Here's the deal: Sony's Killzone 2 could be the best thing to happen to the PlayStation 3...or the blandest. It's literally impossible to say at this point. I've only just today started working over my review copy, and we're gagged in the U.S. from fully evaluating the game until next Tuesday (memo to Sony, since international reviews dropped yesterday -- unless you live in China, the Internet makes "regional embargo" obsolete).
That said, the game is filthy gorgeous, but as far as the run-and-gunnery goes, it hasn't yet grabbed my head and spun it 360 degrees round my shoulders.
The PlayStation 3 may not have been the strongest generation for Sony, but there were still some diamonds in the rough that deserve a revisit as PS5 remasters.
Even if they could just remaster and put on PSVR2, some would still look great as VR titles and could do a whole lot to bolster the headset w these exclusives! I'd imagine the investment of reworking these titles into VR would be way less than building new games from the ground up, and they could be amazing experiences, and VR often makes flat games feel fresh again. The Resistance and Killzone games are particularly what I want to see!!
The time is perfect for a resistance fall of man game campaign coop multiplayer
Resistance was ok but Warhawk and Starhawk was better and kept me coming back for almost a decade of fun and petty revenge on the loud mouth unskilled players 🤣
Edit I loved capture the flag dropping the pot on the flag carrier was extremely satisfying as well as transforming your plane in bot form and stumping them to death 😱
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.
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
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.
Alex DS. from Link Cable Gaming writes: "Is the PlayStation 3 retro? This is a surprisingly hard question to answer as the system definitely has the age to be considered retro, having launched in 2006, over 15 years ago now. But with it being home to so many massive games, many of which still hold up today and in fact were released for the PlayStation 4 when that console was released, make the PS3 a retro console that doesn’t feel retro."
Typically, the term retro is given to items which are at least 20 years old (but not yet 40 years old).
Quick google search
No the PS3 is not yet a retro console. But if you're gonna put 1 game from a series in this list, then LBP2 should be there instead of the original, Motorstorm PR is also an overall better game than the 1st game and to put Tools of Destruction over A Crack in Time is a blasphemy when ACiT is the best game in the series.
Either way Feb. 27 here I come.
wait killzone 2 is only on playstation 3 why is pcworld evaluating killzone 2 did the official playstation magazine review crysis
Basically trying to pimp his review. I ain't biting.
Edit: Yeah I bite, probably check his tweeter feed too ;) Ahh well.
here's the deal:
Killzone 2 is suffering from a known issue with the media...lets call it the 'media's own sense of entitlement'...
this article fully re-enforces that...the way Sony marketed this game early on, and the PS3, with target renders and hyping the hardware...they inadvertantly made big PS3 games get scrutinized far beyond what other titles on other systems do...
Killzone 2 is the pinnacle of that...a lot of reviewers/previewers point at the same thing...its always 'well it does look great, but what about the gameplay'...same shat from everyone, just a different pile...because the media expected killzone 2 to rearrange the genre, people are criticizing it for taking old ideas...and executing them perfectly...with about 300 subtle details to the gameplay being pretty isnignifant on their own...adding up to a far greater whole...most of the media simply doesn't understand that...which is pretty surprising to me...
take everything GG has said since the official showing of the game in 2007...its always been 'we want to create a far more immersive shooter than anything before...which involves ridiculous graphics first...but then tack on the physics and way things react to your gun fire...nothing else has come close to that...take on the major tweaks to competitive multiplayer...standard things like dynamic objectives sounds relatively simple on paper...but why has it not been done before?...killzone 2 does it perfectly...yet it rarely even gets mentioned...
i'm not complaining about killzone 2's reviews so far...as most have been pretty realistic about the game...and went into it knowing that it nothing is perfect...but there are still countless sources that try to point out 'lack of originality' which is completely ungrounded...its incredible that in a genre this crowded; killzone 2 carves out entirely its own feel...regardless of visuals, no other shooter 'feels' like killzone 2...that in itself is remarkable...
but whatever...many will whine that it didn't completely change the genre enough...and because of that...its bland...when that was never promised to begin with...its just what the media expected based on their own assumptions...seriously...wher e is the 'ground breaking level design' in Call of Duty 4?...nearly unanimously regarded as the best shooter of this generation so far...its not there of course...but that is ok, because the media wasn't expecting that...
No thank you, we've already received a dozen of 9/10+ reviews.
We don't need a second-rate Xbot preview.