The visuals of Shadow Fall’s multiplayer compared favourably to its single-player when I played it Tuesday night at a Sony preview event. Character faces are more detailed but awkwardly animated. The voice acting in Shadow Fall is either wooden or overdone. Certain sections of the game are outright snooze-inducing, especially the seductively slow camera pan shots where the player is supposed to ooh and aah at the shinies. Guerilla aims at nuance with the game’s Cold War parallels but it’s too heavy-handed. This input method felt surprisingly natural and I never felt like I was tripping over a new way to play the same ol’ tired FPS missions.Īnd the focus on hardware maximisation also highlights what these game-makers can’t do. Swiping in a certain direction on the DualShock 4’s touchpad changes the task OWL will do for you.
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It also revives you when you’re downed and spools out a zip line when you need to reach another less-elevated area. The OWL is a remote drone that can throw up a force shield, hack devices, stun enemies or shoot at selected bad guys. Glimmers of interesting play ideas do exist on this Killzone game, however. Rather, they just want to make the task of killing them as annoying as possible.
The AI don’t really seem like they want to keep on living. And you play through all of this the same way you’ve played through dozens (hundreds?) of other shooters: peek around cover, hide-and-heal, look for the rocket launcher. Running through a mega-chaotic battleground while hell explodes all around you? Yup, that’s there, too.Īnd there’s more, like the ol’ ‘biological super-weapon in wrong hands.’ Likewise, enemy-among-us and ‘the infrastructure of a more welcoming society being turned into weapons’. A big sequence where your precious guns are taken away from you? Present. Clearing bad guys car-by-car on a train in a big city? Check. And Shadow Fall is a parade of overused narrative tropes and FPS gameplay design ideas. Certain sayings become clichés because they express truths that everyone understands, but they lose their power through overuse. That’s just the first of many clichés Shadow Fall drafts into service. Years later, Lucas is a soldier in a top-secret program designed to put down Helghan threats to the uneasy peace on Vekta. His dad gets killed by a Helghast soldier right in front of Kellan’s eyes. Players control native Vektan Lucas Kellan, who we first meet as a boy sneaking away from soldiers of the newly-established New Helghan regime. Shadow Fall takes place decades after the end of Killzone 3 and finds the remnants of the Helghast - the series’ totalitarian space villains - sharing planet Vekta with their hated racial cousins.
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