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| File:Killzone logo.jpg The logo of Killzone, the first game in the series. Subsequent titles use a similar logo. | |
| Genre(s) | First-Person Shooter (PS2 & PS3) Third-Person Shooter (PSP) |
| Developer(s) | Guerilla Games |
| Publisher(s) | Sony Computer Entertainment |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3 |
| First release | Killzone 2004 |
Killzone is a series of shooter games for Sony Computer Entertainment's video game consoles. The series is developed by Guerilla Games, a subsidiary of SCE. Killlzone consists of three games for the PlayStation 2, the PlayStation Portable, and the PlayStation 3 respectively. The series began on the PlayStation 2 in November Template:Vgy with Killzone, and continued on the PlayStation Portable in October Template:Vgy with Killzone: Liberation. The most recent installment is Killzone 2, released in February Template:Vgy for the PlayStation 3. The series is about the war between the Interplanetary Strategic Alliance (I.S.A.) and the Helghast. The protagonists of the series are Cpt/Col. Jan Templar (Killzone and Killzone: Liberation) and Sgt. Tomas "Sev" Sevchenko (Killzone 2) while the main antagonist is Helghast Emperor Scolar Visari.
Setting
The Killzone series follows the continuous war between the ISA and Helghast.
Gameplay
Killzone is a first person shooter game developed by Guerilla Games and published by Sony.
Players in Killzone can only carry two different weapons at any given time. Players can either obtain ammo or swap out their current weapons with any weapon dropped by a downed foe or from those scattered around the various maps.
Online competitive multiplayer features up to 32 players. There are various modes including assassination, deathmatch, etc. There's also a rotation mode where you play all game modes one after the other.
Games
Killzone
Kilzone was released for the PlayStation 2 on November 2, 2004 for North America and on November 26, 2004 for Europe. The game is set in an era of space colonization where the Helghast Empire has recovered from its defeat in the First Helghan War and launched a blitzkrieg against the outer Interplanetary Strategic Alliance (I.S.A.) colony planet Vekta. Vekta's orbital Strategic Defense (S.D.) platforms failed during the initial assault, allowing the Helghast to land swarms of soldiers onto the surface and making it all the more difficult for the outnumbered I.S.A. forces. Captain Jan Templar, the main protagonists, and his squad are called back to the base for reassignment, and are promptly sent to find the I.S.A. operative Hakha and the key in his possession. During the course of the game, Templar meets other characters who assists him such as Shadow Marshal Luger (a female special operations assassin), a heavy weapons specialist Sergeant Rico Velasquez (a Helghast-hating soldier with an itchy trigger finger), and Colonel Hakha, a half-Helghast, half-Human spy.
Killzone: Liberation
Killzone: Liberation was released for the PlayStation Portable in North America on October 31, 2006 and in Europe on November 3, 2006. In Killzone: Liberation, two months after the events of Killzone, the Helghast have been dealt a hefty blow from the last game, but the war is far from over. The enemy still controls large parts of the planet Vekta, and though the ISA armies are fighting hard, they are losing ground. The rules of war have been cast aside with the sadistic Helghast General, Armin Metrac, employed by the Helghast Emperor Scolar Visari to use brutal measures in order to seize the initiative and strengthen his position further. Jan Templar, returns as the main protagonists on a covert operation to save hostages captured by Metrac, while ISA troops continue the fight for liberty. There are 5 "chapters" with 4 levels in which players eliminate the Helghast resistance (The fifth and final chapter was made available to download).[1]
Killzone 2
Killzone 2 was released for the PlayStation 3 in Europe on February 25, 2009, in Australia on February 26, 2009, and in the United Kingdom and North America on February 27, 2009. Killzone 2 follows the events of Killzone and Killzone: Liberation, and is set entirely on the planet Helghan, the home-world of the Helghast who invaded an Interplanetary Strategic Alliance (ISA) colony. Two years after the Helghast assault on Vekta, the ISA has launched an assault on the enemy's homeworld of Helghan. The ISA goal is to capture the Helghast leader, Scolar Visari and bring the Helghast war machine to a halt. The main protagonists is Sergeant Tomas "Sev" Sevchenko, a battle-hardened veteran of the special forces unit the "Legion" assigned to Alpha team, who go on a mission to take out the Helghast threat. Captain Jan Templar has been promoted to Colonel and is the Fleet Commander of the New Sun, a Cruiser airship set up in the clouds of Helghan over its capital city, Pyrrhus, preparing for a final attack. During the invasion of Helghan, Sev's unit is deployed behind enemy lines to assist the main invasion force. Tasked with securing the enemy capital of Pyrrhus, Helghan's first true city,the team quickly discovers that the Helghast are a more formidable enemy on their home planet. Not only have they adjusted to Helghan's hostile conditions, they have also harnessed the power of the freakish lightning storms that always occur on Helghan which they can now use against the ISA. A cold, barren, unforgiving world, Helghan provides a ready defense with thick, acidic air, dust clouds, and violent surgical lightning storms. Sev discovers his squad is not just fighting enemy forces—their fiercest opponent may be the planet itself.[2]
Future
The next Killzone game has been very briefly mentioned. During a video for IGN.com where the Guerrilla developers are talking about the bosses in Killzone 2, one developer mentions at the end that, he hopes to see you in the next game. A link has been provided here- [1] The end of Killzone 2 gives way that there will be another game in the series. At the end of Killzone 2, Sev and Rico find Scolar Visari who is waiting for them. Visari tells Sev that the war is far from over, and if they capture or kill him, the Helghast would remember him as a martyr. This would cause the Helghast to fight with more determination in order to destroy the Vektans, and that he is the only one who is keeping the Helghast "under control". Rico, who decides to avenge Templar along with other ISA members, shoots Visari. As Visari succumbs to his injuries, he mutters his last words: "The madness...begins." Worn from all the occurrences, Sev leaves the palace and sits on the entrance stairs. There, he sees an overwhelmingly giant Helghast fleet destroying what is left of the ISA fleet and sees, first hand, what Visari envisioned.