Killzone 2

[Streeteh]

Originally Posted by Psymonkee

Do you need to have played the first?

No, but if it pleases you a small summation of the original game follows:

An oppressed, formerly wealthy colony, the occupants of which are called nazi... oh sorry i mean Helghasts invade a wealthy and powerful planet in order to regain their former status. You play a dude who is defending said planet, you manage to kick their asses and kill one of their leaders and then they flee back to their home planet.

In Killzone 2 you take the fight to them and invade their planet.

All pretty simple tbh

[NokkonWud]

So it makes you no better than them then?

[Streeteh]

Originally Posted by NokkonWud

So it makes you no better than them then?

Pretty much yeah, in fact i would say the people you play as are actually worse. See the Helghast were originally a company called Helgan that legitimately bought planets from the government when humans began colonizing other solar systems. The govt was broke and needed the cash to get more exploration ships out there and find more mineral rich planets and this deal would give them the funds they needed.

The Helgan company then began to flourish on the two planets it had bought, one of which had a harsh climate but shed loads of minerals and was ideally placed to be a trading post; something Helgans rightly charged people for the privilege to use. The second planet was much nicer and is where the majority of the Helgans actually lived while reaping the beneifits of the harsher planet.

However, the govt, still suffering to some extent became jealous of the Helgans successes, invaded and stole the nice planet, siezed all their wealth and then stuck them all on the harsh planet. Over thousands of years the Helgans evolved to adapt to the harsh climate of their now-home planet. After a while, a guy was born who eventually became their leader, united the people and brought them together under one banner. To leave their past behind he renamed their race the Helghast and set about reclaiming the planet which was once theirs. As stated however, they failed and now their only home planet is being invaded by the very people that forced them to live there.

Pretty decent back story for a shooter imo. Would be interesting to see a sequel where you actually played as the Helghast, god knows both sides are as bad as the other.

[Streeteh]

Just a quick post, mainly for Nokkon. Guerilla Games released a patch yesterday that applied the multiplayer control 'feel' into the single player game. The multiplayer controls are much faster and more responsive, having played the single player a bit with these new controls (trying to find all the intel) it is much easier to aim accurately.

Rather annoying really as i completed the game on the hardest difficulty only an hour before this patch was released. Would have been a bit easier had i waited.

It is rumoured a patch will be released for the demo too to demonstrate the modified control scheme to those who were deterred originally.

[NokkonWud]

That's good. Honestly makes me wonder who they get to games test these things!