fair enough. Operation Flashpoint had more genuine combat things in it then any game I played on the console, part 2 that is. Socom is always recongnized as realistic because of the no health regan or respawn. I call Socom Hardcore because it's a very hard game to even become decent at, you have to know your weapon and spray and prey never works..

too much blur in the background lol

Of course I played Killzone 2!  I clocked over 100 hours into the game when you include the beta.

And in what way doesn't it look much different?  Do you mean gameplay?  Because they're still using the same HUD from Killzone 2 with a few adjustments, so superficially they do look rather similar.  The game new modes, perks, adjusted controls, and other changes that make a much different (and from all acounts much improved) experience vs Killzone 2.

In terms of graphics, well this is Killzone 3, and this was Killzone 2.  Looks like quite a step up to me.  :P

And then there's the new melee kills which highlight both new gameplay and improved graphics/animations.

As a side note, I think a lot of people remember Killzone 2 looking a lot better than it did, which is probably why we get a good number of "it looks like Killzone 2" comments.  The game looked excellent in motion, and I think most remember that beautiful fluidity more than anything else, thus the vastly inferior overall level of detail vs Killzone 3 isn't immediately that apparent.

I logged at total 360 hours in killzone 2 and that spans a time of about 3-4 months (quit once they screwed up the gameplay)

longest time I spent online in a single game was 26 hours straight in killzone 2, me and my friends all over the world (some were from UK, Sweden, Lebanon) all watch the sun rise and set while playing on a single server..... good times, some I'll never forget.

How can you last more than a single day with two hours playing one match? O.O

awww man, it was the day of the release of the last map pack (napalm/corridite) one of my friends set up a server only playing on those maps, and he MAXXXED out the settings, every mode was 30minutes a piece, now there's 7 modes total so yeah, some LONG ass matches. rockets and grenade launcher banned as usual. all classes available. 32 players, and it was double points weekend. 

I remember waking up at like 6-7am est. time, and getting online at 9am on the dot. my controller hit the floor and I like passed out at 11:30am....the next day. I remember me and my friend who live in Ky, watched the sun come up. can't tell you how many bottles of red bull, sprite and hot pockets were consumed in that time between those of us playing but I'm sure it was enough to feed an entire small country. 20 boxes and bottles from me alone, we had about a minute 30 seconds between each match, used that for bathroom/food breaks.

now killzone leaderboards rank player by day, week, and overall, 90% of that server made up the days top 1 percent on the leaderboards, some were ranked 5th and 7th lol, I was 32th. I got around 20,000 points in that weekend alone.

most fun I've ever had playing online, I mean after mid day we were just playing for fun, (rushing in the enemy base seeing how many kills you could get before the botz got you)

the true beauty of that was the server list, we didn't have to worry about leaving to re establish a party, just message your friends the name of the server and if a spot was open he was there. and the fact that it was player hosted ded. servers the guy who created didn't have to stay online. in fact when we all left that server it stayed active for weeks later. here's to hoping the modable server list is atleast still there for kz3, and here's to all the guys the made it that whole time XD

Hahaha, that's awesome. The most I've played was 6 hours with my clan one day, it was an all-nighter vs. bots and us just talking on the mics. Got plenty of laughs that day.