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1UP: Killzone 2 Review

Shooters have replaced fighting games as the most over-saturated genre in gaming today, and it's increasingly difficult to stand out from the crowd. However, with its unparalleled graphics, incredibly well-paced single-player campaign and in-depth multiplayer offerings, Killzone 2 has established its place among top-tier console shooters.

arika6309d ago

i would have expected a B or B+ from them. nice! ok i think there is 2 more on our hate or hit list edge and gamespot. well see....

red5ive6309d ago

go killzone! each review gets me more and more excited! 24 days!

pswi606309d ago

So this will show up on Metacritic as 10/10 like Gears 2 did, right?

Ghoul6309d ago (Edited 6309d ago )

Awesome nuff said. This game is my most wanted shooter since gears1

GWAVE6309d ago

"unparalleled graphics"

Unparalleled: adj, meaning without peer or equal

You heard it here, folks.

jwatt6309d ago

Nice score, Can't wait to play it online!

Ghoul6309d ago (Edited 6309d ago )

"its unparalleled graphics, incredibly well-paced single-player campaign and in-depth multiplayer offerings, Killzone 2 has established its place among top-tier console shooters. Expectations on Killzone 2 had reached ridiculous proportions; here's one of those cases where the them."

- unparalleled graphics
- incredibly well-paced single-player campaign
- in-depth multiplayer offerings
- game actually lived up to the hype

wdit @ below :

blueshirt7749 Oh look another troll using his only bubble to post spam

negative6309d ago

Oh look now 1up isn't so bad is it? The sony fanboys got a score they wanted... LOL

FAIL

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Ghoul6309d ago

FelinePornographer

WOW that review you linked is incredible, Sorry guys but that is one hell of a proof of a fanboy

TheSadTruth6309d ago

You people are retarded that think every single game reviewing site is biased towards Xbox 360. You kids need to realize the PS3 has had VERY few good games. The people HERE hype the games up so much that it's impossible to match your expectations.

Lair, Haze, ETC.

The sites aren't biased, they just don't like bad games, and now that the PS3 is finally getting some awesome games like Killzone 2 and MGS4 you nerds can quit crying and finally have justification for your $400 blu-ray player. I think I'll be buying one now too, because I like good games, not because I'm some nerd that buys a console because of it's brand.

Disagree with as many times as you can, hide from the truth.

poeo6309d ago

nah, that's not the truth.

i bought the PS3 _purely_ for gaming purposes in 2007, and it was a no brainer for me. i wanted to play Skate, Assassin's Creed, COD4 etc, but also wanted a reliable system that isn't noisier than my old PS2.

so, what choices did i have? :)

Masta_fro6309d ago

1up giving a ps3 exclusive a great score???????????

Sh!t, this is like microsoft publicly announcing that killzone 2 is too good to be true.

Seriously now, this is how it went..."but Bill! we cant give killzone 2 a low score, because then everyone will know you pay us monthly and we are secretly sucking your coc!< every night."

Blademask6309d ago (Edited 6309d ago )

MGS4
Uncharted 1
Motorstorm1&2
Resistance1&2
Little Big Planet
Gran Turismo 5p
Valkyrie Chronicles
MLB
Ratchet & Clank
Warhawk
WipeoutHD
Socom
Siren

ETC

is a bit more than 2 terrible games. The 360 has more flops than it has exclusives, but thats what happens when you release quantity over quality. I think it literally has 500 JRPG's that all scored lower than Haze & Lair. The fact that you are here crying about how you are going to buy a ps3 because you're bored of pretending to look forward to Ninja Blade and Banjo 2 news is hilarious. Take a trip to neogaf to see how biased Games Radar is, take a trip to 1up's posts about KZ2 and its stupid AI... take a trip to sthu lane, its next to "too much variety" alley, and add my psn after you're done.

Did you really just mention haze? lol... you guys define GRASPING AT STRAWS so hard its pathetic at this point.

