Killzone 2 multiplayer was PHENOMENAL back in the day…the maps, game modes, and character classes were all way ahead of their time! I did not enjoy Killzone 3’s as much because it felt like it strayed from the formula/uniqueness I loved so much with 2
I remember one of the dlc maps. The one with the atomic bomb going off every 5 minutes... Total mayhem, friend and foes running for cover, most of the time ending in the same building, smoke everywhere. Then the explosion, darkness, only the red and blue eyes of players. Sometimes you could see them holding back and not shooting even though you were in the same room as if there was a mutual truce for a few seconds till the nuke goes off. Other times all hell would brake loose. I miss this game so much. The servers went down not so long ago.
I once met a developer in Amsterdam inside the metro, I had to ask him about KZ because it has been my favourite game for a while but it's sad that as of now they've moved on to Horizon..
@The Major League Ginger I've never understood that criticism of Aloy. I'm playing Horizon Forbidden West on my PS5 right now, and she looks fine. Athletic but not groomed, makes sense because this is the apocalypse
@MXRGAN Music I really wish Guerilla would make both Horizon and Killzone. Insomniac can both pump out Marvel games and Ratchet/Clank so it's definitely possible for Guerilla as well
There is no other game like it. This game really made you feel like you were in a dangerous war. The dark environment, the grit, the hyper-realism, the weight of the weapons, the impact felt when shooting enemies, the dude-bro interactions between the squad mates... Killzone 2 was perfect..
I think that is grossly understated is how the fund felt. The vibration, the heavy sound effects, the right amount of sway and blow back. This game would be insane with the dualsense if it was released now days
Killzone 2 is the game that got me hooked into first person shooters, it had an amazing atmosphere. Killzone 3 multiplayer was better tough. its crazy to see how ahead in time these games were looking back.
This game was amazing. The chirp sound every time you got a kill in mp and how they would layer over eachother with multi kills was such a cool feeling!
Level, I gotta say I'm absolutely loving your content these days. I've been following you since the early days of BF3 and as much as I miss the good ol' days of Loadout and Squad Up, I've always been drawn to your analytical skills when it comes to this industry. I'm extremely happy to see you covering a wide range of games and genres and this game series (and the PS3 as a whole) is just such a huge part of my past, that I really wish these gems weren't forgotten so quickly. I'm in love with Horizon as a franchise, but I've never forgotten where Guerilla started and it's nice to see someone as large as you, give it the spotlight that it deserves. If you enjoy doing these videos enough, I really hope you are looking to do more like this in the future because a large majority of today's audience, has no idea what they missed out on. The Playstation platform has had so many peak moments in it's time that I feel like, as we already know, Sony just doesn't care enough to preserve and so this is really all we have to relive those moments. So I appreciate you taking the time to do the research and work and get this information out to your audience in a meaningful, and hopefully impactful, way. Big shoutout to the RPCS3 devs for allowing our history to live on into the future.
Killzone 2 is where it's at for me. Alot of hours in that game. Nostalgia hitting hard!!..if i could go back to that time period for just a day I'd do it in a heartbeat
Killzone 2 was definitely way ahead of its time graphically, the game itself was just pretty decent. Killzone 3 really improved the gameplay mechanics and it also had a very underrated multiplayer experience. Guerrilla really needs to revive this series
i'll never forget how floored i was when i first played Killzone 3 and saw the graphics. it was the coolest, most visceral gaming experience i had ever had at the time.
This was personally my favorite franchise for a while since KZ3. Hope they revisit the series since they’re going to focusing on making live-services games.
The physical weight you feel in your character when moving felt so good in kz2. I still think back to the level on the train and how good the tarp flying off the crates looked. Superb scenes in that game. The level at the bridge was awesome as well.
This game was a big part of my childhood, I grew up on PS3 and envied my friends for having the ability to play Halo on Xbox so I had to "get by" with games like these. Thought it was AMAZING back in the day and replayed it a million times lol So awesome to see it running at such high FPS
This was my favorite shooter back in the day. Amazing graphics & the best multiplayer modes. No other game seems to have to created a mode like Killzone 3 where you could play almost every game mode in the same map back to back without any stop in gameplay. Also that sound when you get a kill... Chef's kiss!
