BBC: "Killzone 2 one of the most immersive games ever"

Ever since its debut at E3 2005, Killzone 2 has been regarded as Sony's biggest mistake; the commonly held knowledge was that such an impressive trailer set Sony up for failure. All that changed this last E3 as Susi Roku unveiled the pre-alpha build of the game they had ready. Heralded by critics everywhere, KillZone 2 is shaping up to be the most immersive and cinematic games to date, according to BBC.

The BBC writes, "When you sit down in front of a playable level ... it is immediately clear that Killzone 2 will be one of the most cinematic and immersive games ever produced on a console." Impressively, this is the most widely held opinion currently in the industry -- it appears that Sony truly delivered (so far).

The BBC did note two problems they saw: the game is an FPS complete with checkpoints, which was aparently was too archetypical. Additionally it seems that Killzone's grenades leave something to be desired.

PSU anxiously awaits this game, and will continue to bring you any information we can manage on it.

Source: BBC

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  1. blachaze | blachaze213

    • 6:23am BST - August 12th, 2007

    KILLZONE IS SONY'S BEST GAME! MY FAV FPS!

  2. RobJackson85 | RobJackson85

    • 6:58am BST - August 12th, 2007

    sounds good !

  3. augustus1000

    • 7:43am BST - August 12th, 2007

    Meh Killzone 2 is nothing special just another fps and the graphics are not even on par with Gears of War. Another overhyped piece of crap, like all of my dumbass comments and existence

  4. Loan | Loan

    • 8:10am BST - August 12th, 2007

    LMAO post 4 fail

    best shooter on console gg

  5. jordangrey

    • 8:15am BST - August 12th, 2007

    No Way! free radicals, timesplitter series was easily superior. Bring on HAZE baby!!!

  6. PS3_Gamer88 | Knuckles15

    • 8:15am BST - August 12th, 2007

    cant wait!

  7. venom | metallicvenom

    • 8:27am BST - August 12th, 2007

    @augustus 1000

    i know that you are a pissed 360 fan i can understand your feelings but please dont compare kz2 with gears of war coz kz2 easily pwns it

    anyways yes i quite agree with the article however in the graphics dept haze and cod4 are pretty close too but the final build of kz2 is yet to be seen

  8. tillz | tillz

    • 8:58am BST - August 12th, 2007

    well dont gurrila

     

  9. jimmy303

    • 9:06am BST - August 12th, 2007

    yeah agusts1000 a assume you have played kz2 ?!  didn´t think so

  10. DeadOnArrival06 | DeadOnArrival06

    • 9:20am BST - August 12th, 2007

    why are 360 fangirls on this site? This is Playstation, B!tch! SO STAY OUT!

    Anyway, this is looking to be one of the best FPS games created. I can't wait for it!

  11. gingo | gingo

    • 10:02am BST - August 12th, 2007

    psn id: gingo... i regard BBC very highly in terms of opinion so i am even more hyped about this than i was before, with them saying the grenades needed fixed i dont really care because Resistance grenades were awesome and they make up for any other games grenades lol

  12. Byuu | Midget

    • 10:22am BST - August 12th, 2007

    2 simple words..."Can't Wait"

  13. Untildeath89 | willmakenewonesoon

    • 11:25am BST - August 12th, 2007

    you havent played it yet so it should be most anticipated not fav, anyways its definetly on my top 5

  14. Playstation3Pride | THS-Pride

    • 11:32am BST - August 12th, 2007

    I cannot wait for this game, ill love the day this game finnally comes out, HALO KILLER

  15. BlueSteel18 | BlueSteel18

    • 11:41am BST - August 12th, 2007

    it looks awesome but we'll see once it's released.  I hope what they say is true. 

  16. primalbreath | jdawg222

    • 11:59am BST - August 12th, 2007

    hahahahah gears of war is only good looking from afar but far from good looking. the gamelay sucks and characters move all silly and it really isnt a great game its only good.  and kz2 easily will be better then gears in every way augustus, and no has even played it yet

  17. rayza07

    • 12:27pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    owend

  18. HAZE

    • 12:37pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    killzone will kill halo 3

  19. GreenLantern420 | GreenLantern420

    • 12:39pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    gears of war was ok. i mean what kind of war game doesnt let you jump or crouch?

  20. HAZE

    • 12:41pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    360 fan boys get out of this site

  21. Jezer29 | Jezer29

    • 1:21pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    I going to check out KillZone 1 to see what all the hypes about..

  22. markwesker

    • 1:31pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    haha have u been in the 360 forums.all they do is complain about the 3 rings of death n talk about a shi**y game called halo.just look at there chat.its always about how there crap box broke or if the xbox can handle oblivion lol.pile a sh**t 360 .kz2 just wipes its ar*e of the 360

  23. TofuOnoPhD | bodoe

    • 1:40pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    Bring it on!  This is going to wipe Halo!

  24. Flora20709

    • 2:21pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    I Hope it kills halo

  25. just8

    • 2:32pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    lol augustus, you muppet! it does seem theres a lot of hype coming from the people that have played it! so i guess im holding my opinion till then! cod4 looks equaly impressive tho, maybe not so immersive!

  26. killer18

    • 3:09pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    man F-K gears of war killzone will ownd u B#$CH

  27. bigrob904 | BIGROB904

    • 3:55pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    augustus1000 i didnt know they let 360 fanboy b*****s on this site....i think u should leave um right now

  28. D3v1lwqer23 | BIGROB904

    • 3:55pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    To purchase in 2007-2008 in order:

    1:MGS4

    2: Killzone

    3:HAZE

    4:UT3

    5:Turok (if its any good)

  29. NoStop | BIGROB904

    • 4:05pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    this is going to be a good game from what i can see so far.

