Oh my God. That looks insanely good.
I platinumed MS:PR. Looks like I'll picking this one up for sure. It's an off-road racing game with the depth of a good FPS.
It's very good, but it's less tactical than KZ2. Since they removed the "spawn on your squad leader" feature, there's no reason for anybody to squad up, and it seems to play more like a group of 12 individuals than a team.
I liked Bad Company 2 more, but KZ3 is still solid.
Yeah, this sucks. Not only are they talking about DLC when the game just came out four days ago, but each of these maps is only good for one game mode each (one is warzone, the other is TDM). Unless they're free, I'm disappointed to see Guerilla stoop to this kind of thing.
Calm down man. Gears is only six more months away. You have a whole bunch of hard-core Kinect titles to keep you entertained until then.
At least he's still got The Art of Mackin' to keep him entertained.
Jetpacks appeared in Killzone 1.
What other online games have the game mode change on the fly?
Are there any other games that offer a mode similar to KZ3's Operations mode?
"Look at the well made - but redundant and stupid - Bayonetta. Reviews were glowing, yet it just wasn't that great. It was ridiculously over sexed, repetitive, and ridiculous...yet not enough of any of those things to actually become a humorous joke. "
But Bayonetta came out right around the time that God of War 3 dropped, so it was really important to some journalists that it score well.
Another troll review.
I never even finished the SP campaign.
The multiplayer maps were awesome, but we needed more of them.
Gears 3 is pretty well guaranteed to sell regardless of what it goes up against. I doubt they were too worried about the holiday competition when they picked this release date.
Just in case anybody was wondering whether there was a double standard for PS3 exclusives . . .
That's becauase games like Killzone and COD are multiplayer games. That's what people buy them for. The SP campaigns are the tacked-on parts.
For a $60 full retail release, replayability should absolutely be one of the key factors in deteriming the score. Comparing this game to Flower -- a $10 PSN title -- is awful. Heavy Rain would be a more apt comparison.
Excellent post. If KZ3 had launched without competitive multiplayer (what kind of FPS doesn't at least let you play deathmatch?) it would be getting ripped apart in reviews. Instead, Bulletstorm is getting 9s.
The metascore for Killzone 3 is skewed downward by a bunch of reviews that only score the SP campaign. That's like basing your score for Dead Space 2 entirely on the multiplayer component. In a perfect world, partial reviews -- especially reviews that focus on the least important aspect of the game -- shouldn't be included in metacritic.
"Overall Winner: Bulletstorm
It's a close one, but Bulletstorm edges this contest thanks to being a far more original take on the FPS genre, sporting a more fun storyline with likeable characters and offering some genuinely clever weapons. Killzone 3 isn't too disappointing, though, and is certainly worth a look if you're mostly interested in cutting-edge graphics and multiplayer gaming."
LOL. I like how we see articles like this every time a...
My favorite part was the part where you complained about how stale the FPS genre has become and then said that you need games to play just like COD for you to get into it. That was clever.
KZ3 will out-sell Bulletstorm on the PS3 by at least five to one. Maybe more.
Thanks for quoting that part so I know not to give this site the hit that it obviously craves. What an asshat.
"Killzone 3 arrives at a time in videogaming’s history when the first-person shooter genre is possibly about as bloated as it’s ever been and it’s biggest failing is that it doesn’t really offer anything new to the genre."
Sigh.
Changing game modes on the fly (warzone). Progressive objections with cinematic cutscenes (operations). I guess reviewers are just going to keep ignoring these features.