1up and all the other traditional Xbox Favoring sites(GamesRadar) aren't generating hits from dust bunnies aka 360 game news, so they have to please the horde of PS3 owners, with amazing games. They cant downplay it, although they try.. But more reputable sites make them look even more obvious. Just get used to it, things will all go back to normal when there is a new 40x40pixel image of Wake.

Last time I checked, Official 360 magazine was covering Killzone2. Times a changin.

Edit:

Ooo, 360 fanboy 101. Jump to another argument.. now the games have to be "killer games" and as defined by you its ... COD4, TF2 and Halo with Real friends? Yea thats a bit different than trying to BS everyone with Lair & Haze. WHen confronted with games you run away to something else.

Well, You can spin this into anything since you dont have any solid argument other than "BUH BUH I personally dont like the games you've mentioned" I enjoy all games. Especially Xbox360 "exclusives" like L4D, on my pc hooked up to my tv & gamepad. And I love the "personal" attacks too!

As I said, add my psn when you save enough milk money to buy a ps3. Until then, keeeep on crying about why you dont have a ps3.

TheSadTruth6309d ago (Edited 6309d ago )

Lol at "you guys" as if I have some kind of motive, as if I care what the little kids here buy

I have a life, and I don't type essays to defend "my console" because I don't have a console, I just buy good games. I'm sorry that you consider games like

Motorstorm
Valkyrie Chronicles
MLB
Ratchet & Clank
Warhawk
WipeoutHD
Socom

to be killer titles, some of us have higher standards. I'll be enjoying CoD4 and TF2 on my PC and playing Halo 3 with *gasp* real life friends and you can masturbate to Killzone 2 footage while you wait until the end of February. Rofl. And then guess what? I can play it too while you're stuck playing just PS3 games because you're a fanboy who spends 6 hours a day reading PS3 news on this site.

Ghoul6309d ago

whatever makes you feel loved mate

Lifendz6309d ago

1up can't even hate on it. lol. This game is a monster. It sleeps cold winters to wake up and spit summer.

Can't believe it. Hope Sony advertises the hell outta this because they have a critical hit on their hands.

Bubble Buddy6309d ago (Edited 6309d ago )

Sad Truth, name your good 360 exclusives.

Bioshock 2..oh wait.
Mass Effect 2...oh wait.
Lost Planet 2...oh wait.
Dead Rising 2...oh wait.
Left 4 Dead...Oh true, but possible to come to PS3.
Your best game BANJO KAZZOOOOOOOIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! :)
You can always suck the b@lls of master chief and Marcus Fenix every year.

Sad Truth, you know cod4 and TF2 is on PS3. o_0. And Halo 3 came out 2 years ago.

callahan096309d ago

@ SadTruth:

If you don't think Warhawk is a killer title, then you've clearly never played it. Therefore, I will just ignore everything you have to say about the PS3, because chances are you're just biased against it, thus the comments I see you making here. I can't stand it when people comment about things they don't know anything about. You say those games aren't killer, and I say you've never played them, so your opinions are worthless.

morganfell6309d ago (Edited 6309d ago )

Dan Hsu was responsible for this cover:

http://www.gamesetwatch.com...

He talked about how guys at Sony were invited to a get together. He showed them the cover and then he said he laughed when he saw their faces. The PS3 had been out mere months and this is the cover EGM chose. I am so glad that magazine went under. They damned well deserved it. Did they not think that such covers when the PS3 was in it's infancy were unfairly damaging and would cost Sony employees their job? And people want to feel sorry for EGM? Screw EGM and screw Dan Hsu.

Just a question but wouldn't a billion dollar expense because of faulty hardware warrant it's own cover?

Have you seen a RROD 360 main picture on the cover with a caption that says, "Xbox 360 in trouble. What went wrong (and what Microsoft has to say about it.)

No you certainly haven't. Why not? A billion dollar error and it isn't cover worthy? No it isn't when you do things with an agenda.

cmrbe6309d ago (Edited 6309d ago )

high standards ?.

