Killzone: Shadow Fall (PlayStation 4)

I've been a Killzone fan since the first one was announced circa summer 2003. Back then I was dying of Halo 2 anticipation, and the European press dubbing the newly announced Killzone a "Halo killer" instantly grabbed my attention. The moment I laid eyes on the first preview screenshots, the striking visual design hooked me and I kept a close eye on it from then on. A little over a year later it was in my hands. It clearly bit off more than the PS2 could chew and the game play suffered for it, the notion of it being a "Halo killer" was laughable. However I somehow managed to enjoy it enough to play through the campaign four times (once as each character) and a few times on top of that just because. Rather than running and gunning as a super soldier army-of-one, it pit you as a four-man strike team behind enemy lines on a secret mission. Killzone 2 outdid the first game in almost every way and is easily the top Playstation exclusive FPS, period. It played more like a classic WW2 game, with two large armies duking it out one battle field at a time... but in a surreal futuristic setting. Killzone 3 felt somewhat like a Killzone 2 expansion pack. It fell short in a few ways, most notably length. It did at least introduce some new environments, and it generally looked great. I enjoyed it a lot, while it lasted.Which brings us to Killzone Shadow Fall. Let's get the most obvious thing out of the way first: This game is a dazzling graphics showcase. Sweet, sweet eye candy. Even some hardcore PC gamers are able to admit this. Out of all of the next gen games I've seen this year, this is the one that screams "NEXT GEN" the loudest. It doesn't run at 60fps all the time, but it sure seems close to it a lot of the time. It certainly runs at more than 30, no doubt about that.The game play has changed, yet it still feels like Killzone to me. The pendulum has swung back from the "WW2 in teh future vs. the Space Nazis" and closer to the feel of the original Killzone. It's a futuristic cold war secret agent mission, where you're a one-man infiltration unit using some fancy gadgets. There are a few big battle set pieces where you're fighting along side a squad of allies, but they're few and far between. There are a few issues with the designers being typically stingy and thoughtless with checkpoints, and there's a particular section towards the end of the game that is one of the most frustrating sequences I've played through in many, many years. I have honest serious doubts that they even showed it to play testers, because if they had I simply cannot fathom how they could have approved it to be in the game. I'm not kidding, it made me fantasize about kidnapping and torturing some Guerrilla Games staff so that I could cause them the same amount of pain they caused me. (EDIT: this section was patched several weeks after the US launch, just in time for the EU launch... lucky bastards.) Still, a few rough bits aside, it's a very good single player campaign that, while very different, is on par with Killzone 2 in terms of length (about 10 hours, if you're not some freak who plays as if you're being judged on time) and fun. Even the aforementioned rage-inducing free fall sequence wasn't bad enough to merit taking off a whole star.Seriously, I would love for anyone to come up with any Playstation launch title since the console debuted in 1995 that's as strong as this one. I honestly can't think of any.

I don't play shooter campaigns, only the MP so after I got my PS4 I promptly inserted KZ disc and hopped onto multiplayer.Following is my impression. So ya this review is for MULTIPLAYER ONLY.* 60 FPS gameplay. Killzone SF Multiplayer has 60 FPS gameplay almost all the time.Sometimes the framerate dips below slightly for the smallest of intervals but its very hard to tell.* Eye popping graphics - Sometimes in the middle of my gameplay I would literally stop and gape at howbeautiful the graphics look. Smoke comes out of gun after I spray it, particles explode from surface as bullets shatter.Realtime lighting and shadows illuminate and darken surfaces in a natural way.The best part is this is not mere eye candy as the incredible graphics mean you can always spot enemies as they shoot at youand no death feels cheap.* No AUTO AIMBecause of 60 fps and 1080 graphics there is no auto aim because you don't need it. This means you get a lotof satisfaction out of shooting and it never feels cheap. Also the dual shock is so responsive that it helps in achieving this.* Maps. The maps are a lot of fun. Sometimes in some shooters the map sizes would be much larger for the number of players.So you would spend many agonizing minutes searching for something to shoot, only to be gunned down by a camper that you don't even see.No such thing in these maps, they are just the right size for 24 players and straight forward, so learning them is easyand it also means you start getting competitive much faster.* NO CAMPING: Because the maps are so good, it means that Shadowfall is very similar to Killzone 2 and there is no camping at all.Also they do not have any overpowered invisible sniper class this time (thank god)* Return of the spawn beacon. Killzone 2 multiplayer had this awesome feature that one could play with a class having theability to activate a spawn beacon at ANY point on the map. This meant that really good players could turn around an entire matchby intelligent position of spawn beacons. This awesome feature returns in Killzone SF.* NO overpowered vehicles: Everytime I see vehicles in a infantry shooter I goran inside. This is because I am a huge fanof classic gunplay and shooting mechanics, and it all goes out of the window if you have a single player who is a good pilotor vehicle driver. Once someone starts using that overpowered vehicle properly, every other player is either dying or just taken up perma camping,in other words the whole game goes for a toss.* Last but not least, the amazing feature of custom warzones.This means that anyone can create a Multiplayer game by tweakinga ton of parameters from game modes, victory conditions, available classes, weapons even the number of lives!Any player logging in can then take their time browsing through these warzones and choose the one they want to play and join!This might not seem big but the convenience of picking and choosing what game session you want to play instead of relying on the dumb ai to dump you into one is awesome!

My favourite game

Lo compré cuando bajó a 250 pesos mexicanos junto con otros juegos y todos llegaron bastante bien, hubo uno que otro retraso en paqueteria pero no es problema de Amazon. llegó bien, en estado físico sin problemas, nuevos y cerrados, definitivamente conviene más comprar los juegos con Amazon, no será el último que les compre.En cuanto al juego, los gráficos no son muy buenos y es algo lenta la historia, fue de los primeros juegos de PS4 pero te sirve sólo para hacer colección.Saludos...

First time ordering from Amazon and must say that the due date was about 3 days earlier than expected. The game is fun and well worth at the time $20. I wouldn't recommend buying it at $40+ unless you're a Killzone fan. Single player is meh, online it lots of fun. Game looks beautiful in 90% of the areas, and the lighting is top notch.

Absolutely loved every minute of this game. Looks stunning, playing great, awesome atmosphere. This is an awesome introduction into the world of the new generation of console.

this game is a lot of fun and looks great. the multiplayer is also a lot of fun with friends. With some added DLC coming down the road i think this is a game i will be going back to over and over again.