Sony's Halo Killer - Killzone

[Seb]

KILLZONE

This game has caught my attention recently. I saw it in a PS2 magazine and thought, this defiantly looks like something special. Some might know this game as 'Kin' but the developers have changed the name to Kill Zone. This game apparently is Sony's 'Halo Killer' :shock:

http://www.ps3portal.com/images/killzone3.jpg

Let me fill you in on some of the details...The game is set in the near future, during a time of space colonisation (sounds like Red Faction) and is based around 4 Earth Soldiers who get trapped behind enemy lines. The game will start with the troops surrounded by enemy forces in a kind of 'Kill Zone' :wink: And it’s up to you to shoot it out and progress through the game.

http://www.ps3portal.com/images/killzone2.jpg

You will be able to choose 1 of 4 characters, each of whom has their own weapons and abilities. The game will feature online and multiplayer modes, which are rumoured to be some of the best ever made. From what I've seen so far the game looks great and will feature some pretty epic battles. This game's definitely got me excited. :wink:

http://www.ps3portal.com/images/killzone1.jpg

The games scheduled for a 2004 release.

[Blake]

Yep, this has cause a huge stir among the Sony community. The game defintally looks to be pushing PS2's power. Now if only the gameplay turns out as good as the game looks.... We'll see though.

[sp1d3r]

the game looks pretty interesting but i doubt it can take on halo and not even close to halo 2

[Blake]

Have you realised how much buzz in the gaming industry this game has caused? Read a little more into it, it wont topple Halo for sure but it'll be a competitor.

[Kamesenshin]

I hated Halo for the xbox -_-. It was pretty boring after a while to say the very least.

[mike]

I hope it turns out alot better that Halo. Every time I start a conversation with a xbox fan, all they bring up is Halo, and how nothing can campare to it.
Maybe this will shut them up for a while, until Halo 2 comes out.

[Blake]

Yet they dont realise that's about the only good game soley on X-box. You cant shut up arrogance.

[mike]

true

[Blake]

Just realised my comment was problly a little arrogant it's self. Sorry guys.

[Kamesenshin]

No problem they have their opinions you have your's. I think Halo is pointless I would rather play tetris. lol

[sp1d3r]

halo was a good game with many people. thats what xboxs are good for; multiple people instead of rpgs

[mike]

Actually I played Halo for the first time a few days ago, and it's not all that bad. The best thing it has is it's multi player, which was alot of fun. But i'm more of a fan of Socom U.S. Navy Seals online, now that was fun.

[sp1d3r]

the best thing to do with halo and xboxs is to get 2 or 3 and hook them up in different rooms and play against each other on teams.

[Blake]

So basically Lan play?

[sp1d3r]

pretty much

[Seb]

Halo is definitely a good game, there’s no disputing that! However how many Xbox fans could only blurt out this and a few other Xbox games when asked to name the best Xbox titles. The list seems to run dry much faster than the PS2's. On the other side of the coin PS2 *apparently* has too many Sequels and not enough originality. I think this couldn’t be farther from the case, take games like ICO, Eye Toy: Play, XIII, and Music 3000 the list goes on. The sequels are all great games too. Sequel (in my eyes) means a better version of the original (in most cases) and whats wrong with that! Imagine if GTA VC never came out! I myself would loose my mind trying to fathom a world without sequels. All my favourite games would be non-existent. Let's just see if KillZone can really beat HALO. Here'e hoping it does.

N.B - It turn's out the term 'Halo Beater' was touted by Sony to drive anticipation for the game - In case you didn’t already know that! Also the game has had an unprecedented amount of Fan sites devoted to it before it’s even come out! Looks like it will have quite some Fan base which should boost the games sales significantly

[gaming ultima]

The problem with gamers today is that they are always comparing everything even when they can't really be compared. while not a really good example killzone is one of those games where every1 compares it to halo and says is it going to be better then halo. well the 2 games are very very very very different infact the only real thing that connects them is that they are both FPS. halo is a 'pretty' (graphics) and is a run and gun while killzone is gritty and is not a run and gun (more of a tactical fps but im not sure if it is or not)

[sp1d3r]

it looks like a good game but i think that rainbow 6 3 is going to be really good too on the ps2

[Blake]

Your right gaming ultima, beside the fact that they both involve shooting...they are two different games. People want to think of them as similar though. What really makes them similar is that Halo was a killer game on X-box while with all the hype surrounding Kill Zone, PS2 fans expect it to also be a killer title. That is why many are pointing fingers at Kill Zone and saying hey...this can topple Halo! Halo will still stand firm with the same fanbase, Kill Zone if as good as expected should create it's own. There's really not going to be one or the other taking charge. Casual gamers like me would enjoy playing both, while you know alot of fanboys are going to be clinging to one or the other.