Killzone 3s melee combat was also on another level, being able to smash them into walls and jam your thumps into there eyes, such a great melee system, as well as everything else that you mentioned
I'll never forget forcing myself to beat KZ2 on Elite difficulty. The most brutal but fun experience I've had in gaming. I pray for a remaster or a good sequel one day
Quick correction, deferred rendering was first used by Crysis 2. The original Crysis only uses forward rendering. You can easily verify that by looking at the artifacts transparent surfaces cause in Crysis 2
I loved all of the Killzones.. even the one on the PSP. After all these years. The Helghast helmet from the special edition is still in my livingroom (it's moved from our appartement, to the house we actually live in now)
I loved all of the Killzone games and would love to try them on PC! I remember how intense & fun Killzone 2's multiplayer was. I was obsessed with it at the time that I even screen printed a T-shirt with the Marksman Class logo. Thos games were truly ahead of their time!
Straight from the thumbnail I knew what game you would be talking about today! Killzone 3 was my favorite of all five games I've played, and they've had huge impacts on my preferences for aesthetics and gameplay in shooters. Killzone: SF - what you referred to as KZ4 in the video - is definitely more of a tech demo compared to the three main-line games before it. It's great to see it running this well, but when playing games like DUST 514 or PS3's version of Battlefield 4, the performance didn't seem so bad at all back then. I'd really love to see Guerilla go back to Killzone in the future.
The gameplay of Killzone 2 in my opinion is the best for a FPS game and the multiplayer was amazing, you will not find a better FPS now with the most pleasure feeling of shooting a LMG than KZ2.
Would be nice to point out Guerilla also managed to squeeze a modified version of the KZ3 engine into the portable Mercenaries title on the PSVita. Making it the 4th System Guerilla would push the envelope on. Still, I find KZ2 to look better in some instances as it would also render dynamic shadows based on muzzle flash from your gun. That effect was sadly lost in KZ3.
Killzone 2 feels like it came out in a different lifetime. I still remember the release hype, and the game actually lived up to it! It's multiplayer was slower and chunkier but I loved how everything felt heavy, like soldiers were steamrollers.
Man me and my dad played through this campaign it was so damn fun I’ll never forget finding the glitches to get out of the map and stuff in multiplayer good times.
It feels like it was just yesterday that I was playing this game for the first time, and now it's been 12 years! It's a nostalgic experience to reminisce about everything this game brought.
KZ3 was one of the fist games I bought for my ps3 back in the time, loved the campaign and played hundred hours of the multiplayer, was even my second platinum of my life, I really miss this type of games, just pick and play, without a massive open world filled with quests and collectables, wish this franchise come back, at least a remaster
I just beat this game and i honestly kept questioning myself how this game looks better than some games made today in certain aspects.its crazy how good it looks till this day.my only drawback was the weight and not being able to turn on a dime.
Playing Killzome 2 for the first time was an unforgettable experience. Like playing God of War 3, or Uncharted 2… or Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64… Some games just felt like eye openers.
The PS3 really had an incredible library of games. I remember watching the first cutscene of Killzone 2 back in 2008. The graphics absolutely blew my mind.
Only played Killzone 3 in its multi-player beta (it was great), but I did play Killzone Shadowfall. Shadowfall's multiplayer was DIVINE, nothing was like it at the time and the setting was so great. Loved the pacing of the game and how smooth animations were. Always been a bit miffed that Guerilla games have been focusing on a single player series. Would love a new Killzone game on PC.
I remember when i played Killzone 1 on PS2 and i was blown away at the time. Never saw such a good looking fps before, i loved the action too. Never played KZ 2 and 3 though.
Thanks for reviewing the game, I would just like to mention a few things. Killzone 3 runs 90-95% solid smooth 30FPS on our old PS3, much smoother than Killzone 2. Furthermore, the 720p is an issue on a computer monitor, but very much less on a decent enough TV which applies sharpening effects whilst you are sitting 5m away. Recently, after I struggled with getting Killzone 3 to run on the mentioned PC emulator I reverted back to dusting off our older PS3 console and connected it to our 4K TV and it looks and runs much better; one reason being 4K is exactly 9 times the multiple of 720p, therefore perfect upscaling and the sharpening of the TV takes away the blurry bi-cubic filtering you are left with on a computer monitor. Last note, Killzone 3 had near perfect multithreading capabilities for the PS3 (which had at least 6 usable slave cores for the game, not to mention the main SMT core) but porting to PC adds a secondary graphics API loop-hole the emulator developers have to jump through which are on top of that affected by Nvidia or AMD's own DirectX11 driver.
Ah what great memories playing this game to absolute death. That PS2/PS3 era was just incredible. I love what GG are doing with the Horizon series, but i do hope we get to revisit Killzone again some time. Killzone & BLACK, both bring amazing memories of a time in gaming thats lost.
