Killzone 2: Best WW2 Shooter Ever

64MER ZONE reviews Killzone 2 by comparing it to World War 2 shooters:

Nazis in Space
When ideas grow old and repetition gets tiresome, when all hope seems lost, there's only one thing left to do: turn to the infinite void of space to spice things up a little. It worked for Super Mario, and it works for World War 2. Instead of invading Nazi-occupied Europe, you're invading the planet Helghan. The large battleships that stormed Normandy turn into Vekta cruisers. Instead of landing on enemy soil in a wooden boat, you do so in a flying tin can. The 'take out the anti-air turret' mission becomes the 'take out the lightning cannon' mission. The 'lower the bridge' mission becomes... well... I guess there's no real reason for bridges to be any different on other planets.

[The General]

Killzone 2: Best Shooter Ever

There, now get a PS3 if you want to play one of the best shooters ever :-)

[Sharingan_no_Kakashi]

Resistance is the best WW2 shooter. Bet you all forgot about that lol.

Resistance is still my fav fps too. i dunno y i like that game so much.

[BX81]

Yes KZ2 is the best ever now buy a PS3 if you want to play ONE of the best shooters ever.

Nice.. so it's not the best ever, it's one of the best. Got it.

[XLiveGamer]

Killzone 2 one of the best FPS on PS3... and in a Sony PS3 fanatic the best ever.

KZ2 its another classic over hyped FPS with next gen graphics that's all. Yes i say it!

[AntoineDcoolette]

Hey KZ2 has some intense firefights and stellar graphics but that's it. I got all the trophies and I have no desire to play the game ever again. Its repetitive, the dialogue sucks, the character development sucks and I hope they all die, and the online though awesome I grew tired of after getting all the trophies and went back to Team Fortress 2. If developers didn't have online to rely on their games would get sh!t reviews unless they stepped it up on the single player.

Now Half Life 2 series or Perfect Dark (n64) are real shooters.

[ZuperAmazingCooKie]

I loved Wolfenstein and MOH: Frontline back in the day. I think Killzone 2 could have been better. I hated the dialogues and the character models. I loved the lighting, the music and visari. Some textures were great, others weren't. Some objects had no noticeable low polygon counts, but others did. The animations were superb, so was the lightning in the air, the volumetric fog effects, the guns, the enemies, the shadowing. A bit inconsistent, but good overall.

I was disappointed by Resistance 2, but after Bioshock and maybe The Orange Box, the best FPS I've played this generation goes to the original Resistance Fall of Man. I was overwhelmed by the guns, the variety, the length, and the storyline. Too bad insomniac screwed up with R2.

Honorable Mentions: COD4, Prey and the Darkness. I also liked Timeshift, Blacksite and Jericho to some degree, even if they were considered sh1tty by a lot of people.

[ThanatosDMC]

No you dont have all the trophies of KZ2. I'm not even talking about the DLC or the updated trophies.

Half Life 2 doesnt not have multiplayer. Half Life 2: Deathmatch is separate from it. "Its repetitive, the dialogue sucks, the character development sucks" <--- that's weird cuz you just described HL2 and most FPS games.

There is no character development in most FPS games. They're all shoot first think later. How the "story" unfolds does not directly influence the character in any way. The character would still annihilate everything on sight. I do.

Team Fortress 2 is over rated. It's been on sale in steam much more than most games. I played it on Steam but got tired of it. Repetitiveness is a biatch that plagued that game.

Prey by far kills most FPS story lines... sorta... i mean, they F-up your grandfather and especially the girl you love right in front of your eyes just so you could kill her with all the weapons you're packing. Revenge is sweet.

[RememberThe357]

Lets jump on the "Killzone 2 wasn't that great" bandwagon!

Or not...

The game is truly fantastic. It has it's flaws, and is not the best it could have been. The story was dumbed down purposely to make the experience seem more fast and action packed. The graphic, level design, and sound are phenomenal, but the voice acting and writing were crap. With more story and better writing Killzone 2 could have been as near to perfect as any game that has come before it. It sounds like GG has learned from this title, that PS3 gamer want to be told a story, and I hope that next time they come with a single player experience closer to the first installment.

The multi-player, on the other hand was done really well, and I'm having a great time with it. The stat tracking is great, the clan support is near perfect, and all it's missing is a party system.

@DMC: Half-Life 2 is one of the best shooters of all time. Damn near everything about it was and even to this day is top notch. And HL2 had a really damn good story. Other then that, I agree.

