Sorry about the title. I was posting the video, but thought I should add some text to. It eneded up being my impressions of the demo. Yeah I'll definately do it for the full game. Ive booked the entire weekened it comes out round my mates house to play through it. I agree the full version will hopefully have all those good set pieces we are craving it has. But my graphics point was me being genuine about the demo. Just didnt expect to see so many low res textures on cover, ground and even some characters. But again this may be old playable footage.

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People just find KZ2's aiming difficult because they're used to CoD4 and stubbornly refuse to change their ways. CoD4 is now the "God FPS" that all FPS games have to be compared to, and they must match it move for move.

Here's a hint: It's not CoD4. Don't try to make it CoD4. Put the aiming sensitivity on full, it aims as fast as CoD4. That's good. But keep it on Standard 1 and put Zoom on toggle.

I thought the aiming worked incredibly well. CoD4's aiming was easier, but not as satisfying.

The graphics were awesome. Fullstop. The animations were incredible, everything looked so GOOD! Better than Gears 2, better than Uncharted, better than MGS4.

And finally the AI. That's what really sets the game apart. The Covenant had nowhere near this much intelligence. The enemies lie down in front of cover, roll in and out, throw grenades just when you think it's safe...

Based on that demo, I'd give the game 9.5. I just wish it was longer. With Hard difficulty and the Skirmish option.

Selnor,
I see what you are saying, about things such as the huge epic battles in Halo 3 and others. There was so much going on and you felt like you were just a small part of a big war. In games like Halo 3 for instance though, the AI really suffered in doing so I think. At least imo the AI in that game really sucked. Exspecially ally AI, and most noticable when they are driving. Still, those epic battles were well worth it and there were times even in Halo when the AI showed some impressive activites such as the one you mentioned. I'm hoping that these huge battle sequences will also be in K2 but all I can do is wait and see like everyone else. But having seen part of the mech scene I think I can safely assume that it will have it's fair share of awesome, huge, epic fights. Also, if reviews are to be trusted it also has some hard, awesome boss fights in the game. I wasn't saying the AI was too hard though, I never claim to be an FPS master but I've beaten a fair share of shooters on the hardest difficulty including COD4, and the much harder COD:WAW on veteran (READ: The biggest gernade spamming game I've ever played). I just can see other people having problems with them. They react in so many different and realistic ways. It's shocking to me to see such smart AI on a normal difficulty setting. That being said I'm holding this up on quite the pedistal and it's yet to trully prove itself by me playing it. So honestly, when it comes out, I could hate it. OR, the opposite can happen, and it really can be one of the most epic and amazing shooters released. But I can't judge that from a demo. Only a few more weeks! :)

About the textures, They prob compressed them to lighten the download. The full game will look better as it wont be as compressed, And plus that was an 08 build I believe.

@selnor
firstly let me say i believe u r trying to give an honest opinion of the game. Yet you cannot tell me that the graphics are not superb beginning to end. ur expectations must have been rly far out there to not see it. And the opening is indeed in game. there is no difference. go watch the off screen video of the scene where Sev gets out of bed, cutscene plays, then u r given emediate control over him. Seamless.

and the controls arent "sluggish" they are realistic. when firing a weapon that powerful your aim is paradic.the weapons are heavy so when turning your reticule doesn't come to a complete stop. thats reality, not the floating gun physics we are used to.

and as far as textures, i believe sum might have been lowered to decrease download size. They did that in the beta as well. You shouldnt worry about that till the final game is out. The same goes for the enemy count.

NO game will ever i mean EVER be good enough for fanboys it doesn't matter if a game gets 90+ on reviews as long as the game is not on their precious little console they will always find a way why they don't like it (this goes for all 3 consoles fanboys) Im willing to bet if KZ2 is a 360 exclusive the 360 fans are going to praise it like crazy because "wooohoooo another AAA game" and the ps3 fans are the one whose complaining that this game is not as good as they say it is...any ways next game that im 99.9% sure that will suffer the same thing as KZ2 is either GOD OF WAR 3 or UNCHARTED 2 and THE NEW HALO COMMING.

Dude, I am one of those people who played since Doom.... Old school fps gamer.. i just wanna say that i had no trouble aiming.. the third time i played it. Admittedly i had to get used to the controls.. but once they were there they felt really good. Only thing i found a bit weird is that you run pretty fast.. concidering how the rest of your movement is.

I can see where you are coming from, with the hit and response, but i on the other hand felt that there was a lot of reaction to every single shot. I also felt that while it was obvious that this game wont be a walk in the park.. it has a certain feel to it of ..awesome. The only thing that troubles me is how everyone is saying the story is a weak point, concidering i love cinematic games and a story told well..I especially find it weird concidering how expansive the backstory is if you read up on it on killzone.com. I was hoping that they had improved from killzone 1 since the story felt weak back then aswell (atleast until i read on killzone.com @_o huge story.

Also, i heard the build was from 2008.. but even if it wasn't .. It looks pretty awesome.. it looks like the trailers, looks like the gameplay videos i've seen.. so i'm not sure what you were expecting :P but it looks like what I was pretty much expecting. Maybe a few more enemys on screen, as you said yourself. But i'm sure they'll come.

I personally can't say I was impressed by the demo. It feels like there wasn't enough pressure put on the player. The huge killer for me is the fact that the guys using the turrets on the bridge don't actually shoot you. There's not much reason to take cover.

What I really would've loved is if it took longer to get upto that bridge and changed the level up abit so you're constantly being shot at. And of course, give the player an actual reason to use the rocket launcher - you can blow up the bridge with your rifle from a far distance. The whole thing felt a tad bit weak.

Then again, I've seen countless vids of this level and I always thought it looked like one of the less-impressive ones in the game - at the start, you feel like you're in a big war, but it doesn't take long at all to get to the dull warehouse section that looks like it was put there just to show off the explosives. The outside part of the level obviously got much more attention, and though it has some obvious flaws it's still pretty chaotic and has a good atmosphere to it.....it was just way too short.

This is one prob with releasing demos for a great game - if it's not a good one, people will start assuming the full game is somewhat bad.

By the way, that definitely wasn't CGI. It blended seamlessly into the first level, with no jump of any kind. I think the CGI cutscene is the one before it, which isn't in the demo.

Rofl that wasnt CGI!

And your right it didnt live up to the hype...

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Imo it exceeded it XD but hey thats just me! ive only played some fps like CoD 4, CoD 3 , CoD 2, Half life lol etc

Epic battles? Dude it was a 10 demo lol If you think about it it started AWESOME, You get tossed into war, blow up a bridge etc i mean its only logic that youll end up somewhere where youll be flanked.

No doubt its going to be epic, at first i was like okay... probably another CoD 4 with sweet graphics yay... lol but now when i played it first time iwas like O.O just stared at graphics, second time i really got use to the controls (not 24 hours lol took me a few minutes to adjust i guess ppl are diffrent SHOCK*) and it was really breathtaking XD.

8 by IGN = great

It was a great demo XD.

Lets hope the full game turns incredible lol