[gaming ultima]

yea but just because both may be really popular doesnt mean that u should compare them
this is what im going to be doing with my shooters ; 1 level of halo 2 ; 1 level of killzone ; 1 chunk of far cry (does far cry hav levels) ; 1 level of half life 2 (if i upgrade my graphics card so i can play it with much better graphics then my ageing Geforce 4 mx 420 (dont laugh at the mx, there allright u know) then im going to play them all in multiplayer (if half life 2 has multiplayer and im pretty sure far cry doesnt but oh well) and then back to single player and so on
for those of u who want more info on killzone go to www.killzonegame.com its unoffical but the best site for killzone news and it has all the screens, fakes, bad quality scans and all (and some videos that scee (sony computer entertainment europe) got mad about after tv show airing them when they wernt meant to)

[Blake]

Im not saying you should compare them. I was just suggesting that's the reason many want to compare them. I myself do not make a comparison of the two. It's just lame and Halo is a guaranteed sucess while Kill Zone is a likely. So what's all the emphasis on saying this one will topple that one? It's just an argument that fanboys are going to drag out for a while.

[Anonymous]

Looks poor. But then again, that'll suit PS3 just fine.

Playstation's games and features are just wannabe's and copies of games from the better consoles, looks like this game is a nother one for the list.

The Joysticks - N64's controller

The vibration - N64's rumble pack

The CD - Sega Saturn

CTR - Mario Kart

Crash Bandicoot - Mario


Imagination is something Sony will never have, I'll be damned if they're even worthy of it.

[Anonymous Jones]

Trapped on an Alien planet and you hafta shoot your way out?

Original? No
Fun? Maybe with better graphics (or on a different console)
Copied? YES!

[Anonymous]

Yeah, better graphics. Then PS might even reach Pacman level for once.

[gaming ultima]

looks poor blah blah blah blah blah
every1 is entitled to their opin but if u think killzone has 'poor' graphics thn u must hav some wired tastes
sony just copies other companies *cough cough*. i think your fogetting that microsoft are the real copy cats of this world hence the reason why there always beeing donw for copywrite and trademark infringement and things like that. nintendo was a great company but it carnt come up with any decent well anything at the moment. and wot u said about the n64 rumble pack well it was a huge thing that id rather not have and sony built in the dual shock into their controllers which the latter version were better then any toher controller anyway
and as for graphics well when u can come up with a racing game that has better graphics then GT4 i might just think that the ps2 is only capable of ok graphics. but then again i shouldnt expect much from some1 that hasnt done his/her research and is bias and it wouldnt surprise me if you just are a fanboy

[Blake]

Hey look, our first troll. Dont cause trouble Pogon, we know your only 12 and you consider that fun but you exagerate your statements.

p.s. People that complain about companies using anothers ideas and making it better are jealous fools. Look, this stuff is going to happen...when you run out of ideas you have to take what's there and make it better. There's nothing wrong with using another companies ideas if you can improve upon them and make them work for yourself in a different way.

[DjMuZack]

I think that this game killzone is going to be a lot better than Halo. Halo is boring as hell if your by yourself. But if your friends is over then it's alright. But Socom II blows Halo 1 and Halo 2 out of the water.

[gaming ultima]

I think that this game killzone is going to be a lot better than Halo. Halo is boring as hell if your by yourself. But if your friends is over then it's alright. But Socom II blows Halo 1 and Halo 2 out of the water.
yea but halo 2 is LIVE (up 2 16 players i think) then again online games arnt as good as having your friends next 2 u so if the worst coems to the worst u can knock the contoller out of their hands :wink:
killzone will be on ps2 network play as well though and i think for single player killzone will be really really good but im gonna wait till i get it before i gibe judgement. but yea it looks like its gonna be great, and even better for me its coming out in europe first YAYAYAYAY :D :D beeing a dutch game, i think its due out in Q4 2004 for america though so u wont have to wait 2 long

[CougarJLG]

All i want to know is if Killzone is co-op, because i want to get it.

[Blake]

I believe it will be, It would be a dumb move not to make it co-op. I believe they are aware this is needed.

[Rebon]

I believe it will be, It would be a dumb move not to make it co-op. I believe they are aware this is needed.

I agree with Blake here - its just an important thing that they can't ignore it and leave it out.

[CougarJLG]

The reason is i ask that is to confirm a message i read in a gaming magazine. I heard it was multi-player as well. If you guys know these kind of facts, please reply or e-mail me 08jguysinger@Gaggle.net
Thankyou.

[Blake]

Well if a gaming magazine was claiming it to be multi-player..more than likely it is. However, you need to watch how creditable the magazines are that you read. Some are a joke.

