NZGamer: "An old soldier that’s showing its age."
PlayStation Beat: Killzone Shadow Fall is launching with the upcoming PlayStation 4. Now is a good time to remember the original Killzone and what it achieved.
I'm with you. It was ahead of it's time and held back by hardware. But it was still amazing and one of my all-time favorite FPSs ever. And still my favorite of the series in terms of the over-all game content.
Greatest opening in gaming history imo featuring one of the greatest little speeches ever, voiced by Brian Cox.
Fantastic campaign which is not only a pretty good story, but nice and long as well, with big open environments usually, which didn't feel at all like a "A to B coridoor shooter".
TONS of awesome, fun to use weapons, which almost all had secondary firing modes.
That heavy, realistic feel that Killzone is infamous for, and is the reason it's my favorite FPS series is there (and probably at it's heaviest, lol).
Amazingly varied environments thoughout the story and multi-player maps. Pretty much every imaginable FPS environment is accounted for in the campaign. And surprisingly colorful even though it's almost Nior style art which almost has like a black and white or old-film quality to it. It's honestly a style GG lost after Killzone 1 and the famous target video from E3 2006, and I wished they would have went back to it after they mastered PS3.
And the online/offline multi-player was just fantastic, especially if you had a group of good, honest people to play with (since it was a great game for the old "pull-killers" for anyone who was gaming online back then, you'll remember that term. For those that didn't game online on PS2 in those days......be thankfull.). Killzone 1 had 3 of my all-time favorite online maps. Beach Head, Park Terminal and Canyon Crossing. Core was great on the busy parts of the map as well.
The HD remaster of Killzone 1 was such a fantastic thing for them to do. It really made for an overall even better product. The game really deserved the slightly improved visuals, tighter control feel and steady framerate/audio. Too bad it doesn't have online, but the offline/splitscreen multi-player is still there. What a steal for $15.
Speak for yourself. When I think back to enjoying myself while playing a FPS game, 3 games instantly come to mind. DOOM 1/2, Unreal 2k4 and Killzone 1. Those are the TOP for me. Maybe throw CoD2 in there as well.
Killzone was a victim. A victim to a phrase that must have struck fear into the hearts of any developer back in 2004, a phrase that must have been the bane of any over-enthusiastic PR team and the cause of many headaches at Guerrilla games. Halo killer! Back in the mid noughties the game scene was settling in with the new king of console shooters, Xbox was taking off which was probably due to the Master Chief alone, and his second outing was on the horizon. Sony needed a competitor, something to quench the FPS thirst of its seventy million strong PS2 owners club.
There are plenty of things surprised me in Killzone, the fact that both have managed to evolve from the first game and the sequel, although between entities have also gone Liberation for PSP that despite the change in perspective is a very good title, something that is beyond shows the amazing support we received from Sony Guerrilla despite the failure of the first in the criticism. Another thing that surprises me is related to the first and it was possible to have received even a Killzone sequel, when budgets reach a certain value risk is not something you see normally and put Guerrilla very concerned in betting on a sequel, but thankfully it did because Killzone 2 is one of the best shooters for PS3 and the games that gave me more enjoyment playing in recent years.
