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Killzone 2 DLC Giveaway Today!!
Posted by in Killzone 2, QuickNews on February 26th, 2010
To celebrate their one year anniversary of Killzone 2, killzone.com is giving away four hundred DLC voucher codes via Twitter. All the details are on the site here. Good Luck!
Competitive Shooter Rundown (MW2, BF:BC2, KZ2, MAG)
Posted by Darrin in Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Killzone 2, MAG - Massive Action Game on February 8th, 2010
Modern Warfare 2
- Best polish, attention to detail, and perfection of many finer points.
- Deepest character progression system and load out configuration. This really rewards long term play.
- Lots of gameplay variety in terms of different game modes and options.
- Kill Cam: It’s a small feature, but it’s really helpful to see exactly how you got killed.
- Spawn Trapping: Lots of matches devolve into one side blocking the other side from leaving their spawn points. The helicopter/attack planes can really make these spawn traps impossible to break out of.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (based on demo)
- Best vehicles. Most vehicle variety, well integrated into play, and very fun.
- Highly polished and detailed core mechanics. Excellent tech, play balance, and strategy.
- Environment destruction.
- Have only played the demo (obviously). Does this game hold player interest with extended play?
- Battlefield 2 (on PC) had similar pros, but the game was unusually buggy, and I found the DLC fragmented the community and was too frequent and overpriced. Will this have similar problems?
Killzone 2
- Rotating missions/objectives within a single match delivers a lot of variety.
- Most stylized visuals. Coolest particle effects, wild environments, and helghast soldiers look the best.
- Most unique character progression + load out options
- One you reach general rank, you feel like you have pretty much seen everything.
MAG
- Best human chain of command squad/platoon system.
- Unique sense of being part of a larger coordinated conflict. There are other games that support large player counts and squad management systems, but this game does it the best.
- Control points, secondary abilities, and support actions are well done and add a lot of strategic replayability.
- The visuals are very good by most standards and are more than adequate for this type of gameplay, but they are way behind the competition.
- Lack of variety. There is really one main game mode (domination) that you will spend almost all of your time playing.
- Least amount of overall polish + detail.
- Unbalanced factions.
Others
I left out plenty from this list. Rainbow Six, Metal Gear Online, SOCOM, Resistance 2, Uncharted 2, and many others all have respectable competitive modes that I just haven’t put enough time into to really comment on.
Overall
If there is one genre of game that the current crop of game developers have really nailed with exceptional quality, variety, and polish, it is the competitive shooter. The range of choices and the level of quality is amazing.
Ex Killzone Developer Working On Resistance 3?
Posted by Trev in Killzone 2, Resistance 2 on January 29th, 2010
‘Stalker Alert’ but OPM (Official Playstation Magazine) have tweeted that Aaron Butler of Guerilla Games has moved to an ‘Unannounced’ Insomniac project. Read the rest of this entry »
Killzone 2 Soundtrack now on iTunes
Posted by T0SH in Killzone 2 on November 9th, 2009
The official soundtrack for Killzone 2 has finally arrived on iTunes. Only 8 months after the release of the game, lol. Better late than never I suppose. Music was done by the Nimrod Session Orchestra and recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London. Included in the album is a remix of the Fight the A.T.A.C.
Each track is $0.99 or $9.99 for the full album. Here is the full track list:
Killzone 2 is Full of Schmucks
Posted by Blackstaffer in Game Night, Killzone 2, Talk on August 5th, 2009
Yesterday I tried unsuccessfully to set up a games night in Killzone 2. But I decided to go online anyway and see what fun there was to be had.
First, I searched for games with the new maps, because I’ve bought them and want to play them. For one of the two maps, there were NO GAMES. Not even full games. Can it be that nobody at all was playing this map yesterday at prime time? (Around 9:30pm EST.) For the other map, there was exactly one game. It is very frustrating to buy a map pack and then not be able to play the maps!
I tried a total of three games last night. All three had these two things in common:
The teams were unbalanced. In one game, I joined a team with two players and the other team had nine! How is this fair? How is this even fun? Needless to say, I exited the game before getting very far. The other two games were almost as bad. I play games to have fun, not to be annoyed.
The games were full of spawn campers. All three. And it was pretty bad. In one game I was placed on the side with many more players (why?). And I wandered around the level, and there was nobody to fight! Eventually I found the enemy – being spawn camped by a bunch of people on my team. Where’s the fun in that? So I exited the game.
Are all game players out there always this unsportsmanlike? Sniveling little cowards who don’t know the meaning of fair play? Is this what Killzone 2 has devolved to? This is not fun. Not even a bit. After last night’s experience I really wish for the days where The Mockers were active. Now those were fun games.
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