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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
I think it's totally overrated and overhyped in a genre that's completely overdone and stale. Watched the demo and HD videos. I don't see anything new or worthwhile. It's a scripted FPS with you against alien hordes on a generic industrial looking alien world. Where have I seen that before?
There's almost nothing in the FPS genre that isn't Soldier v. Other Soldiers/Alien Soldiers/Aliens/Zombies/Alien Zombies.
I've always thought a lot of console gamers, especially the younger generation who has never seen some of gems on PC over the last 10 years which don't fall into the above catagories, or otherwise does an amazing job have much lowered standards. I mean, Halo was such a huge hit but I'm betting few of them have ever heard of Starseige Tribes. And everybody was raving at how amazing Call of Duty 4 was but if you've played COD1 and COD2, you can just feel the game oozing the exact same AI scripts and gameplay style and then aside from the graphics, it really isn't groundbreaking or new. My little cousins were raving about how Halo was the best game EVER made and I was facepalming myself.
I'm just sick of console games not actually being innovative and just catching up to PC standards from a decade ago...and then being overhyped as so amazing and everything when there is nothing new there and I feel all this computing power can really be used to create more innovative worlds to explore and be in. Not just cookie cutter FPS's that haven't changed in a decade.
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you pretty much nailed it. Halo was hyped so much because it was better than any other console FPS, yet compared to the FPS games we've been playing on the PC for years it was simply mediocre. i also hate FPS games on the console because the controls suck, so i have no interest in Killzone 2. but from the previews i've seen, there doesn't seem to be anything innovate about it at all, same reason i hated Resistance 2 the little i played it