Edge Issue 199 - Killzone 2 reviewed - let the games begin

[Skippy]

Reviews

Killzone 2 - 7
Fear 2 - 8
Halo Wars - 7
Race Pro - 8
House of the Dead: Overkill - 8
Let's Tap - 8
Deadly Creatures - 5
The Maw - 5
Lord of the Rings Conquest - 2
Tenchu: Stealth Assassins - 6
Crayon Physics Deluxe - 7
Flower - 7
Boing! Docomodake - 7
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile - 6

Previews
Resident Evil 5
Dragon Age: Origins
Singularity
GTA IV: The Lost and the Damned
MadWorld
Dragon Quest IX
Resistance: Retribution
The Path
Ninja Blade
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time
Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures
Star Ocean: The Last Hope
Swords & Soldiers

Shock to the System - Free-Roaming free running undergoes shock treatment as sucker punch plugs its new IP into the mains (Infamous)

Rocket Science - Capcom explains the ups and downs and lefts and right - Not to mention the east and west - of its latest opus (Dark Void)

The Age of Steam - It wasn't some publishing giant that established the PC's most significant gaming network - It could only have been Valve

Art of Design - What happens when interaction design students from one of the world's leading design colleges play around with LittleBigPlanet? We visit Royal College of Arts to find out

Lost in Translation - There's a world wide web of videogame history that's constantly in flux. But what comprises it, and should we be thinking about it's preservation?


Time Extend - Freak Out

Making Of - Hellgat London

[HSH28]

Nothing really suprising there, shame Race Pro didn't manage a 9...but there you go.

[Rog]

Rik is going to go postal when he sees that and the 8 for Fear 2 isn't going to help. It was to be expected when Killzone sounds like it doesn't revolutionise anything but instead refines the genre.

What does the text sound like?

I'm more interested in the 7 for Halo Wars. With it's basic approach I wasn't expecting it to get any more than that but do they mention any major problems with it?

[KK]

"Not as good as FEAR 2"

Xbox World. Yesterday.

[chalkitdown]

[Sarge]

KZ2 review summary?

[HSH28]

I'm more interested in the 7 for Halo Wars. With it's basic approach I wasn't expecting it to get any more than that but do they mention any major problems with it?

A 7 is really good for this game actually (and yes for Killzone 2 too). It could easily have gotten a 6 or less.

Shame they didn't review Dawn of War 2 though.

[chalkitdown]

Killzone 2 - 7
Let's Tap - 8

Some people are gonna be upset about that.

[Mockmaster]

Killzone 2 gets a 7. This is going to be epic.


Let's Tap, everyone should buy it.

The Maw gets a surprisingly low score. For an XBLA game it's a decent 3D platformer in the old N64 mould.

Flower, game of the Century, only gets a 7.

House of the Dead: gets the 8 it deserves.

Shame about Deadly Creatures.

[Mockmaster]

Killzone 2 - 7
Let's Tap - 8

Some people are gonna be upset about that.

Better than Killzone 2:

[Skippy]

Updated!

After breakfast I'll take a picture of the cover

[SchminkyPinky]

I am a little surprised about the Killzone 2 score but I did have it down as an 8 for 'On the Edge'. Good to see Race Pro and Overkill getting excellent scores and I'll probably be picking up both of those on release.

[Sarge]

Some KZ review info. (from Rllmuk)

This intimate, sizzling combat feels more like that of FEAR, but is actually more like [...] Black

A gun game of the truest sense, its bullets and ragdolls offer a literal take on the 'theatre' of war.

A quasi-tactical shooter, its action rivals any in STALKER or COD4

Thanks largely to its online play, Killzone 2 should find itself a fanbase no one can overlook. In singleplayer, it's a testament to craft and imagination, if only because one is so immaculate while the other barely exists. It fights a great battle, it's just a shame about the war.

Just finished reading Edge's review of this, they liked the gunplay, the story 'stinks', the Helghast provide some of the best enemy AI seen yet, FEAR is name checked along with Stalker and COD4, the levels could be played in any order and still have no effect on the plot, multiplayer is good and probably bolsters the score of 7/10

Credit for the info goes to Treble & Windowlicker.

[Rog]

Updated!

After breakfast I'll take a picture of the cover

Any summaries or scans?

[chalkitdown]

But a 7 clearly can be better than an 8

[Skippy]

No scans you cheapskates. I'll summarise the main scores though if I feel like it.

[Saint of Killers]

strawberry floating hell. GAF isn't going to like this

[Mr Chips]

7, am not buying it now.

[Cropolite]

Stupid magazine trying to make another statement, in a quest to be unique.

I'm laughing at how everyone cares.

[Skippy]

They no-likey the single player

Thanks largely to its online play, Killzone 2 should find itself a fanbase no one can overlook. In singleplayer, it's a testament to craft imagination, if only because one is so immaculate while the other barely exists. It fights a great battle, it's a shame about the war

As for you, Killzone (PP - Uh oh), mind your manners and stoop peering over the page at the score. It's unfortunate timing that sees two quite similar triple-A games sitting should-to-shoulder in a single issue, but unfortunate for who? Killzone 2 has the technology and spectacle; FEAR 2 has class, direction and a most mischievous sense of humour - and technology amd spectacle. It doesn't have that Hollywood shine or as modern a grasp of multiplayer, perhaps, but it does have something infinitely more important. It has fun.