Re: KILLZONE 2 discussion thread
So, let's all assume I don't know anything about games. What is so good about this game that makes me want to buy it? And let's assume I haven't played the first one, will I need to play the first one?
It's just a generic shooter, however, it well refines and perfects everything that a shooter should be. It's just an a great FPS experience, at the best it can be for how cliche' FPSes have gotten. And no, you don't need to have played the first one. Since when were shooter games all about teh plotz anyway?
Pretty much this ^ explains a lot.
It pretty much takes from all the successful FPS' out there and refines them as Dogen pointed out.
As far as the story is concerned, meh it's pretty much generic, but as far as the all around feel is concerned I can say it's the first game I've ever played that as literally made me feel like I was in the middle of a war and that my enemies weren't oblivious to my location. I never played Call of Duty 4 so forgive me for not mentioning it.
I literally had to change up my strategy because the Helgasts would eventually figure it out and counter it.
For instance I started out on Normal difficulty and since you can take more damage, I'd run out and fire at anything that moved. However, as the game progressed they'd take cover behind me so by the time I was already sometime ahead they'd sometimes jump out and attack me from behind before I could figure out where the shots were coming from. This works the same for taking cover too much, I'd sometimes hide in cover and shoot out when the coast was clear and eventually they'd swarm my location and flank me with grenades while half of them got around just enough to shoot me. A good example of this is the last level.
With a week or two, when I get free time, I'm going to go back and beat all the levels without dying (Untouchable-silver-trophy) as well as completely all levels on the Elitist (Heroic Survivor-gold-trophy).
I'm also going to go back and collect all the intel and shoot all Helgast symbols; the intel isn't all that hard to find now that I know where they all are (I only missed a couple in the last levels), but the Helgast symbols I had no idea where they were save 1 or 2 in the a couple levels.
As far as online play goes, the classes really even things up a bit, even though the Assault class is pretty much used by noobs there are ways around it. It takes sometime to level up and if you're good enough it won't take much time to do so. Also they don't just throw you into random matches online with people who rank higher than you; they'll match you up with people who are at or around (give or take 1 or 2 levels) higher than you until you rank up to General to which you won't have to worry about that anymore.
It pays to have a working mic so you can talk to your team and getting a squad together within your team comes in handy as well. Plus online trophies, ribbons, classes, support abilities, and medals just add to the replay value if the online universe alone isn't enough to keep your attention.