[gaming ultima]

sony confirmed it to be multi player a long long time ago

ooooo read this e3 report http://ps2.ign.com/articles/514/514498p1.html
what can i say, i cant wait
and 2 all americans hahaha finally were getting a cool game before u :P

[Makaveli_786]

I dont really see this game competing with Halo, itll probably be up there with greater games like Half Life..

Halo is the most hyped up game of all time but if you look at sales or fanbase theyr minute, Halo is the hypeking of first person shooters and thats it.

[Blake]

and 2 all americans hahaha finally were getting a cool game before u

Tally one for the Europeans!

Europe: 1

United States: Kajillion

You guys are defintally closing the gap though, congrats.

[gaming ultima]

Halo has sold around 5/6 million copies, that’s not minute
and thank you Blake, coming from a American that’s a big compliment

[The_One]

the game looks pretty interesting but i doubt it can take on halo and not even close to halo 2 Agreed... I'm quite sure it'll look graphically superior compared to Halo, but not Halo 2. Although Halo was quite boring, I doubt this can literally "kill" Halo. Simply because there are WAY too many Halo fanboys out there :P.
Tally one for the Europeans!

Europe: 1

United States: Kajillion

You guys are defintally closing the gap though, congrats.
Yeah, but don't foget, bazillion out of kajillion (Are there even such words :lol: :P) we got are pretty much craps compared to KZ :lol:. Unless, of course, KZ becomes a big flop, which I highly doubt.

[gaming ultima]

the game looks pretty interesting but i doubt it can take on halo and not even close to halo 2 Agreed... I'm quite sure it'll look graphically superior compared to Halo, but not Halo 2. Although Halo was quite boring, I doubt this can literally "kill" Halo. Simply because there are WAY too many Halo fanboys out there :P.
Tally one for the Europeans!

Europe: 1

United States: Kajillion

You guys are defintally closing the gap though, congrats.
Yeah, but don't foget, bazillion out of kajillion (Are there even such words :lol: :P) we got are pretty much craps compared to KZ :lol:. Unless, of course, KZ becomes a big flop, which I highly doubt.
first of all graphics are very much a matter of opinion
second of all by 'kill' it depends if you mean in sales or in how good it is, yea sure in sales halo 2 is going to slaughter halo but it wont necessarily be any better of a game

[Cody]

ps2 has lan play its just not popular

[PlayStation 3]

I am quite sure that Killzone will be better than Halo :D I hope so anyway :(

[gaming ultima]

I am quite sure that Killzone will be better than Halo :D I hope so anyway :(
Halo has to be the most overhyped game of all time.
so do you think killzone will be better then Halo 2?

[PlayStation 3]

so do you think killzone will be better then Halo 2?

I don't think I know it as a fact :wink:

[gaming ultima]

so do you think killzone will be better then Halo 2?

I don't think I know it as a fact :wink:
lol
1 thing i should tell you though is that i dont like people presenting things as facts when their not, but what you said was put as a joke so i will let you get away with it but .....

[PlayStation 3]

Lighten up will you it was just a joke :?

[Evolution]

I personally think that Killzone will never match up to halo or compare to Halo 2.

The graphics arent as good and from the looks of clips ive seen of it the gameplay doesnt seem as good, i know you cant really tell from a clip but halo 2 does look better in every way

http://www.vgln.com/images/killzone/3.jpg
OR
http://www.dvdexchange-online.co.uk/Game_News/HALO_2/halo2E3_03.jpg

[Evolution]

Actually i think a new ps2 game will be closer to the standards of halo than killzone and that game is black.

Look:-

http://media.ps2.ign.com/media/668/668817/imgs_1.html

[Blake]

Ofcourse it's not going to match the graphical level of Halo, besides being more recent the Xbox is also more powerfull graphically speaking. Gameplay on the other hand, you can hardly judge it untill you have tried it out. Videos dont say enough.

[gaming ultima]

actually i would like to say that graphics is very much a matter of opinion, anyone who says any different is a fool quite simply
and in my opinion kill zones graphics are better then Halo 2's and halo's (and interestingly enough after looking at Halo 2 movies a lot Halo 2 kind of looks worse then halo graphics wise)
its all a matter of taste and opinion though

[Seb]

Hmm. It is to do with opinion GU, you are right. I think Both Killzone, Black and HALO 2 all look very promising. But Black and Killzone have both caught my eye as having very dazzling graphics. I'm looking forward to all three titles.

[PlayStation 3]

Personally Killzone is my personal chioce, looks cool and those Sony dudes have been working on this game for like 1 year now so I'm assuming it's gona be really good. The PS2 Halo 8)

[Evolution]

Sony are going the wrong way about promoting killzone as as A Halo Killer. If Killzone doesnt live up to the hype and as isnt better than halo then even if its a good game it will get seriously knocked by everyone as they didnt get the game they were promised. But then it could go in the opposite direction and may be better than halo which i personally think is just a fools dream.