[ThanatosDMC]

I never said HL2 sucked though. I like HL2... wait, i'll retrack my statement of it being repetitive since almost all the chapters you're made to do something else like driving, using your uber powerful gravity gun, zombie town, crab level, those bugs in the beach, those tri-pod levels, those bug prison powers, etc.

I was just merely pointing out that there wasnt a good story in Half Life and there was no character development. Everybody just knows Gordon Freeman... but as the player i dont know Gordon Freeman. Sure we "saved" the day in HL1 and he's a scientist. But what else?

I still cant properly use Synergy on Steam to play co-op. I wish we're allowed to setup our games just like in L4D... you know, being able to set up which campaign/map we start in. Synergy is complicated.

[nycredude]

"Hey KZ2 has some intense firefights and stellar graphics but that's it."

Dude it's a FPS! That is what Fps are supposed to have. You want great story then why are you playing FPS?

I am just curious since you are so big on stories? Did you play Darkness and what did you think about it? That underated game had more and a better story than just about every Fps out there, not to mention twist and turns, yet sold like shiat! I still have it in my collection.

[AntoineDcoolette]

I don't play many FPSs mostly because my primary experience with them is Halo's or Killzone's run to the end of the level and shoot everything that moves approach to the genre and I like to have a fully modeled avatar for the character.

I played The Darkness for an hour then stopped because I didn't like the mafia theme so I refrain from judgment of it. I made it half way through Bioshock then stopped because I hate water, hate the concept of underwater cities, and I didn't care for the art direction.

Yes, Thanatos, I have all of the KZ2 trophies except for the ones for the new map pack that I do plan on getting though I said I never plan on playing KZ2 again.

HL2 has stylized, varied, and believable environments, the narration and story are immersive, fluid, and never broken with cutscenes, the dialogue feels natural and lacks "EITHER THIS TRAIN IS GOING SOMEWHERE OR CARRYING SOMETHING THEY NEED" Einstein moments, though Gordon himself has no character development the NPCs have plenty enough, and its probably the least repetitive FPS I've played. You have vehicle segments, a lot of physics based puzzles, the Ant Lion segment, "set up these turrets to stop the enemy!", the squad based street battles, the Strider battles etc etc as you mentioned.

[raztad]

Well modern wars follow the same pattern ever since WWII, tactical objectives are more or less the same. Take that position, silence that turret, take beach, gather intelligence, deprive enemy from energy sources, etc, etc. Tom Clancy games introduced a change in the gameplay going tactic. You can note how GRAW goes deep into the new war doctrine, or war against small "rogue" states or terrorist organizations, but then GRAW isnt supposed to be a full scale war "simulator", KZ2 is.

To me KZ2 is the best shooter I have ever played. I like the pace, love the weighty controls (I very much dislike floaty games and bunny jumps) and the theme is dark and mature (not green aliens with peww peww weapons).

[irish-leprecaun]

its ww3

[Hallucinate]

nah more like war of the planets er sumsh1t like that

[younglj01]

dam I have to agree with this article 100%

[TheBand1t]

Well, the devs have noted that one of their main inspirations is WWII, though the KZ universe tries to go the "no good guys" route.

[The_Zeitgeist]

This article is dumb. Killzone 2 is a Sci-Fi space Marine shooter. NOT WW2. I understand the comparisons but this is just a lame attempt to get hits.

[Terror2k9]

ohh please the game is alright trying to keep the hype alive for a game that has already gotten boring!

[BXbomber]

way to go and bash killzone just cuz u got the trophies and the game is repedetive .......what FPS isn't repeditive u ass if anything u mention half life 2 and perfect dark (n64) as if they are better than killzone? wow i played them in the past and they were prettty awful well....perfect dark wasn't bad but half life was awful and is still is. killzone 2 is by far the best FPS right now hell i got all the trophies as well and i'm still an addict for the online. killzone 2 kicks ass!!

[deshon09]

more like universal war 1

[ofx360]

I like KZ2 but WTF! Whats the next article gonna be? Killzone2 best 3rd person shooter! Killzone2 curse cancer! This is f*cking crazy. IT'S ANOTHER SHOOTER WITH NICE GRAPHICS; the damn thing isn't Jesus!

