Killzone shadow fall vsa ps3#
Killzone shadow fall vsa series#

If youвЂ™ve played Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight youвЂ™ll have an idea of the scale of some of the levels, particularly as youвЂ™re making your way deeper into the heart of some of the New Helghan areas. The draw distance is fantastic and we know from some of the early game presentations that the backdrops are rendered relative to the player so that they are more realistic, which really shows as youвЂ™re making your way through the levels. This is a significant leap on from the last game simply down to the graphical detail and scale of the environment. The other technical aspects of the game are excellent too. The brutal melee returns for combat duty, whether youвЂ™re sneaking up on an unsuspecting guard or hitting the buttons in a panic because youвЂ™ve run out of ammo, the animations are as fluid and gruesome as ever. ItвЂ™s a nice touch not having a health meter on screen, and equally impressive that the pad colours actually graduate from red, through amber and back to green instead of just blinking between the three.

You know youвЂ™re getting hit because not only does your screen turn red, but your trigger fingers do too because of the shifting colour of the light bar on the controller. If youвЂ™ve never actually been killed in a game by a literal hail of bullets, stick around to the latter part of the story and youвЂ™ll get the chance, the Helghast donвЂ™t hold back. The AI are still top notch and will suppress and flank you if they can, and if they canвЂ™t theyвЂ™ll just come in force and with greater firepower.

It can feel slow and cumbersome if youвЂ™ve just come from a Call of Duty/Battlefield game, but itвЂ™s more solid and measured than either of those, and to me feels more precise and under control. The gameplay is true Killzone pedigree, it has the heft and weight youвЂ™ve come to expect from the games. YouвЂ™ll wish for silenced weapons or sniper rifles in some sections though, or the nice cloaking devices your enemies are sometimes equipped with, because itвЂ™s all too easy to slip up and trigger an alert, and if youвЂ™re in the wrong place your minutes are numbered. This departure from the usual вЂњgo to X, shoot YвЂќ formula works pretty well, especially as the levels are quite large so it gives you space and perspective to work with. This isnвЂ™t an open world and the tasks usually have to be performed in certain order, but itвЂ™s reminiscent of the stealth vs. Besides the OWL, you now have freedom to approach objectives from multiple angles.

The new touchpad on the controller comes into its own here, you swipe in the cardinal directions to select a function, then hit L1 to activate, all nice and easy and gives you 4 more controller options to make things more complex. The OWL is a lovely piece of technology that acts as transport, backup, shielding, stun device and medic, and feels like a replacement for your absent team mates, but one that doesnвЂ™t get in the way. ItвЂ™s still a first person shooter, but youвЂ™re now resolutely on your own instead of being accompanied by a squad, though you are given an OWL. Once you get into the first proper mission you realise how Killzone Shadow Fall is different from the others. ItвЂ™s fairly predictable that youвЂ™re going to follow in SinclairвЂ™s footsteps and become a Shadow Marshall, and after a nice backstory/history/training montage you begin in earnest as an elite soldier saving his planet from the enemy. Things start off for you as a small boy escaping the purge of Vektans by the Helghast as the two societies are segregated with the installation of the wall, then being rescued and taken under the wing of a Shadow Marshall called Sinclair. This next chapter starts 30 years after the conclusion of Killzone 3, Helghan is uninhabitable after the events of the previous game and the survivors offered a home on Vekta where things have been tense but peaceful because the two civilisations are separated by a 200 metre high security wall. This has competition in the form of Call of Duty: Ghosts and Battlefield 4, and considering both are cross-generational games theyвЂ™re still impressive, so how does Killzone Shadow Fall measure up?

Killzone shadow fall vsa ps3#

WeвЂ™re in a bit of a pattern here with FPS games coming out at launch on a new Sony console, the PS2 had Timesplitters, the PS3 had Resistance, both of which were excellent games to start a generation off with.

Killzone shadow fall vsa series#

This is the sixth game in the Killzone series from Dutch developer Guerilla Games, and what IвЂ™d term one of the first true next generation games to hit the shelves (there are plenty of new titles out there, but very few that have only been developed for latest platform).