The content of this site is just getting ridiculous now. What the hell is with all the blogs? I'm sorry, I don't care what person X thinks about game Y. I want some NEWS.

Uncharted 2 getting MP? Sweet!
Mass Effect 2 screenshots? Rock on!
"Did KZ2/Gears2/MS/Sony/Wii flop/fail/succeed/dominate?&qu ot; Not news!

Well it is the FPS i have spent the most online time on so far on this generation of consoles - so i wouldn't say it failed.

No.

Oh people wanted so badly, SO BADLY, to bash this game into the deepest depths of Hades for being crap but when it came out and got great reviews and impressions by gamers only the hardest core fanboy had to think of something else to throw at Killzone 2 and that became sales.

Bu bu bu but teh salezzz!!

no

you can obviously tell cause its when all the ps3 bashing articles come out on n4g

People really gonna fall for another Badassgamerblog headline?

Yes, it failed HARD

Above average graphics
Average gameplay
extremely poor sales

Definately not what it was hyped to be. I hope droids learn not to hype a game by it's graphics for now on. rofl

I guess I'll be 'that' guy who defends the author. He's not referring to the game's critical success or failure, as some of you have inferred, but rather as to its success as a killer app that sells consoles. This game, along with MGS4, FF13, and later on LBP, were supposed to be the games that sold 4 million + and put the PS3 on the map.

But Killzone didn't, it sold between 1-2 million copies worldwide, which is excellent, but not the overwhelming success Sony hoped for. In that limited capacity Killzone 2 has been a failure, once again, not critically, but commercially for Sony.

If the commercial success of Killzone 2 is not something that you care about, which it shouldn't unless you're a SCE employee, then this article shouldn't matter to you in the slightest.

It failed for me, but everyone has different opinions. So its different for everyone :D

more like xbox fanboys failed to make this game seem like a failure..

I've played too many fps' games in my time since im a PC gamer... and as a fps game kz2 is pretty good..... not the best but still has ALOT of merit for what it is.

They did well in make it have a bit of cod feel in it and alot of special atmospheric effects. Gameplay is VERY solid.... but the graphics are not as good as what some ps3 fanboys make it seem it is.

This is fanboy garbage. Why praise the hell out of a game and say it's great, and then say it failed?

The only thing that fails is the writter of this article.

lol gtfo haha i think he got killzone mistaken for halo lol

I'm going for a interview to work for Sony.
My resum'e should warrant me to that awesome medical plan, 40k & vacation time.
on my resum'e is a list of games I enjoy, finished & remembered.

Now I should sweat about thier finacials & buy a xbox360 & stop worrying about new games so I can agree with xbutts.

Xbutt , the gamer is dead in you.

there must be no games 2 play on that system

A failure after barely 2 months? oh dear.................

pathetic

I'm enjoy being an engineer... :D

Yet another douchebag article: "Did (exclusive game) ultimately (fail/live up to the hype/change gaming/etc/etc/etc)" Why not ask really important questions like, "Who's the bigger asshat, Cliffy B or David Jaffe?" *

*Note that this is not meant to imply that either is a bad developer or that either creates bad games, but merely a reflection of their public persona and used as an example to how pointless these question articles really are.

...Huh?

In what way did it fail?

This game is perhaps one the best FPS games of 2009 by far. How could it possibly be a failure?

Why does this crap get approved?

it stopped its sales at 1.5 million...wow great hit!!! even kung fu panda sold more copies 4.3 million!!! killzone is a massive failure!!!

maybe i'm having deja vu but i could swear i read another article almost identical to this one not long ago.

They don't even analyse it or anything. Just seems like a pointless article on a site trying to get hits. It really does seem like if you fancy setting up a site to get lots of hits, just make loads of articles with flamebait titles and post them up on N4G

Its pathetic that sites like this ignore logic and go for the attention grabbing flamebait headlines but its worse still when fanboys post the news here and give them hits.

