Killzone 2 Is Here!

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starcraft on 25 February 2009

Euphoria14 said:
Look at the numerous papers that did articles on Halo 3.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-168983732.html

Remind me again how print paper articles on Halo 3 relates to our discussion about internet hype?

I agreed (long ago) that Microsoft did a far better job of real-world marketing of Halo 3 than Sony did with Killzone 2.

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One killzone 2 thread opens and Starcraft can wait to troll. Can this guy get banned again soon please?

How on earth have I trolled? The purpose of this thread was to torment Americans. Surely it is open-ended enough to handle a discussion on Killzone 2's hype levels?

What the hell?I though no1 is that serious...Joke man joke...

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Skeeuk on 25 February 2009

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The single most hyped game of this generation arrives, and the first person to get their hands on it takes the time to photograph themselves holding their copy and posting said photograph to tease Americans.

Sigh.

halo 3 upto now is the most hyped game mabey a tie in with gta4

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Euphoria14 on 25 February 2009

OMG!

I can't believe I missed it yesterday!

I have owned myself!

Killzone 2 showed up in Newsday yesterday morning.

http://www.newsday.com/technology/wire/sns-ap-game-review-killzone-2,0,2631034.story

Some good parts.

Four years later, the verdict is in: "Killzone 2" ($59.99) is awe-inspiring. With crisp, cinema-quality graphics and immersive sound design, this first-person shooter feels like an interactive version of a big-screen war epic.

Visari has transformed Helghan into a war factory, a nature-free wasteland of concrete, iron and gunmetal-gray skies. It's jaw-droppingly vivid, as nightmarishly beautiful as the post-apocalyptic Washington of last year's "Fallout 3."

Here is something even KZ fans can agree on.

The flaws in "Killzone 2," beyond the negligible, kill-or-be-killed plot, are relatively minor. The dialogue and voice acting, for the most part, are amateurish. And Rico, your partner most of the way, is one of the most juvenile, annoying characters ever to strap on a machine gun.

Poor Rico, lol!

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Euphoria14 on 25 February 2009

@Starcraft

Don't backtrack and try to act like this all started based on just "internet hype"

You clearly never stated that, only only said "Hyped".

The single most hyped game of this generation arrives, and the first person to get their hands on it takes the time to photograph themselves holding their copy and posting said photograph to tease Americans.

Sigh.

If you really meant internet hype you should have stated that from the start. We are not mind readers.

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Alby_da_Wolf on 25 February 2009

I still don't know anything about sales results, but it occurred to me that maybe Ash Wednesday wasn't the best choice possible for a game launch... Clumsy Sony marketing strikes again?

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Hapimeses on 25 February 2009

In short: Halo 3 was everywhere. Absolutely everywhere. It had a hype-train that crashed through every stop and kept on going. I saw it in newspapers, on every gaming site, on billboards, on gaming forums, on TV, on drink cans; in short: in and on almost everything. The same is not the case for Killzone 2. Yes, it's about -- in some places, it's about a lot -- but it is nowhere near the levels of hype that Halo 3 came along with. Microsoft engineered a very successful campaign, and it worked. Hats off to them. Hell, even BBC Breakfast and GMTV had features about Halo 3, and that's about as mainstream as you can get in the UK. To my eyes, only Wii Fit and GTA4 have surpassed the well-executed hype of Halo 3.

For those that disagree, fine, but I'm frankly surprised that you do, it seems very transparent to me.

And, with that, I think I'll bow out. There's no point in repeating the same arguments again and again, which is where this appears to be going.

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Euphoria14 on 25 February 2009

Enough about the hype, here is what I really want to know.

Does it look better than the demo? O.o

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JGarret on 25 February 2009

And there goes another thread completely derailed.

Sigh.

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Euphoria14 on 25 February 2009

Alby_da_Wolf said:
I still don't know anything about sales results, but it occurred to me that maybe Ash Wednesday wasn't the best choice possible for a game launch... Clumsy Sony marketing strikes again?

I think it was only released today in the UK, everyone else is Friday I believe.

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