God of War Official Thread

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Originally Posted by StriderKyo

Let me get this straight - you'll play that junk, but Ninja Gaiden's not good enough for you!? I mean come on...you're saying PS2's great because it has a 3rd rate Halo ripoff?

The PS2 is a pixel-filled, ram deficient, hard drive lacking dinosaur. I play the games in spite of the darn thing, usually wishing they were on Xbox the whole time.

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OMG BLASPHEMY KILLZONE IS TEH HALO KILLAR!

How was Killzone a Halo ripoff?

Because it was basically marketed as being HALO but better and on the PS2. It wasn't.

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Originally Posted by J2d

How was Killzone a Halo ripoff?

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Did you somehow miss Sony's marketing department touting it as a Halo killer for two years straight? E3, Magazine covers, the whole deal?

uhhh did anyone pick this game up? It should have came out today.

It was? Didn't get to see the US ads but it sounds more like something magazines would say to sell a couple of extra copies. Either way we all know that the two wasn't that much alike.

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Originally Posted by StriderKyo

Did you somehow miss Sony's marketing department touting it as a Halo killer for two years straight? E3, Magazine covers, the whole deal?

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Yea I did, chalk it up to not caring about the game that much and living in europe.

I will be picking this up on my way from work in about an hour. Will watch DJ play, and post impressions later tonight.

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Originally Posted by StriderKyo

Did you somehow miss Sony's marketing department touting it as a Halo killer for two years straight? E3, Magazine covers, the whole deal?

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Yup. In reality, however, it ended up being nothing at all like Halo- it was more like a clunky, crappy Medal of Honor clone.

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Originally Posted by StriderKyo

Let me get this straight - you'll play that junk, but Ninja Gaiden's not good enough for you!? I mean come on...you're saying PS2's great because it has a 3rd rate Halo ripoff?

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None of those games have hideous camera issues. Ninja Gaiden does. And the gameplay itself wasn't compelling enough for me to sit through the camera problems.

And Killzone is nothing like Halo at all. Blame the "Halo Killer" crap on US video game magazines and web sites. Killzone is a very solid single player game if you like old school Medal of Honor gameplay (like I very much do).

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The PS2 is a pixel-filled, ram deficient, hard drive lacking dinosaur. I play the games in spite of the darn thing, usually wishing they were on Xbox the whole time.

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Are you trying to wipe out any credibility you have with a statement like that? If so, congrats. Mission accomplished.

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Originally Posted by g0zen

Because it was basically marketed as being HALO but better and on the PS2. It wasn't.

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I dunno how much Sony actually marketed it as a Halo killer. I never saw a Killzone ad that said "Watch out Halo, here comes Killzone." The "Halo Killer" crap was started by US gaming publications and perpetuated by fanboys. Killzone really plays nothing at all like Halo. Half-Life has more in common with Halo than Killzone.

With that said, I think Killzone is a more satisfying single player game than Halo. The controls of Killzone are too harsh to be fun in multiplayer, but they work great for single player, forcing more tactical gameplay than Halo's run-and-gun fragfest. More importantly, Killzone's got amazing atmosphere that really draws you into the war of the world. Halo's got a very solid single player game that's very overshadowed by the much better multiplayer aspect. Killzone's got a great single player that takes a very different approach than Halo. If you go into Killzone expecting to play Halo on PS2, you're not going to find what you want. I wasn't expecting to like Killzone much at all until I started playing it, but I'd say it's a very worthy game.

I'll defend Killzone. It's good. Best FPS on the Ps2. But then again....I don't know if that's really as good as it sounds.