What is so special about Killzone 2?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Pristine20 said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:
@Pristine20: maybe there is another explanation, people who have been PC gamers for a lot of years maybe saw so many FPS, amongst which a minority really good, that they aren't excited anymore by any new one, unless they are really die-hard fans of the genre. While FPS is quite rarer in the PS-brand world, so if a PS1/2/3 gamer has been only a casual PC gamer in the past, or no PC gamer at all, he will welcome any new FPS good enough with the enthusiasm aroused by pleasant novelties. The same happens to Halo games.

 

well as a primary ps gamer, I haven't been exposed to many fps games but I have to say I have an xbox and never cared about halo yet I happen to care about this so I think it's special but I guess to each, his own.

Halo has its audience, but I don't like it too, first, as a PC gamer, I don't like gamepads, particularly for driving and aiming, and this could be fixed playing PC ports, second, its excessive macho characterization prevents me taking it seriously as it pretends to be, Master Chief always reminds me of the Village People You could argue that Doom and Quake games too suffered from excessive machismo, but they were pioneers and in their first chapters novelty and innovation far exceeded flaws, but as time went by their sequels, clones and spin-offs became repetitive, so that soon I started preferring different styles of FPS, like the older but better in all bar graphics Duke 3D or Half-Life.

Edit: (I forgot concluding) That said, KZ2 trailers look good to me and its style looks different enough from the competition, although not having a PS3 I can't say anything about the demo and gameplay, but IMHO if ported to PC, as there you can customize more the controls, so getting around what some don't like, it could do quite well.