Disclaimer: Nothing should be taken seriously in this article
Eighteen years ago, gaming was an entirely different experience. Of course, back then I was 4 years old, played with an upside down controller and had just started to truly gain control of my motor skills. Yet it seems like things have wound down a path of simplicity and un-originality. It’s difficult to compare games from NES, Genesis, and SNES to the current generation but if you consider the amount of effort and dedication it took to complete a gameor start to have nightmares about the impossible ones, (Maximum Carnage, Battletoads, Super Ghouls ‘n Ghosts) I find it disappointing that there aren‘t many games that are that challenging anymore; but most of all I haven’t seen any new ideas or anything in a video game for a long time.
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"I'm sure I saw that sniper round here somewhere."
Since the dawn of PS3, one of the most frequent phrases uttered by the millions of SONY supporters was ‘Killzone 2 is gonna rock’ and rock it did but here’s the thing. Killzone 2 is one of, if not the, most critically acclaimed games of 2009. So of course, you get the millions of fanboys, or maybe just Killzone fans, immediately hailing it as gaming perfection. If I’m honest for the first ten hours, I thought it was perfect too. Then I finally said, you’re a critic Jack stop loving it so much.
So then I started replaying the game to find faults, and it wasn’t very hard. This article/re-review will look at things you perhaps missed, or more likely deny. As I write this I’m struggling on what I should do, do another review of a game long enough past or just list off my complaints in the style of a writer in anguish…I’ll go with the review.
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