Killzone 2 Preview: Totally Worth the Wait
By Susan Arendt EmailJuly 11, 2007 | 3:00:00 AMCategories: E3 2007
Killzone_2 Sushi Roku is small, dark, and the type of swanky place you take your girlfriend for her birthday...if you really like her, that is. The servers deftly maneuver through the islands of game journalists, offering up tray after tray of delicately prepared fish and crab. The alcohol flows freely as the bartenders cheer each new guest's arrival.
This shindig was supposed to get underway at 9:30 and it's now past ten. The few last stragglers squeeze in to find their place in the darkness--Microsoft's press conference is finally over. By the time the first group is asked to shuffle next door into the viewing room, it's 10:30. I, and many of the people around me, have been up for more than 24 hours, running on little more than sheer will and whatever fuel remains from the afternoon stop at Starbuck's. All we can think is: this had better be worth it.
It is.
The Killzone 2 preview we see is an entire level of the single-player campaign. It follows the action as a player makes his way through a vast cityscape, picking off Helghast one by one. Though the demo has a few issues--it stops cold a few times as it saves, a problem the final version won't have--it is remarkably beautiful. The opening cinematic blends into the action seamlessly, dropping you right into the middle of an active war zone.
The detail is incredible, especially the faces of your comrades. The environment is massive and feels more open than it actually is. The progression through the level is really fairly linear, but because you can see so much, we don't get the sense that we're being corralled.
Most of the action we saw was basic run-and gun--working your way up and down, through the buildings of the city to reach various checkpoints. We saw a fight with a mini-boss that was relatively unremarkable, but it did at least end with a fairly satisfying "boom." The level culminated with the destruction of an arc weapon--basically an antenna that draws electricity from lightning and releases it to destroy troops.
The environment is as much your enemy as the Helghast are in Killzone 2, and as such, the sky we saw was practically a fully realized character in and of itself. Clouds boiled and rolled through the sky, swirling black masses broken up only by flashes of lightning. It was actually more intimidating than the Helghast soldiers that popped up, asking to be shot with either a machine gun or a rocket launcher, the two weapons we saw.
Killzone 2 is loud, dirty, and violently elegant. If you have a PS3, you're going to want this game. If you don't have a PS3...you might have to figure out how you're going to get one.
A new trailer for Killzone 2 will be available on the Playstation store starting at 3pm PST on July 11th.
wir halten durch bis zum bitteren ende ^^ und wehe einer postet noch mehr von den gifs bin schon ganz gespoilert 