Most of the games you listed like MLB, RC TOD, Motostorm, Valkyrie Chronicles, WipeoutHD and warhawk have are without equal on the x360 or are one one of those gamers that think that FPS is king and other genre are for girls?. Yeah whatever you say kid.

Kleptic6309d ago

Morgan...isn't Hsu gone now though?...I thought all the EGM staff were let go...including bettenhausen, whom seemed to do more work for 1up than the mag...

either way...1up did have its share of retards...but they were slowly picked up by MS over the last 2 years (I seriously am not kidding)...and just before the whole place about flatlined a month ago...it was really turning into a cool place...

the 1up yours podcast...was by far...the best gaming podcast available...it sucks it not around anymore...

what was cool though was listening to Ellis (the writer of this review) going from unimpressed with killzone 2...to having it replace his evenings on gears 2...when he first got into the beta...he hated it...claiming the control was awful and that he hated the 'feel' of the game...

2 weeks later he came on the same podcast claiming he was putting more free time into the killzone 2 beta than gears 2 and R2 combined...that it was that good...

i'll definitely miss that podcast...but giantbomb's is pretty good for the 'old school' casts...

morganfell6309d ago (Edited 6309d ago )

Yes Hsu left before EGM and 1up augered into the ground. He did the damage, most of it with his policies, grabbed the only parachute and bailed before flight 1up and flight EGM spread their wreckage over half of the gaming countryside.

I don't deny that there were a few good people there but they were very few. A good acquaintance of mine used to work for 1up and she left, moved to Ubisoft and now works for Redstorm. But a great many of the people there were "Dan is the man" homeboyz or whatever you want to call that pack of game maligning retards.

The few decent people there were not necessarily collateral damage. They decided to keep living in the neighborhood and supporting known game thugs and when the 1up and EGM punk bad guys were taken down they went with them.

N4360G6309d ago (Edited 6309d ago )

LOL I never saw this coming,1UP giving Killzone 2 an A? It looks like no one can deny Killzone 2's awesomeness,I can't wait to play Killzone 2 for myself in just a few more weeks!!

Danja6309d ago

wow great score wasn't expecting 1UP to give this game an A.....

blackpanther256308d ago

"Begins to slow clap"

I like the way the you talk. It reminds me of me lol. You sir are being added to my ps3 friends list (psn: BLooDLustz)

jammy_706308d ago

so if A is 100 then whats A+ ?

wanderofys6308d ago

Gamespot will likely give this game a good a review. Regardless of their tendencies to downplay PS3 games in previews, they usually give credit where credit is due when it comes to reviews (see: MGS4's perfect 10 review, or R2's 9.0, the same score they gave Gears 2).

TheBlackSmoke6308d ago

Critically acclaimed, well done guerilla games launch day cant come soon enough.

FrankenLife6308d ago

1up actually said something positive. I am so proud of them. They are growing and learning.

.......naw, this glimpse of honesty, was probably just a glitch. But a glitch that I will take.

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TheHater6309d ago

that was a relatively short review compare to their past reviews of games as hype as Killzone 2.

Kleptic6309d ago

dude...the place barely exists now...over half the staff is gone...this guy probably has 6x the work load he used to...

Gerry Mark II6309d ago (Edited 6309d ago )

wow, maybe those firings at 1Up did something good.

Blademask6309d ago (Edited 6309d ago )

lol. thats bad taste man.

caladbolg7776309d ago

Here's to hoping that the Microsoft firings have a similar effect.

pwnsause6309d ago

WTF? 1up gave the game a A/A+ oh SNAP!

Alcohog6309d ago

Wait why did Bloodmask submit this if its a good score?

Gerry Mark II6309d ago (Edited 6309d ago )

because he needs to meet his quota of being the biggest nerd on N4G.

I heard he just sits in front of a computer submiting stories all day. Everytime he needs to crap, he does it in the bowl next to his PC.

arika6309d ago

bloodmask has a change of heart. all i can say is welcome to the club. the force on k2 is too much for anyone to resist.

krouse936309d ago

He probably didn't read it and just figured 1UP would have given it a bad review so he just copy pasted and submitted.