Back in the day PlayStation still had mega exclusives, I remember Killzone being one, I think people who didn't play it underrated it. WipeOut, Uncharted, Little Big Planet, Rachet & Clank, Motorstorm, Resistance and Infamous were probably the other PS3-4 games I played around this time too, good times
I'm glad Killzone is finally getting some well deserved love. I remember playing this game a bunch back in grade school. But I'm surprised you didn't go into the lore or story of the game. I've always thought the Killzone had a very interesting setting and a great aesthetic! Also, Killzone 3 had a multiplayer mode which you could have touched on. I'd be interested to see how that would have held up...
It does hold up very well (played through it again 2-3 years back). Also Killzone Shadow Fall looks stunning still, especially at 60fps on PS5 - hard to believe its a decade old game!
It's so sad to see Killzone die. I remember when I got my copy of Killzone 2 on new year in about 2011-2012. It was a little unfair in some places, but overall it was so great to play this back in a day. Though I think Mercenaries will be my favorite. Not only it is awesome game, it's also a great game for Vita. And multiplayer in it was great.
You should also revisit the Resistance franchise I had a blast with both games Brought some fun memories with my older brother playing co op during summer.
I played Killzone 2 and enjoyed the game a lot. I had a blast playing Killzone 3 on PlayStation 3 with the Move Gun. I almost beat the entire game with the Move Gun until I ran into a area where I was stuck with low health and always loaded back into the game with low health so I couldn't beat the next checkpoint in the game. I enjoy the game when i played back then. Was a huge treat to play the game at its peak with that exclusive Move Gun accessory.
Killzone 3 was one of my favourite games of the PS3 era, I actual went back and got the platinum trophy back in late 2021. Lol I actually got the remaining co-op trophies by plugging in my PS5 controller into my PS3 along with using a regular PS3 controller and completed the required trophies for the plat
The battles felt so atmospheric, the movement not as heavy as 2 but still weighty in good way and it looked incredible to me but it would sometimes make me feel sick which I suppose was the uneven framerate. I would LOVE to play it at 60hz.
KILLZONE wasn't just a chidlhood game or some random shooter lost in the past, It was literally an underrated masterpiece of gaming. With all the key ingredients tied to it.
The sound design in this game was so good. Operations and Warzone modes were also awesome since they had all kinds of objective modes in one single match.
Killzone series has such an awesome dopamine filled visual style and satisfyingly evil enemy type. I also really enjoyed the 1st resistance game, it didn't have any time based healing mechs so you had to find med packs like so many other early fps games.
This game was absolutely amazing. The weight the weapons felt like they had. The raspy gunfire sounds effects, crisp reloads, damage balancing, the visuals, absolute masterpiece and I still miss the multiplayer to this day
Went back through 2 and 3 myself quite recently and it truly is mind blowing how the two hold up to this day still 2 in particular pushed the benchmark for an FPS on console back at release and I still don't think it got the love it should have Absolute technical powerhouse of a game and not just visually
Killzone 3 had one of the best multiplayer game modes of all time IMO. I think it was called "warzone" but it was 7 mini games in one match. King of the hill, TDM, Kill the VIP, Search and Destroy, and it flipped between which team had the objective for S/D and VIP. You won the match by winning the most minigames, and it made you play different areas of the map instead of just staying in the same lane the whole time. Its a formula i think would still work extremely well today, it was just a bit of an obscure game that didnt get the recognition it deserved.
I remember Killzone 2 being my introduction to the PS3 when it first came out & the graphics straight blowing my mind; Mind you, i was 13 when this came out (26 now) & at the time i was still playing the OG Xbox, PS2 & PS1 & was planning to get the 360 because Dead Rising wasnt on PS3 ( I wouldn't get a ps3 until i was 19 ). I can still remember the day my brother in law booted Killzone 2 up while i was walking by talking mad ish about the PS3 (I was in middle school during the start & peak of the 2nd generation console wars... i was loyal to my Xbox brethren) to then becoming glued to the TV after glancing at the screen just for a second. A few years ago i remembered the killzone franchise after watching a video on the failure their last 2 entries were; I remembered the graphics being comparable to modern games & decided to revisit them to see if the game really did look as good as i remembered or was just another case of every single game as a child looking super realistic & high definition but in reality, looked like a blurry version of Minecraft. So i turned on the PS4, bought Killzone 2 on the Playstation store, booted it up & was floored of how good it looked even compared to the modern era. To you younger gamers, trust me when i say that this game was unrivaled graphically during its release (2009) & the only other game that could stand toe to toe & win, was Crisis (2007) & crisis 2 (2011). Please, if you haven't played a Killzone game, go buy Killzone 2, 3 & Shadow Fall ( If you had to choose 1, get 2) not for the riveting story & well written characters, but for the amazing graphics, game/gunplay & the simple but fun multiplayer. IDK HOW Guerrilla Games made this & the other Killzones looks so good that new gamers would confuse this as being new... but they need to come back, teach the devs at these AAA studios & show them how its done. Killzone is underrated & needs a much needed, well loved & polished reboot.