Posters here really need to grow up and not post tit for tat bad news stories/blog entries just because their format has had some bad news posted. I don't doubt for a minute this story was approved by 360 fanboys after the recent bunch of stories about Halo Wars being a failure. Just let it go. I own both systems and I've posted how Halo Wars is a great game, as is Killzone 2. Its too early to call Killzone 2 a failure and besides its already sold well enough to make that headline false anyway. Its only just been released in Japan.

Both great games - just enjoy them

"your sister is pathetic for sucking my d!ck"

Yeah,she really must have hit the bottom of the barrel to stoop that low.

EVERYONE is enjoying it more than Halo; so no, it didn't fail.

Killzone 2 was meant to end the graphics debate. It succeeded, as you can tell by the flood of articles like this. It's not about graphics it's about sales. HAHA. Losers.

Best online multiplayer game I have played- hands down.
cannot wait to get the 2 new maps, its just an awsome awsome game, if you like online fps then you are only depriving yourself by not buying this game

Killzone > 360

Killzone life time sales will reach about 5 million...im sorry all games just don't sale 3 million in one day..it dosent need to to be successful

What the hell is badassgamer? more like badgaygamer

I put more time into Killzone 2 than Halo and Gears combined. So to me that does not = failor. That is the point of games like this. To keep people playing them for as long as possible. You will have missed opinions about it, but when a game sells 1-2 million copies it has done what it was ment to do and that is to bring a great game to the platform. If Killzone 2 failed so did Gears 2.

On a side note did they fix Gears 2 online play I quit playing it because of glitches I would love to go back to playing it?

I dont see how Killzone 2 failed. it sold a lot of copies at release and its bound to keep on selling for years to come. The more people buy the PS3 the more likely they are to buy this. Also Killzone 2 is just another great game in Sony's lineup that includes other great hit titles. For me Sony has never been about that one be all, end all titles. its been about the variety of games and genres you can get on their systems. The only thing sony has failed at this gen so far is the marketing. They havent done nearly a good enough job at that and hopefully that will change.

In my honest opinion yes it did. I'm glad I got rid of it after I finished it. I haven't missed it since.

...but it WILL.

PS3 fanboys spend too much time and effort bragging about the "killer lineup of AAA games"...rather than actually going out and BUYING them. What a pathetic group of so-called "gamers".

THAT is why devs like Valve and Bethesda dump on the PS3; they KNOW 360 gamers will support their efforts, and not just pay them lip service.

Killzone didn't fail. Sony games have sales longevity. LBP anyone. People were so worried that it wasn't selling. Now look at LBP numbers. Pretty damn good. Besides Sony has a diversity of games. Sales are spread out amongst games.

Not really how has it failed, It sold really good for a PS3 game I hate these type of articles that always do stupid things to ANY game like "Did halo suck?" "God of war 3 overhyped?" etc.

how about the writer consider this: KZ 2 adds to the ps3's growing catalog....which in the future, some gamer will consider this catalog and purchase a ps3. So to some percentage, KZ 2 will continue to aid in ps3 sales.

is sony has a real winner with killzone 2. for the life of me i can not get why they didn't advertise the hell out of this. the single player is fun, and the multiplayer is outstanding. this game is a must own/must play for any ps3 owner.

this game doesn't know what fail means.

the game sold quite well maybe not the best but it sure has displayed graphical power of the 360 has not achieved yet and the ps3 has been out a yr later

Killzone 2 failed because success has been defined as two steps above whatever Killzone 2 has accomplished (day one sales didn't compare to the largest entertainment product launch of all time = failure). Alternatively, failure may be defined as being whatever shortcomings Killzone 2 has (great gameplay but imperfect controls = epic failure).

Killzone 2 will make back development costs if it hasn't already, has proven that the PS3 is capable of amazing visuals, and has gone a long way toward turning around the public perception of PS3. Add to that that it's a great game, and it was far from a failure in my opinion.

Did Killzone 2 ultimately fail? No.

