This intimate, sizzling combat feels more like that of FEAR, but is actually more like [...] Black
A gun game of the truest sense, its bullets and ragdolls offer a literal take on the 'theatre' of war.
A quasi-tactical shooter, its action rivals any in STALKER or COD4
But apparently the game has:
No sense of humour; too much swearing from your irritating co-soldier, Rico; story is awful; "defaults to the genre's worst impulse" all the time (using obvioiusly-placed hardware, for the most part).
Multiplayer is amazing, apparently, but (final paragraph):
"Thanks largely to its online play, Killzone 2 should find itself a fanbase no one can overlook. In singleplayer, it's a testament to craft and imagination, if only because one is so immaculate while the other barely exists. It fights a great battle, it's just a shame about the war."