PARTING SH T
It’s Rico time
Riding with Rico’s Raiders in Killzone 3
Celebrating PlayStation’s finest moments
O
pening this threequel on
a whitewashed snowy
Helghan mountain retreat,
replete with JJ Abrams’
beloved lens flare filling our eyes
with rainbow delights, Killzone 3
promised colour. Lots of it. Then
it took it all away and dumped us
back in the mud and muted palette
of the capital city, Pyrrhus.
It takes us hours to fight our
way out, but the tease of that
snow and colour, something
we’ve waited three games for, is
worth it. Particularly as Rico, the
series’ loudmouth walking tank
who treats war like an Americanfootball match, is the character
to introduce us to Killzone’s new
wintry wonderland.
We love to hate Rico. He
murdered the ruler of Helghan in
our name, which we hate, but he
has come to our aid on a flying
skiff with a rag-tag band of his
own Kelly’s Heroes.
Huddled on top of our flying
machine we swoop below, up,
and over massive refineries as
cannon fire zips past and spiralling
missiles leave smoky scars across
the sky. Below us the dark and
foamy waves swell and subside.
Our machine gun whirrs intoaction and ahead of us structures
expload and tiny Helghast villains
run for cover. A landing pad bursts
into flames and crumples, and
we weave between struts surfing
the waves. Rico shouts a whole
bunch of swears, but we’re having
too much fun to consider the
reductive writing.
This snowy skybound assault
is a phenomenal sequence that
teases where Guerrilla Games
was destined to take its games
on PlayStation 4. Such cinematic
spectacles are taken for granted
now, but on PlayStation 3 this
Killzone impressed. QFORMAT PS3 / PUB SONY / DEV GUERRILLA GAMES / RELEASED 2011 / SCORE 9/10No.84
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