It can all get overwhelming quite quickly, and you can die frequently because of enemies you don't even know are there (the lack of any convenient radar or mini-map makes it that much harder to get your bearings in these firefights).
Instead, they tend to surround you from all directions, flanking and making moves to force you out of your comfort zone and into a new position. To the game's credit, these enemies aren't the type to just sit calmly behind cover and pop up for occasional pot-shots at you.
And I do mean a bunch: Killzone seems to revel in sending absolutely massive strike forces of nearly identical enemies to take down your single super-soldier (who occasionally gets computer-controlled backup). None of that matters too much to the gameplay, though, which follows the genre standard by giving you an objective to reach and then throwing in a bunch of shootable enemies between you and that objective. Still, I found it hard to follow the specifics of the shifting narrative and to care much about the characters who seem to exist mainly to move the plot along. It's not bad, by any means, but it doesn't really do much to justify its existence next to dozens of other, similarly polished shooters.Īfter an absolutely plodding and hackneyed father/son-focused introduction, Killzone's story does a good job of painting a general aura of authoritarian oppression in a war between humans and the alien Helghast, working overtime to layer on some moral ambiguity over which side is "good" and which is "bad" to boot. The obligatory exclusive first-person shooter launching with the PlayStation 4 checks all the standard boxes on the FPS checklist, but so far it hasn't fully hooked us. That said, it's probably the most fun you'll have with any of the PS4's exclusive launch titles.
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Resogun probably could have existed as a largely unchanged PS3 game, and so it doesn't do much to justify the investment in the new hardware within a PS4. Things get much easier (and more enjoyable) if you have a co-op partner (local or online) to help handle the load, since the game doesn't seem to scale up the number of enemies to account for the second player. A single false move leads to death, and you only have three lives to complete levels that can go on for 10 minutes or so before concluding with screen-filling, no-holds-barred bosses. When the throng of enemies gets to be too much (and it definitely will if you play on harder difficulty levels), Resogun gives you a wide variety of ways to get out of sticky situations, including an invulnerable quick dash maneuver, a set of screen-clearing bombs, and a super-powered mode that slows everything down and gives you a giant, overpowered laser.ĭespite these escapes, the game can be punishingly difficult, even on the "Normal" difficulty. There's a good deal of variety in enemies, each with their own attack patterns that require different strategies of feints and movement to handle effectively. The only exception to this is the tiny green humans you're tasked with saving every few minutes, who tend to get lost in the maelstrom despite a helpful arrow pointing you toward them (a radar would have been nice here). Somehow, though, it never gets too visually overwhelming careful use of color and shape makes it easy to quickly and intuitively distinguish the enemies and bullets you need to avoid from the background detritus. There's an almost insane amount of stuff going on in every screen of Resogun, with tons of flashy particle effects and debris being pushed around by the PS4's processors. You can only fire horizontally, though, which makes careful lures and positioning more important than in similar games like Geometry Wars. Resogun also improves on the Defender formula with simplified controls and the ability to fire in either direction, even while flying in the opposite direction. This time, though, you can see the cylindrical map curving around back into the screen on the edges of the screen, along with a whole lot of random crap floating around in the background. Much like that older shoot-'em-up, Resogun takes place on a 2D play field that loops around on itself as you fly from one end to the other horizontally. Who knew the highlight of the PS4 launch lineup would be an ultra-modern take on the arcade classic Defender.
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