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Killzone 2 PS3
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  265 days 15 hours ago | View Game Profile
What happened?
I regret to say that after playing this game I wanted to go play COD4. I don't know if this is a bad thing but I do know that once I finished the game there was, well nothing much left to do. The storyline provides a thrilling, action packed experience. With many different weapons to choose from and walls to shoot apart. But I found myself in a state of repetitiveness; about half way through the game I noticed that there really wasn't much new or exciting about this game at all. Maybe because I expected much more from it.

Sure there are some boss battles that provide an extra thrill every once and a while and the occasional turret mounting and explosive barrels exploding, but I found I was doing the same thing pretty much all the time, duck pop up and shoot, duck pop up shoot another guy and repeat. The cover system was useless for me; I'd say I used it around 5 times throughout the whole game and usually by accident. It just caused frustration and glitching.

I tried the online component of Killzone 2 and I wasn't impressed one bit, I actually have to say that I enjoyed the skirmish mode better. This is because it's more intense and the Ai friendlies actually do something because it looked like they're more engaged in the battles.

I also have to say I was disappointed that there was no offline co-op campaign. I bought this game and went over to a friend's house; we were both hyping to play it together only to find out that there was no co-op. Very, very disappointing.

But overall I think this is an average FPS and I've definitely seen better on the Playstation 3.
Ups
Excellent Graphics and lighting effects
Fun skirmish mode
Incredible skirmish Ai
Downs
Online lacks addictiveness and fun
No replay value
Bad Campaign Ai
Rating Comments
9.5 Graphics
Excellent graphics, some of the best of seen. But still not the best. Nice but sort of weird and dark polish to the game. The locales are mostly identical. Could've had a jungle or beach, something to show off the game a little better.
9.0 Sound
Good sound. The explosions, enemy callings and death yelling, gunshots, and thunder all made the game come alive.
8.0 Gameplay
Ok game play. It's been done before and better. Specifically with the cover system.
7.8 Fun Factor
The campaign was fun the first time through. But extremely boring the second. Watching helghast burn to death is fun. Online is what brings the score down for me. One word, Horrible. Skirmish is fun and great but it wears down quite quickly with the limit of maps and classes.
6.5 Online
I didn't enjoy the online experience anymore than I enjoy watching players run around in circles, into walls or into enemy bullets. Maybe I would've enjoyed it more If I hanged out in the lobby more often looking for the bigger more exciting games.
7.9
Overall
(out of 10 / not an average)
 


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