There are also some wicked smaller touches, like the amazing reflection effect in the sniper rifle scope when it’s not in use, or the way you can see Lucas’ shadow. The facial animation is also magnificent, and this is the beginning of the generation – the future’s looking very good indeed. It’s not just that the art is gorgeous, the draw distance is often massive, and an insane number of things bustle about on screen at once. When it wants to be, Killzone is absolutely astounding visually – one of those games that passersby will stop in their tracks to gawp at. Vekta in the year 2390 is a gleaming glass, steel and greenery-filled paradise, and the PlayStation 4 renders its lavish colours and bustling hillside city beautifully. The first thing most will do upon booting Killzone is pick their jaw up off the floor. The player is Lucas Keller, a top ISA Shadow Marshal with a very personal reason to despise the Helghast, until a certain encounter has him somewhat questioning things – when he's not praising god and passing the ammo, of course. Of course, the truce between the two slightly distinct species of human is surface-level only, and it’s not long before under-the-table shin-kicking devolves into a mutual across-the-table stabathon. There is even a city divided by an enormous wall to go along with the Helghast’s Nazi-biting sartorial style. A billion were killed, the planet rendered uninhabitable, and a hefty karmic debt forged, so the ISA decide to gift the surviving Helghast half of Vekta, displacing many of its own people and setting up a futuristic Cold War-type scenario in the process. ![]() Shadow Fall picks up just after the Interplanetary Strategic Alliance (goodies) bombed the bejesus out of Helghan (meanies) at the conclusion of Killzone 3. Unfortunately it has arrived hugely undercooked – a front-loaded visual feast that quickly descends into mediocrity. In the lead-up to release, Shadow Fall appeared to walk the talk, and would perhaps claim a chunk of a Call of Duty audience bored to tears of the modern military shooter. ![]() That’s a position to be both coveted and feared, as the burden of expectation and a new generation’s comparatively unfamiliar hardware has made fools of many in the past. ![]() A PlayStation exclusive shooter that has never quite broken through the way Sony probably hoped it would, Killzone has nonetheless grafted its way to launch title status.
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