  30. BobbyRoc | BobbyRoc

    • 4:32pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    Can't wait for this game!

  31. coolasj19

    • 4:46pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    HAZE will cut and make Halo bleed and Killzone2 will put its face into the ground and beat it until nothing is left.

  32. SnickersV | SnickersV

    • 4:47pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    Hmm I've never played Killzone 1, but I'll def. check this one out

  33. KJD007

    • 5:23pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    After Killzone 2 comes out, all copies of Halo will be good for only one thing; beverage coasters!  PS3, it's in the box!

  34. Dyrastic | Dyrastic

    • 6:14pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    graphics not on par with gears lol don't make me laugh!  The graphics in my opinion blow gears out the water and did I forget to remind you, PRE ALPHA!

  35. Babiloo | XavierHarkonnen

    • 6:23pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    killzone looks pretty good wait for the actual gameplay tho..... also gears of war and halo arent all that great theyre good ill admit but theyre not absoluteyl amazing... really halo 3 is gunna b the same as the first 2 just finishing the story (most of overrated game ever)

  36. willisc89 | liquidsoap89

    • 6:28pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    Awesome I can't wait, but I do have to say something, everyone seems to think that grenades are some super powerful being or something, they never were super powerful or made huge explosions (in real life of course), so maybe killzone modelled them after real grenades (which would actually be like a first for games considering how grenades always end up being extremely powerful).

  37. Iownboth360andps3

    • 7:12pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    This game will be great!  Im nto sure why were talking about gears of war and halo though.  It will probably be as good of a game as gears of war.  but for those of you who are saying it will be a halo 3 killer... come on.  it already reserved over 1 million copies.  Nothing will kill halo 3.  GTA 4 pushed its release back probably due to halo 3.  Lets just forget about gears of war and halo and lets look forward to this great game coming to the ps3.  the ps3 needs a great game right now.

  38. bigCman321

    • 8:00pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    agreed i need another good game other then resistance

  39. kflashin | KFLASHIN

    • 8:09pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    @willis: I think people like the grenades as a last ditch effort(me at least)when you run out of bullets,so in a way they are just as important as which ever gun your carrying,so that is why BBC mentioned it hopefully to the developers to so it can be tweaked.Delay it if you have to just get it right.SMOKE YOU 360

  40. ThaddeusK

    • 9:07pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    @augustus1000:

    If it says anything for Gears of War, Epic said Unreal Tournament 3 on the PS3 is way ahead of GoW. And its pretty obvious they prefer the PS3 dev kit and system features over the 360. UT3 will be out on the PS3 first, and Epic didn't even seem to care when they were releasing it for the 360, as they said it'll be out "some time next year".

  41. thegame97338 | G_PIG79

    • 9:31pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    Killzone 2 will own, you guys talk about Gears of War, I think Metal gear solid 4 will put that to shame all over the place, have you guys seen the gameplay footage,,omg........

  42. crouch | deangelo_fall

    • 10:29pm BST - August 12th, 2007

    augustus1000 ur such a . get off this site if u dont like killzone 2. u know ur just saying that cuz ur a stoopid 360 fanbiotch.    and u know it looks much better than any 360 game comming out this year and next.

  43. augustus1000

    • 1:01am BST - August 13th, 2007

    "If it says anything for Gears of War, Epic said Unreal Tournament 3 on the PS3 is way ahead of GoW. And its pretty obvious they prefer the PS3 dev kit and system features over the 360. UT3 will be out on the PS3 first, and Epic didn't even seem to care when they were releasing it for the 360, as they said it'll be out "some time next year". "

    I was comparing KZ 2 to Gears of War not UT 3.I am not a 360 fanboy but I was just expressing an opinion but everyone here is so blind. Killzone is nothing special just another average FPS or maybe worse like the craptastic Killzone 1

  44. motzo

    • 2:04am BST - August 13th, 2007

    Augostos you're fucking stupid. KillZone 2 > all

  45. PunkALive21 | PunkALive21

    • 3:41am BST - August 13th, 2007

    usman ftw!

  46. gamer4eva

    • 7:36am BST - August 13th, 2007

    agustus

    u dumbass they r different games GeOW TPS Killzone 2 FPS u can't compare them its like comparing mario to pacman all time classics but u can't compare different types of games and if u think that its another FPS there's something wrong with u or u haven't seen ne of the vids

  47. killahki | killahki

    • 10:08am BST - August 13th, 2007

    I guess when it comes to graphics every1 has diffrent taste. To me Gears was a very nice looking game but way too shiny. The gameplay left more to be desired. COD 4 looks great gameplay/graphic wise however not close to the graphical detail in KZ2. Haze very gret looking game as well and alot closer to being on par with KZ2 graphic wise. Look @ these games in HD on your PS3 you see the diffrence. Nothing I've seen graphic wise is touching KZ2.

     

  48. teekstriple

    • 11:14am BST - August 13th, 2007

    grenades did suck in the first Killzone,,other then that i loved the game,, that is one of the things that is so sweet about resistance is how the grenades are actually employable.

  49. damnwrx

    • 1:30pm BST - August 13th, 2007

    TH3 V3RY B3ST.......PS3

    KILLhaloZONE 2  B!tch.

  50. Tuney41

    • 11:41pm BST - August 13th, 2007

    Cant Wait

     

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