Here is the official trailer to HALO 2-The game that killzone can not kill

http://media.xbox.ign.com/media/482/482228/vids_1.html?fromint=1

[gaming ultima]

i don’t believe Sony promoted killzone as the halo-killer, it was the media that did that i think
and i don’t know if killzone will be better then Halo-2 but who cares because HL2 (Half life 2) is just around the corner :D :D

[Evolution]

Dont forget doom 3 which also looks like a brilliant game.This has to be the best year for next gen games. Well ive got quite alot of games to get in the next couple of months.

-halo 2
-killzone
-doom 3
-half life 2
-gta
-gt4
-smackdown vs raw (im a huge wrestling fan)
-mgs 3
-sims 2
-pro evo 4
-fifa 2004

to name a few

[Blake]

Like gu said, it's very unlikely Sony is marketing Killzone as the "HaloKiller". Mark, you seem very much like a Halo fanboy.

[Nightmare]

i think killzone will beat halo2 for sure its gowna be a sick game :!:

[Evolution]

I am a huge 'halo fanboy', i prefer the ps2 to the x-box anyday but when it comes to halo i feel the x-box runs right over the ps2 for the best fps. I know ive said this in previous posts but i just thought id say it again. In a way i kind of hope killzone will be better than halo. (yes i know...'hypocritical knobhead!'). I mean if the No 1 fps is on the ps2 then why would i need an xbox. i only got one in the firstplace because of halo, but then again i cant wait till Half-Life 2.

[Nightmare]

i still have a feeling killzone will be better than half life 2

[gaming ultima]

i still have a feeling killzone will be better than half life 2
better then halo 2 maybe, better then half life 2, in my opinion not a chance
half life 2 in my opinion is going to be in a league of its own

[don_milz]

actually i would like to say that graphics is very much a matter of opinion, anyone who says any different is a fool quite simply
and in my opinion kill zones graphics are better then Halo 2's and halo's (and interestingly enough after looking at Halo 2 movies a lot Halo 2 kind of looks worse then halo graphics wise)
its all a matter of taste and opinion though

I don't agree. Gameplay is all a matter of opinion, but Graphics are a different story.
let me give you an example. It is obsurd for someone to say the grahpics of timesplitters 2 are superior than far cry's.

TS 2:
http://edomekuvat.soneraplaza.fi/ts2/t206.jpg

http://www.xbox.com/media/games/timesplitters2/sim-timesplitters2-0004.jpg


Far Cry:
http://www.game-revolution.com/previews/screens/pc/far_cry/far_cry2b.jpg

http://www.game-revolution.com/previews/screens/pc/far_cry/far_cry8b.jpg

I think it is very clear Far Cry's graphics poop all over TS2's. It's not a matter of opinion, it a matter of fact.

Having said that, the type of graphics that someone likes is opinion, person X might think cell shaded graphics are better because he enjoys that type of environment. But although person X's taste is cell shading, he would obviousely know that graphics like far cry's are superior.

conclusion:
Type of graphics>>>>>opinion
technicality of graphics>>>>>>fact

[Evolution]

i still have a feeling killzone will be better than half life 2

Why will it be better. You dont actually know that its better yet and back up what you say with evidence

[Recon]

i still have a feeling killzone will be better than half life 2

Why will it be better. You dont actually know that its better yet and back up what you say with evidence


Well at ign,they said 1 of the games coming to ps3 are half-life 2

[Blake]

That's kind of irrelevant but are you sure you dont mean PS2? Post a link please.

[Recon]

That's kind of irrelevant but are you sure you dont mean PS2? Post a link please.


I have a question.Are you a robot?I have met lots of robots at different forums and it says their offline but everytime I post they reply.

Oh my computer cant make links and what I said is old news

[Blake]

Im always hidden and I doubt there are any robots at other forums. Unless by robot you just mean an automated response program.

[Cody]

and those are just called bots since it is just software robots are hardware i think that how it works

[PlayStation 3]

News just came in, Killzone is planed to be officially released on November 2004. Fact's provided by Hyper>> (which is one of the best game magazines ever) :)

So just a few more months of pateince and we will reap our rewards :D

[Evolution]

Killzone will be out in the UK on October 18th. It will be out in the US in mid Novenmber. Did you hear that, us Brits get something first for once. So, Morpheus, we have something to look forward to. It will be out in late November or early December in Australia.

[Recon]

10/26/04

The official release for U.S.

[Seb]

Killzone will be out in the UK on October 18th. It will be out in the US in mid Novenmber. Did you hear that, us Brits get something first for once. So, Morpheus, we have something to look forward to. It will be out in late November or early December in Australia.