Gaming journalism failed they day the Gamespot's Kane & Lynch situation was revealed.

From the article: "...if you consider Sony's main aim for Killzone 2 was to move massive numbers of PlayStation 3's into peoples houses..."

I've said it a hundred times and I'll keep saying it, no one game will be a PS3 mover. Sony will only move their consoles on an over-time basis by keeping up with multiple quality exclusives that will drive people to purchasing the game. The number of people who purchase a console for a single game just aren't going to be big enough until the console price hits $200 or less.

its that dam good.

I'll say it failed...it failed SO bad i'm playing it right now and enjoying every minute of it.

But hey! It's a failure because it did not sell 100 million units on launch.

Seriously don't give this site any hits, this article is plain and simply retarded....

slime: yes I have played alot in the last few days.
Simple
1) host: don't allow rockets or
2) shoot the player before they rocket you, play tactical, that's the game it should be
3) no lag on my games, so cant comment on that

closing in to a million players online and it's a failure? beyond me. Actually this game ruined every other game for me. compared to kz2 all the other games out there look old.

Why is it that in all Killzone2-related articles there are more Xbot Butt-Buddies that comment (and go on their little disagree-clicking sprees) than Playstation 3 gamers???

Hmnnn??? Oh maybe because the majority of PS3 gamers are actually playing great games like Killzone 2 and the MS a$$-riders have nothing better to do than disparage what the PS3 has in order to make themselves think their empty lineup is meaningless.

It failed to disappoint me.
That's all I have to say...

Killzone 2 did not fail but Ninja Gaiden 2 did remember when NG was going to be the best game ever what happend. fanboys sucks!!!!

It is a great game, but everybody cares about sells now.

I think it is by far better than any other FPS out there (e.g. CoD4 which I own). It has the most realisitc controls I have ever seen. IN CoD4 you do not have the feeling holding a weapon in your handy, in Killzone2 you do.
But you guys forget the times when CoD4 came out: there were no good FPS available, so everybody bought it. Don't forget the Xbox players who are relatively young and could/can not afford a PS3, so the PS3 is for "older" players. Older players may not care that much about FPS, that's why Killzone2 did not sell "that well". I don't know...
Then Sony did not push this game to much, no advertising...

I can say I enjoy Killzone2 very much, and as soon as you get used to the realistic controls you get better and better and you won't come back to CoD4.

...fear not about the sales. As discussed before in my previous posts, MS games were made for people with inferior intelligence. Killzone 2 was purposely made for people (like us Sony gamers)that can handle a truck load of sensory overload because of the beautiful graphics, excellent gameplay, and superior soundtrack. Since the number of weak-minded fools far outnumber the classy, intelligent, and mature which is us, it should be no surprise that Killzone 2 doesn't match the Halo sales. Subjecting this game to them will cause as what I would like to call, a "neurological equivalent of RROD"!

Not everyone was gifted with intelligence and classiness from birth. Many of them continue on with their limitation, while others were born with a temporary version of this handicap. The latter group are the people who will soon see the light and would finally switch to become a better gamer, an exclusive club shared by Sony gamers only!

1. Where the hell was the advertising for this game? If you wanna sell millions of copies then advertise it on TV! Not after the game was released. STupid...

2. Horrific controls! So bad that players everywhere demanded an update. We received it and things are better.

3. Graphics are good. Not incredible. The Unreal engine still pushes the graphics limits. It's a fact.

4. Multiplayer is fun. Through 8 experience levels. What? Did I just say 8 levels of experience? Yes! After two weeks your character is maxed out and the game is collecting dust. With all the other PS3 games.

5: It's on the Playstation. A struggling system with companies turning their backs in favor a "gamers" console. This is prime proof why developers are choosing the 360 as their console of choice.

You can be real and realize, this game should of done better, or you can be lazy and rather not analyze, what was said before this game released.(amnesia also works)

If your enjoying the game then you might as well go with the latter..

I suppose most will...

