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Killzone 3 Review Round Up

The embargo has lifted on SCEA’s highly anticipated upcoming shooter, Killzone 3. Does Guerrilla Games deliver an excellent package this time around, something that lives up to the brilliant previous installment? You’ll have to read some reviews to find that out. And rather than you having to browse the entire Internet to find those reviews, we have for you a review round-up of Killzone 3 right here.

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cyborg5589d ago

most of the reviews have been favorable and it only makes me all the more excited for the game

gameseveryday5589d ago

some have not like Joystiq: 3.5/5

SuperStrokey11235589d ago

Yeah thats way out there, i havnt read it but do their critcisms justify their score?

tablav5589d ago

Joystiq isn't exactly reputable. They've been accused of bias so many times in the past, it's not even funny anymore.

HolyOrangeCows5589d ago

I've seen pretty mixed scores. "New benchmark of FPS genre" to "average" and everything inbetween.

"i havnt read it but do their critcisms justify their score?"
Let's just say, their first sentence says starts complaining about some people on the internets using the term "Halo killer"...

beavis4play5589d ago

when has joystiq EVER said anything good about a ps3 game. even when they try to be positive - it's always a backhanded compliment.

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ksense5589d ago (Edited 5589d ago )

Excellent Multiplayer is what I wanted to hear and 99% of reviews say it is. the rest is just biased crap and taking so much off for a poor story is just plain retarded. the gameplay is good apparently, there is some variety and it looks stunning and they give it a 3.5 bcoz of that.

If it is just a single player game then I can agree the story is important and I can understand some of the scores but they downplay the entire game because of poor story. that is like giving black ops a 5 because the single player is linear and sucks then again a lot of people say the multiplayer sucks too and that game got higher scores from some of these reviewers

huzzaahh5589d ago

Holy shit! Jim Sterling gave the game a 10/10. That surprises the hell out of me.

halocursed5589d ago

As expected KZ 3 tears through the reviews. :)

Shubhankar5589d ago

Wow, disappointing scores really. Expected something on the lines of 9-9.5 by everybody... But then again, 86 IS a good MetaScore.

Good job with the round up, GB.

tablav5589d ago

I think if you rated anything OTHER than a game 8/10, that would be an amazing score. I don't see what people's fascination with 9/10 review scores.

Personally, for a score of 10, I'd want to be IN the game. No game will EVER be perfect, so I think 9 and 10 review scores are unrealistic anyway. People seem to focus so heavily on that little number and don't actually read the reviews, which for Killzone 3 are generally very good anyway.

Either way, this will be a day 1 purchase for me.

jaidek5589d ago

About what I expected, many perfect scores and a few "average" ones. Regardless, I am pumped to be getting this game!

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piroh546d ago

There's too many games to choose from

No Metal geat solid 1,2,3,4?
No Resident evil?
No Silent hill?
No Midnight club 3?
No NfS Underground 2?
No Final Fantasy?
No Burnout 3?
No Dragon quest 8?
No Days gone?
No Ace combat?
No Tekken/Soul calibur?......
just from the top of my head

PS1 era was full of great RPGs, PS2 was racing generation i would pick top 200 and even that would be just a fraction.

FinalFantasyFanatic545d ago

30 is way too low over the entire history of Playstation, I just wouldn't be able to narrow it down that much, I would pick 100 at least.

Storm23545d ago

Yeah...really odd list. I get that it is personal preference and I love most of the games listed, but my list would definitely be different. I agree though, it would be incredibly difficult to come up with just 30.

lockedongamer1545d ago (Edited 545d ago )

I only picked first-party titles. Otherwise, I agree!

EDIT: Except for Days Gone, I don't get the love for it but you do you!

Chocoburger536d ago

I didn't like Days Gone either, it doesn't deserve to be on any best of list.

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20 Years of Guerrilla: The Story of a PlayStation Studio

The Amsterdam-based studio reflects on its humble beginnings, beloved franchises, and growth through the years.

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SullysCigar1111d ago

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

1Victor1111d ago

Can’t wait for their next franchise

SullysCigar1111d ago

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

jznrpg1111d ago

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

badz1491111d 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!

