This allows for you to scout an area without moving, and adds variety to the way you can tackle encounters. Your OWL is very much the key to the game, able to hack computers, act as a rappel rope, a medic on the field (it can revive you if you have steroids), and it can even create a shield that you can fire through.Īlong with this tactical addition, also new to Shadow Fall is the ability to ping your environment. A robot of sorts, you can send your OWL out to battle, both distracting and damaging the Helghans, or you can stun them (not entirely useful, save for nearer the end when shielded enemies appear). Next-generation games are already overdoing lens flare, but at least here it makes sense.Īccompanying you on the battlefield is your trusted OWL. Speaking of which, they aren’t stupid enemies: they will shine torches right in your face, blinding you and causing you to spray in their general direction. Every environment is stunning, so much so that in an early mission I found the area so busy, so beautiful, that I had difficulty killing my Helghan foes. ![]() You play as Lucas Kellan, a Vektan Shadow Marshal, and complete missions that take you from sun-soaked, lushly vegetated areas of beauty to eerie space stations that make you feel like, for a moment, you’re playing the movie Aliens. Set some 30 years after the events of Killzone 3, both Helghan and Vektans are living on the same planet, separated by a wall with a fractious truce that appears more to be a front than any real, honourable calm. So forgive me if I indulge slightly, but Killzone: Shadow Fall was the moment I realised we truly needed a new era of home consoles, because it’s one of the best looking games ever made. ![]() You can’t harp on about visuals too much, because ultimately, an upgrade in graphical fidelity is the minimum expected of a new hardware generation. The launch of a new generation of consoles is something that requires caution from any game reviewer.
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