Killzone 2 and it’s multiplayer where excellent. I still wonder why no big name military fps has tried to do a 1st person cover system. The game was dope
A PC Killzone trilogy remaster wouldn't be a bad idea at the right price range. Another old game series that would be interesting would be "Resistance"👍
This is one of those series that I purchased, but is still in my backlog. I may have to move it to my frontlog after watching this! This video is a good example of how levels used to be designed vs. just creating an open world with no real tension or driving force besides exploration. I like both playstyles, but we mainly only get open world these days...
I remember playing Killzone 2 back in the day. one of the best multiplayer experiences Ive ever had. it was awesome. Killzone 3 faded a bit from my memory though
Fun fact, Killzone 3 is one of the few games on PS3 that utilized every one of the Cell Processor's SPEs for graphics workload, meaning Killzone 3 here is an example of the PS3 running at its "full strength". It truly was and is a beautiful game, along with it's predecessor.
KillZone 2 was and will always be the better Killzone game of them all. Killzone 2 hard to believe was the first game to ever use in a first-person shooter to have the slide mechanic, plus the multiplayer battle grounds were the Best maps ever made at the time for any other game on the PlayStation console.
Killzone 2 multiplayer was PHENOMENAL back in the day…the maps, game modes, and character classes were all way ahead of their time! I did not enjoy Killzone 3’s as much because it felt like it strayed from the formula/uniqueness I loved so much with 2
Well said
the fact that it even had bots to fill the 32 player lobbies too. Every game was hectic
I remember one of the dlc maps. The one with the atomic bomb going off every 5 minutes...
Total mayhem, friend and foes running for cover, most of the time ending in the same building, smoke everywhere. Then the explosion, darkness, only the red and blue eyes of players.
Sometimes you could see them holding back and not shooting even though you were in the same room as if there was a mutual truce for a few seconds till the nuke goes off.
Other times all hell would brake loose.
I miss this game so much.
The servers went down not so long ago.
Yasss I played the crap out of the KZ2 multi-player.
Let’s not forget that it also didn’t cost extra money to play ps3 games online
Seeing that thumbnail got me HYPED.
Killzone 1-3 was a fantastic franchise to play through. SP and MP were a blast for it's time.
A remake of the first one and a remaster of the 2nd and the 3rd would be nice to have on PS5 as a collection.
@@econosopherThat and the resistance fall of man franchise.
Each in game object is a work of art
I KNEW I WASNT ALONE!
God, both killzone 2 & 3 are amazing games and I miss this series. Still one of my favorite FPS series and pray we get a remaster one day
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I once met a developer in Amsterdam inside the metro, I had to ask him about KZ because it has been my favourite game for a while but it's sad that as of now they've moved on to Horizon..
All Guerilla cares about now is chubby woman with bow simulator 😂
@The Major League Ginger I've never understood that criticism of Aloy. I'm playing Horizon Forbidden West on my PS5 right now, and she looks fine. Athletic but not groomed, makes sense because this is the apocalypse
@MXRGAN Music I really wish Guerilla would make both Horizon and Killzone. Insomniac can both pump out Marvel games and Ratchet/Clank so it's definitely possible for Guerilla as well
I want a remake of Killzone 2.
💯💯💯
It doesn’t need it though. It just needs a resolution and framerate increase as shown here
I just want a pc port and mp servers
@@AchillesofOblivion they’re up dufe
Hell yeah the same game over again! Who needs new games when you have remakes?
There is no other game like it. This game really made you feel like you were in a dangerous war. The dark environment, the grit, the hyper-realism, the weight of the weapons, the impact felt when shooting enemies, the dude-bro interactions between the squad mates... Killzone 2 was perfect..
Metro 2033
This guy over here damn near got PTSD 💀
The absolute loudness and chaos of the MP was immaculate
go to a killzone 2 video then
I'm starting to feel old but seeing this brought back some memories. Absolutely a great game!
