Thursday, February 05, 2009

Killzone 2 demo Impressions.. Fanboys unite!

Ok I should first point out that It took me the best part of four hours to download. I'm guessing the servers hosting the 1.2 GB file are getting hammered by not only european Ps3 owners by US owners with a fake EU PSN account. Anyway onto the demo. What can I say that hasn't been said before, well lets see. I played the first Killzone on Ps2 and soon had it down as a poor mans Halo on a system that couldn't technically compete with the then superior original xbox. 

The game was ok, but nothing special when compared to the competition. The PSP outing of Killzone moved from 1st person to 3rd and this proved to be an enjoyable handheld experience. The world of Killzone is a fun place to be but I'm not going to get into the story on Killzone 2 he because it looks like pretty generic sci fi fodder. gameplay is the same over the top solders, big guns, tons of bad guys, nothing we haven't seen before a million times with the FPS genre. Its a real shame that the anticipation of Killzone 2 killed the demo after the first two minutes for me personally. The level of detail in the initial beach environment was impressive graphically but I like to think I'm deeper than that. Stripping away the glitter Killzone 2 appears to be your bog standard FPS in a new dress! I'm going to reserve judgement for the final retail build at the end of the month before i crucify the game for lack of any innovation. I just have one thing to say!

Default weapon zoom assigned to R3? u gotta be joking right, thank god it can be changed to L1!

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