Killzone 2 - Hands-on

Believe the hype; Killzone 2 is the best looking game ever seen. Stunning facial animation, huge detailed environments and no loading what so ever - and the PS3 makes it look as easy as snapping a photo of Pete Doherty looking rough.

But how does it actually play? This question has gone unanswered since those naughty chaps a Guerilla swindled with CGI over a year ago - until now...

[achira]

cant wait for this fantastic game. i am sure this will sell millions of consoles alone.

[drunkpandas]

Yeah this game looks like the prettiest PS3 game to date

[kingboy]

Man!! reading all these 'Hands-on' previews just adds more hunger for this bad boy..My ps3 is waiting

[doshey]

yep ps3 will have a title that uses all of its power

[TheExecutive]

i doubt that doshey but it will set the bar for second generation games, thats for sure. The system is too early in its life cycle to be figured out to that extent.

[doshey]

well that is true but it will be one game that uses a lot of the ps3 power

[MikeJonesOK]

why was killzone 1 bad again?

[WaggleLOL]

It wasn't.

But all the little Halo fanboys whose entire console identity is completly centered around that one very mediocre but heavily hyped and marketed game have spent the last three years in every online forum trashing the game 24/7/365 days a year.

Killzone was a fantastic game that at worst had some framerate issues. If had been on the Xbox it would have gotten 9/10 reviews.

[DrPirate]

Technically, the game was broken. The engine, game emchanics, nothing came together.

The story, characters, the guns, the enemies all made for a great game, it's just that in the big picture, the whole thing is less then the sum of it's parts.

Guerrilla themselves have STATED and are aware of the critical reception it garnered and are working to make the game everything Killzone 1 wasn't.

Plus Killzone Liberation gave me hope that they have some ideas up their sleeves. It is my favorite PSP game to date.

[Ri0tSquad]

but the online was awesome.

[88 movement]

Killzone 1 wasn't really that bad had a few flaws but wasn't that bad the only reason people call it bad is because it had to live up t the hype that people were creating calling it a 'halo killer' before it was even out and since it didn't live up to the massive hype people were creating they called it bad. If you no wat i mean.

[VirusE]

This game looks hot and it definitely has the best console graphics but to say it looks better than crysis is just wrong in my opinion. Crysis can be played at 2560 x 1600 which destorys 1080p.

[beavis4play]

if you can give me a link that shows me crysis footage that has someone playing it i'll check it out. but right now killzone whips it. only thing i've seen of crysis is jungle shots. they look good,but KZ is showing a lot more. so killzone has the edge.

[DrPirate]

lol 5.1

Have you ever seen the foilage in Crysis?

The leaves have transparency!!!!!!!!!! Nothing will touch Crysis for a couple of months, even if the game is terrible, it'll be the graphical staplemark of PC gaming.

[achira]

i think kz2 will be better. some ppl report that they played crisys at the gc, and it has bad frame rates and was not so impressive as it should be. trailers and game play a two different things!

[VirusE]

achira we are talking purely graphics not gameplay. I said it has the best graphics not its the best game. Killzone will run at 720p, crysis can be run at 2560 x 1600. 720p is 921600 pixels 2560 x 1600 is 4 million pixels do you fanboys get that 4 MILLION vs under 1 million. That is a huge difference in detail. Only a fool would think that a 600 game machine can compete with the graphics of 3k plus gaming pc with 6 times the ram (2-4 gigs system, 64 for x-fi, 768 for gtx.

comparing 2560 x 1600 to 1920 x 1080 is about the same difference in detail as 640 x 480 vs 1280 x 720. Why does sony have the dumbest fans?

[VirusE]

http://www.planetamd64.com/...

[MarioFromTexas]

Killzone will look better to 100 percent of sony fans than crysis will look as good to only 30 percent that have the PC that can output 2400x1600. So while I'm playing KZ2 on my 40 inch 1080p and a PC gamer playing on a 23 inch at 2400x1600...I think I'm good

[tfur]

Thats a fairly high res... Maybe on a 30in monitor...

The DirectX 10 Vista only is disgusting...

[VirusE]

mario 2400 x 1600 isnt a res that wide screen monitors use. Also the smallest monitor you can get 2560 x 1200 on is 30". No one said anything about price to performance ratio, amount of people playing or any of the things you are saying. All that is simply a copout. Best graphics was what was said plain and simple. Regardless of price, popularity, amount of money need to be spent crysis has better grapics plain and simple. 4 million pixels vs under a mill is a huge difference in detail. And no your not good you didn't even get the monitor resolution or size correct.

[AIZEN SOZUKE]

no matter what resolution, killzone looks like a movie cg in realtime, and has 2 different graphics engines, and its not near completion, so you need to refigure

AIZEN SAMA

[PS3n360]

very stoked for this game.

[stunt213]

killzone 2 is the best graphic of all time in game industry maybe in 4 years 1 game might able to top it off

[VirusE]

Stunt213 you are another alter ego of nasim and larry007. Nasim you are so sad.

[Honcho]

um..... yeah...... I'm speachless!!!!!... not really.... This game is going to be so amazing!!!! My ps3 and I are waiting!!!

[BlazinEurasian]

I'm going to get diabetes through the amount of eye candy consumed from playing this game

[QUNE]

I need to pick up a PS3 soon.

[Honcho]

Yes you do! You won't regret it. and don't listen to people when they say there are not any games out for it. I have been playing my ps3 more then my elite until bioshock came out. There is plenty to play with ps3

[beavis4play]

please, please,please........NO DELAYS! i want this as soon as possible

[QuietMan69]

"half the time they strut around like slow guerillas getting shot in the face "

They better get it together, stuff like this is what killed the first game

[GnaM]

It's a cliche, but haven't any of you heard of gameplay > graphics? It's truly amazing how much hype this game is getting, simply because it looks good.

