IGN reviews Killzone

Presentation - 7.5
Killzone offers a minimalist\'s menu but a fair amount of options. Progressive scan output would be nice, but that omission doesn\'t hurt the title and its cohesive feel, even if it does start abruptly.

Graphics - 8.0
Killzone boasts incredible art direction. Every level is stylish and appropriate while every character and gun is meticulously detailed. Then again, it\'s also slow running and loaded with glitches.

Sound - 9.0
Amazing music and some very crisp, very believable effects are brought down only by repetitive voices and bad dialogue. Brought down, but not by much. Terrific audio job, Guerilla.

Gameplay - 7.0
Here\'s where it gets sticky. The AI is terrible and the scripted combat isn\'t very exhilarating. But then it looks and sounds so good it\'s often possible to get lost in the war.

Lasting Appeal - 8.0
Provided the technological deficiencies don\'t bother you, Killzone offers a solid multiplayer mode that happens to be plagued by the same problems as the singleplayer game.

Overall7.5

Even though we\'ve established Killzone focuses on cheaply scripted combat and uses its visual panache and aural brilliance to make that kind of combat enjoyable, there are still more problems. The framerate is disastrous and has a serious detrimental impact on gameplay, often leading to missed shots, unobserved enemies, and general disorientation. Also, while Killzone features some remarkable still frame visuals for the PlayStation 2, movement creates some rather serious burps. Characters that don\'t animate facially when speaking in-game is a slight, but the more serious visual hiccups are polygonal seams (the white shimmering or breaking that happens where two polygons meet in an environment) and a really hilarious LOD system.

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"teh Hal0 killah" it\'s not but sounds like a decent game despite its\' flaws.  Rental?  Perhaps when I\'m done with Halo 2 and Metroid Prime 2...

Looks like the typical Euro dissing review again by the USA game site again. :o

Reviewed by a Halo fanboy. Not suprised, I\'ll wait for GameSpot, as always.

The demo is great fun so I\'ll be getting it anyway.

So they should have overlooked the shoddy A.I. and sloppy framerate issues?

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I think I can sum this thread up.

(1) I predicted Killzone not being all that. Just like \'The Getaway\', the Sony fans will clamor to it and within a month of its release be left confused as to why they waited so long for a crap ass game.

(2) Some Sony fans won\'t accept the fact the game is average at best and will blame the bad reviews on the reviewers citing that they was "Xbox fanboys".

From IGN - then this Ivan who reviewed Killzone previews Halo 2 for PS2 IGN WTF? And then a complete 180 from they\'re E3 time with the game, which they awarded PS2 game of the show... mmm.

I\'ll be waiting for Eurogamers review.

PlayStation 2 Game of the Show

Killzone

Developer: Guerilla Games
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Release Date: Winter 2004


If anything, it was a refreshing discovery too, as hype and anticipation are things that are rarely lived up to -- and miraculously, Killzone did.

Even the E3 Killzone preview said there were framerate issues, no?  I guess they thought they\'d be ironed out by release.  Also, I wouldn\'t say it\'s a complete 180, a 7.5 is still a really decent game, it just comes with some notable flaws.

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>>>Killzone E3 Hands-on Impressions from IGN<<<

Originally posted by Ginko
So they should have overlooked the shoddy A.I. and sloppy framerate issues?

Well if IGN are going to give HALO 2 the perfect 10 then they need to poke the eyes out if the reviewer....

Sub 30 FPS Hooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally posted by Knotter8
Looks like the typical Euro dissing review again by the USA game site again. :o

That\'s exactly what I thought !!! I\'ve played KZ in the Beta Test and I doubt that the game hasn\'t improved till then.

Originally posted by ooseven
Well if IGN are going to give HALO 2 the perfect 10 then they need to poke the eyes out if the reviewer....

Sub 30 FPS Hooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you prefer a choppy 30+ FPS over a smooth 30- FPS then I don\'t know what to tell you.

Go ahead and enjoy your PS2 Slideshow.

Originally posted by ooseven
Well if IGN are going to give HALO 2 the perfect 10 then they need to poke the eyes out if the reviewer....

Sub 30 FPS Hooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

What Black Samurai said, lol.  

