makingmusic476 on 29 June 2008
Heh, I found 1UP's review for the original Killzone:
Sorry to repeat what the other guys are saying, but Killzone is either A) two years ahead of its time, or B) on the wrong hardware. The PS2, bless its little heart, just cannot do consistent justice to the game's ambitious design. For certain other genres, choppy visuals, dense fog, and distracting graphical glitches are excusable, just as long as they don't affect gameplay. But for first-person shooters, where a fast response and accurate aim is of paramount concern, you need a game that runs smoothly at least 90 percent of the time. All it takes is one attempt to use the horrendous sniper rifle to see that Killzone can't deliver.
Technical difficulties aside, Killzone's overall design is actually very solid: The visual motif is incredibly well conceived (think WWII if it happened 50 years from now), the story and characters are interesting, and even though it's totally linear, the single-player campaign puts you in some very cool scenarios and firefights. The only big problem is that the helghast troops are profoundly stupid, and it seems that to compensate they have unfairly accurate aim and can withstand ungodly amounts of direct fire. They can take over 200 rounds, including multiple headshots, before going down.
Killzone is good; it's still playable, and quite fun online...but thanks to unfortunate timing, it's not what it should have been. The inevit-able Killzone 2 on PS3 ought to be something special.
Technical difficulties aside, Killzone's overall design is actually very solid: The visual motif is incredibly well conceived (think WWII if it happened 50 years from now), the story and characters are interesting, and even though it's totally linear, the single-player campaign puts you in some very cool scenarios and firefights. The only big problem is that the helghast troops are profoundly stupid, and it seems that to compensate they have unfairly accurate aim and can withstand ungodly amounts of direct fire. They can take over 200 rounds, including multiple headshots, before going down.
Killzone is good; it's still playable, and quite fun online...but thanks to unfortunate timing, it's not what it should have been. The inevit-able Killzone 2 on PS3 ought to be something special.
Somewhat prophetic, really.
@calamity: Their words, not mine. ;)
