An Early Look at Killzone 2's Multiplayer

Giant Bomb takes us through the multiplayer mode of upcoming first-person shooter Killzone 2 from Guerrilla Games. They explain how you gradually unlock more ranks, weapons, and classes as you find success. They also say you should expect different modes of play to be thrown at you after every victory: "The big thing to 'get' about Killzone 2's multiplayer is that the game isn't really broken down by game types, like team deathmatch or capture the flag. Those styles of gameplay are instead integrated at a higher level. Each map and each match is capable of serving up five different objectives. And the game serves these objectives to you on the fly. So you might join a game and get thrown into a Body Count mission, which is the game's take on team deathmatch. If one side hits the kill count or if time expires with one side ahead of the other, the leading side wins that mission and earns one point. After a brief respite from mission-based activity, the game launches into the next thing."

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Mario Party and WarioWare

[tepples]

So, let me get this straight. Killzone looked at the current FPS market and thought "You know, if we could find a way to take away the user's choice of what kind of game to play, that would sell like hotcakes!"

Or they looked at minigame collections such as Mario Party and WarioWare, saw that those sold like hotcakes, and tried to adapt them to a first-person shooter environment.

Re:No splitscreen?

[quantumplacet]

just cuz the random game you bought didn't offer that feature doesnt mean the system doesnt have any games that offer it. in the future i would read a review first or, you know, look at the back of the box before you buy the game. both resistance games and COD5 offer offline split screen. im sure there are more, but those come immediately to mind.