Tech2: Killzone 2 Review

Tech2 writes: "When Killzone 2 was unveiled to the world at E3 2005 - in the form of a video, it blew the socks off everyone making the PlayStation3 look like some sort of super console, capable of rendering insanely awesome photo realistic visuals. Expectations were sky high and the bar was raised tremendously. Skeptics laughed at all the gullible folk since there was no way the video shown at E3 2005 was an indication of actual gameplay."

Good:
+The Best shooter to grace the PS3
+A Technical marvel
+Multiplayer is a blast
+Killer Enemy A.I

Bad:
-Controls feel a bit slow and sluggish
-Voice acting is pretty terrible
-No co-op
-Friendly A.I is a bit dense

[Liquid Snake]

So is this a 9 out of 10?

[Cyrus365]

Yes that would be 9.0/10, however some would look at this mark being higher than that, like a 9.3 or something.

[GVON]

co-op again,I don't understand this.because of these sites,heavy rain,alan wake.HL Ep3,Star ocean,FF13. all these games will now have to include co-op,o0therwise they'll get points taken off them.
A new standard has been set by the reviewers the past week,and because of it, a single player game is not good enough anymore.

[Sasanova]

yea, however, 4.5 shouldnt be an option for reviews focusing on a 5 point scale...reason is because only a 10 point scale works that way, to pick these small things that would alter a score to a decimal, but a 5 point scale has alot more riding on each point, and should be looked upon as an overview of many points put together into a single number out of 5. but meh, whatever

[Graphics Whore]

5/5 scale is teh broke for a system that primarily uses 10/10.

[Antan]

"+A Technical marvel"

I thought Gamespot said it looked average?...........oh wait

[thereapersson]

Weird, from the videos I've seen, it doesn't seem that bad except for the occasional misplaced curse word here and there.

It's goddamn war -- brutal, intense war at that -- not a freakin' tea party for eloquence academy graduates! I'm sure real soldiers who were in a battle of this magnitude would act accordingly.

I wonder how many reviews excused the terrible dialogue in both Gears of War and Gears of War 2?

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

both exclusive and multi-platform both get easier rides in other departments just if it's pretty enough to play... fair it is not thats for sure!

and as much cursing that is in Gears it's not needed, and the few times it's used in KZ2 it's not really needed... half the time it just don't even fit in properly with how it's executed!

Either way I love Gears, Im buying KZ1 tomorrow to get the story rolling for me till KZ2 rolls about! Hopefully I get KZ1 finished before I download the KZ2 demo on thursday... that'd be nice!

[godkiller]

mmm they didn't say that about cod4, haveing no co op?
Mind you gta4 got loads 10s?, I've no faith in reviews nomore.

Ps yakuza3 will b the game gta4 should have been!!

[inbetweener]

Seriously, they need to stop marking games down for not having co-op, it's getting ridiculous. I personally hate playing through a campaign with someone else.

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

oh no this can't play like RE5, no Sony Fanboy will buy it then!!!!

j/k

this is one of the longest lists of cons I've seen for the game to be honest. But I must admit KZ2 will raise the graphical bar for all consoles this gen, not to mention it'll raise the bar for future PS3 exclusives to meet or pass!. Only the Sony Fanboys toot their own horn with shouting from the rafters about KZ2, like it's hurting 360 owners and it shouldn't hur 360 owners. To be honest now 360 has to find its own KZ2 scaled game, and if it can't match it... it still won't matter. Cause KZ2 is pushing the industry forward in tech. Guerilla Games has just shown ALL GAMERS what can be done with the tech in a console (specifically here the PS3) if you just stop
b!tching about how to develop for it and just learn your stuff... to just do it!. GAMERS can only benefit from this technical achievement on consoles as it will move this industry further, as possibly this will demonstrate why a larger compasity disc and cell process SHOULD be implemented into a console in the future. GAMERS will benefit from this step forward. To the PS3 Fanboys though, sure you have your great game... play it, love it, and enjoy it. But 360 fans STILL have great games coming their way as well, that not even the graphics of KZ2 can stop them from being entertainiing/fun to play!. While in the mean time I will enjoy all games brought forth by all 3 consoles!... now off to watch Pulp Fiction...

PS = To all those attacking me in my RE5 posts. Im not claiming the game is AMAZING or GREAT. But from what I played/seen of the demo on my 360, showed me it's going to at least be GOOD and WORTHY of buying. From what I've read of the comments bashing the controls and what not of RE5... it's all mainly NEW COMERS. I can understand that as you aren't familiar with how the latest versions of the game plays. But controls aside, how you going to walk into a game for the first time that is already so far along in the series, and up and expect to like it when you won't even understand the story at all?... all Im saying is 1st timers aren't digging it. MOST but NOT all people that have followed the series since birth, still find the game to be pretty awesome!. I know me and several of my buddies are eagerly awaiting its arrival!

[CharlesDCI]

Oh lord, heres the no Co op thing again..

[PotNoodle]

Gears and killzone 2 has cheesey dialogue, the first gears was alright but i think gears 2 taken it that step further from cheesey to just bad, i can't comment on killzone 2 but i don't expect the voice acting in that to be great.

Its just that type of game, you rarely get good voice acting in a big manley shooter like that.

[BattleAxe]

I can't stand it when they say that the controls are sluggish............THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE THAT WAY! In the storyline of the game, the planet the ISA troops are invading has 2x earth's gravity, and so you have slower controls :)

[mastiffchild]

Yeah, it's a particularly dense criticism from a reviewer that criticised the game for being too similar to COD4(then also knocks off the obligtory point for lack of co-op that he won't have for COD4(or Bioshock etc etc)to make. Me and my mates found the weight and heft if each gun noticeably different to each other in the beta(not just he normal different rates of fire/mag capacity or accuracy you get from different guns in mostFPS games.We , and GG ststed it as a desired aim of theirs,found the heavier, less floaty and with realistic recoil effects cntrols a refreshing change iof pace and a nod to the fact that(as anyone who's ever had the dubious pleasure of picking up a real gun will tell you) that un are heavy , lugging great metal bulks and not in any way he balletic toys found in eother Halo or COD.
So in short he said he doesn't like it when Killzone2 doesn't reinvent the wheel and/or bears any resemblance to another shooter and also dislikes it when it does do it's own thing(the refusal to bow to fashion and possibly water down other dev heavy parts of the ame) like not following the co-op herd or implementing more realistic controls where the big guns you carry actually alter your speed of movement(or indeed the fantastic implementation of sixasis into reinventing sniping for PS3 owners-the added realism of being thrown off by close bangs while steadying the pad manually(as you would your rifle)which makes every headshot using a sniper rifle twice as rewading as ever before. Appantly capturing the chaotic frenzy of battle in the most real way managed in a video game wasn't ever a lofty enough goal(even when achieved so well)to earn higher marks than the completely derivative(to the point of feeling like a big WW2 expansion pack with cheap tacked on co-op for cOD4)WaW, completely MP free Bioshock or even the (almost total) lack of point to the SP in L4D.
No, from his pros and cons NO game could do better than Killzone 2 has but I don't see why the nitpicking has been needed at all. It only makes Killzione2 seem better to have still garnered a great score while the sites, upset that GG stopped their laughing by hitting THAT target render , look like spoilt brats unable to say sorry or admit their own shortcomings.