These guys give us an entire article devoted to gameplay impressions, and the article still spends half the time talking about graphical effects.

When it comes to gameplay, Killzone 2 has shown us ZERO that makes it stand out as an above-average game. There were only 2 gameplay features described in this preview; the cover system, and the underwhelming AI. Given that a cover system just accomplishes which playes have already been doing with the strafe, crouch, and lean buttons for years, this is practically a non-feature. Given that weak AI is only of the things that killed Killzone 1, that facet of things does not bode well either.

You all need to pull your heads out of your asses and start assessing games by their play mechanics, not their polygon count.

[Pat22]

I hope you did watch the videos cause, hell, the gameplay is just as good as the cinematic, maybe you didnt notice it was gameplay, but as soon as the guy lands, the gameplay starts. http://media.video.ign.com/... http://ps3movies.ign.com/ps...
Next time you wanna be a smartass, get info on what your about to say

[GnaM]

I've seen the gameplay videos many times in fact, I wrote a feature on it.

http://deeko.com/readfeatur...

There is nothing interesting to see, just typical FPS run-n-gun antics...they don't even show off the cover mechanic. Good gameplay is not just about having good graphics during the gameplay (as opposed to the cutscenes), it's about having in-depth combat.

[HondaSIRowner]

Delicious. If it seem this good now, Guerilla Has till 2008 for perfection. Really Really can't wait for this.

[xaphanze]

what did he mean by his last comment?is that a bad thing?

[FiveShot Bandit]

I personally liked Killzone 1, infact I wish more games had some of its features. I think if they hadn't tried to market it as a "Halo Killer" it would have been more successful. I am very excited to see the final product. I will pick this game up when I buy a PS 3 (for MGS 4!) hopefully by then the price will be in the $450 range or so...

[ps3gogetitt]

The graphics are great (the best seen yet on a console)so 10 for graphics because it's next gen......but the gameplay they say is still like the last gen version so 7 for gameplay...... I hope guerilla knows that next gen is about more than just graphics, (see Heavenly swords' review) bring on the gameplay boys and I think we will finally have a AAA.

[Dogswithguns]

Killzone2 will rock you!

[Pat22]

This game is gonna turn out great, the gameplay is just as good as the trailer graphics, those who dont believe me should watch the trailers (the extended one has more gameplay in it).

[DaEnforcer]

KZ2 CRYSIS FTW

[BeetleJuice]

Why are people always comparing computer games to console games???
killzone is doing what the playstation did to the nes and sega saturn
what the dreamcast did to the N64 and playstation
what the playstation and xbox did to the generation before it
it is bringing us into a new era of gaming if u showed someone killzone 2 footage 10 years ago they wouldnt believe it was a game
just like how the n64 did
i still remember people saying "WOW U CAN SEE HIM BREATHING!!!"
then saying would "look at how real those players look in madden on the playstation 2" now they are saying "WOW KILLZONE 2 looks amazing"
who cares if it looks the best no one can say it doesnt look good
its like compering caramel to honey which is sweeter who cares they are both sweet and if u pay attention to the taste they arent the same
BUT NO ONE CAN SAY THEY BOTH ARENT SWEET!

[Figboy]

but tell me, can you play Crysis, in all it's visual glory, for less than $500?

the truth of the matter, is that in order to play Crysis to it's maximum settings, you'll need a processor fast enough to push it, which will run you roughly $200 or more.

then you'll need the equivilent RAM, we'll say 1gig, which will run you about $70-$100.

*THEN you'll need a graphics card, and the best ones i've seen out there these days will run you about $500-$600.

did i mention you'll probably also need that swanky physics card they're pimping? that's about another $300 or more there also.

what was that? we're over $500 already?

in order to play Killzone 2 at max settings, all you need is a $500 Playstation 3.

not to mention that you can *ALSO enjoy these games at max settings, without the need for a $2000 computer:

Heavenly Sword, Unreal, Haze, Ratchet and Clank, Uncharted, Warhawk, Metal Gear Solid 4, Final Fantasy XIII, Infamous, and Little Big Planet.

no graphic card, cpu, or RAM upgrades necessary.

PC gaming may be at the bleeding edge of technology most of the times, but consoles will *ALWAYS be more affordable, even at $500 price tags.

2K has lost out on a sale of Bioshock from me, because i don't have an X Box 360, and my video card on my PC is acting like a little b*tch, meaning i can't run Bioshock properly. and since they've confirmed there's going to be *NO PS3 Bioshock...well, too bad for them, really. they missed out on a $50-$60 sale.

sure, i can still play Bioshock on my roommate's 360, but i think they'd prefer if i spent the dough and bought my *OWN copy.

i'm not buying a new, $400-$600 video card to play the game. *THAT'S one of the major problems with the PC market.

Killzone 2 on the PS3, is only going to run me $60 when it's released, and the PS3 i purchased in February of this year will be just fine for running it. imagine that: not having to upgrade your hardware every 6-12 months.

you're right...it *DOES feel nice.

[Raptors]

I'm a proud 360 owner and even I have to admit I'm getting pretty excited for this game. I will definitely be purchasing a ps3 for when this game drops.

[spike]

Killzone 1 sucked. They said it played the same. Great looking game but expect an 8 for a review. It will NOT win GAME OF THE YEAR in 2008

[ps3FTW]

One was ok but Killzone: Liberation was great for a handheld.

[tk]

Was a good game. Good storyline, good graphics. Still play it - on my PS3. Plays better on the PS3 actually.