Hello fanboys and girls, welcome to yet another review of Killzone 3. I cannot believe how many people think this game is perfect...*Deep breath* okay, let me not try to get into that and jump into the review:
As most of you know, Killzone 3 starts off right where the last one left off, and the beginning of the game throws a little of a curve ball (No spoilers here, sorry). The single player story elements are MUCH better than Killzone 2.
There's plenty of cut scenes, and overall it's much more story driven which was somewhat of a disappointment for me with 2. Killzone 2 opened with the most jaw dropping awesome speech from Visari, which was the best speech I've heard in a game, to have the rest of the story very lack luster.
This isn't to include the ending pieces, but there wasn't much in between which made for an uninteresting and forgettable story.
Now Killzone 3 brings Helghast politics into the story and actually has some identity to it rather than your general run of the mills FPS with the whole "Kill the baddies" story line.
Guerrilla Games definitely listened to the critics and practically put in everything that was criticized.
Different environments/colors...CHECK
More vehicle gameplay...CHECK
Change of pace...CHECK
Better controls...CHECK
Variety of enemy types...CHECK
Variety of weapons...CHECK
As said before, I enjoyed and had much more fun with Killzone 3's story than 2, the stealth level was pretty fun and actually had a couple spots with some scare tactics that I wasn't expecting and had me jumping! The spiders I thought was a little too much, yes there's spiders that jump at you and bite you, not like every other shooter has done this.
It just felt too much and there's only two places where you go spider squashing, it just felt tacked on I guess is what I'm trying to say. Like "Let's throw this in just for the hell of it, since the critics said there wasn't enough enemy types!".
As much as I didn't think I'd say this, but I side with the fanboys on this one, the story wasn't bad at all. The only thing that came up short, including your character (HA!), was the ending. The oh so controversial ending. In short (HA!), it sucked.
You can definitely tell GG is still an amateur game developing company, which is NOT an insult by any means it's actually a huge compliment. What they've accomplished thus far is quite amazing and their ability to improve so much over a short amount of time has me very anticipated for their up and coming games.
There story telling abilities still need worked on, as the game just seems to be missing something as said in other reviews. I can't seem to put my finger on it, but it's surely missing something that's keeping it from being a major success.
The graphics are stunning, the music and sound is mouth watering, the story and controls have gotten so much better. I pretty much sum it up as not quite, but it's so close and quite frankly it's close enough if you ask me. By the way, the game is worth playing just to hear the credits song, it'd hopefully get anyone hyped up and wanting to play the game again to kick some helghast's chunky asses.
Why do the character models seem so chunky and plump anyways? Time for...
Multi-player:
If you've seen the articles or have been to the Killzone.com forums you'll see they're littered with complaint threads, almost as much as the COD forums. And in my opinion not for any good reason.
I've also enjoyed the Multi-player much better than 2's just like the single player. It's easier to join games via match making system, although it could use some tweaks, since sometimes it puts me in games where there's only a couple of other people and refuses to bring anyone else into the game.
The maps are an issue though, there's just too few and some can only be played through certain gamemodes. It took me forever to realize the jungle level is TDM only which I only play Warzone and I caught myself saying "Where the f... is that jungle level?".
The controls are much better as well, even post-patch on Killzone 2. Although they are still different than your typical FPS and may need getting use to still if this is your first Killzone game. It mostly feels comfortable after a few games. Killzone 2 basically had a huge deadzone and now Killzone 3 has no deadzone, I personally like there to be a little deadzone but that's just me and would be nitpicking.
I personally could care less about the weekly honors, stat tracking, 2D replays, etc. I play the game to have fun, not to brag and be a stat whore. Again, this is just me though, I know a lot of people who like to have access to stats like that.
I would like to have a true replay system since a lot of cool, excuse my language, shit that happens in the MP ala brutal melees, snipes, explosions, etc. The jetpacks are a nice addition as well except the TSA's (Basically fixed spawn grenades) on the map where you use them are horribly placed.
Move and Sharpshooter:
The Move is a great addition to Killzone 3. It's accurate, comfortable, and fun to use. The only complaint I have, which may have nothing to do with the game itself and a limitation of the Move itself, is the person you're shooting at is practically always on the very edge of the screen due to the turning with Move.
