Let me preface this by saying that Killzone 2 is a graphical masterpiece, and a lot of the features/options in the online mode are a lot of fun and will keep me playing for a long time. I'm also primarly an xbox 360 user, which I only mention because it may help to explain my inexperience when setting up online games on the PS3 (see below).
I've put around 15 hours of KZ2 this weekend with a few buddies of mine, and we were all very frustrated setting up the first few multiplayer games. Setting up our very first multiplayer match was especially frustrating. None of us had setup a game before on killzone (or on the ps3), so we attempted our standard approach: create a "party" and join a game as a group. Unfortunately, we couldn't find a party feature, and we couldn't get the group chat to work within the game, so we turned to a long series of phone calls to everyone trying to coordinate everything ahead of time. I tried joining a random game, and then got everyone to join my game. Unfortunately, the worlds were almost all full, so only one or two friends could join my game right away. After repeatedly hitting the "join" button (up to 10 minutes for one of my friends), hoping that someone outside our group had left the game, everyone was finally in the the same game. Unfortunatly (again), from this point forward, our group was always split up on different teams. The frustration still continues, but luckily the game is awesome enough to make up for its shortcomings (like the controls, but there's no use in me detailing what others have said).
I don't want to sound all negative, there were definitely lots of "holy shit, this looks amazing" and "jebus, this is awesome" moments. And it's also possible that my group, being primarily xbox gamers, are just retarded (
) when it comes to doing things a way that we aren't used to. Overall, it's a great game, but it desperately needs a party feature (unless I'm missing it, in which case I just have to figure out how to use it).