Ghoul6309d ago

gerry popsocketing ?

a sad sad world of warcraft and mmo invention ^^

Marceles6309d ago

I remember he submitted the Universal dropping HD-DVD story...so however bad it hurts to submit them, if it's getting 1000 degrees it's definitely getting posted.

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Why Guerrilla Games Shouldn't Abandon the Killzone Series

Hugely disappointingly, it seems that Guerrilla Games, developers of the Killzone and Horizon series, may be done with Killzone for good.

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IAMRealHooman568d ago

1 was fine, overhyped as a " halo" killer
2 was a graphical beast at the time, and felt heavy
3 was good a refinement of 2 but not much else. weird audio issues environment were to quiet
shadow fall was pretty but bland

OtterX568d ago (Edited 568d ago )

Shadowfall had great Multiplayer though. Too bad the campaign was meh at best. It did have the occasional great moment sprinkled in.

TheNamelessOne568d ago (Edited 568d ago )

I played through 2/3 multiple times. I played through the original once, but it felt pretty lukewarm for me. I couldn't be bothered to beat Shadow Fall. I got a couple hours in and just went "I'm done". Never touched it again. It was awesome on the tech side, being a launch title, but it didn't even match up to the first game when it came to actually having fun playing it.

Rude-ro568d ago

3 in 3d was an amazing experience to be had.
Although not many experienced it as intended for good reasons.

just_looken567d ago

You forgot the ai advancements on the playstation 2 killzone one you could have a full team of bots doing everything even playing the objective that was a big thing.

In killzone 2 they always flanked you and when available used the high ground.

Playing killzone 2 no hud 5.1 audio was/is awesome

MDTunkown568d ago

They should finish Horizon story first

darthv72568d ago

I dont mind if someone else takes up the mantle for the KZ franchise. We are several years removed from the first game. It certainly could use a remake to gauge interest in the rest of the series. I know it has its fans... Im thinking of how a proper reboot can rekindle that old dormant flame and bring in a new generation of fans in the process.

just_looken567d ago

You forgot killzone mercenaries on the ps vita but it was the worst selling sony game for awhile there.

Yui_Suzumiya567d ago

Yeah, a remake would be pretty awesome

anast568d ago

They should let it go or sell it. No use spending millions on this project.

LucasRuinedChildhood568d ago

Would like a new IP before Horizon 3. Just because games take so long to make these days.

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OtterX797d ago (Edited 797d ago )

Even if they could just remaster and put on PSVR2, some would still look great as VR titles and could do a whole lot to bolster the headset w these exclusives! I'd imagine the investment of reworking these titles into VR would be way less than building new games from the ground up, and they could be amazing experiences, and VR often makes flat games feel fresh again. The Resistance and Killzone games are particularly what I want to see!!

Rude-ro797d ago

I played killzone 3 in 3d and it really changed the game per being immersive.
In vr, that would be even more awesome.

darthv72797d ago

Funny you mention that... my son wanted to play some PS3 games in 3d on my PS tv and he was blown away by how good KZ3 was. It really was a great addition to the game. Im surprised there have not been more 3d games from that era being ported to the PSVR/VR2.

_SilverHawk_797d ago

resistance 1-3, killzone 1-3, uncharted 1-3, uncharted golden abyss, folklore, socom 4 , motorstorm, twisted metal, MAG, heavenly sword

Cacabunga797d ago

Killzone 2+3
Sly Thieves in Time
Crack in Time
God of War Ascension
Motorstorm
Modnation racer
Infamous 1+2

Profchaos797d ago (Edited 797d ago )

Killzone trilogy in VR would be amazing bonus points if they offer shadow fall.

There was a psvr1 Killzone project that supermassive was working on at one stage which wasn't up to scratch and Sony brand it back in house I was hoping we would see that on psvr2 eventually.