Yup that’s great news. I'm just as sick as anyone of always having to wait much longer than our US counterparts all the time. However it just depends on where the game is made. If the game is made in the UK, it gets release there first. If it gets made in the USA then it gets released over there first. Same goes for Japan or anywhere for that matter. Unfortunately for us, it seems that the vast majority of games get released oversees. Oh well, at least we can celebrate this game coming out over here first for once.

[PlayStation 3]

It will be out in late November or early December in Australia.I think you is made a mistake thier... you see according to Hyper>> Game Magazine it said it will be OFFICIALLY RELEASED in Australia in November. Check it up if you don't believe me, I'll even give you the page and issue number.

Issue Number: 130
Page Bumber: 29

Check it out and see who'e right then ...? :?

[Evolution]

I personally dont care when its released anywhere alse. Its released in Europe first and thats all that matters. I never knew Guerrilla was a European company.

Check out the official KILLZONE website, its a very cool site with background music tht makes you want to get up and shoot someone, oh happy days.

http://www.killzoneps2.com/

[don_milz]

I never knew Guerrilla was a European company.


Same here, but i found out that its a dutch company about a month ago.

[PlayStation 3]

I never knew Guerrilla was a European company.


Same here, but i found out that its a dutch company about a month ago.Has Guerrilla made cool games before, or is Killzone going to be it :wink:

[Blake]

What??? You need to construct your sentences better so they can be more understood.

[richjwild]

......................................

[Blake]

Who's talking about Shellshock? This thread is about Killzone, Im confused as to where your going with this.

[richjwild]

.....................................

[Blake]

Oh, next time "quote" him so everyone can follow along easier.

Either go to his post and hit quote or use the quote tags which look like this. [ quote ] [ / quote ] Except they wont have the spaces inbetween.

[don_milz]

Check this out. It's an animation i made of a reload scene in killzone, using 16 screenshots taken one after the other, you can expect the animation to seem as though it has a low frame rate, but i think you'll understand that in the actual game there will be hunderds of frames within something like thismaking the actual animation very very smooth...and i'm only using 16 frames.

http://pssniper.belarbi.net/Reload.gif
(at first the animation might be slow, but just wait for it to load, then it'll be normal.)

[Evolution]

Thats pretty cool DDS

[oxygenuk]

just watched killzone trailer for the first time, holy crud i druled, this game looks gorgeous and im getting it asap on release (goodbye halo)

[Blake]

Well I havent seen what Killzone can do now but when I saw the trailer the Enemy AI looked pretty weak. Hopefully that is resolved, and dont cuss oxy.

[watashi]

Do you really think it will kill Halo? It's on a different console...lol, jk

Anyway I hope KZ does well it's first time, anyone seen the Best Game Console awards on that channel *last year I forgot what channel*
Halo won for the other things...sadly...I thought that they were gonna showcase Japanese games too....but I guess JPN games would have always won...

[don_milz]

WOOOOOOOOOOOW :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
check out this Killzone trailer (i thinks its a new one)...it also has a catchy tune.
http://www.gametrailers.com/gt_fanmovies/ft_killzone01.html

[watashi]

If Killzone were to "really" kill Halo I'd think that it should be more popular ;_;? IS ANYONE WITH ME? okay maybe not...I mean come on if it was this popular as it seems to be then we should have loads of topics on it...

SIgh anyone know? I don't plan to get it...I'm not an FPS person :( but I'd want it to kill halo!

[Evolution]

Some info from IGN on a KILLZONE sequel.

August 16, 2004 - Killzone is the highly anticipated PlayStation 2 first-person shooter from Guerilla Games. It's a title many are hoping will be the Halo-killer we've all been longing for. We'll not know whether it achieves such high standing until the final rolls around this fall. Regardless, Sony has apparently already commissioned Guerilla to begin development on a follow-up, now tentatively titled Killzone 2.

When asked about the validity of this news, developers within Guerilla assured us that sequels were indeed planned (as the scope of the universe demanded from inception), but nothing official has yet been announced. Though the game is still not official, we managed to glimpse the cover of a design document, simply titled Killzone 2, which implies the project may be further along than the conceptual stage. Obviously, this got our attention.
We dug a little further and found it exceedingly difficult to uncover any real details, but when asked whether or not Killzone 2 would be a PlayStation 3 title, the developers at Guerilla very candidly said "No." Now the real question remains... Will Killzone 2 be on PlayStation 2 or PSP? No definitive answer was provided when we posed this question to company representatives.

Regardless of where it inevitably shows up, expect Killzone 2 to generate just as much hype as its predecessor, which we'll bring you more details on in the coming months.

[Blake]

If it's not going to be on the PS3 it'll be on the PStwo for sure, possibly the PSP.

