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* Killzone 2 was on the market for only three months before websites such as Gamespot were writing articles that said: “NPD Monthly Sales show that the three-month old Killzone 2 is already being outsold by Halo 3 — a game that has been on store shelves for 21 months.”

Obviously, Killzone 2 was NOT any type of “Killer App.”

* The Official Playstation Magazine said that Killzone 2 was “The greatest game ever made.” This means one of two things: Either the editor who said such a stupid thing was on an acid trip, or he was paid by Sony to tell a lie like that. For crying out loud, the guy needs to do a better job of lying in the future, because NOBODY believed the over-exaggerated like told by the “Official” Playstation Magazine that obviously was biased.

* Killzone 2 ended up being a game with a terrible single-player campaign that could be beaten quickly in as little as 8 hours. The single-player campaign has virtually no replay value.

* Kilzone 2 launched in 2009 — a year when Co-Op is a feature that is considered a “standard” feature in Shooting games like this. Even the first Killzone game featured offline Co-Op. But Killzone 2 does NOT offer any type of Co-Op gameplay at all. If you want to play through the campaign mode with a friend, tough luck, because Killzone 2 does NOT allow that to happen.

* Killzone 2 only runs at 30 frames per second with only a single-frame graphic buffer at 720p resolution. This isn’t impressive at all.

The fake video that Sony showed of Killzone 2 at the 2005 showed Killzone 2 running at 1920x1080p resolution at 60 frames per second with lighting and shading that is FAR BETTER than what we ended up with on the PS3. Anyone who has seen the Flamethrower in the 2005 video, and then compared it to the PS3 version knows that the lighting and the shading of Killzone 2 on the PS3 doesn’t even come close to the video from 2005, and it isn’t as good as the impressive lighting and shading in Halo 3 or Gears of War either.

* Killzone 2 doesn’t even let you install the game to the PS3 hard drive! The reason for this is because the developers are using the old programming technique of using hard drive as additional RAM support. The fact that the PS3 transfers data at only 9MB per second, compared to 16MB per second for the Xbox 360, is probably the entire reason why there is absolutely no form of co-op in Killzone 2. It is very disappointing when you will suddenly see three-second long frame-rate pauses in Killzone 2.

Bottom Line: Killzone 2 was a sales disappointment–it was on the market just three months before it was being outsold each month by games that were nearly two years old. The fact that Killzone 2 didn’t even include co-op features offered by the first Killzone game was probably the biggest disappointment of all. The lack of replay value in Killzone 2 was awful. Consumers were aware of this, which is why they were not interested in Killzone 2.

Oh, and from a Tennis point of view, if Killzone 2 was the game that Sony hit back onto Microsoft’s side of the court, it’s safe to say that Halo 3 outselling Killzone 2 after just three months was the ULTIMATE SHOT that hit Sony’s court, and then bounce up and hit Sony right in the teeth–shattering them and giving Microsoft the point.