it but hey I realize that this game isn't going to land in the same ocean as the previous. Its around this time that the fanboyism on all sides started getting a little crazy. I mean you have lemmings going on and on about Killzone 2 and Halo 3 and how yada yada yada its not gonna be the **** yeah we all know. But this was also the time of one of the most hilarious comments by cows or any other fanboy faction.
"Killzone 2 has better graphics then Crysis!"
Its just simple logic here folks. When it comes to down what is technically the best looking game Crysis cannot be beaten by a console game. 512 MB RAM simply cannot accomplish it.
Anyway after tons and tons of posts that keep going on about that stupid subject you obviously got Hermits going out of their way with Crysis pics and consolites whining and crying but hey what can you do.
But let me change things back to Killzone 2 and away from the stupidity and industry hampering plague that is fanboyism.
Killzone 2 is being shown off. We now have details about the campaign, multiplayer, story, modes, and hell now even a Beta is out so we can test it. Unfortunately for me my PS3 is at home and being in College I wasn't afforded the opportunity to test the Beta out. But from the GUFU IRC the opinions I got from the game were rather positive so dare I say has this been the turning point? No longer do I have to listen to the hopes and prayers of blind fanboys as legit gamers I know that have balanced opinions seem to generally be having a positive reaction. Interesting indeed.
So now the time has come. The offical Killzone 2 sticky. A sticky that I believe I have never even posted in. I mean I was planning my whole dramatic entrance but sadly due to over sensitive posters who think this is a game of war and moderators who can literally spin and make up their own rules to the game things just didn't turn out the way it could have.
So day after day goes by. I'm still doing my thing. Going to class, studying, basketball, hanging out, GUFU IRC every now and then. It seems like the Killzone 2 review is never going to come and to be honest I'm just tired of watching lemming and cow go at it by now.
It would be nice if logical discussion could actually be viewed in a thread instead of it being some brawl or Unroyal Rumble (It can't be Royal without your King)
So after constant waiting and waiting I actually forget about the review all together. I come back to SW and am like oh crap KZ2 got a 9.0! Sure enough I go to the GUFU IRC to explain the good news yet of course I was already late. All of GUFU already knew before me lol.
Yeah see these glorious images of Cryme Tyme? Sorry Lemmings no Cryme Tyme on this one this game didn't flop it freaking met the hype so yeah there's no complaining from me but you know what there is?
*A Freaking Celebration*
I mean I'll admit. Based upon my early presumptions of this game I would have never guessed it would have turned out like this. I was more or less thinking the AA Range and not the AAA Range. I mean after all Insomniac didn't hit AAA on their first try and I believe that they are more talented then Guerilla Games.
To be honest I gotta say cows should really be running with this one. RFOM1, RFOM2, and Killzone 2. Being that most FPS these days are multiplat across everything but the Wii I gotta say that the PS3 has more critically acclaimed exclusive FPS then the 360.
Take it for how you will.
Note: Interestingly enough when I copied my blogs from GS to here the .gifs work. Otherwise posting pics and .gifs here is a hassle. A hassle I haven't quite figured out yet so bare with me. I'll be adding .gifs when I well figure it out heh.