Look at like this, we grew up in the golden age of FPS done right 😊
I think that is grossly understated is how the fund felt. The vibration, the heavy sound effects, the right amount of sway and blow back. This game would be insane with the dualsense if it was released now days
Killzone3 was really fun. Multiplayer was amazing. Had a lot of good memories with this title
Killzone 2 is the game that got me hooked into first person shooters, it had an amazing atmosphere. Killzone 3 multiplayer was better tough. its crazy to see how ahead in time these games were looking back.
It was my first game when I buy PS3. Since then I loved the KZ franchise. The story, weapons, Helghan culture and architecture absolutely amazing.
This game was amazing. The chirp sound every time you got a kill in mp and how they would layer over eachother with multi kills was such a cool feeling!
A fps game on console that actually required a bit of skill as you couldn’t run around like a 40lb ninja
Its my ringtone😂
Level, I gotta say I'm absolutely loving your content these days. I've been following you since the early days of BF3 and as much as I miss the good ol' days of Loadout and Squad Up, I've always been drawn to your analytical skills when it comes to this industry. I'm extremely happy to see you covering a wide range of games and genres and this game series (and the PS3 as a whole) is just such a huge part of my past, that I really wish these gems weren't forgotten so quickly. I'm in love with Horizon as a franchise, but I've never forgotten where Guerilla started and it's nice to see someone as large as you, give it the spotlight that it deserves.
If you enjoy doing these videos enough, I really hope you are looking to do more like this in the future because a large majority of today's audience, has no idea what they missed out on. The Playstation platform has had so many peak moments in it's time that I feel like, as we already know, Sony just doesn't care enough to preserve and so this is really all we have to relive those moments. So I appreciate you taking the time to do the research and work and get this information out to your audience in a meaningful, and hopefully impactful, way.
Big shoutout to the RPCS3 devs for allowing our history to live on into the future.
Killzone 2 is where it's at for me. Alot of hours in that game. Nostalgia hitting hard!!..if i could go back to that time period for just a day I'd do it in a heartbeat
Killzone 2 was definitely way ahead of its time graphically, the game itself was just pretty decent. Killzone 3 really improved the gameplay mechanics and it also had a very underrated multiplayer experience. Guerrilla really needs to revive this series
i'll never forget how floored i was when i first played Killzone 3 and saw the graphics. it was the coolest, most visceral gaming experience i had ever had at the time.
This was personally my favorite franchise for a while since KZ3. Hope they revisit the series since they’re going to focusing on making live-services games.
The physical weight you feel in your character when moving felt so good in kz2. I still think back to the level on the train and how good the tarp flying off the crates looked. Superb scenes in that game. The level at the bridge was awesome as well.
This game was a big part of my childhood, I grew up on PS3 and envied my friends for having the ability to play Halo on Xbox so I had to "get by" with games like these. Thought it was AMAZING back in the day and replayed it a million times lol
So awesome to see it running at such high FPS
My brother xbox had halo we had killzone which was amazing.
This was my favorite shooter back in the day. Amazing graphics & the best multiplayer modes. No other game seems to have to created a mode like Killzone 3 where you could play almost every game mode in the same map back to back without any stop in gameplay. Also that sound when you get a kill... Chef's kiss!
I loved this series. The fact that this studio dropped it for the game they're making now, brings tears to my eyes :(
This had to be one of the best PS3 multiplayer moments ever. You just had to be there
Damn right
The game just proves how powerful the Cell processor was. Can’t believe the Gorilla was able to do that with half a gigabyte of RAM.
Killzone on PS Vita still looks amazing to this day. They did amazing work on their games.
Killzone 3s melee combat was also on another level, being able to smash them into walls and jam your thumps into there eyes, such a great melee system, as well as everything else that you mentioned
ISA medic for multiplayer is to this day my favorite iteration of a medic.
Makes me so happy to see this game on your channel, loved KZ2/3 as a kid, always sat and watched my dad playing it whenever I wasn't on
I'll never forget forcing myself to beat KZ2 on Elite difficulty. The most brutal but fun experience I've had in gaming. I pray for a remaster or a good sequel one day
Quick correction, deferred rendering was first used by Crysis 2. The original Crysis only uses forward rendering. You can easily verify that by looking at the artifacts transparent surfaces cause in Crysis 2
I loved Killzone 2 and 3 back in the day. The multilayer in Killzone 2 was so much fun.
