168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Guerrilla recently confirmed that it 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:moved on from Kil🍌lzone a long time ago. That isn't surprising. The studio had been continuously working on Killzone games from the early ‘00s through the launch of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Killzone Shadow Fall in 2013.
Guerrilla (or rather, offshoot Guerrilla Cambridge) developed six Killzone games in a decade, which would be enough to make any developer ready to try something new. Especially since the series never lived up to its ‘Halo killer’ hype and largely received middling reviews from critics and relatively apathy from the mainstream🐻 audience it tried so hard to capture.
What Happened To All Th𝕴e Single-Player Shooters?
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Guerrilla May Be Done With Killzone, But Sony Shouldn't Be
When Guerrilla decamped to Horizon, it seemed to unlock something artistically for the studio, and was rewarded critically and commercially for its efforts. I understand why Guerrilla wants to continue to focus on Aloy and her post-post-apocalyptic exploits. But it was a bad move on Sony's part to le✱t Killzone lie fallow for 11 years, and it will be a really bad move to continue not investing in the series' future.
I'm not writing this as a Killzone fanboy. In fact, I’ve never played any of those games. I don't have a dog in this fight, outside of wanting more FPS games with campaigns. But Killzone represents a pretty huge gap in Sony's exclusive offerings. The PS5 has no games, as the meme goes, but it really doesn't have first-person shooters — in fact, when Sony finally released a multiplayer FPS, it was then 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:nuked from existence two weeks later.
Even setting the Concord debacle aside, Sony has largely focused on one kind of game: third-person narrative action-adventures. I count 34 games published by Sony (barring games only published by Sony in certain regions), and there is a major trend in the kind of game the company puts out. Of those 34 games, 21 are in third-person (ওI'm not counting Ratchet, Sackboy, or Astro here; though they have a similar perspective, they're 3D platformers, which is a meaningful difference). Of those 21, 20 are action-focused.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Until Dawn is the non-action outlier here.
Also among those 21 games, 1🍨9 are single-player. On top of that, nine of the games on the list are remakes, remasters, or complete editions. There are three first-person games on the list, but two are in VR (Firewall Ultra, Horizon: Call of the Mountain) and the other one (Concord) has been Thanos-snapped out of existence.
Sony Needs Games To Fill The FPS Niche
Sony has absolutely nothing to fill the Killzone niꦚche. You can play Call of Duty on your PS5, of course, but that isn't selling any systems. With a PC, you can basically play every FPS that c𝐆omes out. Sony has cornered the market on third-person action, but if you like other kinds of games (or you played Ghost of Tsushima, The Last of Us, The Last of Us Part 2, Marvel's Spider-Man, Death Stranding, Demon's Souls, Nioh and Nioh 2 on the consoles they originally released on), the PS5 doesn't have much to offer.
Resurrecting Killzone would be a chance to change that, to diversify the console's lineup and bring new and lapsed players on board. The last game launched when Halo was still a juggernaut, just a year after Halo 4, but single-player FPS games don’t need to kill Halo anymore. Microsoft has struggled to get new Halo games out the door, and struggled to support them when it has. The series is no longer the benchmark by which all shooters are judged, and the dearth of new releases would make a n﷽ew Killzone more exciting than it ever was during Guerrilla's run with the series. For genre fans, any single-player FPS with a triple-A budget and production values would be water in the desert.
Astro Bot was a reminder that Sony can still make quality games, but it was also a reminder of the wide variety of♒🎀 games the company used to make.𒈔 It showed that it can still put out an incredible 3D platformer, but the other genr♐es it has left languishing still desperately need a revival.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网: It's Time For Another Killzone Game
Killzone was a♓ shooter that set itself apart, and in the age of fast-paced FPS it's time to bring it back𒁃.
