After watching the quick look for KZ3 I kinda want to try out the franchise, and since KZ2 is pretty cheap nowadays I'm considering a buy. My only concern is that I'm a mediocre FPS player with WASD and a mouse, and even worse on consoles, so if the gameplay is too hectic, I end up not enjoying myself. As a reference; I finished the Modern Warfare 2 single player on the easiest difficulty, and if that story had been any fun I can see my self going through it again on a tougher setting.
So duders, what do you say? Should I buy this game?
Killzone 2
Game » consists of 8 releases. Released Feb 27, 2009
Take the fight to the Helghast in this first person shooter from Guerrilla Games.
Talk to me about Killzone 2
Definitely go for it. It's not too hard on normal, but it does have an easy mode. You can probably even change difficulty mid-campaign if it gets too rough for you.
I was never a Killzone fan, so Killzone 2 was the first game in the series that I tried. In short, I loved it. The thing is, you have to wrap your head around the design choice. The guns, movement, and aiming are all weighed down. It will feel disorienting at first, but if you persist, I think you'll enjoy it. It's an amazing game.
Killzone 2's aiming and movement are very slow and deliberate, and the game design is built to accommodate that so somebody who isn't good with analog sticks can probably get along fine. The final boss is a monster though, so you might want to play it on easy anyway.
That last level that has 5 guys with RPGs will kick-your-ass. Buy it anyway though, it's not the smoothest game ever, but it does have memerable moments.
People hated on killzone 2 because it wasn't call of duty or Halo, it really is that simple.
The controls are very different to a modern day shooter - they are perfectly fine and serviceable, you just cant spin round 500 degrees in a split second, crack of 22 head shots then lunge teleport to stab 12 dudes in the neck!
The pace is far from frantic, in fact you'd probably be able to handle the carnage a little easier than modern warfare's preference of 500 dudes on screen with player seeking bullets - as the pacing and the weight to the guns makes the combat a bit more methodical!
Also the multiplayer is a ton of fun - great variation, awesome maps and generally well thought out multi-player features, being able to cancel out spawn camping by sneaking an invisible team mate out to manually place your teams spawn points - the fact that each class plays so very differently, a weapon unlock system that makes some degree of sense - and the awesome game mode which changes the objective on the fly of the round can really force a team to change tactics and adapt on the fly , a hell of a lot more depth than most console shooters offer!
Sorry if it sounds like im overselling it - and dont get me wrong i love pretty much every fps out there (hundreds of hours into mw2, bought reach and pre-ordered black ops) but i really really loved Kill-zone 2, it just got such a shit end of the stick when every fps released at this point in time has to play, run like, and control like CoD at this point, or its not good enough, there's nothing wrong with CoD's style either, they are just different types of the same game.
The single player is well done, the story wont mean a lot to you unless you have invested in the first game at all (though a synopsis could do you fine there) but there are some interesting enough set pieces in there and i genuinely think the last 3rd of the campaign is definitely one of the better sections of gameplay in any modern FPS, not to mention the awesome ending, which is totally pumped up for Killzone 3!
And the only reason I don't play it on-line as much as id want is my friends moved onto the next big thing, there is definitely the community still there, but it isn't the same on your own!
If you do decide to take the plunge (and for a cheap price its practically a no brainer) feel free to send me a psn friend request and if you fancy a few multiplayer rounds i'd be happy to oblige ^_^ - if none of this is convincing enough then you could always look at the pretty graphics, game still looks hella good :D
Just remember that the game has long load times that freeze the game for 10 seconds(and can even freeze the game completely). Enemies in multiplayer are bullet sponges and you have to crouch to be more accurate which creates a steap learning curve (you'll do this in singleplayer as well). Like I said, buy it despite these problems. I'm not good at FPS games either and I have a somehwat negative responce to them, but I loved this one.
Edit: what I mean is that you'll be playing "twister" with the controls because you will have to crouch (L2) while aiming and shooting (L1) (R1)
My first online FPS experience was Borderlands a couple of weeks ago. I sucked, but it was fun.
@shivermetimbers:
Thanks for chiming in with some negatives as well. I've decided to buy it, but no game is perfect, and it's good to have some insight into what might annoy me.
IT'S pretty good BUT IT WILL make you fucking CURSE THE living daylights out OF WHOEVER INVENTED spamming ENEMIES. Stuff like the bridge level CAN BE BEYOND frustrating, especially ON HIGH DIFFICULTIES. Also, don't RELY ON your AI partners.
It's the best FPS currently on the PS3 imo.
Shame they ruined KZ3 (or at least the beta) by removing all gun recoil, making every gun extremely accurate (you can snipe with a damn LMG!), added autoaim that would even shame MW2 and "upgraded" the server list matchmaking into party-based system a la BC2 that can't even form two properly-balanced teams 95% of the time...
If the aiming didn't suck so bad it would have been a great game. Would could have been a 5/5 went to a 3/5 due to the floaty aiming, say what you will about it being realistic and shit, it simply was not fun.
Also if you wanna have some fun in the singleplayer whip out your knife, you can blaze through 1/2 of the game with that monster.
i could never get into KZ2 for some strange reason. I get a feeling that the dev were trying to make a PC shooter on a console.
Maybe with the move support KZ3 will 'feel' better.
The other PS3 FPS Resistance also didn't draw me in. It felt reaaaly old, like how the AI attack pattern consists on strafing in&out of cover. How slow the bullets reach its target. Aim down the sight = ZOOM down the sight.
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