Killzone 3 is clearly a title that makes some people uncomfortable.

This particular author doesn’t normally bother reading other people’s reviews at all, but that golden rule was broken when stories of a few ‘less than stellar’ opinions were being touted on Twitter. Could Killzone 3 really be a 6 or 7 out of 10 game? Or are we dealing with some kind of irrational backlash against, apparently, nothing at all?

Read on as PS3 Attitude give you one of our trademark scoreless reviews. Everything you need to know about Killzone 3, good and bad, is contained within.

Killzone 3 picks up immediately after the ending of Killzone 2 with the story closely following the main character in the previous title, Tomas ‘Sev’ Sevchenko, and the ISA’s conflict with the Helghast Empire.

Without giving too much away, the story in KZ3 is less ‘dark’ than the previous title. This is by design, since Guerrilla Games had received feedback to suggest the plot in KZ2 was too bleak. It is difficult to balance being slightly more light-hearted with the fact that you’re still in a warzone, and that clearly shows since the storyline and plot within Killzone 3 are nothing to write home about.

It isn’t that the story is bad. Absolutely not. It is fair to say, however, that the story and plot are quite obvious and lack any real depth, which is a shame since on this occassion GG hired the likes of Ray Winstone and Malcolm MacDowell to voice two of the main Helghan protagonists.

As well a new enemies to focus on, the story also introduces a female ISA character named Jammer, but you never get to know anything about her throughout the entire story, so you are left wondering why they bothered to bring her in to the story at all.

Having said that, if our only complaint about Killzone 3 is that the story is a little on the weak side, that surely doesn’t warrant dropping 3 or 4 points in a review, right? After all, it is the gameplay we really care about, isn’t it?

Overall, Killzone 3′s gameplay strongly resembles that of Killzone 2. However, you can immediately see and, most importantly, feel the changes and updates made to the original title.

While some FPS titles provide an experience that is not much more than a camera running on rails, Killzone 3 makes you feel every visceral movement. You feel heavy, but never so much that you can’t turn and fire like an athlete. You feel like you have momentum, but not too much so that you end up missing your mark.

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