This is part one of my PlayStation 3 blog series. I have owned an Xbox for all my life , and recently purchased a PS3. I am now playing a lot of PS3-exclusive games and blogging about them.

I just finished the Killzone 2 campaign and left feeling pretty satisfied.

I was able to customize the controls almost to my liking, but they still felt a bit clumsy.

The shooting doesn't seem to have the accuracy of COD or Battlefield, and feels a bit more like Gears of War in 1st person. I found myself spraying quite a bit, especially when the assault rifle with the holographic sights ran out of ammo.

Speaking of weapons, there are some pretty cool ones. The bolter rifle was a lot of fun, as well as the grenade launcher. The sniper rifle was really well done with the two zoom levels, as well as having to keep the dualshock still while aiming.

The game looks really nice, easily surpassing anything from the Halo series. However, Halo does have the awe-inspiring skyboxes as well as the varying environments.

The skyboxes in Killzone 2 felt very bland, although that is a relatively minor complaint.

My main gripe with the environments in Killzone 2 is that there is very little variation. Most of them were a blur of dark industrial centers. Some highlights included the military academy as well as... well, that's really all that comes to my mind.

The mission structure has a good variation and I enjoyed the different tasks assigned to me. There was a very immersive battle towards the end of the game where it really felt like my side was progressing and gaining ground. It felt more like a real, large-scale firefight than anything I have experienced in Call of Duty or Battlefield singleplayer.

Next up: Killzone 2 Multiplayer    

My biggest gripe with Killzone 2 was how heavy everything felt.

They were made to feel that way though, the developers wanted the weapons to feel like they had some weight behind them. Once adjusted I really liked how the shooting felt in Killzone 2, all of the weapons feel very powerful.

Killzone 2 was a little too corridor shooter for me, the story was blander than this geography book I'm reading, and the controls were...special. 
 
It was ok but MW2 was a much more enjoyable game for me, hopefully Killzone 3 is better.

I really like Killzone 2. It's been my favourite multiplayer shooter for some time now.

The shitty controls, weighty animations, imbalanced classes, and generally ineffectual weapons give the multiplayer a quality I love more than in any other game. The campaign was meh.
 
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@moelarrycurly said:

"My biggest gripe with Killzone 2 was how heavy everything felt. "

You've owned an xbox your whole life? So you're 9? 
 
But yeah, I hated the controls in Killzone 2, they completely ruined would would have been a pretty good game for me. At least they're a little more tight in multiplayer, or at least they were 12 months ago since I last played it.

I really liked the controls, I liked the sense of weight each gun had so that it didn't feel like every other fps.  And I had a lot of fun with the multiplayer, haven't played it for some time now but I'll get back into it once I get 3. 

Everyone always says how this game isn't like COD or Battlefield, that's because it wasn't designed that way and was designed with weight to each weapon. 
 
Killzone 2 is my favorite shooter in years since Timesplitters 2, the game also still looks really damn good and I'm really looking forward to how Killzone 3 will push the PS3 even further.

Take away the gorgeous visuals Killzone 2 really wasn't all that to be honest the story and characters are so forgettable. Even with sensitivity all the way up there where times it was a challenge just to get the reticule lined up with an enemy 
 
They didn’t design it that way, it was just bad. Here’s hoping for KZ3.      

I was never able to achieve what I would consider "accuracy" in KZ2. In the end, I never did finish it.

I did enjoy killzone multiplayer, i liked the futuristic COD style it had going, but a little more balanced IMO (no killstreak chaining foolishness) but i felt the campaign was pretty meh. I am looking forward to killzone 3, but Halo Reach/BF:BC 2and Resistance are still my favorite shooters. I think Resistance def. takes if, it may have  a weaker competive multiplayer, but god damn the WOW raid style co-op online is the best new mode in a shooter since horde IMO.

Yeah they tried to add some weight to it. I had a hard time with the last level where accuracy was important to your survival against a million helghast rushing at you full speed.

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Yeah they tried to add some weight to it. I had a hard time with the last level where accuracy was important to your survival against a million helghast rushing at you full speed.

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I agree. The game just didnt give me the satisfaction a SOLID game would.

I loved KZ2 when it was the only FPS I was playing. It's hard to play it at the same time as a BF or MW though, the feel is just so different that it's hard to adjust back.

I dont understand why they try to make the game something its not.  The weight on the guns, why?  Its not a tactical military shooter.  Fuck man, all the enemies take more damage than you can.  So that doesn't make sense.  Some missions were cool but the characters were terrible.  I hated being that retard Sev.  And I wanted to blow ricos brains out every minute.  So I feel like that game tries to be COD, Unreal Tournament and old School Rainbow Six all in one.  Which is a bad thing.  Still the best thing about the game was the multiplayer and the switching game types.  Love that idea.

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Take away the gorgeous visuals Killzone 2 really wasn't all that to be honest the story and characters are so forgettable. Even with sensitivity all the way up there where times it was a challenge just to get the reticule lined up with an enemy 
 
They didn’t design it that way, it was just bad. Here’s hoping for KZ3.      

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The controls aren't bad, they're just different. Most people that hate them have played so many twitch shooters that they're unwilling to spend the time to learn or adjust to anything new. Well, they're the ones missing out...