In fairness to Halo 3, it was an entertaining game, and they did tweak the game-play for the better, but, yes, it's all cotton candy and no vitamins -- the "Spiderman 3" of videogames. Big budget, big effects, everyone's got to have it... but a surprisingly average game with average voice-acting (except for the voice-actor for the Arbiter, who did a damn fine job), and the sort of character development and storyline which makes CoD4 look like "King Lear."

KZ2  will live or die not on graphics or shading techniques, though, but on storyline. Give us compelling, interesting characters and a gripping backstory, and I'm sold. Give us cardboard cutout heroes from a WW II movie and... well, I'd rather rent the BluRay version of "The Longest Day", thank you very much.  

The voice actor of the arbitor is the same voice actor for Goliath on the cartoon Gargoyles.

 ok.. waiting.. oh wait they previewed the game a month or two back... so done!

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/815/815430p1.html

btw, looking at how average Halo was to gets good scores that match the true FPS giants ie battlefield, call of duty, unreal tournament, quake, etc, I doubt that a game that has such gioiod previews on the alpha version's play-through I doubt Killzone 2 will get below a 9.6, if it does its official that internet reviewers suck. The original Killzone, grant it didnt live up to Halo, still should have been a 7.5 game. To many reviews compare FPS's to halo which is wrong since Halo is average in every way. 

OK, for BLIND bots:

1) Killzone, (Guerrilla Games alone, PS2, 2004).
2) In December 2005, Sony announced that it acquired Guerrilla Games which will continue making games exclusively on PlayStation game consoles. No financial details were given behind the acquisition.
3) There are more than 135 developers in the Netherlands working on the game at the moment for over 3 years. The new Killzone 2 will be fully translated in 20 different languages. It is believed that the budget currently surpasses £20 million ($41million), which is comparable to a small-budget Hollywood picture. It will have downloadable content like other contemporary games, possibly in the form of episodic content.

The 3) http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=4616674192 was removed from wiki, but was there some time ago. Most of developers Sony added to this game from its own developers teams.

IF THIS all stuff means NOTHING to you, then there is NOTHING to talk about, it`s POINTLESS.

@CrazzyMan:

What's so great about an unproven studio developing Sony-exclusive games with a huge number of developers and a ridiculous budget? Guerrilla Games has not yet shown themselves to be anything but a great producer for the hype factory. The first Killzone is evidence of this; many called it a "Halo-killer" long before release, but the end result was mediocre.

@GooseGaws:

Just REread my post like 3 times, maybe then you will understand. I HOPE.

It seems that Sony fanboys have some kind of anti-Halo gene built into their structure. I am not a huge fan of FPS games, but I fail to see how Halo can be claimed to be "average in every way". The first game in the series was a revolutionary title in the realm of console first-person shooters, and the second game was a similar revolution in online-capable multiplayer console games. I have not played Halo 3 enough to really comment, but the level of polish applied to the title seems to uphold the standards of the first two.

@CrazzyMan:

I read your post, and I responded to it with a legitimate question. The only people I could really see getting overexcited at this time would be those in the Netherlands for the infusion of money and media attention that the development of this game is providing.

The only other game Guerrilla Games had developed prior was Shellshock: Nam '67, which was pretty much universally reviled. That hardly speaks to their potential to produce a world-beating game.

Halo 3 is great and incredible fun. I dont even argue their negative points. There is so much to do in the game and online is a real sandbox experience and lots of fun with other people. There is so so so much to do with forge, custom games, I cant even list it all. Just for the record, this sat. has over a million people logged in.