Personally I'd love to see some more love or acknowledgement of psvr2 from Sony in general it was a expensive headset and Sony barely acknowledge it's existence

seanpitt23796d ago

The amount of work needed to remaster these games wouldn't be beneficial on a financial and business sense.. MGS4 would probably be the best bet as it would need the least amount of work!

Iceball2000797d ago

YEAAASSSSS! I miss this franchise and wanna play it so bad again.

Father__Merrin797d ago

The time is perfect for a resistance fall of man game campaign coop multiplayer

InUrFoxHole797d ago

The resistance series is str8 trash to me. Socom 3 I would welcome. Or killzone MP.

Marcus Fenix797d ago

A Resistance reboot will be awesome

Michiel1989797d ago

That's what Bungie should make, Ill keep saying it until it happens

1Victor797d ago (Edited 797d ago )

Resistance was ok but Warhawk and Starhawk was better and kept me coming back for almost a decade of fun and petty revenge on the loud mouth unskilled players 🤣
Edit I loved capture the flag dropping the pot on the flag carrier was extremely satisfying as well as transforming your plane in bot form and stumping them to death 😱

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Michiel1989797d ago

Resistance was the best co-op fps I ever played after L4D2

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SullysCigar1101d ago

Up there with the top tier in the industry. Love Guerrilla Games - Horizon Burning Shores is simply STUNNING.

1Victor1101d ago

Can’t wait for their next franchise

SullysCigar1101d ago

Same. They nailed it with Horizon. The trouble is I also want a new Killzone! Can't I just have it all?!

jznrpg1101d ago

I’m with you I want Horizon 3 , Killzone and new IPs

badz1491100d ago

I have yet to play Burning Shores as I just started Forbidden West (bought at launch, just unwrapped last weekend LOL) and playing on PS5.

man...I still can't believe the graphics especially now I'm playing it on my LG OLED. that graphics and with stable performance backing it up, GG really is the master of their craft!

Vengeance11381101d ago

32.7M sales in the Horizon franchise! With 8.4M coming from Forbidden West alone! Truly a hugely successful game and franchise as a whole. Looking forward to Horizon III

Shane Kim1101d ago

That's kind of a huge drop though. It's only been two games.

VersusDMC1101d ago

One year after realease HZD sold 7.6 million.

https://www.noobfeed.com/ne...

So not a drop off.

Unless you're saying a HFW should have sold as much now as HZD sold in 5 years?

Vengeance11381101d ago

It's been 3 games, this includes Call of the Mountain. Also no, its a great improvement over HZD.

solideagle1101d ago

lol you are comparing:

HZD: 28 February 2017 - May 2023 (6 years+)

HFW: 18 February 2022 - May 2023 (1 year+)

We will see if it surpass original number.

Phoenix761101d ago

@shane, 2 full main games, 2 DLC add ons, 1 VR spin off game, oh and a an official LEGO set.
Not too bad for an ip that's only been on market for 6 years

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REDGUM1100d ago

Wow, very impressive. I didn't know the numbers were so high for Forbidden West. Still playing through it myself

thesoftware7301101d ago (Edited 1101d ago )

Yooo, when I first saw that Killzone 1 footage at E3, my friends my brothers and I were like, Holy shit! When it came out, it didn't look exactly like it, but we sunk so many hours into 1 & 2.

I even liked Killzone: SF, it was a spectacle to look at, and even today it looks good. I hope they make a new one. Can you imagine how that will look, and they can get some modern FPS pointers from Bungie.

blacktiger1100d ago

thank you fps lover, I'm with you

talocaca1101d ago

Such a wonderful studio. They deserve all their success.

The Decima Engine is absolute 🔥 I'm just mad they have abandoned Killzone.

OzzY-waZZy1101d ago (Edited 1101d ago )

Kinda wish they move on from Horizon tbh.

lukasmain1101d ago

They are probably working on mutiple projects. One of them is Horizon 3, but another is a multiplaer game and probably somehting else.

Imalwaysright1101d ago

There were rumours that they were working on a Socom reboot.

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