Lives up to the hype
1. To buy a game I thought would be amazing.
2. To buy a game for that big black machine which has been reserved for strictly LBP and Blu-Ray movies recently.
Well, I can gladly say I am happy for both reasons after playing the game and beating it in about 8 hours.
Graphics - What can I say that you haven't already heard about this game honestly? EVERYTHING is amazing. I had heard that some of the effects were lacking from reading early reviews but I couldn't really ever see what they were talking about because I was looking for those flaws the whole way through. MAYBE the flamethrower is a little weird, but honestly, 1 gun that I used maybe a total of 2 minutes the entire game is going to take away from the total experience? Please. The thing I kept on thinking while playing this was just how I've never seen anything like it before and how the graphics almost actually did look like the CGI they showed a few years ago.
Sound - Best sound since MGS4 for me. You can ask my roommates, when I played this game the house was rumbling. If you have Dolby 5.1 Sound, then prepare to cream yourself because this game is amazing with a system.
Gameplay - So you've probably heard that this game has slower controls and would assume thats a bad thing, right? Well in a weird way, as you play through the game you actually get used to the controls and appreciate it. You feel more like a soldier fighting a war with crazy heavy weapons than a stealth ninja assassin with cat like reflexes. I was skeptical as if I were going to like it but ultimately it won me over. Also for controls, there are a couple of vehicle/mounted weapon sequences and each one of them flows smoothly. There is the occasional loading hiccup when your moving to checkpoint to checkpoint, but once again that's being nitpicky.
Story - The story isn't that bad. It's not great, but it's not bad. I'll be honest with you all though and say I really haven't cared about the story in a FPS since Half-Life 2 came out.
Features - One of the things I loved most about K2 was the multiplayer. Matches are made up of a certain number of rounds and game modes switch seamlessly while your on a single map. So you'll vote on a map, get in the map, play execution and as soon as the round is over, it will switch to the king of the hill mode while everyone is still running around the map. VERY cool feature and I bet a lot of games in the future are gonna be stealing that one. I also appreciated the stat tracking and medal progression in the game. I'll definitely be playing this game for many hours to come.
Overall - The original Killzone was supposed to be the Halo-killer. It wasn't. But for me, Killzone 2 is. If there is one thing that Halo has going better it is the replay system. But I enjoyed everything in Killzone 2 more than i did in Halo 3. I'm really starting to believe that the PS3 exclusives are a good deal better than the 360 exclusives. I mean, to me my top 3 favorite games out now are PS3 exclusives (MGS4, Killzone 2, and LBP). And even though Final Fantasy is coming out on both, FF Versus is going to be PS3 exclusive too. Killzone 2 is just another step for PS3 gaining ground the best way it can, making awesome video games that people will buy consoles to play it. If you have a PS3 and haven't picked up Killzone 2 you are definitely missing out on a candidate for GOTY.