GamesRadar's Leipzig preliminary reviews.

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One wonders if perhaps GameRadar might be the only reviewer actually worth listening to when it comes to Killzone 2. Perhaps the other review authorities are letting the game pass inspection at the moment, because it is still over six months away from launch. Which does not actually make sense for a title that is supposedly going to kill Halo.

By this point in the games development cycle the multiplayer aspect of the game. The real important aspect should be damn near flawless given the amount of money already spent, and all the development time involved. You want another good argument Halo 3 had a multiplayer beta seven months before the title actually launched, and at that point Halo 3 multiplayer was flawless. They were merely balance testing, and looking for input on minor tweaks to the game.

Their opinion may actually be foreshadowing what is to come, because the closer this game gets to launch the more critical the rest of the media is going to become, and frankly they should have been more critical before now. Out of curiosity I went to do some Leipzig research, and I was struck by something. Almost nobody seems to have spent any meaningful time with the games multiplayer. A lot of the pieces on the game often involve statements such as the developer says rather then the developer showed. Words are indeed cheap, and are not a replacement for experience.

I find it strange that out of the dozen articles I read about the games showing at Leipzig this was the only one that actually came across as someone having actually played the game with control in hand. The others read like someone was reciting a tour they were given, and to the left is a cover system with a war torn atmosphere. I cannot say this review is any less faulty then the cock and bull I spent the last hour reading. Which was all worthless tripe. Some reviewers need to learn how to do their damn job.