Thank you, come again...

...fear the sales. As discussed before in my previous posts, MS games were made for people with superior intelligence. Killzone 2 was purposely made for people (like us Sony gamers)that can handle a truck load of sensory sh!t because of the beautiful graphics, weak gameplay, and inferior soundtrack. Since the number of weak-minded fools far outnumber the classy, intelligent, and mature which is 360 owners it should be no surprise that Killzone 2 doesn't match the Halo sales. Subjecting this game to them will cause as what I would like to call, a "neurological equivalent of Halo is better than flopzone2.
Not everyone was gifted with intelligence and classiness from birth. Many of Sony Slaves continue on with their limitation, while others were born with a temporary version of this handicap. The latter group are the people who will soon see the light and would finally switch to become a better gamer, an exclusive club shared by Xbox gamers only!

Now I will be honest i have never played the game, but the main title still stands only because while it may be awsome have great graphics great gameplay, it is not in the level of the big boys of shooters. Example Doom first of a kind, counter strike amazing online, goldeneye the reason FPS are what they are today in counsils, Halo incredible story depth, halo 2 amazing online, cod4 great online and perks. You see, all of these shooters have 1 thing in common, they were innovative, these shooters made standards to meet up to. Killzone 2 while everyone says its amazing which it may be it seems that what they did was improve on what was already made, which by no means is a bad thing. I really doubt that 10 years from now we'll be taking about it like we are still doing about all the other shooters i mentioned above. there are more shooters in that list i know but that was just to mention some. specially goldeneye007, halo, doom, halflife, counter strike and even unreal tournament.

The game itself is brilliant - and I am a big 360 FPS fan. They should have billed it as:

"The game that proves the PS3 can do a shooter as good(or better) than the 360."

In the end, it just did not get the exposure it needed. It deserves to be a system seller...

although it got some people to hop on the PS3 bandwagon...

I just thought more PS3 owners would've had more of an interest in the title... given it had the highest attention of any PS3 game even now!

I would've expected the amazing quality of the game to be reflected with amazing sales.

But I've really enjoyed my copy thoroughly, so I could careless!

Killzone still lives 1 million sold to date. Still damn that good. I'm still playing it.

Well considering that Sony put a lot of time and effort in this game I think it did fail. Especially for the sony fanboys who prayed and hoped that this was going to be the Halo killer that they desperately wanted. In the end, the final product didn't do anything to stand out from the rest of the FPS crowd. Just another war shooter. It didn't even rise up to the high level of older games like Bioshock, Halo 3, or COD4.

Kz2 did not fail, this article fails.

With Kz2 selling 1+ million unit is great especially when you look at Kz1 which failed.

It's been two months. maybe these articles will finally get banned from the new filter too. Killzone 2 is a great game. If it sells decent who cares. A fail is a game that sells 30,000 copies (Dark Sector -great game though:)

I swear i am and im sure lots of ps3 and killzone fans are pissed of at these useless bashng of killzone 2. U knw i think people are jst jealous of the game. Im sure sony never stated that this game would sell machines. Forget the sales just enjoy the game. Cant wait for killzone 3 peace out

FACT: IT SUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKSSSSSSSSS

If you consider an amazing multiplayer/single FPS experience with beautiful graphics and futuristic war simulation that sold almost 1.5 million copies so far a failure, then what's a success?

If I hadn't owned a PS3 before Killzone 2 came out, I would have bought it just for that game because it's that good.

Seriously this is just stupid. LITTERALLY STUPID.

Remember this "KILLZONE GRAPHICS CANT BE DONE"

360 is beyond pathetic, it has a pathetic community that practically started the console war no thanks to its great executives over there at Microsoft. Spamming out NPD #'s like actual gamers give a F... Actual gamers go out and try to find the diamond in the ruff the one that didnt sell well..

Take your stupid comments, your stupid outdated console, your stupid NPD numbers and keep spamming because frankly I LOVE IT. LOVE IT.

