i'm really proficient at shooters, and i spent about 3 hours dying on elite last night. holy crap this game is hard.
it didn't help that i didn't have a rifle but the flamethrower at the start of the ambush (that is a big no no). trying to lure the higs close enough to fry them was not my preferred strategy.
but the thing that sets this game apart from any other shooter i've ever played is the runthrough. what i mean is that if you are stuck on a level long enough, you will eventually learn where every bad guy is, and so you can exploit that to have sort of a "psychic" advantage. this doesn't really work on killzone. the enemy are so dynamic that the bastards change the gameplan. there are certain things that will be the same every time (for the most part). but it would never fail as soon as i thought i had secured a little area some dude would break position and come get me.
kudos, guerrilla...well played.
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