[deshon09]

dude dont hate it is a great game and how do you know jesus dose not have a ps3 pulse killzone 2 you dont lol im sorry but yeah dont hate

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i think you should play the game before you judge it or just go play your 360 you have plenty of games to choose from

[Nathan123]

Killzone 2 is one of the most intense experience I have had. It's safe to say that KZ2 ruined most games for me as KZ2 has set standards which will take a long time to conquer. It's a perfect blend of gameplay and graphics. Some people complain about the controls, but not every game has to be like COD4/5 in terms of control. The game adds realism and it has my respect for what it brings.

I don't know if it's a WW2 shooter (a sci-fi futuristic shooter would fit perfectly), but still, I think it derives a few root elements from there. It's definitely better than COD5 and Resistance series... So yes, it probably the best WW2 shooter. In my opinion it's the best FPS on a console... but hell my opinion doesn't matter.
It's a great game and people should stop bashing it cause it doesn't have co-op or for the fact that it didn't turn out to be a console selling game for PS3.

[mario8888]

Killzone is a fast paced game that requires more skill to play than Halo, Gears and COD . Because the gun kicks and there is no auto aim and you cannot just hold the triggers down like other games like Halo , COD and Gears.

I really don't think the online portion of this game is for everyone. Alot of people who aren't used to games like Socom and Killzone may not be able to adjust.

[Hobadoon]

Been playing since the first one. KZ2 is nothing like SOCOM what-so-ever. The movement is apples and oranges. I personally do not like how KZ2 plays. I like my shooters to be immediately responsive and not feel like I'm tugging on someone to make them aim and move where I want to. I know GG was going for weight/weapon realism but it didn't translate over that well for me... And I'll say again... "FOR ME."

[Cheeseknight28]

Halo and Gears don't have lock-on dude. Try again.

[chad22hkd]

Since everyone here likes fps shooters of some kind.Do you guys get tired of the run and gun.I love the single player fps.But the multiplayer is like everyone is a kamikaze army on both sides.Just run shoot kill die repeat.It sucks there is no strategy at all.Some games you find the people that think and plan attacks more.That is fun as hell like a chess game kind of.But the run and gun I hate.What is a good fps that has less run and gun and more strategy.Please give me some info.

[SonyRulz]

That's all you need.

[Nathan123]

I agree to some point, but now every other FPS is like that. The developers have to make it fast paced or else they get accused of making a slow game. Strategy matters, but imagine if GG had implemented cover in KZ2 (online). It would have been really boring to wait for an opponent to pop his head to take a head shot. It would have slowed down the pace considerably. Also, the game would be really annoying cause for example a sniper would just take cover at a high point and keep on popping heads and go unnoticed.

Strategy is good, but sometimes it's just more fun to run and gun as it pumps adrenalin. Sorry, but that is just the new way of playing games as gamers don't have patients now-a-days.
Also, people hardly understand me when I keep on shouting like a moron on the mic(many of them don't even know english). Creating a strategy is just next to impossible now-a-days. So it's too risky for developers to implement it... instead they go with the used formula... Run and Gun.

[trancefreak]

I love this game and the online multiplayer rocks!!!!

[Tachyon_Nova]

Love Killzone 2? Maybe I was too eager to play the game, and so harshly rated it when I actually got to play it (on the first day), and was rather dissapointed. The game has so many flaws. True, the grudge I hold against the user interface, which is so slow to respond to your input, and is the single biggest annoyance in the game. But anyway, its not that good a game when put into perspective, its just that everyone who owns a PS3 seems to defend it so much. If you want a great game, Resistance 2 was very under-rated, and still is my fvourite game for the PS3 to date.

[HDgamer]

I think you clearly miss the point that people like what they like, just because a few people don't like it doesn't make it a bad game. I personally love the game and really like what it has done but then there are people who don't like the game, fanboys and down right n00bs, of any game genre, that get so mad at the game they sell it then bash anyone who apparently likes the game.

[nycredude]

Are you serious you can't understand why people like the game, and yete all you have to say is that the menus suck? Why don't you elaborate on why YOU DON'T like the game, cause reading you comment, and having played and love the game for what it is, I can't understand why you don't like the game.

It is a game people, not a way of life, if you don't like it then fine move on to the next game, but don't bash others cause they like it!

Personally the game provided me with the most visceral FPS experience I have ever had in gaming. The firefights were very intense and the gameplay challenging, not like noob games that seem to come out these days. I play the first time on the hard mode (Veteran) and at first I got my ass kicked, but eventually i got better and then everything just click. Just an all out war game that gives you a great feeling of accomplishment when you beat it!

What I've realized after playing Killzone 2 and then other fps or 3ps is that i've gotten better at shooting games becuase of playing Killzone 2! Did any of you guys have the same results?