Not a game breaker by any means, I just like to see the guy I'm shooting up in the middle of the screen because getting kills in Killzone is just so freaking awesome, satisfying, and addicting all by itself. Did I say satisfying?
The sharpshooter, while it feels awesome to hold, is a little less accurate. Let me explain:
The Move: You use your wrists to aim (hopefully) which makes for a very accurate experience due to it basically being like a mouse and making small minor tweaks/changes is super easy and super quick.
The Sharpshooter: Since your physically holding a gun, you cannot use your wrists to make slight minor changes, instead you must shift your whole upper body to aim. And obviously makes slighter adjustments much harder and a little slower.
If you can handle being out-gunned on just about every occasion then you'll be fine, because it is fun to use and is very immersive. I'd personally recommend using the sharpshooter for the single player only, but as said before you may find yourself not caring because it's so fun.
And of course the aim lock-on for move users will help with the sharpshooter but it's still not as accurate.
Closing comments:
Personally I think Killzone's graphics blow away Uncharted due to all the stuff going on on-screen. Uncharted may technically look better but with the scale, and all the effects going on, I personally think Killzone is much more impressive. While the story is a great improvement over Killzone 2, you will probably be disappointed with the ending.
The single player also has some cheap deaths, the typical stray rocket that hits you out of nowhere can get irritating. All the fanboyism aside, the MP is fun and is also better than Killzone 2's. So what are you waiting for? Go buy it, rent it, and own some Helghast!
I could write much more but I'm sure you're done reading all this text, this is practically a brief summary, if you guys want more in-depth let me know.
The Amsterdam-based studio reflects on its humble beginnings, beloved franchises, and growth through the years.
Up there with the top tier in the industry. Love Guerrilla Games - Horizon Burning Shores is simply STUNNING.
Same. They nailed it with Horizon. The trouble is I also want a new Killzone! Can't I just have it all?!
I have yet to play Burning Shores as I just started Forbidden West (bought at launch, just unwrapped last weekend LOL) and playing on PS5.
man...I still can't believe the graphics especially now I'm playing it on my LG OLED. that graphics and with stable performance backing it up, GG really is the master of their craft!
32.7M sales in the Horizon franchise! With 8.4M coming from Forbidden West alone! Truly a hugely successful game and franchise as a whole. Looking forward to Horizon III
One year after realease HZD sold 7.6 million.
https://www.noobfeed.com/ne...
So not a drop off.
Unless you're saying a HFW should have sold as much now as HZD sold in 5 years?
It's been 3 games, this includes Call of the Mountain. Also no, its a great improvement over HZD.
lol you are comparing:
HZD: 28 February 2017 - May 2023 (6 years+)
HFW: 18 February 2022 - May 2023 (1 year+)
We will see if it surpass original number.
@shane, 2 full main games, 2 DLC add ons, 1 VR spin off game, oh and a an official LEGO set.
Not too bad for an ip that's only been on market for 6 years
Wow, very impressive. I didn't know the numbers were so high for Forbidden West. Still playing through it myself
Yooo, when I first saw that Killzone 1 footage at E3, my friends my brothers and I were like, Holy shit! When it came out, it didn't look exactly like it, but we sunk so many hours into 1 & 2.
I even liked Killzone: SF, it was a spectacle to look at, and even today it looks good. I hope they make a new one. Can you imagine how that will look, and they can get some modern FPS pointers from Bungie.
Such a wonderful studio. They deserve all their success.
The Decima Engine is absolute 🔥 I'm just mad they have abandoned Killzone.
They are probably working on mutiple projects. One of them is Horizon 3, but another is a multiplaer game and probably somehting else.
DSOGaming writes: "While Sony does not plan to release Killzone 3 on the PC, Yahfz shared a video that gives us a glimpse at what such a PC version could look like."
Still looks secure 2 gens later... one of my favorite ps3 moments. With 3D and move the game is on another level
PC almost always ends up the best place to play games, even if it takes a while.
What would you rather play decades down the line? A game at a fixed resolution and frame, considering you have a working disc, and the hardware?
Or run it on an emulator that can update the experience all around, and let you use whatever control input you prefer?
If you insist on the former, it's really only for the sake of nostalgia.
I disagree. The main draw for consoles has always be the simplicity of just putting the disc in / downloading it and playing without worrying about anything else. The average person just wouldn’t want to deal with emulation even though it’s very important for preservation.
