I never really played FPS style games because I'd get nauseated from the motion. I've toughed it out to play CoD:WaW with co-workers (the only reason I bought the 360) and after a number of plays I think I'm cured (maybe I shouldn't have bought those Gravol suppositories).

CoD:WaW is awesome, but I think I really like aspect of leveling up, points for challenges and so forth. I'm wondering if this leveling up and getting new/better weapons is normal for all FPS games or if it's specific to CoD series.

The reason I ask is because I want to know if Killzone 2 will have something similar. If it doesn't, what other (recent/new) FPS game does?

where halo has a better leveling up system than cod i heard but im not sure about killzone and im not sure about guns either

Well the obvious answer is pick up COD4. They are similiar, but the differences in weapons and maps make it almost a different game.

I believe The Conduit is going to have one.

Buy cod4, firstly because its awesome and secondly because it will prepare you for levelling up characters in other games

It is a new system. Its roots are in the Battlefield games, I believe, but unlike you I believe that system completely ruins the online even more. There is no reason a new person should be denied the same means of killing others as the people who have played from before. Give everyone the weapons and let the best one win I say, no need to help out the player who suck, but spent a lot of time playing, anything. If they suck it's their own problem.

See I understand the system in MMOs and RPGs in general, after all the point of the game is to get better gear. But in FPSes where the point is to kill the other person, things should be on equal footing. One person's set of skills versus another's. You know kind of like a sport....

Tom Clancys Rainbow 6 Vegas has the leveling up in my opinion it a better FPS b/c of the 3rd person cover system

Killzone 2 will be similar in that there is rankings, but I don't know if you will unlock weapons or not. I know that there are different class you can be though. If you like cod5 get cod 4.

COD4 had that mode too as an option. It was called Old School mode or something. No health regeneration, and weapons and perks picked up on the field. Considering how popular it turned out, I would say more people agree the RPG like system should stay. Plus anyone with any moderate skill can be killing people and winning matches with the opening weapons since their beginning matches will be against those with horrible stats.

No offense but of course more people would prefer the RPG system. There is only 1 top spot, or 5 top 5. No offense but in general the FPS population sucks (in terms of skill), and anything that will make them feel better about themselves in game they will gladly latch onto. "Oh look, shiny new rifle, now I'm better than the people who don't have it." I agree with the fact that people should be ranked so that they can more easily find games with people their own skill level. After all the BEST matches I've had would end at like 8-10 or 10-9, where at the end of an encounter the survivor has only like 10 health left. However, there shouldn't be any rewards in terms of weapons or perks or vehicle acces or whatever else they can come up with in games these day.