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It’s one of the nicest looking PS4 launch titles and you will often find yourself staring around at how gorgeous the landscape is.
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Killzone: Shadow Fall in 1080p HD is stunning. And if the likes of Mass Effect, Bioshock and Halo have taught us anything, it’s that a good story can make or break any single-player experience.īut if the story sometimes lacks that immersive pull, the visuals do much to compensate. Guerilla Games has tried to create an interesting narrative tension, but it still feels like the story comes a distant third behind the visuals and the gunplay. It’s all too easy to lose track of the exactly where the plot is going and why, while the voice acting and dialogue is workmanlike rather than engaging. While the themes are interesting enough, it doesn’t really come together as a cohesive whole in the same way a Bioshock Infinite does, for example. Rather than just a black and white good vs evil type affair, Killzone: Shadow Fall creates a scene in which two peoples are trying to coexist on one planet with all the problems that creates. It’s a valiant attempt to steer clear from some of the more clichéd single-player campaigns we often see in most shooters. Previous Killzone games have drawn upon historical and contemporary events to shape the storyline and Shadow Fall follows the trend with clear Cold War undertones emphasised by the mistrust between the two warring factions and internal strife this creates. So far, so generic, but that tag is a little unfair. Fast forward to the present of the game and Kellen is now a morally corrupt special forces type who operates behind enemy lines. Naturally these events have a profound effect on our protagonist as he’s left to be mentored by a Shadow Marshall who rescues him. In Shadow Fall you play Lucas Kellen, who we first see as a young boy in the opening moments of the game witnessing his father being killed by Helghast soldiers as they try to flee their city on Vekta. Peace reigns for thirty years, but it’s to no one’s surprise (least of all ours) that this doesn’t last. Set after the events in Killzone 3 where the Helghast’s planet is destroyed, the ‘bad guys’ (that’s the Helghast) now reside on the same planet as the Vektans separated by a security wall. For those not familiar with the Killzone universe, the latest conflict takes place on the planet Vekta. We’ll pick up that question later, but first some scene-setting. These days it feels like the single-player is an afterthought for FPS games, but is this true of Killzone: Shadow Fall? Regrettably we haven’t got the multiplayer working properly yet ahead of the PS4’s launch, so for now we’re focusing on the single-player campaign whose environments are the setting for much of the multiplayer, too.
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After Killzone: Mercenary delivered the fantastic PS Vita FPS we have craved for so long, Shadow Fall ventures into a world that takes full advantage of the next-gen bump in hardware and hopes to do the same for the PS4. It’s just the kind of game to make loyal PS3 owners upgrade. Killzone games have always looked good, so it’s no real surprise Sony picked Killzone 4: Shadow Fall to be its key PS4 exclusive launch title.