I am new to this series so naturally I started with the first game, and I got to say, I think it’s pretty good although flawed. It’s got what a good FPS requires: good gun sounds, satisfying feedback and decent pace. What makes Killzone interesting are the enemies you fight against who are known as the Helghast. Don't want to go into the lore too deeply but basically humanities greed causes this race of people and their planet to go into serious decline but through adaptive genetics they eventually grew to be incredibly powerful beings.
The reason why they wear those cool masks and uniforms is because the air they breathe has literally gone to shit. Pretty awesome lore! I guess you wouldn't know this unless you bothered to read the manual and stuff...oh the good ol' days of reading!
You play as a four-man unit each unlocked after beating a certain level. At first, I thought they were generic protags but oddly I grew to like them at the very least...like there is serious potential to develop a great relationship between these characters with the right direction. For example, one of the characters who is half-helgan and half human isn't trusted by Rico and so a xenophobic dilemma is something that goes on between them but gets hashed out eventually.
Graphically Killzone is fantastic pushing PS2 hardware to its limit but maybe a little too much as the framerate can suffer for this ambition. I don't mind it, but there is a solution as the HD remaster on the PS3 fixes this problem from what I understand. This review is on the PS2 version, however.
Animations especially on the guns are great! But they can impede when in a jiffy as every time you select a gun the animation cannot be canceled. There are FMV scenes, and they aren't the greatest things ever, some of them even make me laugh.
Another hysterical thing are the jeers and death cries enemies make. I cannot get enough of them lol you can tell they had a field day recording those. I suppose it’s just the way they process it, like in crunchy compressed way. Another title that comes close to this is Halo 3. There is no sound other than the ambience of gunshots and your enemies yelling. It sets a certain atmosphere for Killzone that I appreciate.
Anyhow, FPS fans should give this one a go, however if low framerates is something that bothers you then just play the HD version on PS3.
The reason why they wear those cool masks and uniforms is because the air they breathe has literally gone to shit. Pretty awesome lore! I guess you wouldn't know this unless you bothered to read the manual and stuff...oh the good ol' days of reading!
You play as a four-man unit each unlocked after beating a certain level. At first, I thought they were generic protags but oddly I grew to like them at the very least...like there is serious potential to develop a great relationship between these characters with the right direction. For example, one of the characters who is half-helgan and half human isn't trusted by Rico and so a xenophobic dilemma is something that goes on between them but gets hashed out eventually.
Graphically Killzone is fantastic pushing PS2 hardware to its limit but maybe a little too much as the framerate can suffer for this ambition. I don't mind it, but there is a solution as the HD remaster on the PS3 fixes this problem from what I understand. This review is on the PS2 version, however.
Animations especially on the guns are great! But they can impede when in a jiffy as every time you select a gun the animation cannot be canceled. There are FMV scenes, and they aren't the greatest things ever, some of them even make me laugh.
Another hysterical thing are the jeers and death cries enemies make. I cannot get enough of them lol you can tell they had a field day recording those. I suppose it’s just the way they process it, like in crunchy compressed way. Another title that comes close to this is Halo 3. There is no sound other than the ambience of gunshots and your enemies yelling. It sets a certain atmosphere for Killzone that I appreciate.
Anyhow, FPS fans should give this one a go, however if low framerates is something that bothers you then just play the HD version on PS3.