KILLZONE Shadow Fall [PS4]

I wouldn't worry about it. I don't think any of the Killzone games have been lacking in variety when it comes to environments.

 

I suspect that Lukah will end up being a constant AI companion, and I wouldn't be surprised if she was Hahka's daughter or relative. Either that, or you will constantly switch between the Shadow Marshall or the Helghan agent. Likely they're both trying to stop whoever is causing trouble. Finally, we can get another Helghan protagonist.

Frankly, Guerrilla really hasn't done that good of a job with the series overall. Sure, they managed to live up somewhat to the overdone expectations Sony put on them, but their writing has just suffered.

First KZ2 either makes all the characters pansies or makes them disappear form the story, and undoes a great deal of character development in the process.

KZ1, for all its problems, had a really good war story with interesting characters. By the end of KZ1 Rico shouldn't have been acting as much like a meat head in KZ2, and there was still plenty more character development available from the KZ1 characters. Instead, Hahka disappears entirely, as does Luger. Somehow Yan goes from a command leader to a battlegroup commander? Heck, Luger should have been guarding his ass and maybe he wouldn't have died.

Writing themselves into a hole at the end of KZ3, at least they found an interesting way to move forward the series with KZSF. Hopefully they can continue based more of the story of KZ1 and the gameplay of KZ3.

 

I am sad every time I play a game that has a story that I feel I could do a better job at in about one day's work. I would do it for free, too, just for the love of the game. Sure, I agree that gameplay is more important, but if you have to make cutscenes anyway to hide load-times, then why not make them count.

For what it's worth, some of the cutscenes in KZ3 were at least nice to look at. But story/direction wise it was a bit of a disjointed mess.

The setup has a lot of story potential. But the gameplay we've seen so far doesn't suggest much on a story level. On the other hand, gameplay is still more important, and that looks promising to me. And the game's Berlin wall setup certainly gives a lot of room for some good story-telling.

 

But at 60fps, it looks very pleasing. There was a Digital Foundry video at 60fps, which was very nice. Yes, I'm a sucker for 60fps.

I wish they went for a 60fps Killzone.

 

Oh yeah! I almost forgot! Anyone else looking forward to the return of secondary fire? It was missing from KZ2 and 3. I missed using the underslung shotgun on the Helghan assault rifle. Although think plenty were tired of the ISA assault rifle's noob tube grenade launcher.

Such a shame that the KZ game with the worst gameplay had some of the coolest features. Although I suppose the for KZ2 and 3, they were already right up against the memory limits for the PS3 in trying to match the stupid pre-rendered video Sony put out.

*Sigh* I kinda wanted to see how KZ2 would have looked if they didn't have to match the video so much.

That railgun-rifle that the main character has. It seems to operate like a Mass Effect weapon honestly, but open topped to you can see the accelerator coils pushing rounds down what you could call its barrel. That weapon design is awesome, and it, like the rest of KZ's weapons don't get enough recognition.

I suspect that that weapon is specific to him, and will stay with you over the course of the game.

It's also a marvel that they made the Cockney accent menacing somehow.

 

I'm starting to like this forest level now, it's actually quite beautiful in its own right especially with the nice lighting and expansive view.

 

Edit - Video already posted by RenegadeRocks, my mistake!

 

Do you know where he said that? I would love to hear that

 

Well, I definitely welcome that. After going back to replay KZ1 HD, it definitely felt missing (more combat options at least).

Not sure if that's a good thing or bad thing

 

http://www.killzone.com/kz3/en_US/blog/news/2013-06-25_introducing_the_owl.html

Zipline is a helper feature.

Hope the Helghasts have more tricks to counter my gears.

 

Can we feed the Owl with the items dropped by enemies?

 

Should be like this one in the 1981 Clash of the Titans:
http://daily-owls.tumblr.com/post/16708519296

 

Let's just hope they show more tech prowess from the ISA this time around, and not just to the Shadow Marshalls.

I felt sorry for the ISA grunts in KZ2 and 3 where they were going up against ATACs, MAWLERS, Heavies, cloaked troops, and more. Meanwhile, all you saw from the ISA were grunts, and most of the EXOs sat on the ships as they were shot out of the sky.

So, it's nice to give the Helghans a taste of their own medicine with the OWL.

 

It's from one of those E3 interviews from either IGN or Gamespot. I think he mentioned it a couple of times.