Editor's Note: I was talking to a buddy online about the recent Killzone 2 demo, take in mind this friend of mine is a massive Xbox 360 fanboy, and to my surprise he loved the Killzone 2 demo. I asked him to write up an article detailing his experience with the upcoming PS3 exclusive, that opinion/editorial is below:
Killzone 2 has been in development for approximately 5 years, and judging by the strength of the demo it was worth the wait and is shaping up to be the true saving grace of the PS3. The demo that exploded onto the European marketplace this past Thursday has incorporated into it a very sleek menu system that is very fitting with the style of the game itself. A nice touch to the games loading screen is a HD image of the scenery featured in different maps that can be tilted and turned in a 3-Dimentional fashion by using the PS3s Sixaxis controller system. This demo has convinced us to go out and purchase a Playstation 3 immediately, which will compliment the Xbox 360's in our gaming cabinets quite nicely, especially with a game like Killzone 2.
The demo itself is set at the very beginning of the full games campaign mode, where your character “Sev” an ISA soldier and his team mates including “Garza” and “Rico” crash land onto the planet Helghan. Landing approximately 200m short of their Landing Zone they are thrown directly into a heated battle taking place on a planet consumed by all out war. After a short yet very pretty cut scene of the crash landing the team must fight their way through a beach and a warehouse to the original LZ. Although the demo is short (about 10 – 15min of play time) it is packed full of staggeringly realistic experiences which will leave you speechless and wanting to play over and over again, at one point a man right next to me in the advance was blown across the beach and another man had been set on fire by some kind of explosive, after about 10 seconds I realised that I had just completely stopped in the middle of a warzone in complete awe of these events and the hectic battle going on around me and had to collect myself and continue on the advance toward the enemy. This opening scene also showcases the amazing graphical advances which have shattered boundaries which previous FPS games have merely pushed month by month since the start of this gaming generation, truly showing what the Playstation 3 really has to offer when pushed to what we can only imagine are its limits.
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