Ps3 wont sell, wont have games, wont do anything right? Keep saying, keep hating cause it keeps selling and keeps putting out games.

Enjoy 1 vs 100 fanboys. Its free!

Oh and whatever Microsoft says at E3 its irrelavant because they have not acted on anything they said last year... They should just reannounced 1 vs 100!!! LMAO

Im a fanboy and I LOVE IT. Take away my bubbles they are for babies anyhow. Cant take it can you go ahead censor me!

Keep the negative articles coming it feeds me the fuel I need for the fire to burn its burnin and ill will be returnin! <-- He needs to release his album!

Wayy too long of a post for this site but that twat up top got to me.

I LIKE the MP but I'm not enthralled with it the way I am with COD 4 or was with both Rainbowsix Vegas 1 & 2.

But this really isn't much of an article. If you're going to ask a question like that as a title you should bring to the forefront the issues you think that raise this question. Saying "But that's a whole other story" is really poor writing. You ask a question to get hits, but you should really have more substance to justify it.

Just saying.

Let's define how a game "fails."

If to gamers, a game fails when it doesn't sell as much as the publishers hope it would, then KZ2 probably failed.

But if to gamers, a game fails when the game itself fails to meed a gamer's expectation and delivers a sub-hype experience, then I would disagree. KZ2 delivered on pretty much everything I wanted in that game and then some.

Over-rated. And before anyone accuses me of being an Xbox fanboy, the only current-gen console I own is the PS3 (well, and an awesome computer). The campaign was good fun, but ultimately far too short, I completed it on medium the first time through in well under 7 hours. The online is good fun, but is also spoiled by the appailing respawn system, and the constant grenade spamage. Guerilla need to go and play Resistance 2, where they will find the ability to respawn/change gear very easily, and to completly customise the controls. The graphics are probably the highlight, but it would be nice to see better particle effects (seriously, they are some of the worst on the system) and also to see how the game engine holds up rendering a high res forest environment. Feel free to disagree, but please add reasoning to your argument.

no one actually reads these articles, and just foolishly and idiotically immediately tarnish them as flamebait.

Sigh* the Bum-licks of N4G

I don't think this game failed but come on it was not that interesting was it???? I finished the single player in just over 6 hours which would not be a problem if it had pulled me in, but it didn't as for the multiplayer I did play it but didn't get that excited about it(does that make me a bad person?) .Now before you get all angry and say i'm a hater this may be something to do with me playing a lot of shooters and i'm just not that impressed but for someone else it maybe the greatest shooter on the planet , But it's only my opinion

killzone2 is a ps2 game at its core washed over with beautiful visuals.imo it was a disappointment gameplay and sales wise but to show off the ps3 graphical proess it was a sucess

Killzone 2 was given the budget of Titanic but failed like Waterworld.

I don't think it failed. Did it fall short of expectations sales-wise? Yes, but it delivered in the graphics department. I've never played it so I don't know about game play, but I wouldn't call it a failure.

Once again, another case of gamers over-using the F word...FAIL.

"Wayy too long of a post for this site but that twat up top got to me."

see how much of a loser you are haha...

Go play flopzone, F@G!

Best Game that 1 million bought

WTF kind of stupid azz article is this? I swear if I met the person that wrote this I'd b!tch slap him just for being a idiot.

flame shield on...........

i actually got bored with the game. southpaw79-psn

every mp stage has the same clusterfrag area, even in small games. the multiplayer stage designs are absolutely horrible. blood gulch has the worst opposing team spawn point in any fps i have played. the mechanics of the game is good and i love the feel, but i hate searching for a match without assault class enabled. i am forced to play as the assault class because it has the best perks. come on, armor and super speed that rejuvenates your health? i have always performed well when playing the mp aspect of the game, i think my kdr is 1.7 or 1.8. the stage designs and the assault job class makes that game boring. overall kz2 is an awesome game, but the poor stage designs take away from the overall experience.

no it didn't fail who ever came up with this article is dumb and im not a ps3 fanboy speaking im just asking why would it fail?

