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    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.

    sitoxity's Killzone 2 (PlayStation 3) review

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    Killzone 2, for the Playstation 3, is an exclusive First-Person Shooter with a sort of World War 2-esque Sci-Fi setting. Compared to others in the market just now, such as Call of Duty 4 and 5, and Halo 3, it's slighty more slower paced, but still packs a hell of a lot of action.

    The graphics, to put simply, are stunning in motion. I was skeptical before I got a PS3, thinking it just looked good because of the amount of blur and grain added. I was wrong. This game is gorgeous. I cannot fault the system. I don't even mind the silly looking textures of the revive gun and flamethrower. It just looks so good. It even stays this good in the multiplayer.

    The sound is equally as good. It sounds like a real warzone, and is simply put, a cinematic feel. It's bound to sound even better in surround sound.

    The gameplay is typical for a FPS, not much is revolutionary, or new. What it does do, however, it does extremely well. You are allowed Two weapons at any time, a Pistol and a Main Weapon. There are two pistols to choose from (a Magnum and a Semi-Automatic) and dozens of primary weapons dropped by the multiple enemy types. Enemies tend to just be normal soldiers, sometimes APCs and Tanks. The Soliders tend to carry Assault Rifles, SMGs, Shotguns and RPGs.

    Throughout the campaign you tend to have a buddy or two with you, who thankfully, have pretty good AI. They don't get in your way a lot, they shoot the bad guys effeciently (apart from a final battle near the end of the game), and enemies react as much to them as they do to you. The enemy aI is also pretty smart. They take cover, try to flank you, and generally react in fun and interesting ways, helped by the amazing animation in their deaths and movement, a mixture between Ragdoll and what looks like Motion Capture.

    Mission objectives are also typical. Go destroy this, go defend this, etc. It's not exactly original, but the characters are colourful enough that you do care enough about what happens to them, and you do value their help in the harder secitons of the game.

    Saying that, the game can be quite difficult at parts. It is however, that fun kind of hard, the encourages you to try and keep going, rather than just being frustratingly annoying. There are also Intel and Helghast Symbols as a sort of collectable. The intel is scattereed around the single player levels for you to pick up, while the Symbols are there to be destroyed. These are there to unlock Trophies, and other content released through the Killzone 2 websites, such as Wallpapers and other documents for fans of the universe. Which, admitedly, is pretty darn cool. It's nice to see something like this when most people won't even know about these benefits unless they look at the games own website. The main campaign can take the good part of a weekend to finish, and I felt it was a very good length.

    This game also comes with Trophies, the PS3's own version of the massively successful Xbox 360 Achievement system. This gives Killzone 2 a lot of replayability, and they have a good amount of diverse trophies, that will keep you interested, rather than bored of doing the same dull old things to get these. They can invole killing a certain amount of enemies with one grenade, with melee attacks, not dying in any level of the campaign, and so on. The list is huge, and expands onto the multiplayer portion of the game.



    Which brings me to what sells most games these days. The Multiplayer.

    Killzone 2's multiplayer portion is one of the best multiplayer experiences I've had in recent years. It sets itself apart form most games by using different features, such as Experience, Classes, and putting their own twists. You get Badges, which lead to medals. These medals affect your points in game, whether it's more points for headshots, during the Deathmatch gamemode (called Bodycount), or more points for a melee kill.
    There are a number of classes too. Engineer, Medic, Sniper, Sabateur, Tactician and Assault. These all unlock as you proceed through the ranking system, and the more you use them, the more badges you unlock for each class. This unlocks a secondary ability, and eventually, the ability to combine abilities of classes to create your own mix.

    The game modes are also pretty standard. Bodycount, as I said before, Search and Destroy, Search and Retrieve, Capture and Hold and Assasination, it's HOW they're played which is interesting. The host can choose to play a match with all of these game types, and the game will switch between them randomly, and play every gametype in one match. This leads to a change in tactics for your teams regularly, and really shows the better players in a game, not just who can kill the other the team the most. It also leads to some games that last quite a while, and you love every second of it.

    Other reviews for Killzone 2 (PlayStation 3)

      Dazzling technical display that should have been so much more 0

      Killzone 2 reviewed on PlayStation 3 It is generally considered that to criticise something for what it does not do is fallacious. After all, it deserves to be judged on its own merits in isolation from what it may or may not have been, and to do so could prove a disservice to its creators. Killzone 2 is ostensibly a shooting game and what it does, it does pretty well. The control scheme is adeptly tailored to the two stick set-up, its visuals are gloriously bombastic and the action itself is m...

      15 out of 18 found this review helpful.

      Guerrilla Delivers 0

      Killzone 2 probably has one of the most storied histories of any game in the past decade. In its now legendary E3 2005 premiere trailer it became the poster boy for the potential power of the Playstation 3. For the next four years speculation, and hype, or whether or not it could live up to this promise ran wild. Well, the game has finally arrived and I can honestly say that Killzone 2 has set the bar far above for any shooters to follow it on the PS3.You can't start any serious discussion witho...

      4 out of 4 found this review helpful.

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