AKA Killzone 2. It's one of the PS3 titles I've been looking at buying, so I rented it.

And yes, it is very much like playing Gears of War, except the cover system is annoying and I'm fighting Space Nazis. Throw some Call of Duty in there too.

Why is the cover system annoying? You actually have to hold a button to stick to cover and stay stuck. Gears of War magnetizes you to the surface. Sliding along cover, something Gears can do relatively easily, is confused in Killzone. I pop over cover when I want to be sliding along it, hoping some jerk with a knife doesn't come up and stab me a bunch.

Oh, and I real human being can crouch and lower their head more than an inch. I can still see over most of the cover, which is good for me to shoot people, but not so good when people want to shoot at me. Which is a lot.

And the Helghast? Yeah, pretty much Space Nazis. Visari is Space Hitler (complete with his voice coming over loudspeakers, inspiring the troops), Radec would be some Space SS Colonel, regular Helghast just regular Space Nazi troops. And I'm not entirely sure WHY I'm invading their homeworld. Something about them attacking human worlds and just not liking humans in general. And there's a thing about them stealing nukes, and Radec needing the codes, so he grabs some of your buddies to get them. I have no idea where or when he got these nukes. Don't they have the technology to build one themselves? DIDN'T they build any themselves? Visari could very well be a "Scorched Earth" kind of guy. No, they have lightning turrets. Effective and cool, but still.

Game's beautiful, though. Got some motion blur happening, no aliasing I could see, just overall looking pretty realistic (as realistic as a game about fighting Space Nazis can be). It looks at Halo funny, like it's trying to be cool and it's failing, but not completely. Love to see it well-lit (There's a lot of dark on Helghan.)

And by the end, I did kinda like the Helghast. I want to see them going apeshit on the ISA.

As for the ISA (the good guys), well, they're pretty generic good guys. Although I seriously wondered which end of their ships is the back. Is it the stick? The lollipop? And now they stand up? WTF is up with them.

Yeah, it's not a bad game. Not something I want to rush out and buy, but it's okay.