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KILLZONE 3 |OT| The King Is Dead. Long Live The King.
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StealthGoblin
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Fuck it, I've just had some good news so while I'm in a great mood, I'll pre-order the damned thing.
Anwhere to get a copy in the UK that doesn't come in a steelbook but still has the DLC vouchers etc?
Anwhere to get a copy in the UK that doesn't come in a steelbook but still has the DLC vouchers etc?
I assume most everyone plans on playing the game on the Hard difficulty?
I play all FPS games these days on the hardest unlocked difficulty available and in KZ3 it feels about perfect IMO. Some challenging bits
but nothing annoying or tedious yet. It's intense but enjoyable.
I'm not quite sure why the story was hated on. Seems above average compared to most of the other FPS garbage out there.
Also, the game never gives you an excuse to really stop playing. There are no obvious "now loading" segments or breaks other than the story scenes, so I kept telling myself "just this one more objective" which inevitably lead to playing much more than anticipated.
I play all FPS games these days on the hardest unlocked difficulty available and in KZ3 it feels about perfect IMO. Some challenging bits
one part of the mech mission
I'm not quite sure why the story was hated on. Seems above average compared to most of the other FPS garbage out there.
Also, the game never gives you an excuse to really stop playing. There are no obvious "now loading" segments or breaks other than the story scenes, so I kept telling myself "just this one more objective" which inevitably lead to playing much more than anticipated.
Is the highest difficulty level also locked in the retail game like the demo or is it open from the get-go? Hate when developers do that, they think it lures people into a second playthrough but I can never be bothered with that and just leave the game with a less satisfied feeling 
left_senseless
Banned
Cagen said:
wouldn't a cloaked sniper be able to drop the exo pilot with one or two well placed shots?
i really don't have the answer to this, i wasn't in the closed beta.
Internet Celebrity
Member
No. With the cockpit windows as small as they were in the beta, you'd have to be a superhuman shot with most guns to nail a pilot out of a moving mech.left_senseless said:
Eh...I played tactician exclusively and the problem was helghast could camp the sewer exit and your main exit and you were basically shut down.Violater said:
I didn't find it so much a problem if rockets were disabled, but I think the game was ruined when they removed spawn grenade invulnerability. That just turned the game into a spawn camp fest with people hiding behind grenades, even if they were thrown in decent locations. Luckily the grenades are gone, and they added TSP's in KZ3 that have the temporary invulnerability back.
Internet Celebrity
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That was when the game hit its stride, actually.Horsebite said:
Lion Heart
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Jim said:
Thanks for the advice, I guess its Hard for me than. I'm glad you are enjoying it, I tend to side with your opinion on most games so its good to hear that it delivers.
Edit: damn your unquotable avatar
TrAcEr_x90
Member
commish said:
are you in colorado?
gamestop at 88th is having a midnight launch. for both bulletstorm and killzone 3 i guess? thats what they told me.
Horsebite said:
There were the stairs, the sewer and obviously the front door, most of the tim I could run up the stair and jump the railing flanking the door campers.
Or get over into the library place a spawn point and again flank the campers.
It only becomes tedious when your team would not use the bloody spawn point.
As for rockets being disabled, a few good suicide grenade runs were often just as efficient.
I agree with Cagen, fuck the Exos. worst addition to the game imo and should be made optional for the maps.
Jim said:
Just because its KZ!!!! The game that has to meet the highest expectations in every category for the esteemed gaming journalists. Yeah its fucking absurd how this game is shitted upon for the same reasons that most FPS are guilty of or even worse but get away with it without a smudge.
the_prime_mover
Member
left_senseless said:
It can be done, but I don't think it is a tactic that can really be counted on.
I am wondering if GG has reduced the speed that Exos heal at to make engineers more necesary? I also hope that they fixed all of the animations as they looked really messy in the Alpha.
Exos were annoying on Corinth Highway which from end to end was probably larger and more open than Salamun, plus there were W.A.S.P emplacements. I really don't see how they will adapt Salamun for Exo style play that won't just result in pushing all on-foot gameplay into the buildings or back alleys. Salamun is the best KZ2 map and could be the best KZ3 map despite the changes in the various classes, assuming TSA locations are well picked...
However, the addition of Exos means that the back areas (good Assassination defend locations, S&D locations and S&R locations) will now be wide open for constant missile barrages. The main road will also be a deathtrap as it seems Exos will be able to fit under the bridge (and will be able to attack each C&H zone).
The retro packs should have just seen slight style updates and otherwise have been left alone.
TacticalFox88
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Unfortunately, Gaming Journalists still haven't gotten over eating crow from E3 07. This shit has been going on for the past 4 years with the series.A.R.K said:
NullPointer
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70. Minutes. of Cutscenes.A.R.K said:
Thats why.
BattleMonkey
Member
NullPointer said:
Can't skip em?
StealthGoblin
Banned
amar212 said:
Ah okay. Well, in your opinion, is the final few gameplay scenarios as good or better than KZ2? Purely from a gameplay standpoint.
TrAcEr_x90
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Someones should post the killzone 2 in game graphics to the E3 07 trailer image again. I love looking at that. Also someone needs to do a comparison to that trailer to killzone 3!!! hahaha
Always-honest
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On easy you can actually melee your way through the game...canova said:
A.R.K said:you know what my friend...if it had like 5-10 mins of cutscenes, they would have still complained but the other way around
There will ALWAYS be something WRONG with KZ
Reviewers can go fuck themselves for all I care. Play the Demo - if you like it, buy it. That's the point of a demo. If you are unsure, rent or buy used 2 months later for half the price.
Fact: I didn't play a single minute of KZ2's single player.
Probable fact: I won't play a single minute of KZ3's single player.
All about the MP.
Galvanise_ said:
It is different to be honest.
I would sustain to compare it, because you have to realize that KZ2 and KZ3 are basically one campaign of events, sliced into two chapters. Something like Matrix 2 and 3.
Pure genre-wise, KZ2 gives much more classic FPS-driven feeling in the ending chapters, but that is understandable because of the setting of the actual missions. KZ3 is different, because setting of the chapters is different, thus resulting with unexpected approach to the final scenarios.
However, it is convincing more this way, because it would be impossible to make it believable differently.
TrAcEr_x90 said:
Killzone 3 looks 5x better.
H_Prestige
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StuBurns said:
KZ3 actually has a slightly wider FOV than KZ2. You can see more of the character's hand.
Also, Helghan Industries is the best designed map in KZ2. Looks sick as hell too.