I would love to have the killzone saga on PC
KZ is one of my favorite universes behind Warhammer 40,000. Excellent video!
you should also play killzone 2. the battles and campaing of that game were on another level, the only downside it had was the movement
the trilogy needs a remaster for PS5 and PC
Yeah but PC only gets them 3 years after
@@danhobart4009 Bruh
I loved all of the Killzones.. even the one on the PSP. After all these years. The Helghast helmet from the special edition is still in my livingroom (it's moved from our appartement, to the house we actually live in now)
Man Killzone 2 was brilliant for it's time
I loved all of the Killzone games and would love to try them on PC! I remember how intense & fun Killzone 2's multiplayer was. I was obsessed with it at the time that I even screen printed a T-shirt with the Marksman Class logo. Thos games were truly ahead of their time!
Kill zone 3 was just amazing. The story, the gameplay. It was this and BF3 that made my teens
One of my favourite franchises! Wish it came back
Straight from the thumbnail I knew what game you would be talking about today!
Killzone 3 was my favorite of all five games I've played, and they've had huge impacts on my preferences for aesthetics and gameplay in shooters. Killzone: SF - what you referred to as KZ4 in the video - is definitely more of a tech demo compared to the three main-line games before it.
It's great to see it running this well, but when playing games like DUST 514 or PS3's version of Battlefield 4, the performance didn't seem so bad at all back then. I'd really love to see Guerilla go back to Killzone in the future.
The Snow level in Killzone 3 still has probably the best graphics i have ever seen in a first person shooter
I played this game SO MUCH! I loved the multiplayer, it was so much fun. The sounds are so nostalgic, the little bleeps are so good.
The gameplay of Killzone 2 in my opinion is the best for a FPS game and the multiplayer was amazing, you will not find a better FPS now with the most pleasure feeling of shooting a LMG than KZ2.
Would be nice to point out Guerilla also managed to squeeze a modified version of the KZ3 engine into the portable Mercenaries title on the PSVita. Making it the 4th System Guerilla would push the envelope on.
Still, I find KZ2 to look better in some instances as it would also render dynamic shadows based on muzzle flash from your gun. That effect was sadly lost in KZ3.
Killzone 2 feels like it came out in a different lifetime. I still remember the release hype, and the game actually lived up to it! It's multiplayer was slower and chunkier but I loved how everything felt heavy, like soldiers were steamrollers.
Man me and my dad played through this campaign it was so damn fun I’ll never forget finding the glitches to get out of the map and stuff in multiplayer good times.
It feels like it was just yesterday that I was playing this game for the first time, and now it's been 12 years! It's a nostalgic experience to reminisce about everything this game brought.
It makes me feel old, I was 14-16 when I first played the game, like how many 12 years we have in our lives
KZ3 was one of the fist games I bought for my ps3 back in the time, loved the campaign and played hundred hours of the multiplayer, was even my second platinum of my life, I really miss this type of games, just pick and play, without a massive open world filled with quests and collectables, wish this franchise come back, at least a remaster
I just beat this game and i honestly kept questioning myself how this game looks better than some games made today in certain aspects.its crazy how good it looks till this day.my only drawback was the weight and not being able to turn on a dime.
Killzone 3 and all the Killzones should be there in Steam, I will buy it
Playing Killzome 2 for the first time was an unforgettable experience. Like playing God of War 3, or Uncharted 2… or Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64…
Some games just felt like eye openers.
The PS3 really had an incredible library of games. I remember watching the first cutscene of Killzone 2 back in 2008. The graphics absolutely blew my mind.
I used to spend hours playing co op against bots with my cousins in Killzone 1. One of my gaming core memories for sure.
Only played Killzone 3 in its multi-player beta (it was great), but I did play Killzone Shadowfall. Shadowfall's multiplayer was DIVINE, nothing was like it at the time and the setting was so great. Loved the pacing of the game and how smooth animations were. Always been a bit miffed that Guerilla games have been focusing on a single player series. Would love a new Killzone game on PC.
I remember when i played Killzone 1 on PS2 and i was blown away at the time. Never saw such a good looking fps before, i loved the action too. Never played KZ 2 and 3 though.
Thanks for reviewing the game, I would just like to mention a few things. Killzone 3 runs 90-95% solid smooth 30FPS on our old PS3, much smoother than Killzone 2. Furthermore, the 720p is an issue on a computer monitor, but very much less on a decent enough TV which applies sharpening effects whilst you are sitting 5m away.
Recently, after I struggled with getting Killzone 3 to run on the mentioned PC emulator I reverted back to dusting off our older PS3 console and connected it to our 4K TV and it looks and runs much better; one reason being 4K is exactly 9 times the multiple of 720p, therefore perfect upscaling and the sharpening of the TV takes away the blurry bi-cubic filtering you are left with on a computer monitor.