[Etseix]

mmm that guy made a good article, in fact, hes right, im not colorblind, and i have the same problem sometimes on WW2 games lol, killzone changes that so easy :P
good aticle dude!

[TheMART]

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Killzone 2: Best Shooter Ever

There, now get a PS3 if you want to play one of the best shooters ever :-) "

Wrong. COD4 is way better. And Modern Warfare II will be FPS of the year 2009, not KZ2.

[360Hater]

Thats awesome keep up the great commenting, love reading your stuff. Been a fan long time! ME LIKE YOU.

[Man_of_the_year]

Well if Sony would release what their top 10 games played over the PSN were...we could tell which shooter is the number 1 played shooter on the PSN...so long as there is a shooter in the top 10...maybe we should make it top 15 just to be sure.

[mastiffchild]

I honestly think there are a few truly masterful levels in the SP campaign of KZ2 and on the higher difficulties it can be a challenge(well, if you bother reviving your hopeless AI buddies all the time while the smarter enemy AI waits for you todo so and then kill you it can). I also love the weight and heft they put into the controls/weapons as I personally got a little tired of COD4 and the floaty controls atm(not saying I won't be back for MW2, I will, it's just that I don't think I'll ever get much better than I did after two weeks of playing COD4 MP-same with Halo). COD4 and it's MP are, again like Halo, pretty accessible and as a result it's easy to get pretty good at it pretty quickly(different thing getting amazing at an accessible game though as most will hit their cieling quickly while players with a natural flair for that style of play can become almost unbeatable-in the same way most people are ok at football but to be really good is rare as all hell)-again KZ2 is different. The learning curve of theMP is much longer and slower(in real terms , not in terms of ranking up which are just arbitrary numbers really)than in COD4 and allied to the different controls, the fact that loads of [eople were used to COD4 controls all leads to a feeling that the game (KZ2 just wasn't what they expected. But, again, it's just a little different.

I get why, if you get to a game later than most or, for whatever reason, find it harder to pick up you might not want to put the effort into getting better. In my experience this would be the wrong choice mopst of the time. I reckon if 99% of people based what they felt of Warhawk on how they got on the first week they played it then the game would be dead today and not still a busy online gem I find, though for different reasons, that KZ2 shares this type of longevity rather than the immediate hook of Halo and COD.

I love Halo as a series(thought 3 was a bit of a let down after the first two in SP terms though the MP and Forge are great)and COD4 as a game but wouldn't the criticisms of Killzone2 have been even more harsh if they'd had controls identical to COD4? People were already deciding it was COD in space before they even saw the game!

No Killzone2 didn't live up to every little thing I wish it had been(but what game ever does, never mind one with that level of pre release hype?)-the friendly AI, the senseless chatter anmd Radec not being an enemyy you can really take seriously are all things on the SP that annoy me. In MP though I don't find as many faults, and certainly not any that aren't pretty widespread in the genre-glitchers, campers, grenade fests and idiots thinking playing with an RPG makes them hard in some way(seriously in games without player controlled aircraft why have rpgs at all?)are hardly exclusive to GG's FPS are they?

GG has always been upfront about the WW2 influences n the Killzone universe but, mainly, they're stylistic and th eHelghast are ahown in a far better light than you ever could actual Nazis-the no good guys mantra holds totally true for me.

Whatever, KZ2 was going to disappoint some and fail to be quite what everybody else had wished it to be as well. However, after the over ambitious mess of Killzone it's still a hugely playable, visually stunning, frenetically paced game(both SP and MP) but I totally get why it isn't all that for some people, I really do. Won't stop me from playing it to death this year and i won't be alone but the silly articles should stop it as no matter what KZ2 anded up being it was always gonna ger nitpicked more than any game I can remember and the controls(not like COD4-disgrace!)Vs the lack of innovation digs(this article, the COD4 in space nonsense) and the critical dichotomy they throw up prove it.

I think it's time to step away from the game(if you don't think it's for you)by now or just keep playing it(if you do)and allow it to become it's own game and community just like other great shooters have been. Great game, imo, just not one made with Gods own hand, and not one that I ever imagined would have the more mass appeal of a Gears or Halo.

[BYE]

It was made by dutch people so no surprise it's inspired from 2nd World War.

[pixelsword]

Attempting to make an "insightful parallel" that's not only been done dozens of times, but admitted by the developers themselves only makes your article seem that much more irrelevant.

But the funniest thing is that it took you this long to get to that conclusion.