Well,  Just like in real life, movement and expressions tell so much about the character. Good animations in video games will always be an important way to get more sence of the characters and story. First person view does not have any of that as it supposed to simulate "you" inside the game not the character, which is in my opinion..  a weak attempt at best.

Current gen in terms of gameplay? It's an fps...you're not going to slay dragons in it. lmfao

This looks pretty but I would mistake for a PC game from 2011. Have the graphics taken a hit since feb or is the engine just not well equipped to deal with organic landscapes?

So far Ryse and Forza are the only games which look like they actually belong on a next gen console. Obviously these are all launch games so I probably shouln't be so hard on KZ.

To be fair I think we won't see big changes at the beginning of the new gen. The transition will be very conservative, I believe. This isn't necessarily bad and I hope that designers will surprise us with even better story-telling than this gen, combined with a nice gameplay and some innovations.

I bought a PS3 the day KZ2 launched because the environments, animations, atmosphere of the battlefield, and MP design looked to be unique. Lke nothing I had seen on PS2 or my 360. Here is my issue with Killzone 6... the graphics might look great, but what can be done with the gameplay that I cannot already do on current gen shooters? The answer so far has been nothing. And even the scope and atmosphere of the battlefield and the environments are not positive elements of the game anymore. It looks like a Crysis knock off.

So I will keep my eyes peeled for some MP stuff because the SP stuff looks like a current gen game with great graphics. aka shooters that have been available on PC for years.

OWL

An NPC that assists you in a FPS? Thanks for proving my point. I am bowing out of the thread now, don't want to seem overly negative. I hope the MP turns out to be great.

Actually I'm glad you mentioned freedom/scale. In this Killzone there is much more freedom in the way you complete missions. You are essentially dropped off in an area and there are several missions you can go do in that area. The order you do the missions in is all up to you. For instance in that forest level we saw, I remember a developer saying you could first take out the alarm system and then go deal with the other missions after. This would make sure no enemy reinforcements came if you were caught, because you would have taken out the alarm and the Helghast would have no way to call in reinforcements. Or if you wanted to not do that mission first, you would get caught and you could hear the alarm go off which then brings in a lot more enemies.

Also the OWL gives you a lot more freedom as well. As I said to you before, you can use it to get into basically any location using the rope gliding perk that it has.