Last note, Killzone 3 had near perfect multithreading capabilities for the PS3 (which had at least 6 usable slave cores for the game, not to mention the main SMT core) but porting to PC adds a secondary graphics API loop-hole the emulator developers have to jump through which are on top of that affected by Nvidia or AMD's own DirectX11 driver.
Killzone 2 for me still the best looking game of all the killzone games. It just had the right atmosphere and realistic gunplay.
I remember playing this game in 3D on the PS3. Yes, that's right, this game was 3D TV compatible and it was awesome!
Crazy you made a video of Kill Zone 3 was actually think of going back and play this game a few nights ago. And I enjoyed Kill Zone 2 as well. Lol
KZ 3 still one of the most multiplayer shooter games I’ve ever played. Brings a lot of memories back. Still have my copy and console.
4:51 TFW 5800x3d and a 3080ti is mid tier now...
Ah what great memories playing this game to absolute death.
That PS2/PS3 era was just incredible.
I love what GG are doing with the Horizon series, but i do hope we get to revisit Killzone again some time.
Killzone & BLACK, both bring amazing memories of a time in gaming thats lost.
I knew the name of the game just from the thumbnail. Killzone 2 and 3 are truly a hidden gems for any fps fan.
Back in the day PlayStation still had mega exclusives, I remember Killzone being one, I think people who didn't play it underrated it.
WipeOut, Uncharted, Little Big Planet, Rachet & Clank, Motorstorm, Resistance and Infamous were probably the other PS3-4 games I played around this time too, good times
I'm glad Killzone is finally getting some well deserved love. I remember playing this game a bunch back in grade school. But I'm surprised you didn't go into the lore or story of the game. I've always thought the Killzone had a very interesting setting and a great aesthetic!
Also, Killzone 3 had a multiplayer mode which you could have touched on. I'd be interested to see how that would have held up...
It does hold up very well (played through it again 2-3 years back). Also Killzone Shadow Fall looks stunning still, especially at 60fps on PS5 - hard to believe its a decade old game!
Bro killzone allways had the most satisfying punchy feeling gunplay to me.. the whole vibe was just awesome. Started with KZ1 as a kid.
It's so sad to see Killzone die. I remember when I got my copy of Killzone 2 on new year in about 2011-2012. It was a little unfair in some places, but overall it was so great to play this back in a day. Though I think Mercenaries will be my favorite. Not only it is awesome game, it's also a great game for Vita. And multiplayer in it was great.
You should also revisit the Resistance franchise
I had a blast with both games
Brought some fun memories with my older brother playing co op during summer.
I played Killzone 2 and enjoyed the game a lot. I had a blast playing Killzone 3 on PlayStation 3 with the Move Gun. I almost beat the entire game with the Move Gun until I ran into a area where I was stuck with low health and always loaded back into the game with low health so I couldn't beat the next checkpoint in the game. I enjoy the game when i played back then. Was a huge treat to play the game at its peak with that exclusive Move Gun accessory.
I pray we see a Killzone Collection one day. Games were a lot of fun.
Killzone 3 was one of my favourite games of the PS3 era, I actual went back and got the platinum trophy back in late 2021. Lol I actually got the remaining co-op trophies by plugging in my PS5 controller into my PS3 along with using a regular PS3 controller and completed the required trophies for the plat
The battles felt so atmospheric, the movement not as heavy as 2 but still weighty in good way and it looked incredible to me but it would sometimes make me feel sick which I suppose was the uneven framerate. I would LOVE to play it at 60hz.
This is an incredible tech rundown and analysis, bravo.
This game still probably still hold my personal record for time played on a single game. this was absolutely great for it time.
KILLZONE wasn't just a chidlhood game or some random shooter lost in the past, It was literally an underrated masterpiece of gaming. With all the key ingredients tied to it.
The sound design in this game was so good. Operations and Warzone modes were also awesome since they had all kinds of objective modes in one single match.
Killzone series has such an awesome dopamine filled visual style and satisfyingly evil enemy type. I also really enjoyed the 1st resistance game, it didn't have any time based healing mechs so you had to find med packs like so many other early fps games.
This game was absolutely amazing. The weight the weapons felt like they had. The raspy gunfire sounds effects, crisp reloads, damage balancing, the visuals, absolute masterpiece and I still miss the multiplayer to this day
Killzone 2&3 were honestly amazing games and had amazing Multiplayer really do miss the series
Killzone 2 and 3 had ray tracing before ray tracing was a thing. It's insane how they achieved such a feat on the PS3.
