Only mentioned, but not tested throughly. There is a couple of sentences regarding "ressurection" by a partner (3 possible on normal difficulty), but nothing more. Reviewer played in Guerilla's HQ in Netherlands, so that might be the case. When the servers are open, there will be more detailed review of multi, including co-op." @Yoghurt: Nothing about the co op? "
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Well, isn't that surprising. The polish gaming magazine CD-Action got an exclusive deal to be the first in the world to review Killzone 3. Images are below the post (sorry for the quality, done with my cellphone).
But in short, what did they say? (for those, who don't know polish and do not own the magazine) First - graphics, obviously. The reviewer was stunned of course and in his opinion, the other productions should not even be compared to this, even Killzone 2, which is still beatiful. The most praise goes to the jungle, which is reminescent of Avatar's vistas of Pandora, but the ice levels are also highly regarded. The dynamics of the enviroment and overall diversity during the playthrough (insane shootouts divided by some slower levels) is excellent and the game never becomes tedious or boring.
Next - the game is hard. Really hard. The reviewer, Enki is not a first timer, but his death count (edited, my mistake) was around 150 at the end of a game (on normal difficulty!). This makes the circa 7-10h game longer, but is not a disatvantage, because game is not cheating in Call of Duty grenade spam style - Hellghasts are smart and our hero, Sev, is not an Iron Man, he dies after a second or two of concentrated fire.
The next topic, multiplayer, is not reviewed in detail for obvious reasons - servers are still not publicly opened. But the reviewer played with pretty smart bots and multi is not a milestone, it's still good old Killzone 2 with great maps and some tweaks in playable classes. More details will be given after the grand premiere of the final game.
Another point, polish localisation (not so great, as always), is not important for most of us, even for me, cause I'll be playing this in english (thank god for a language selection)
The last points are about some cons, which are standard even in AAA games. One or two times, bodies get into textures, also, one or two times some High spawned from nowhere, but all in all, these are the mistakes found everywhere and they are so rare it's just a minor defect. For some, another drawback might be spawning our character after death under enemy fire, which results in another quick demise. But, as Enki, the reviewer says, Killzone is just hard and gamers have to learn to live with this.
The last photo below is the final rating: 9
Gamplay rated 9
Video 10 (well, duh. And the game was not yet tested in 3D)
audio 8 ( got one point off because of the poor polish localisation I presume )
pros:
+one of the most beatiful games in the World,
+great gameplay balance, diversity in the campaign,
+high difficulty level (yes, that a pro for the reviewer),
+good use of Move, especially with the sharpshooter (the reviewer even had a separate table to shortly say something about the gamplay with Move controller)
cons:
-The heroes are still flat as a wall
-minor bugs mentioned above
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