Big KZ fan here. I fell in love with the series with the release of Killzone 2. I was surprised with how good it was. Ever since KZ2 i became interested on KZ only for the multiplayer.
We all seen the low ratings KZ:SF has gotten. At first i couldn't believe it, but now i see that they aren't far off. A lot of people, including review sites, play KZ only for the story mode. The story mode is just not good. KZ2 was a more challenging, dark, bloody, hip fire game where you kill and kill. KZ:SF in the other hand is more of a stealth game where you play solo, knifing people from the back, and aiming down the sights to kill an enemy 3 feet away. This just isn't what Killzone is supposed to be, KZ is about war, and running and gunning!
I don't mind a good stealth game. I enjoyed games like Deus Ex, but with the terrible AI KZ:SF has, stealth just doesn't work. On one of the levels i'm on the top floor silent, the guy downstairs hits a box and the sound he made becomes my sound, so he comes up searching for me. Sometimes guards see you, someone they are blind... the AI is just plain bad.
Graphics! We like to talk about KZ graphics a lot. KZ on PS3 really pushed the console. SF in the other hand is a day 1 launch game that looks great, but does not push the PS4 to its max. Also the frame rate not very stable, but its a good frame rate. PS4 can still do a lot better.
Oh my god, that voice acting! Horrible. Only the Helghast girl sounds good in this game. All the other voice actors sound so bad. Guns sound decent i guess, nothing special.
Well, the single player is clearly not good, the worst of any KZ game, now lets move on to the more important Multiplayer. Is it good? I really don't know what to say. It's clearly nowhere near as good as KZ2.
KZ:SF was rushed to release along with the PS4. Because of this the game has nearly no online features, like nothing! Where is the clan system? Spectator mode? Main Leaderboard? Rank badges? Real server list? Where is anything? At KZ2, that is where its at! Instead we get a terrible Guerrilla Games created custom warzone and some user created warzones GG picks. I don't want GG to pick my games, i want to create my own like on KZ2!
Its all about DLC now. Milk Milk. Release unfinished game and then charge for everything else. I wouldn't mind if they only charge for silly stuff like skins, spotlight moves, co op... but they want to charge for the missing classes, guns, abilities! This has taken pathetic to another level. The future of gaming guys lol.
I really love KZ2, that game was a miracle... that hip fire. Hey what happen to hip fire? KZ:SF is ADS COD style. The only effective way to aim is ADS from short, medium, and long. All FPS i played in my life are hip fire, Americas Army, KZ2, KZ3, HL2DM, hell even Red Faction and everything else. Now KZ has turned into another ADS game, the future of FPS games! Having to ADS before i shoot has got to be the most retarded thing GG has ever done. ADS should be only for long range! Now gunfights are so static. The only thing you can hip fire is the crazy overpowered shotguns.
One of the things that made KZ2 so special was the hit detection. You can really feel how you are putting bullets into someone, the shaking of their body when getting hit and the blood... so amazing. I could tell how many bullets i put into someone, knowing if i need 1 more to get the kill or more. But ever since Failzone 3, its gone! I see no reaction on players bodies when i smash them with bullets, and the hit detection makes no sense! This is the same with KZ:SF. This is just pathetic. I want a bloody game like KZ2, with good hit detection, and a feeling that i'm killing someone! This may sound brutal, but i like it, and this is what KZ2 was. Beast!
Perks and more perks. What ever happen to the days where FPS games were clean gun on gun. Now we have so much magic stuff, stun blast! Boom you blinded, you can't see anything, boom! Shield! Boom! Boost! Boom! Noob tube! What the freaking hell? I admit KZ2 had some dumb perks as well, but KZ2 had people create public rooms and this is why i always found 'clean' rooms to player like M4 rooms. On KZSF people just play GG created warzone with everything enabled and it's full of garbage! Noobtubes, breacher! Shields! Boooost!!!!!!!!!
Another thing they messed up with is the melee system. On KZ3 they created the scripted 1 hit melee animation. It's on SF as well. This is just sad. KZ2 had a better manual 2 hit melee system... why GG, why do you downgrade everything?
On to something good! This is the only free aim online console shooter i have ever played! No AIM ASSIST. This my friends is HUGE. Without this i don't play this game! Best aiming of any KZ game ever. When i mean aiming i'm not talking about the ADS, i mean how its fully free and is so perfect with the dualshock 4. KZ2 had aim assist, it was so low you almost don't feel it, it also has worse dualshock 3 analog control. KZSF takes control to a new level! Aiming perfected with dualshock!
I mention before how GG makes our public games. We can make them too, but since there isn't a server list like KZ2 people just play the main page GG created garbage. But KZSF has the best custom games in gaming history! KZSF you can customize everything! Literally everything! This is very welcomed for competitive players, shame public players do not experience the real KZSF!
I'm happy to have played KZSF though. I beat pretty much all top clans such as 7s, WAR, iD, HsM*, eMp, SyN, FnC, LE, ect. I won the KZ world challenge and made it to the pre clan system final were the other team dodge us! I had fun, but the KZ series is officially dead for me. I saw it coming, COD has killed it. We went from seeing point pop ups on KZ3 to ADS gameplay on KZ:SF. Long live KILLZONE 2, the only best KZ game. GG and KZ, RIP?
EDIT: The original score i gave KZSF was 7.6. KZSF was rushed launch game that received a major transformation with patches in the online. Clan system, server connection stats, in game kill scoreboard, fixed weapons (sickle, shotgun pistol), and less blur. These fixes did wonders to the multiplayer mode. THE BEST COMPETITIVE ONLINE SHOOTER ON PS4, is not better than KZ2.
8.7