New Killzone Website is Live

jkhan - 552 days 11 hours ago

MotherH said he will be moving there next week. So hopefully we will have the Ask the Dev thread again.
http://boardsus.playstation...

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Pizza The Hut - 552 days 10 hours ago

have a really bad feeling that this might be a flop?? Not bashing, or hating, but this much hype would be hard for ANY game to live up to....just saying

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Booourns - 552 days 10 hours ago

I can see the game being docked points for everything imaginable. I can assure you that this game will not be fairly reviewed at all

I will still check it out when it comes out in Feb

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LinuxGuru - 552 days 10 hours ago

I will be reviewing this game, and I assure you that I will review it with an open mind, not based on hype and preconceived notions.

You're absolutely foolish if you let something like that influence you and your opinions.

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I love video games - 552 days 10 hours ago

i cant friggin wait for this game

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Jenzo - 552 days 10 hours ago

Nice editing...

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va_bank - 552 days 10 hours ago

By then Resistance 2 will be out and I'm not saying KZ2 will be a bad game, but it will be judged against Resistance, which brings the question:

Which do YOU think will be a better game?

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vilmer - 552 days 10 hours ago

Cool, I'll have to check the site out. This game is going to be a graphical smorgasbord. Regardless if it is mind numbing generic gameplay with a ho hum story, I'll be there DAY ONE with cash in hand to marvel at the beauty of it. Yes, I'm a graphics whore ;)

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Captain Tuttle - 552 days 9 hours ago

The delay worries me. The official line is that there's too many shooters in the holiday timeframe. If Sony really believed in this game they'd delay RFOM2 and release KZ2. This thing has been in development for too long. The marketing has been horribly managed.

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juuken - 552 days 9 hours ago

This site just brought sexy back.
I like it.

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rushbd - 552 days 9 hours ago

i've seen enough to warrant the purchase

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Figboy - 552 days 9 hours ago

"OMFG!!Where's teh innovation and stuffz??!!" to me, are being a little silly.

there are two fundamental things about FPS games:

1) The game must always be in first person (though, for some reason, it's completely acceptable to move to third person when piloting vehicles).

2) You point at something, and SHOOT IT.

now, if you change those two fundamentals about the FPS genre, it ceases to be an FPS, doesn't it?

because the title must be seen from the first person perspective, that limits what the presentation of the game can be like, since, for the most part, events must unfold from that first person perspective.

if you remove the guns from a first person shooter, it's no longer a first person shooter, but how will you fight beyond melee and magic spells (ie, Oblivion)? depending on the genre of FPS, magic is out, and melee will get boring, since any excessive, complicated move set will result in spastic camera swinging while the player performs the moves (which is why you don't see any FPS titles with move sets like God of War or Ninja Gaiden), and the player will get nauseous (also see; Mirror's Edge, which looks cool, but man oh man does that trailer make me feel sick).

because of those limitations, the genre has a hard time being innovative, and the main areas in which an FPS CAN innovate is in technology.

Half Life, Half Life 2, Doom, Unreal, etc, were praised for more than just their great gameplay, but because they did things with the technology that no other FPS title had done at the time.

i remember watching, in awe, the tech demos of the Half Life 2 engine years ago, and being amazed at the physics, textures, and animations of the systems. how Valve applied those technological innovations into a excellent game is also worthy of praise.

to expect an FPS to somehow innovate beyond technology in the gameplay department is an unrealistic expectation because it's nearly IMPOSSIBLE to do without changing it from FPS.

you can't do crazy camera angles, because the game must be seen from an FPS perspective unless during cutscenes where the dev wants to show the character model off. and, judging from comments i've read on this site, cutscenes are from the devil anyway (or maybe that's only when it applies to Metal Gear Solid, or any other PS3 title that features cutscenes. and gameplay. or for the simple fact that a PS3 game exists in general, but i digress), so thats out.

you can go all out with crazy weapons and powers (Resistance and Oblivion, respectively), but that can be a risk if your game is a realistic, gritty, war game, like, oh, about 99.9% of the FPS titles released are.

personally, i'd love to see a First Person Survival Horror game set in a sandbox environment. or a First Person puzzle game (creatively beautiful like Ico, but set in First Person instead of third). something that does things we haven't seen yet with the genre. that's the only place you'll find new ideas, but the more we continue to buy games like Conflict: Generic FPS - i mean, "Denied Ops" (the only thing that got denied was Eidos getting my money for that game), Turok, and Blacksite, the more devs will continue to churn those generic FPS titles out.

then, due to over-saturation of the genre, creative developers like Infinity Ward, Insomniac, and Guerrilla Games (Killzone was flawed, but i'm enjoying it. Killzone: Liberation was really, really good, and convinced me that the world and characters of Killzone were viable) are under-appreciated when they do a great job of creating an FPS.

so far, the hands on previews of Killzone 2, even by the most ardent Killzone and PS3 critics, have been positive. in an FPS title, the only real stipulation is that the tech supports the gameplay. most of our classic FPS franchises have that (it's part of the reason why the original Killzone fell short; the PS2, at the time the game was released, just couldn't handle the game they WANTED to make. the PS3 is more than enough power, i think, to bring GG's ambitions to fruition).

bottom line, stop expecting GTA3-like revolutions in game design from every game releasing this generation. it's an unrealistic expectation. if Killzone 2, or any other game out their piques your interest, give it a try, but don't expect the earth to shake.

for example, from what i've seen, Fable 2 looks like the original Fable in HD. even the animations look like they were ripped from the original. even so, it's one of the games i'm anticipating the most this year for my 360, and i'm picking it up day one. why? because i LIKED the original Fable, i thought the game was fun, and the stuff they're doing with the new one is the stuff they WANTED to do in Fable, but couldn't, due to technological and time constraints.

the same can be said about Killzone and Killzone 2. and being an FPS, i don't expect any ground-breaking gameplay improvements, but i can definitely be excited by what the game is doing on a technological level. and if the game is as enjoyable as Killzone: Liberation to me, then that's great. for the record, it looks infinitely more intense and frantic. and i can't ask for more than that in a war-themed FPS.

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Common Sense - 552 days 9 hours ago

and the demo is very good, I am buying this game.
I think the demo is going to be over 2gb because 1 level is already 2gb. I don't think Sony will let this game flop. I'm sure they'll spend more money and delay it some more if they have to because every 360 fanboy is waiting for another Lair and Haze.

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Vino - 552 days 8 hours ago

Gears 2 have anything to do with killzone 2.

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meepmoopmeep - 552 days 8 hours ago

i love how it's integrated with PSN

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Sir_Ken_Kutaragi - 552 days 8 hours ago

BOOKMARKED!!!;)

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trancefreak - 552 days 6 hours ago

every time i see this game it tickles me nutz :)

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