{"id":1465,"date":"2011-10-29T13:11:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T18:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/2000\/09\/20\/game-notes-killzone-2s-___-village\/"},"modified":"2020-04-29T14:33:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T19:33:11","slug":"game-notes-killzone-2s-___-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/?p=1465","title":{"rendered":"Game Notes: Killzone 2&#8217;s Suljeva Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/09\/kz2_37qpsx2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/09\/kz2_37qpsx2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"kz2_37qpsx2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/09\/kz2_37qpsx2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/09\/kz2_37qpsx2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/09\/kz2_37qpsx2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s something about Killzone 2 that hasn&#8217;t quite been replicated in other games, not even Killzone 3. There are sheer moments of awe, one of which takes place in Suljeva Village.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nCaught on the enemy&#8217;s home turf, you stumble upon a wreckage of rusted, broken debris, makeshift into cover and shelter from the consistent dust storms. As I saw an enemy run by on a tall catwalk, laser sights home into me, and my AI partner screams &#8220;don&#8217;t let them get their <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoorempire.com\/best-pistol-laser-sight\/\">pistol laser<\/a> sights on you!&#8221; At this point, it becomes a game of cat and mouse.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"490\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dBgwEeftpdE#t=87s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I think what really gets me is the combination of great music, facing a new enemy in a beautiful setting, and the almost stealth-like mechanics in a game that has been nothing but nonstop shooting at this point. It&#8217;s a moment that lasts less then ten minutes, but is one of the best segments of the game.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something visceral about enemy laser sights in games that triggers a player to go from super-action-commando to stealthy, silent worm in seconds. Laser sights like the ones in Killzone, Resistance 3 and so many other games seem ridiculous (why doesn&#8217;t your gun give off a laser sight? Why can&#8217;t the enemy use scopes instead?) but what better way to convey that the player is completely overpowered than a laser beam directly on them? Immediately you think, holy crap, I gotta get me some cover. It&#8217;s an automatic trigger that not even a dual wielding mini gun boss would inspire (I died because I clearly did not shoot enough rockets at that guy!).<\/p>\n<p>Laser beams just plain look cool, they convey a sense of doom for the player, and Killzone 2&#8217;s Suljeva Village handles it brilliantly. I hope laser beams stay around forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something about Killzone 2 that hasn&#8217;t quite been replicated in other games, not even Killzone 3. There are sheer moments of awe, one of which takes place in Suljeva Village.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[39,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-notes","category-randomness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2662,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/2662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}