Choze Posted October 26, 2008 Posted October 26, 2008 I am looking forward to Killzone 2 but lets hope R2 is good enough to keep us distracted until then. Pompey will finished in 10 mins, then likely will be back online... Well its still a beta. Its not like KZ2 does not have issues of unbalanced weapons(every fps does to an extent). KZ2 is just shockingly polished for beta. I am thinking they were both for a christmas date. But SCe decided one is enough. This christmas is overly packed with shooters already.
flameboy Posted October 26, 2008 Posted October 26, 2008 I think R2 has the better graphics technically but Killzone has the style. They added the water effects in this beta and its quite amazing looking. the skies are really cool too and the shrubs/trees, grass are animated. Textures are lovely and the parallax mapping is some of the best in any game. The floor in Orick at times looks almost as good as Crysis. The water is stunning. Killzone has really cool sense of style though and despite the lack of high res textures and parallax mapping, its very striking. The lights on characters for example are quite cool. The design of the flying turrets/bots is very cool. The whole thing oozes style and the animation has a similar theme. E..g the handgun in KZ looks cooler but the R2 gun reload is more impressive technically(bullets falling out in different directions). Resistance 2 i think is slightly held back by its 1940's art style. Some of the reload animations are really impressive. I think if it had abit more time to be made it could have been much better. Worth pointing out the difference btween betas is impressive (Same goes for Motorstorm demo to actual game). As it is Insomniac make games very quickly and are probably the most productive developer in the business but i cant help to think what they can come up with an extra year. Yeah I can understand that about the art style there is only so much you can dowith the 40's war theme... As for Insomniac...they are setting up a second studio which should perhaps help them to have longer development periods for one whilst the other does shorter term projects. Yeah, it's little things like that which just make KillZone look fantastic. There is a physical presence that I think Resistance totally misses. I'll be on in about 20 minutes I think. Ok see you there. Well I agree that Killzone does look very good, the weapons look pretty solid and meaty to use, but I still think there is a bit too much grey in there. As for what Resistance is missing... I think there is something missing too but not sure either. I think it might actually be the weight of the weapons, because when you shoot, your gun doesn't feel all that powerful and so when you kill an enemy it can seem unsatisfying. But hey, it is so much fun when you're on a roll. Feel the same sometimes...I felt like it with fall of man, until I got a DS3 and then that helped give the weapons more ooomph and that. But there is something about the weapons that feels less visceral than other FPS games. I'm not sure what it is, it would perhaps be a camera issue, how much of the weapon is shown and the recoil effect on you cursor? think they have perhaps tried to rectify it somewhat by making the game more gory...
Choze Posted October 26, 2008 Posted October 26, 2008 I like the weapons its something different. I will host a high damage n-europe match shortly. Also please post your thoughts on the R2 beta forums! http://beta-forums.myresistance.net/myres/ It is a beta afterall and they are busy on a zero day patch.
Choze Posted October 26, 2008 Posted October 26, 2008 ok joining soon. Anyone got LBP yet? We can play that too.
dwarf Posted October 26, 2008 Author Posted October 26, 2008 Woops left Resistance on whilst having tea, sos if I didn't reply to your invites. Erm, I may not be able to play cause some of my friends are coming round, and I was looking forward to this as well
Cookyman Posted October 26, 2008 Posted October 26, 2008 I'm coming wait for me - let's make it just us n-europe players those fucking yanks are getting on my tits!
flameboy Posted October 26, 2008 Posted October 26, 2008 Couldn't get into a game before with Daft we tried to do it and wudn't let us...guessing perhaps beta servers are limited to X number of matches as it wouldn't let us create one either...
flameboy Posted October 26, 2008 Posted October 26, 2008 cant make new game yeah same as we had...can't make new game and can't enter any games even though there were spaces in plenty
Choze Posted October 26, 2008 Posted October 26, 2008 bah. Quite late now. Played 2 hours of coop. Its pretty fun. I really enjoyed it. Both were in Orick. First time was different to the second time though not sure how i activated it. Am level 4 now. There seems to be plenty of unlocks such as faster reloads, items and more damage. In that sense the beta is not a fair reflection of the game. I cant seem to level up in competitive though! Cant really get into it. Some are wondering where the missing weapons are, which are shown in videos and screens. Obviously its not a demo. I am gobsacked by the graphics though. Blew a boss apart and you can see his ribs partially poking out of the flesh. I think its some of the best this whole gen.
flameboy Posted October 27, 2008 Posted October 27, 2008 bah. Quite late now. Played 2 hours of coop. Its pretty fun. I really enjoyed it. Both were in Orick. First time was different to the second time though not sure how i activated it. Am level 4 now. There seems to be plenty of unlocks such as faster reloads, items and more damage. In that sense the beta is not a fair reflection of the game. I cant seem to level up in competitive though! Cant really get into it. Some are wondering where the missing weapons are, which are shown in videos and screens. Obviously its not a demo. I am gobsacked by the graphics though. Blew a boss apart and you can see his ribs partially poking out of the flesh. I think its some of the best this whole gen. Yeah I noticed the problem with competitve matches, you get XP during matches but then it doesn't seem to add it all on! I love how violent it's gotten not surprised it's been slapped with a 18 certificate.
dwarf Posted October 27, 2008 Author Posted October 27, 2008 So I didn't miss out then? Good good, maybe beta matches have to be organised earlier on in order to be made.
flameboy Posted October 27, 2008 Posted October 27, 2008 Had a mammoth 60 player game earlier. I always aim to finish in the top half of games as don't think I am good enough to win yet, so was pleased to finish 5 places above that in 25th. My squad I was in was pretty cool as a few of us had headsets... Starting to enjoy the shotgun a bit more. I think it still as strong but you have to be much closer that before to get max damage.
dwarf Posted October 27, 2008 Author Posted October 27, 2008 I came first in one of the Skirmish matches out of 45 people, which was pretty cool because I had only played 2 before that, and I think the best position in a team deathmatch in Orick was 6th/60.
flameboy Posted October 27, 2008 Posted October 27, 2008 I came first in one of the Skirmish matches out of 45 people, which was pretty cool because I had only played 2 before that, and I think the best position in a team deathmatch in Orick was 6th/60. thats pretty awesome. I love skirmish really easy to get tons of XP.
dwarf Posted October 28, 2008 Author Posted October 28, 2008 IGN Review - 9.5 http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/924/924372p1.html
Daft Posted October 28, 2008 Posted October 28, 2008 IGN Review - 9.5http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/924/924372p1.html Solid. Although IGN UK aren't normally very consistent with their scores. It does look like I'll get it now though. The graphics also look a lot neater, which is good.
dwarf Posted October 28, 2008 Author Posted October 28, 2008 The video review is where it's really at - the bosses and levels in the campaign are phenomenal! Don't see how anything could match it in terms of scale.
Choze Posted October 28, 2008 Posted October 28, 2008 Played this at Eurogamer live expo. The scale is amazing. Those huge spider type things literally will chase you around in single player destroying stuff. At the show nothing matched R2 on a technical level and scale. Story mode looks great and will be epic. The only gamne that looked better was killzone 2 and that kind of was the most popular game at the show but it was very different from R2 and more down to earth. I am not sold on VS multiplayer but the other bits are really good. Definately day 1.
dwarf Posted October 28, 2008 Author Posted October 28, 2008 Glad to hear it. I'm actually glad they made the campaign slightly shorter because the other one did drag on. Anyone having trouble with getting into a game on the beta? I think it may have ended cause when I press 'Find Game' now it doesn't work. Scratch that it's working now.
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