Sony really does need another mainline shooter franchise. They pretty much gave up after the PS3 generation, and I'm really surprised they haven't tried at another high-profile, singleplayer-centric shooter; even if it weren't Killzone or Resistance.

I miss Killzone while I can see why they still do Horizon has some really good things but I do think that Horizon is overrated imo.

Or how about studios focus on projects that they feel passionate about, and not be forced to make something they have little interest in. It shows in the final product.

It’s still got potential for the modern era. The DNA is all there. The install base is there. The interest is there. The time is now.

Killzone 2 and 3 were farkin brilliant and way better than halo

Too bad they've abandoned em smh, then theres sony barely even acknowledging what us fans want. Every time they sale a certain high amount it get like that with them smh

Because Killzone games are awesome, that's the reason.

New ip after 3'rd horizon please 🙏

Give it to Bungie. The Helghast are awesome enemies and Bungie could make something really cool

not enough interest to keep it alive

I’m beating a dead horse here… but Resisitance FOM gun lay out was so fun, multiplayer was one of my top favorite experiences. Insomniac nailed it and I would love a remaster and maybe a redo with Reisistance 2. They listens to players who were wanting a Halo killer and it kind of lost its character from the first.

Warhawk, if they had just remade the first one not Starhawk which offered nice things like the build and battle.. but Warhawk was the best arcade shooter I ever played. Back when you didn’t have battle passes and you actually had to get certain amount of kills or ribbons to unlock different paint skins on the Warhawks and armor for your player.. Look at the success of Helldivers 2, it’s a fun game and it reminds me of Warhawk in a way. I’ve been wanting a remake or sequel since the beginning of the ps4 gen.. it’s hurts to have hope nowadays. Even with the demise of the studios Sony has a steady fan base.

Killzone game after Killzone 2 play style would be nice

Motorstorm would be epic with the visual upgrade, maybe this game would be a harder sell with the genre being not as popular nowadays..

Resistance franchise, Motorstorm and Dirt 2 which was fun as heck. Add Dead Space 2 as well.

I quickly looked and only saw the words PS5 Remaster and a picture of Fall of Mans logo

Ahhhh shit, well maybe one day

Resistance 1-3 remastered with online

Kill zone 1-3 remastered with online

God of war PS3 games and PSP games collection

Infamous 1-2 with all dlc please we need this. It’s such an underrated franchise and so much potential. In this age of super hero media craze Sony should utilize infamous

White knight chronicles 1-2

Warhawk and starhawk

Motorstorm series

MGS4

Easy money would be to remake Resistance and Killzone series, rather than just a remaster. And PS5 desperately needs some couch co-op shooters so this would scratch that itch.

Infamous 1+2 and KZ 2+3

Deus Ex Human Revolution

GTA IV needs one.
Still stuck on PS3 and 360.

PS3 ended up been a beast of a console, slow out of the gate, picked up steam, smashed through the finish line. The 1st PS3 slim is still one of my favourite consoles. So solid, great games, by the time GTA5 and the last of us had come out it was a clear winner for me

Nice to see that they included Pupetteer in this list.

"PS3 may not have been the strongest generation"

Meanwhile...just looking at exclusives alone and not even third party titles

Uncharted was born
Demon's Souls was born
Metal Gear Solid 4
God of War 3
The Last of Us was born
Little Big Planet was born
Warhawk
Killzone 2 and 3
Infamous was born
Resistance was born
Motorstorm was born
Gran Turismo
Heavy Rain
Journey
Shadow of the Colossus returned paving the way for the remake in the PS4 generation
PS Plus was born

Sorry bud, but the PS3 generation was amazing and featured the greatest console comeback in history.

That said, I'd love it if Warhawk returned or Metal Gear Solid 4. It needs to not be shackled to the PS3 generation anymore. A Killzone 2 remake would be insane with modern graphics and that art direction.