It's so great that this game didn't face that "nostalgia glasses" effect, and it really does look as good as I remember. Maybe even better.
Went back through 2 and 3 myself quite recently and it truly is mind blowing how the two hold up to this day still
2 in particular pushed the benchmark for an FPS on console back at release and I still don't think it got the love it should have
Absolute technical powerhouse of a game and not just visually
Killzone 3 had one of the best multiplayer game modes of all time IMO. I think it was called "warzone" but it was 7 mini games in one match. King of the hill, TDM, Kill the VIP, Search and Destroy, and it flipped between which team had the objective for S/D and VIP. You won the match by winning the most minigames, and it made you play different areas of the map instead of just staying in the same lane the whole time. Its a formula i think would still work extremely well today, it was just a bit of an obscure game that didnt get the recognition it deserved.
I remember Killzone 2 being my introduction to the PS3 when it first came out & the graphics straight blowing my mind; Mind you, i was 13 when this came out (26 now) & at the time
i was still playing the OG Xbox, PS2 & PS1 & was planning to get the 360 because Dead Rising wasnt on PS3 ( I wouldn't get a ps3 until i was 19 ).
I can still remember the day my brother in law booted Killzone 2 up while i was walking by talking mad ish about the PS3 (I was in middle school during the start & peak of the 2nd generation console wars... i was loyal to my Xbox brethren) to then becoming glued to the TV after glancing at the screen just for a second.
A few years ago i remembered the killzone franchise after watching a video on the failure their last 2 entries were; I remembered the graphics being comparable to modern games & decided to
revisit them to see if the game really did look as good as i remembered or was just another case of every single game as a child looking super realistic & high definition but in reality, looked like a blurry version of Minecraft. So i turned on the PS4, bought Killzone 2 on the Playstation store, booted it up & was floored of how good it looked even compared to the modern era.
To you younger gamers, trust me when i say that this game was unrivaled graphically during its release (2009) & the only other game that could stand toe to toe & win, was Crisis (2007) & crisis 2 (2011). Please, if you haven't played a Killzone game, go buy Killzone 2, 3 & Shadow Fall ( If you had to choose 1, get 2) not for the riveting story & well written characters, but for the amazing graphics, game/gunplay & the simple but fun multiplayer.
IDK HOW Guerrilla Games made this & the other Killzones looks so good that new gamers would confuse this as being new... but they need to come back, teach the devs at these
AAA studios & show them how its done.
Killzone is underrated & needs a much needed, well loved & polished reboot.
You can't buy killzone 2 on ps4 🧐 last time I checked ps3 isn't backwards compatible.
Killzone 2 and it’s multiplayer where excellent. I still wonder why no big name military fps has tried to do a 1st person cover system. The game was dope
It's like "Black" for PS2. That game looked so much ahead of time.
Levelcap noticing killzone's existence gave me life
all these old games looked good, and gritty
A PC Killzone trilogy remaster wouldn't be a bad idea at the right price range. Another old game series that would be interesting would be "Resistance"👍
Resistance 2 was awesome. I loved the 8 player co op.
This is one of those series that I purchased, but is still in my backlog. I may have to move it to my frontlog after watching this!
This video is a good example of how levels used to be designed vs. just creating an open world with no real tension or driving force besides exploration. I like both playstyles, but we mainly only get open world these days...
I remember loving Killzone 3's multiplayer. I just loved the cinematic intermissions between objectives.
It felt rewarding to be a top fragger as you get a spot in the cutscene😅
@@AchillesofOblivion hell yes!
Amazing video Charlie!
I still hope a day comes when Guerrilla returns back to the killzone franchise! It's still in my to ten!
I remember playing Killzone 2 back in the day. one of the best multiplayer experiences Ive ever had. it was awesome. Killzone 3 faded a bit from my memory though
Fun fact, Killzone 3 is one of the few games on PS3 that utilized every one of the Cell Processor's SPEs for graphics workload, meaning Killzone 3 here is an example of the PS3 running at its "full strength". It truly was and is a beautiful game, along with it's predecessor.
Killzone 2 is in my top 15 of all time
Out of all the games that need a remaster.. lets be real here
KillZone 2 was and will always be the better Killzone game of them all. Killzone 2 hard to believe was the first game to ever use in a first-person shooter to have the slide mechanic, plus the multiplayer battle grounds were the Best maps ever made at the time for any other game on the PlayStation console.
Played it again a month ago on ps3 and it's still an impressive game, it looks great and it's fun to play.
It was amazing playing Killzone in 3D back in the days. Really enjoyed it!