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Heal Aids, Herpes, and lascerations with Killzone 2's blue ray of awesome
zgerhard | 2:53 PM on 02.06.2009 9 comments


Having finished the Killzone 2 demo (in about five minutes) that I received because I preordered it from my friendly neighborhood GameStop, I couldn't help but to focus on just one rather negative aspect of this game. It's not even that big of a deal. Really. Me, though, that's a different story. You see, I am kind of a big deal.

Anyway, Killzone 2 looks fantastic! Graphics were beautiful and, despite some kid proving the game is "glitchy as hell" because he found a way to hop out of the map (which is doable in pretty much every FPS if you try hard enough. Especially anything Half Life derived!) I thought it actually played rather smoothly. It is just a shame that Killzone 2 wasn't released a long time ago (as Gears was the Xbox 360) because we should be seeing the launch of Killzone 3 in tandem with Gears of War 2 (but, it is no secret that Sony's PS3 is like a premature baby - slow to grow).

So, if this game is so great looking, why are you saying it is sucking, Zak? Well, I am saying it is sucking because of the way you heal your teammates. I don't know if it was a quick fix for the demo or if that's how it will be in the actual game itself, but shooting your buddies with a blue ray to heal their gunshot wounds? What the hell? That's ... awesome. Ratchet and Clanky, maybe.

I know we are supposed to have that all suspension of disbelief thing in sci-fi as to not ruin the rest of the plot or experience, but this is just pushing it a little out there.

"Gump! I'm hit! I'm hit!"

"Don't worry my shrimp expert friend, I will shoot you with this neon blue electric ray and you will be cured of aids!"

"Gump, you are my bestest friend ever! I got your back and you got mine. We're gonna be such good pals!"

GIve me a break. An electric ray of healing blue power? What's next, Jesus popping in to say hi?

Aside from that silly, basically the most minuscule issue ever, the game looks fantastic and I cannot wait to play through it.

Let me stress that again - I cannot wait to play this game.



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blehman's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/06/2009 15:10
blehman

HI!
zgerhard's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/06/2009 16:43
zgerhard
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHA
Primo's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/06/2009 17:05
Primo
@Blehman

You are awesome.

@zgerhard

The magic ray gun is pretty damn R&C-like.. The animation for it is pretty annoying, too.
Trev's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/06/2009 17:12
Trev
Yeah, the healybeam is a little weird, but any revives are strange. Dom will take an explosive shot from a hand held cannon to the face and is back on his feet like blood wasn't just pouring from his torso like an Amazonian waterfall after his special friend Marcus whispers a few sweet nothings to him.

Revives in video games are all inherently dumb, since anyone smarter than a hubcap would just jab themselves with the syringe full of feel better juice (non-whiskey variety) rather than rolling around waiting for me to do it for them. Killzone 2's might just be a little too high-tech for the setting.
superezekiel's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/06/2009 18:05
superezekiel
And the giant space pillars were believable and realistic.
zgerhard's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/06/2009 23:01
zgerhard
@brainderailment

this one is a little more ridiculous out of the one's i have seen. i mean, in gow, you give your buddy "a helping hand" and that's pretty whack... but shooting your buddy with a blue ray gun? wtf
pascuz46's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/06/2009 23:41
pascuz46
If you want a more 'realistic' way of healing yourself play MGS3.
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