Killzone 2

Genre
FPS
Released on
PlayStation 3
2/27/2009
Pub
SCEA
Dev
Guerrilla
9.25
As rated by Gamervision

Two years after the Helghast assault on Vekta, the ISA are taking the fight to Helghan. Their goal: to capture the Helghast leader, Emperor Visari, and bring the Helghast war machine to a halt.

You assume the role of Sev, a battle-hardened veteran and a member of the special forces unit known as the Legion.

For Sev and his squad, the invasion of Helghan is just beginning. Tasked with securing Pyrrhus, the Capital City, they quickly discover that the Helghast are a formidable enemy on their home planet. Not only have they adjusted to the planet’s hostile conditions, they have also harnessed a source of power they can now use against the ISA.

Sev and his squad aren’t just fighting the enemy forces – their fiercest opponent is the planet itself.

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Since its announcement, Killzone 2 has been touted as the proving point for the necessity of both the PlayStation 3’s powerful Cell Processor and its spacious blu-ray disks. The tech demo shown at E3 in 2005 promised what seemed to be impossible, and suspicions were quickly raised that it wasn’t, in fact, in-game footage. It wasn’t, and all at once eyes turned to Guerilla Games, expecting them to either deliver an experience seemingly impossible on any other platform or die trying. After numerous delays moved it from a launch window to a Winter 2009 release, expectations are through the roof, and there’s little that can describe the burden Killzone 2 carries with it.

Picking up two years after the events of original, Killzone 2 brings the fight to the Helghast's home world of Helghan, in an attempt to end the war by capturing their leader, Emperor Scolar Visari, voiced expertly by Brian Cox. There isn’t much to the narrative, and very little in terms of plot twists and turns that haven’t been overdone in previous shooters. There’s a war, the Helghast are jerks, the ISA hope to end their brutality by invading, and Visari will defend Helghan to its end. Going in expecting something on the level of BioShock is asking far too much, and an experience more akin to Gears of War’s should be anticipated instead.

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