[gaming ultima]

i think their prob trying to make some more money and ride off of killzone's possible success with a quick 1 year later sequel and it will be like one of the last big games on the PS2 which will go well with the ps3 being backwards compatible and might combat a possible early next xbox launch and then there will be a killzone 3 on the PS3 maybe coming out around the same time as Halo 3 if you catch my drift

[asong]

it looks good :D

I'll probably get it, but not play it because I can't even complete the first mission in socom II :(

[Seb]

it looks good :D

I'll probably get it, but not play it because I can't even complete the first mission in socom II :(

Lol. It is quite tough. What bit are you stuck on? PM me if you need any help.

[Cody]

I realy don't find my self that worried about kllzone 2 since killzone 1 isnt even out yet if kill zone 1 proves it's self then I will worry kill zone 2. My only hope for kill zone is that the team mates AI is smart like the ones in ghost recon and socom

[gaming ultima]

Blake you don’t need to worry about the AI, in all the builds before it was properly incorporated it was a bit doggy but from what I have read of the latest builds its meant to be pretty good
anyway lets just wait and see I suppose, not long to wait now if you live in Europe, a month and a bit
hmm just thought, in the US its going to come out pretty close to Halo 2

[don_milz]

The first review of the Killzone single player campaign is up, and it's very positive. A spoiler or two for level missions and such. But you'll be able to skip them.

Here it is translated by Fastson at the PSX2 central forums.
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Those eyes. Those orange, glowing eyes. I have had nightmares about them, seen them staring at me from the other side of the bedroom like the devil himself, I shiver at the thought of them. Killzone has left its marks. After two whole days together with Sonys eagerly awaited action epoch I am ready to tell everything for you who wait eagerly for the games release. The game catalogue for Playstation 2 screams for a “Halo” and after what we have seen Killzone might just be the game we have waited for.

Killzone, a military term for the situation that is created when you flank your opponents and by an assault from both directions wedge the enemy with fire from different angles. An extremely effective manoeuvre when it is preformed with precision. No one escapes the killzone. Killzone is a lot about referring to and using fundamental war tactics and strategies without for that matter devering from its origin, heavy, hectic first person action. Unlike for example Halo, Killzone is considerable more realistic in its way of handling firefights. Rushing for the enemy and emptying your magazine at the same time is an simple and immediate ticket to the death kingdom. The same goes for your team-mates if you dont give them support fire when they are advancing over the terrain. Nah, its all about making sure your back is secure, moving forward in short, quick moves at the same time having cover ahead. Patiently you have to pick off the enemy with the help of your standard rifles zoom-function. Close combat at a few meters distance are rare, if you dash into a shooting Helghast-soldier he will almost always switch to the shotgun mode on his assault rifle and you will die immediately. It sometimes works (but very seldom) to sneak onto a unwitting enemy and then shooting him at close range or hit him with the rifle butt in the head.

The story in Killzone is wellmade, exciting and nicely told. The future is conflict filled, wreaked by war and extremely brutal. You play as one of four selectable special soldiers for the allied ISA. The largely controlled by the ruthless Helghast, the interplaniterian colonisation is on the upbeat and the planet Vectra, where Killzone takes place, is now under attack. Vectra is, when the game starts, under heavy attack when Helghast just has launched a big offensive. Its your job to lead the different special ops through a mangled warlandscape and hopefully save the planet. When the game starts I stand in an trench somewhere on the lightblue surface of Vectra. You can only choose to play as the all-round-soldier Templar, the others you will meet during the path of the game. Four men are standing beside me to my left, they are shooting for all that is holy. In the horizon a whole platoon of Helghast soldiers advance and become visible first at a 30 meter range where the morning mist has lifted somewhat.

“Shoot them, shooot!” a bald man screams carrying the biggest weapon of the squad. The key is to shoot with precision because the aim-sight shakes because of the recoil and when the enemy advances quickly and with tactics. By pressing the right stick I can zoom with four times magnification which makes it easier to pick the oncoming Helghast-forces off. The strain on the trenches turnes out to be too much. One of the men tells me that he knows of a bunker with a 50 mm mounted weapon which we use to hold off the Helghast troops. This is the upbeat for Killzone and even if the first level called “The Trenches” does not impress the rest of the game promises a lot..

Killzone has eleven maps which are compsed by five segments each. After having fled the bunkers from the first map (which also works as a tutorial) we make way for the slums to find a lost colonel. The first thing that happens is you meet a group of four regular infantry men which have lost two of their comrades, they cant move anywhere because of a annoying Helghast sniper. Its up to you to quickly climb a nearby watertower, pick up a sniper rifle and take out the enemy sniper across the street in a window. Here follows a half an hour of hectic guerrilla warfare on narrow, mangeled streets where especially the enemy AI impresses. The Helghast-soldiers communicates during the fire fights, the yell stuff like "I'm under fire", "I'm pinned down", "Give me cover" and "I need a medic". Their voices sound robotic and the sound crackles out of the black gasmasks. It reminds me of Nazi Germanys SS-troops mixed with a hint of Darth Vader. Not very nice guys and far from the chattering brownies from Bungies Halo.

