Sony stops production on Eight Days and The Getaway

Dude, Afrika will own!!!!!1111oneone!111@!@!

Noshino (your post will be edited slightly to circumvent school filters, and yes, I am wasting valuable school time for you, feel honored ;) ):

"huh? Both The Getaway [cheese], and Killzone and Killzone: Liberation had gathered a lot of hype, not only that, in all of the cases, it was an either completely love the [cracker] or completely hate it situation, hence why the scores."

Hype doesn't always amount to much. See: Daikatana.

That aside, maybe it's a bit much for me to say "killzone sucks ps3 ftl!!!" Say what you will about review aggregation, but the average scores for Killzone and Killzone: Liberation at Metacritic are 70 and 77, respectively. I don't see enough deviation in the aggregated reviews to suggest that it's a "love it or hate it" matter, either. The aforementioned scores are not terrible by any means, but if nothing else, the 70 supports the case that Killzone wasn't the "Halo killer" it was originally touted to be. Liberation's slight uptick bodes well for Killzone 2, but will the sequel gather the favor of critics and players the way that Halo, CoD, Gears, or Resistance have? I have my doubts, but time will tell.

"If you haven't seen anything that suggest improvement, then sir, where have you been for the last 6 months or so?"

Of course it's going to improve over the span of development. That's the point of development, and why a title is generally shown to the press time and time again. What I was asking is if anyone had seen a preview where instead of doing the typical ass-kissing, the author had given a credible analysis of KZ2's current strengths and weaknesses and concluded it's shaped up nicely. Given the nature of most previews, though, that may be unattainable.

dark_inchworm, you couldn't dig yourself deeper in this arguement if you had a shovel.

I haven't played The Getaway, so I won't comment on that, but the original Killzone WAS overhyped. It was a cool idea with some pretty interesting antagonists, but the execution was just boring. And the review scores reflected that fact.

I've played a lot of shooters in my day and this one just screamed generic. I found it to be about on par with some of the current Medal of Honor games and Geist for the Cube.

It remains to be seen if Killzone 2 will be any good, but from what I've read of first impressions so far, the only real positive comments revolved around the visuals and how pretty they were - likening them to infamous E3 trailer from a while back.

I don't even know where this damn thread is going anymore. Didn't it start with a negative comment about Afrika?

I don't see you effectively counteracting anything I have to say, Fidlious. I don't even see you trying. Here, maybe a smile will encourage you. :)

Granted, it's been several hours and this comment thread is basically dead. I feel like my part of the discussion carried its weight.

Saints Row team didn't get cut, it got moved around. You don't need as many people on the tail end of the project as you do the front.

Hey, it worked for Killzone.

Yeah, but at least there wasn't any actual HUD in them making matters even worse haha.

Hopefully never.

1. Play as Zeon in the ground war

2. Troop based gameplay shown looked like Mechassault: Lone Wolf

3. Char Aznable's your ally. And you'll get to pilot a Rock Dom.

Not to mention The Getaway was one of the first games to completely remove the HUD. No health bar, your body language expressed your health. No maps or directions in the driving sequences, your blinker was your only cue. No health pickups, you leaned against a wall to "regain your breath" like in many british mob movies. The Getaway, conceptually, was ahead of it's time. Hell, remember the mission in the apartment building? How the stereo music had acoustic modifications based upon where you were in the building compared to where the stereo was?