Youre getting flak because people on here thibk of themselves as pc wizards. But honestly most poeple try and go get emulators and romz they end up with malware.. yes theyre "easy" if you know the basics but alot of people dont. That said the fact that its taken nearly 20 years to get a sustantially better experience for ps3 games than on its native system shows the complexity of getting bc to work. Sony, if they have any intention, should just invest in a vastly better psnow experience.
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Most people who emulate don't get malware, you'd have to be going to some weird sites for that to happen, heck years ago people were getting sketchier ad's resulting in malware warning on this site if you didn't have a ad-blocker lol.
That's fine if that's the main draw, but it doesn't make it a better experience, just a preference. Having the freedom to do the things you can do on PC is what the appeal of PC is. Buying a game on PC means you never have to worry about the console makers just deciding the next hardware shouldn't support the generation anymore, which means everything you bought is stuck on that hardware instead of moving up with everything else. Nintendo uses this tactic to keep reselling the same games over and over at inflated prices. Sony cut all previous gens off the PS4 and sold it back to people in a poor attempt with PSnow. While the PS5 supports PS4 games, that may not be the case in the next gen after this. No to mention shutting off all the previous stores and updates completely. Even MS stopped making new BC titles at some point, so now there's a big list with 17 pages of titles that are not playable on Xbone and are just trapped on older gen. That's not a problem on PC, the reverse happens where you only have to worry if your hardware can play the newest releases at ultra with no issue.
Shhh don't say that aloud! You're going to trigger a lot of console infidels here.
Well that's the beauty of still owning a retro console tho. Those who usually complain about emulation are just being blindly loyal to a company. Emulation is great for many reason, but if I still owned the console then I disagree nothing beats plugging it back in and going down a nostalgia trip
The RPCS3 devs are doing great work. And Kami works nicely with it too it seems.
Very neat.
While Xbox has committed to backwards compatibility spanning four generations, PlayStation has continued their stance that the feature isn't important. Well, it is! I'm hoping these PlayStation 3 classics that skipped the PS4 entirely show up again on the PS5 for everyone to enjoy.
Resistance, Dead Space franchise, Splatterhouse, Lollipop Chainsaw, Brutal Legends, Alice Madness Returns, Enslaved Journey to the West, Mass Effect franchise. Also wouldn't mind seeing a new Wild Arms game remake or HD remaster, the Xenosaga trilogy, a new Parasite Eve, a new Dino Crisis just too many games to list that are forgotten and left in the dark now adays.
The PS3 is difficult to emulate. PS3 backwards compatibility on PS5 would require translation from PowerPC to x86. Additionally the PS5 likely would have to mimic the PS3’s GPU and CPU.
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This is what pops up on my web browser. So I can't even read the site. So, forget that. They don't need my data.
But let's get something straight. OG Xbox had around 1,001 games. How many are BC on Series X? **39** THIRTY NINE. Come on! That's wack BC. You can't tell me that's a complete list. Talking about commitment. Game preservation. Ridiculous. Covers nothing.
How many games released on Xbox 360? Around 2085. How many are BC?
568. That's it. Around 1,517 are **MISSING** Stop playing. Tired of that nonsense.
Anyway, the only games I really want from PS3 that would be awesome are Motorstorm and MGS4. I'll take BC. I'll take a remaster. I'll take a remake. If not those, then Killzone 2. And in VR, maybe Sports Champions, House of the Dead Overkill and the Time Crisis games.
That's all I need. But we've gone over BC again and again in every possible way. It wasn't that important because Sony sold 115 million consoles without it. That's proof enough with no outcry. And PS5 has damn near all 4,000+ PS4 games BC. It's not PS1,PS2 and PS3. But that's plenty. I'll take more but you get what you get.
nice review ! i think your review is very nice and fits the game. mp is sooo awesome, and the main point is its so satisfying !
Very good review, im still going through the campaign, i got my sharpshooter in the mail today but missed the delivery so i have to wait for tomorrow until my post office opens to pick it up, can't wait to try it though!
And the multiplayer is really fun, i still prefer killzone 2's online because of the server list allowed more custom matches etc.
Good review
Keep it up
Very good, non fanboy review. Keep up the good work.
9.0 certainly sounds more realistic, absolutely loving my Helghast Edition.
Agree with most things said, nice.