Killzone 2 Gameplay Impressions

[IllegalPaladin]

Can't wait.

I'm enjoying the immursive feeling from the sounds, acting (god I hate cheesy acting in a serious moment), and environment. I've heard it being described like Call of Duty with stuff going on everywhere and I'll tell you, playing Call of Duty 2 on the D-Day or Hill 400 levels with a 5.1 speaker system is just crazy.

So far, the sounds are loud and everywhere, the acting has been good and believable in the situations seen so far in the game unlike others (Far Cry and Spartan: Total Warrior, I choose you!), and the environment had stuff going on in a lot of places. From bullets flying, explosions, debris from objects breaking apart and such, stuff going on in the distance like things going on overhead (making the scale feel larger), I didn't see it but swaying cables do add realism (Half-Life 2 did that), and a large draw distance has been the most interesting parts that have excited me about this game. That isn't even counting the good looking graphics and effects.

So the only concerns I have so far about Killzone 2 will be how it plays and how the story is. From the OP's long quote, I'm not feeling all that worried about the gameplay, which just leaves the story. The problem with that is that we wont really know how everything turns out till we either see a review or rent it and play through it ourselves.