At the end of the fourth part of the first epside of the game, one of your comrades report that more Helghast forces are on their way through the east part of the city, and that they are attacking by artillery aswell. You get a rocket launcher and ten rockets and are ordered to run down to the streetlevel and wait for the assault. The ten seconds it takes for the Helghast to march in with two APCs and one overdimentioned supertank feels like several minutes. This scene is just one of many where Guerrilla shows how they are able to build up tension and when the artillery finally rolls in, the earth starts to make dust and the noises makes you think of the ending scenes of Saving Private Ryan when the allied soldiers await the attacking enemy tanks.

Two chapters later and Templar has met with the allied general, you learn that your first name is Jan (extremely bizarre) and that the ISA-spy Hakha (a former Helghast colonel which has changed sides) is the fourth and last playable character. The others are Luger, a woman sniper with stealth abilities, and Rico, a slow moving but heavily armed machinegun specialist. Each character has different abilities. Rico for example can not climb or sneak in the same way as Luger, which makes his missions more action oriented. This is of course nothing new, but relatively well put into place in the test version we played.

The postmodern warwrecked atmosphere breathes old-fashioned futurism and Guerrillas designers have done a brilliant job with the different environment variations. The Helghast-soldiers radiate total evil, their black masks together with the way they move make them into one of the most nasty enemies in a very long time. The game have some of the most well-made weapons models I have ever seen in a game together with a lot of nice effects one of them the hardware-demanding movement blur at the top of the list. The environment are very extensive and you can see far into the horizon. It often feels like you are not playing a PS2 game, as Guerrilla has pushed the PS2 hardware to its rupture limit. Even the unstable framerate which we complained about after having played the E3 demo is almost all gone.

The controlls in killzone is a lot like that in Halo with some original solutions. All weapons have two functions which you easily change from with the R1 and R2 buttons. Press L1 and you will throw a grenade, you duck with L2. The difference from most games in the genre is that you are allowed to rush by pressing the left analogue-stick. You can not fire during a rush, and you can only rush for a short distance until your stamina bar is empty. You zoom by pressing the right analogue-stick, by pressing circle you change weapons and on triangle you reload. The gameplay feeling promise a lot of good as the controls feels natural and responsive. The weapons create more recoil then I am used to in these types of games, with some automatic weapons its often very difficult to aim. This reinforces the fact that Killzone is built around the ground-rules for real military tactics, rather then the FPS-worlds fictitious run-and-shoot-solutions.

From the beginning Templar only carries a pistol and a machinegun with the ability to throw smaller grenades (similar to Half Life). Personally I have chosen to play the game with almost always using the Helghast army weapons, a highpowered and very precise assaultrifle, which also has the ability to fire a shotgun round. There are 18 weapons in the game, some are suitable for only Rico, some only for Luger. Among the most used weapons in the game is the sniper rifle, the heavy machinegun and the automatic shotgun. All these work well even if I was disappointed with the sniper rifle thus far. The sights, scope colour the surroundings orange and the sight lack precise markings. Its even very hard to aim with the sniper rifle and the effect when you hit a Helghast soldier is boring and is not as rewarding as it should be. Another weapon which is not designed as well as it should have been is the rocketlauncher which you get in the beginning of the game. The weapon looks cool and the sight works perfectly, but its hard to feel exactly whether you hit or not and the explosion created is puny. A big plus for the very realistic and nice animations when you reload your weapon. Especially the sniper rifle.

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Source (http://www.gamereactor.se/texter/?id=2448&PHPSESSID=1149c2e2fa0b0524f5d6db4a172b2bb6)

It's looking very good and positive.

[Evolution]

And Killzone is supposed to be the PS2's Halo killer. I dont think it will ever be better than Halo in any possible way as long as ive got a hole in my arse. Why, this is why:-

Multi Player:-

Halo 2s multiplayer, which will support 16 players on Xbox Live, 32 players with LAN offline, system link 4-16 players, and 4 players per one console, with Single CTF, many more modes from original Halo and new ones, Co-op 4 player, team deathmatches, oddball games, king of the hill, and many more.

Killzone, on the other hand, has only max of 12 players for PS2 Online, and for offline purposes only 2 players per console, max of 4 players offline with a system connector, featuring team deathmatches (Halo 2 has it), Co-op 2 player (Halo 2 has it), 6 vs 6 team matches (Halo 2 can have 8 vs 8 online or with system link or 16 vs 16 with LAN which is better), so basically Halo 2 has better multiplayer than Killzone all around.

Next: Singleplayer:-

We do not know how good each games singleplayer will be, but its safe to say that Halo 2's will be better, why? Well, it has 24 very, very long levels compared to killzones 11, which basically hails in comparisson to Halo's levels.