The game doesn\'t deserve 9\'s or 10\'s if the framerate is such an issue that it does hinder gameplay.  Clipping and poor A.I. don\'t deserve high marks and if you bother to read the review you\'ll find that Killzone possesses all of these traits.

Originally posted by MAKAVELIUK
From IGN - then this Ivan who reviewed Killzone previews Halo 2 for PS2 IGN WTF? And then a complete 180 from they\'re E3 time with the game, which they awarded PS2 game of the show... mmm.

I\'ll be waiting for Eurogamers review.

Excatly, why did they choose the guy who wrote a Halo 2 feature on the frickin PS2 side of IGN?

Screaming for attention by raping a hyped game?

I cant see the video review, but some guy said the reviewer actually apoligized for reviewing Killzone based on its hype, any truth to that?

So they should have overlooked the shoddy A.I. and sloppy framerate issues?

Ofcourse not, but framerate should not drag down the score as mush as it did for KZ.. Remember San Andreas 9.9? That game has a pretty horrible framerate in some places, yet an almost perfect score?

Go ahead and enjoy your PS2 Slideshow.

The demo was anything but a slideshow (playing Desert Combat in 2 player splitscreen co-op is a slideshow.). And the FPS is one thing that was improved in the full version?`

When was the last time USA gaming press gave a game a high score which was developed by a European dev of Sony or otherwise ? :rolleyes:

European previews have been ESPECIALLY praising Killzone\'s AI. Yes, those include the same Euro mags which were a little sceptic about The Getaway. So they are in no way favouring Sony Europe.

I\'ll see it when i get it. Until that time the European previews look most sincere. IGN reviews like this one, seem a little like a twisted grudge against Europe as a game development region.

Fvck IGN !!!

Originally posted by fastson
Excatly, why did they choose the guy who wrote a Halo 2 feature on the frickin PS2 side of IGN?

Screaming for attention by raping a hyped game?

I cant see the video review, but some guy said the reviewer actually apoligized for reviewing Killzone based on its hype, any truth to that?

Here is a quote from the first page of the review...

"Hype did not influence this review. It did not grab this reviewer by the throat and force out an absurdly low or obscenely high score. Hype is not the master of our judgment. If anything, the mysterious entity of extremely positive expectation that floats around the Internet contaminating children might have influenced a reader of this review (or one of our early previews). There\'s even a chance you have bought into the hype and are now glancing over this justification of a 7.5 rating and wondering why Killzone is not the greatest thing ever -- thinking that 7.5 is somehow synonymous with awful. Hype will do its evil to the best of us.

First, 7.5 is a statement of worth. It\'s a rating we assign to quality titles with a fair helping of problems. 7.5 describes a game that could be rented or bought, but should definitely be played by fans, enthusiasts, and casual gamers seeking more out of the genre. That\'s exactly what Killzone is -- a good game with problems that should be played."
 

Ofcourse not, but framerate should not drag down the score as mush as it did for KZ.. Remember San Andreas 9.9? That game has a pretty horrible framerate in some places, yet an almost perfect score?

I didn\'t play GTA:SA or read the whole review so I really can\'t comment.  The reviewer for Killzone said that the framerate does hinder gameplay and that the A.I. isn\'t what it should be.  A consistent framerate is crucial for a FPS, and for Killzone, smarter A.I. would have helped.

Has anyone here actually bothered reading the review?

When was the last time USA gaming press gave a game a high score which was developed by a European dev of Sony or otherwise ?  

European previews have been ESPECIALLY praising Killzone\'s AI. Yes, those include the same Euro mags which were a little sceptic about The Getaway. So they are in no way favouring Sony Europe.

I\'ll see it when i get it. Until that time the European previews look most sincere. IGN reviews like this one, seem a little like a twisted grudge against Europe as a game development region.

Fvck IGN !!!

This is absolutely ridiculous unless you can prove IGN has some sort of agenda to bash Euro games.

Ok, well.. Like I said, will wait for another review before I say anything else. I\'ve never been a fan of IGN (I never visit it unless I have to) so I don’t hold their impressions that high, I just found their choice of reviewer kind of odd.

If GameSpot gives it a lower score (IGN almost always give a higher score then GS, so if IGN is right, then KZ should receive a much lower score from GS), then I guess its not what people hoped for.

Still I\'ll be getting the game, the demo made up my mind.