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sony are terified of halo 2 cause poeple will buy xbox just so they can get halo 2, so sony are geting a game called killzone they hope it will be a halo beater ps 2 only
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It may be decent - but come on, how many times have we heard 'Halo beater' only to be greeted by another above-average blaster? I'm sure the same was said about FireWarrior - even though it was good fun, it's no more than an average FPS.
What exactly does Killzone offer that every other FPS doesn't? I fail to see how I should get excited about a game just because it's been dubbed as a Halo beater - until I really see some substance I fail to see what it's trying to offer.
Halo wasn't the classic it's made out to be - but come on, there aren't many FPS's better than it at the moment, the most promising of which are far, far from release - Doom 3, Half Life 2, Geist.
The difference between those three and Killzone? They're trying to bring something to the FPS genre instead of just adding to it.
What exactly does Killzone offer that every other FPS doesn't? I fail to see how I should get excited about a game just because it's been dubbed as a Halo beater - until I really see some substance I fail to see what it's trying to offer.
Halo wasn't the classic it's made out to be - but come on, there aren't many FPS's better than it at the moment, the most promising of which are far, far from release - Doom 3, Half Life 2, Geist.
The difference between those three and Killzone? They're trying to bring something to the FPS genre instead of just adding to it.
I've gotta laugh at the way you rank Geist alongside Doom 3 and Halflife 2.
Yeah, that's true.
Still, it's not impossible for it to surprise us all. We don't exactly have masses of information on it to draw proper conclusions.
When's it going to be released?
Still, it's not impossible for it to surprise us all. We don't exactly have masses of information on it to draw proper conclusions.
When's it going to be released?
Like I said - it's an FPS that promises to be a little different to every other one on the market. It could be complete balls, but other than the concept we know very little about it - but from that concept it certainly sounds promising.
But Half Life 2 is easily going to be the FPS to watch out for. Even before it's released you just know its going to blow Halo 1 & 2 out of the water.
Perhaps we'll finally have an FPS worthy of being a Goldeneye beater, as I can certainly see myself playing it for some time if it has Live.
Perhaps we'll finally have an FPS worthy of being a Goldeneye beater, as I can certainly see myself playing it for some time if it has Live.
Tiltawhirl wrote:
> I've gotta laugh at the way you rank Geist alongside Doom 3 and
> Halflife 2.
To be honest, while Half-Life 2 looks to be leagues ahead of anything else, I'm looking forward to Geist a lot more than Doom 3.
Doom 3 strikes me as just an atmospheric/gun-everything-you-see FPS with demonic baddies. To put it simply, from what I've seen, it's boring. Geist excites me because it's from Nintendo. I want to see what they do with it. I want to see how this posession idea works, how it can be used to solve puzzles, etc. Information is scarce, but I can't say I'm not excited about it.
> I've gotta laugh at the way you rank Geist alongside Doom 3 and
> Halflife 2.
To be honest, while Half-Life 2 looks to be leagues ahead of anything else, I'm looking forward to Geist a lot more than Doom 3.
Doom 3 strikes me as just an atmospheric/gun-everything-you-see FPS with demonic baddies. To put it simply, from what I've seen, it's boring. Geist excites me because it's from Nintendo. I want to see what they do with it. I want to see how this posession idea works, how it can be used to solve puzzles, etc. Information is scarce, but I can't say I'm not excited about it.
I love the Doom games, and an atmospheric blast-everything FPS is exactly what you should expect from them.
Co-Op on the GBA version a work of genius.
Co-Op on the GBA version a work of genius.
Mav wrote:
> >
> To be honest, while Half-Life 2 looks to be leagues ahead of anything
> else, I'm looking forward to Geist a lot more than Doom 3.
>
> Doom 3 strikes me as just an atmospheric/gun-everything-you-see FPS
> with demonic baddies. To put it simply, from what I've seen, it's
> boring. Geist excites me because it's from Nintendo. I want to
> see what they do with it. I want to see how this posession idea
> works, how it can be used to solve puzzles, etc. Information is
> scarce, but I can't say I'm not excited about it.
Exactly. Half-Life 2 looks just stupidly stupdily incredible. Doom 3, graphics wise, is the same. Gameplay, it looks to be far inferior to Geist, which actually appears to have some invention put into it (and no 'Oh but it was on Messiah first blah) - Doom 3 looks gorgeous, and will probably be great fun. But Geist interests me far more.
> >
> To be honest, while Half-Life 2 looks to be leagues ahead of anything
> else, I'm looking forward to Geist a lot more than Doom 3.
>
> Doom 3 strikes me as just an atmospheric/gun-everything-you-see FPS
> with demonic baddies. To put it simply, from what I've seen, it's
> boring. Geist excites me because it's from Nintendo. I want to
> see what they do with it. I want to see how this posession idea
> works, how it can be used to solve puzzles, etc. Information is
> scarce, but I can't say I'm not excited about it.
Exactly. Half-Life 2 looks just stupidly stupdily incredible. Doom 3, graphics wise, is the same. Gameplay, it looks to be far inferior to Geist, which actually appears to have some invention put into it (and no 'Oh but it was on Messiah first blah) - Doom 3 looks gorgeous, and will probably be great fun. But Geist interests me far more.
How much have we actually seen of Geist?
A very early build that looked terrible, sure it might have a few good ideas but so far other than ideas, there's very little known about the game. If it wasn't being published by Nintendo you wouldn't give it a second look.
Don't give me that "but it's a Nintendo game". It's being made by n-space who made Reign of Fire which was sodding awful.
A very early build that looked terrible, sure it might have a few good ideas but so far other than ideas, there's very little known about the game. If it wasn't being published by Nintendo you wouldn't give it a second look.
Don't give me that "but it's a Nintendo game". It's being made by n-space who made Reign of Fire which was sodding awful.
N-Space didn't make Reign of Fire, they made Mary Kate & Ashley, so get your facts straight! I think.. Still, Nintendo are watching over it.
And no, please look at Doom 3 and Geist next to each other. True, one is from an established developer, looks (aesthetically) just god-like, and will probably be great. The other is a bit of an unknown, but to me and Mav it seems, it's far more interesting, because it appears to have something interesting in it rather than a traditional run and gun FPS, no matter how good looking and atmospheric Doom 3 is. E3 will say more...
And no, please look at Doom 3 and Geist next to each other. True, one is from an established developer, looks (aesthetically) just god-like, and will probably be great. The other is a bit of an unknown, but to me and Mav it seems, it's far more interesting, because it appears to have something interesting in it rather than a traditional run and gun FPS, no matter how good looking and atmospheric Doom 3 is. E3 will say more...
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