Vehicles:-

Has anyone seen any vehicles you can drive in killzone, I know I havent. Then look at Halo 2, they have all these vehicles below plus all the vehicles from the first game and some that Bungie havent showed yet.

WARTHOGS
http://www.ugo.com/channels/games/features/halo2/images/halo2art_9.jpg

ALL TERRAIN VEHICLE (ATV)
http://the-junkyard.net/images/vehicles/halo2/atv.jpg

COVENANT DROP PODS
http://the-junkyard.net/images/vehicles/halo2/CovDropPod_Full.jpg


MULTI-COLOURED CIVILLIAN WARTHOGS
http://the-junkyard.net/images/vehicles/halo2/civilian_hog.jpg

Extras:-

Halo 2 it is set on earth and almost every building in the game can suffer damage, like Geo-Modding in Red Faction. You can knock down trees. Shoot lights and this time youre able to use stealth to get past the covenant. You can also use two weopons at once and shoot them by using the left and right trigger to fire them individually I havent seen or heard of anything like this in Killzone. Well, at least the reloading in Killzone looks kind of cool.

Graphics:-

Well its going to be obvious which has the best graphics due to the hardware, but lets see anyway.

http://www.digitalentertainmentnews.com/admin/screenshoot/killzone01.jpg
ADMITIDLY, THE GRAPHICS ARE GOOD, BUT LOOK AT HALO 2.

http://www.dvdexchange-online.co.uk/Game_News/HALO_2/halo2E3_03.jpg
NUFF SAID

So the conclusion: Bow down to Halo 2!!!



BOXART TO ONE OF THE BEST GAMES THIS YEAR. (at least I hope it will be)
http://www.tothegame.com/res/game/1422/boxshot_uk_large.jpg

[don_milz]

Graphics:-

Well its going to be obvious which has the best graphics due to the hardware, but lets see anyway.

http://www.digitalentertainmentnews.com/admin/screenshoot/killzone01.jpg
ADMITIDLY, THE GRAPHICS ARE GOOD, BUT LOOK AT HALO 2.

http://www.dvdexchange-online.co.uk/Game_News/HALO_2/halo2E3_03.jpg
NUFF SAID


I'm not denying that Halo 2 will have better graphics.
But that graphics comparison you just did, was the most bias, unfair and one-sided comparison i have ever seen. You use the worst shot killzone shot you could find, which is in motion, so that it's blurred. Then you get the best...pre-rendered, Halo 2 Dev-shot, which is a wallpaper. then you compare? WOW.

If you want to use pre-rendered, devshots which are wallpapers, then compare with this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/DDSniper/post1.jpg

But what point is it comparing and seeing which wallpaper looks better.
lets try to actually compare in game graphics shall we:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/DDSniper/killzone111.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/DDSniper/killzone104.jpg

Like i said i am aware Halo 2 would have better graphics, but if you want to make a comparison, at least make it fair.

[Blake]

Wow Evo, you havent even played Killzone and your already passing biased judgement on it. I could care less which is better because If I had an Xbox I'd likely get both of them while you sit at home trying to gloat about the greatness of Halo 2 over Killzone. Who cares? Grow up and become a real gamer...not a sheep.

[watashi]

-_- Keeps reading bias until he finds context clues on what it means...

Though the graphics look similarly great

[Evolution]

Wow Evo, you havent even played Killzone and your already passing biased judgement on it.

Everyone has their opinion, and im like everyone else, I have mine. The Spongebob squarepants movie video game isnt out yet but I already think its going to suck. Whether it will be rubbish or not, I dont know and I dont care, im not going to buy it. Kind of like im not going to get Killzone, until a couple of months after its release. I liked the look of Killzone when I saw the first pics of it but I got less and less interested as it was MILKED to death to be an HALO killer. Personally im looking alot more forward to Timesplitters 3.

Who cares? Grow up and become a real gamer...not a sheep.

What the F***

[Blake]

A sheep is just a blind follower of a certain product. That's what I meant by that, the Halo series have created alot of sheep...so has the Gran Turismo series on the PS2. When I use sheep in this context what Im basically implying is that to you "all else is crap except Halo".

As for your spongebob reference, well ofcourse it's ok to think thats going to be crap...it's aimed at a younger crowd. It's likely going to be crap to the older gamer, but when it comes to games trying to reach out to the audience you are in then it's lame to judge them so soon. We havent seen enough of Killzone yet.

Keeps reading bias until he finds context clues on what it means...

Bias

- A preference or an inclination, especially one that inhibits impartial judgment. b. An unfair act or policy stemming from prejudice.

-A statistical sampling or testing error caused by systematically favoring some outcomes over others.

- To influence in a particular, typically unfair direction; prejudice.