Vengeance11381111d 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 Kim1111d ago

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

VersusDMC1111d 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?

Vengeance11381111d ago

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

solideagle1111d 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.

Phoenix761111d 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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REDGUM1111d ago

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

thesoftware7301111d ago (Edited 1111d 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.

blacktiger1111d ago

thank you fps lover, I'm with you

talocaca1111d ago

Such a wonderful studio. They deserve all their success.

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

OzzY-waZZy1111d ago (Edited 1111d ago )

Kinda wish they move on from Horizon tbh.

lukasmain1111d ago

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

Imalwaysright1111d ago

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

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Killzone 3 is playable with mouse & keyboard on PC via RPCS3 & KAMI

DSOGaming writes: "While Sony does not plan to release Killzone 3 on the PC, Yahfz shared a video that gives us a glimpse at what such a PC version could look like."

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bouzebbal1862d ago

Still looks secure 2 gens later... one of my favorite ps3 moments. With 3D and move the game is on another level

MadLad1862d ago

PC almost always ends up the best place to play games, even if it takes a while.

What would you rather play decades down the line? A game at a fixed resolution and frame, considering you have a working disc, and the hardware?
Or run it on an emulator that can update the experience all around, and let you use whatever control input you prefer?

If you insist on the former, it's really only for the sake of nostalgia.

Applejack1862d ago

I disagree. The main draw for consoles has always be the simplicity of just putting the disc in / downloading it and playing without worrying about anything else. The average person just wouldn’t want to deal with emulation even though it’s very important for preservation.

Terry_B1862d ago

Even emulators are super simple to use.

jukins1862d ago

Youre getting flak because people on here thibk of themselves as pc wizards. But honestly most poeple try and go get emulators and romz they end up with malware.. yes theyre "easy" if you know the basics but alot of people dont. That said the fact that its taken nearly 20 years to get a sustantially better experience for ps3 games than on its native system shows the complexity of getting bc to work. Sony, if they have any intention, should just invest in a vastly better psnow experience.

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Vegamyster1862d ago

jukins

Most people who emulate don't get malware, you'd have to be going to some weird sites for that to happen, heck years ago people were getting sketchier ad's resulting in malware warning on this site if you didn't have a ad-blocker lol.

SinkingSage1862d ago

Can't get malware if you legally dump your own games, which you should.

Rachel_Alucard1862d ago (Edited 1862d ago )

That's fine if that's the main draw, but it doesn't make it a better experience, just a preference. Having the freedom to do the things you can do on PC is what the appeal of PC is. Buying a game on PC means you never have to worry about the console makers just deciding the next hardware shouldn't support the generation anymore, which means everything you bought is stuck on that hardware instead of moving up with everything else. Nintendo uses this tactic to keep reselling the same games over and over at inflated prices. Sony cut all previous gens off the PS4 and sold it back to people in a poor attempt with PSnow. While the PS5 supports PS4 games, that may not be the case in the next gen after this. No to mention shutting off all the previous stores and updates completely. Even MS stopped making new BC titles at some point, so now there's a big list with 17 pages of titles that are not playable on Xbone and are just trapped on older gen. That's not a problem on PC, the reverse happens where you only have to worry if your hardware can play the newest releases at ultra with no issue.

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AzubuFrost1862d ago

Shhh don't say that aloud! You're going to trigger a lot of console infidels here.

Shane Kim1862d ago

I rather play it when it's available then wait 10 years.

MadLad1861d ago

Did you purposely miss the entire point of my post?

Inverno1862d ago

Well that's the beauty of still owning a retro console tho. Those who usually complain about emulation are just being blindly loyal to a company. Emulation is great for many reason, but if I still owned the console then I disagree nothing beats plugging it back in and going down a nostalgia trip

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RevXM1862d ago

The RPCS3 devs are doing great work. And Kami works nicely with it too it seems.
Very neat.

Magatsuhi1862d ago

Been playing mgo on pc with mouse. It's not perfect but I can make it work.

Binarycode1862d ago

2 is the better game.

A Remake would be good. 60fps 2-4k

Omar3li1862d ago

60fps is peasant for FPS games now

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