Killzone 1 proves "killing Halo" is a suicide mission 

I actually miss the "Halo Killers". All these studios trying to make big, epic games with a significant draw or twist. Felt it was a bit more original than now, ironically.

Yes, killing Halo is a suicide mission. That's why only 343i committing suicide can kill Halo.

The only real "Halo Killer" was Halo itself.

As someone who was a huge Sony fan back in the day, even I knew that marketing yourself as a 'Halo killer' was a terrible idea

I saw somewhere that most of these "Halo Killers" were never intended to be that by the designers and it was actually the publishers/producers trying to drum up advertising hype essentially obligating devs to a goal they never had.

I loved the vibe of Killzone and Killzone 2. Good times

I remember how the character you'd choose would affect the engagements, like what enemies you'd face, some of the paths you could take, some subtle differences in how the guns would be handled, the final level. If you played as Hakha, the aiming reticule for the Helghast assault rifle would be much smaller than with the other characters, suggesting he was more skilled with it. He was the Helghast weapons specialist. Luger would allow for more stealthy approaches: head shots, knife kills and some hidden paths + the thermal vision. Rico would face more heavily armed/armoured enemies. The aiming reticule for the Helghast assault rifle was the biggest for him, suggesting he was less precise with that rifle. Templar was basically your standard soldier guy. A baseline experience perhaps. Which was still fun. I vaguely remember some of the dialogue changing during the levels and some of the final cut scenes would change depending on what character you were playing as. Events and levels would still be largely the same, but all these little differences did add some replay value for me. Fun fact: many of the sounds were made with the studio's office supplies and it was made by a Dutch studio - nowadays part of Sony.

Killzone 1 isn’t great, but it could’ve been worse, it could’ve been Haze or Fuse.

To be fair only media outlets said Killzone was a "halo killer", the developers said "Bullshit it is, we wanted to make space world war 2". I always felt Killzone was more akin to Gears of War than Halo

Oboe : dies to a single enemy he walked into and did not shoot. Also Oboe : "you failed to make a good game".

Gosh dang it Susan, every game that tried to kill Halo failed and died, then 343i showed us how it's done

That "Display Cake" joke got me more than it was supposed to. Top notch comedy

I don’t think Killzone was ever a Halo Killer. But it is an amazing Subversive War story where you’re actually the bad guy and don’t realize it

I miss this franchise universe wise it’s incredible lol

my guy didn't even use the secondary fire mechanics on any of the guns. The shotgun was especially kinda busted because it secondary fire was that it fired 2 shots simultaneously, but you could also fire the main trigger too and fire a total of 3 shots at the same time. it was pretty devastating. Lugar's SMG secondary was a very silenced, very accurate single shot. The enemies would not be able to tell where the shot came from. Killzone was a great game series but it was not a "Halo Killer"

My hat's off to the editor who successfully displayed CAKE.

This game was a masterpiece, even without the "killing Halo" stuff. Such a good game

Killzone 2 almost had it, but master chief had a fully charged sword

Loved this game, but man IGN was the one that called everything that wasn't halo a "halo killer"

I just remembered that my mall had 2 gamestops. We also had 2 in the same shopping center as a Walmart, Target, and Best Buy..

I remember playing this game on PS2 with its terrible graphics and framerate. I seem to recall having fun. Most memories are of playing deathmatch with my cousin; I think I remember a beachhead map really well.

The cake joke was amazing, I love your content dude and that only solidified it

Ahh killzone, there was the cool one, the good one, the “huh?” One, and the “i don’t know what the fuck is going on but this is pretty badass” one. (The last one is killzone 3 btw).

Man I miss the killzone franchise . Good times 😢.

As someone who mainly owns Sony consoles. I have to say the sound of a trophy unlocked is great!

Best video game speech of all time goes to that bald guy for real though

I loved this game on PS2 back in the day. Was so gritty and grounded compared to other shooters I'd played

I played Killzone 3 with the move controllers and a gun stock exclusively. It’s actually a ton of fun. Give it a try. Kinda wonky at first but it was really awesome standing in front of my huge TV doing it.

I'll say this much. I grew up with Halo and Killzone 1. The only way to make the Killzone campaign fun is to use Action Replay to give yourself unlimited ammo with the under barrel grenade launcher. Entertainment for hours. Other than that, I genuinely enjoyed the mindless death match/team death match modes against the AI.

Not sure if you know but if you press the R2 button it uses the special weapon/mod on most guns, play as Templar and he has a grenade launcher which just helps so much, hope to see you play more Killzone's

I always felt killzone was a wasted opportunity. Always trying to clone or dethrone some other fps franchise, it never took the time to find it's own footing. As dicky and janky as this game is I enjoyed its personality the most. The depressing brutalist settings. It kind of had the not too sci-fi not too modern visuals too it like a pre halo reach. Then as time went on they kind turned into the weird blade runner transformers thing in the newest one. Less was always more for me in killzone.

This was the first console online game I ever played. My buddy had a wifi attachment for his fat PS2 and we played this a few times in 2006

Watching this makes me want to replay all the Killzone games again, such a great bunch of games for me :D

Oboe I know it was a throw away joke but 7:38 is a masterpiece

The game is mid, but I had a lot of fun as a teen playing the multiplayer maps with my friend against the bots.

I still reminisce the days before I stumbled upon your channel good sir. I was empty, my void hollower than before. But as soon as I found yoir channel, i dont think i wanna die anymore

Hey Oboe, if you're interested, the piano in the school mission of F.E.A.R. 2 makes noise when you shoot it.

You know what DESTORYED halo? Mercenaries 2 World in flames (real)

at the mall near my town there were two gamestops on opposite ends of the mall, then a five minute drive away there was a third

This was for my money the best sci-fi themed FPS on the PS2, with graphics that were awesome for the hardware, awesome guns (I actually love the Helghast StA-52 assault rifle) and the lore is one of the best I've come across. Oh and I have beaten this game many times - I also managed to take out Helghast tanks and APCs using only hand grenades...

Having a half-human/half-alien child isn’t as astounding when the aliens are just humans with Jaundice…

The best is getting an achievement on Xbox that most people don't have. The sound and the diamond appearing just makes me feel special. Playstation needs a cool way to make you feel awesome when you get an achievement not many have.

I look forward to the killzone 3 with just gyro aiming video

8:11 anyone else giggle at the night vision goggles poking out just a little?

Epic Bad Guy Monologue™ in the beginning was great

Man, seeing the Reach customisation screen brought back memories. I don't play any modern shooters outside of TF2, but knowing all those options are paywalled now, and individually at that, brings me pain. It's like you said, "the only thing that could kill Halo was Halo itself."

Suzan gave my dog cancer darn that radioactive Suzan.

4:50 My local Mall had 2 game stores within it. 2 rivals lol.

I too got stuck in the swap level and never completed kill zone. Glad to know I'm not alone

Man I miss the Borderlands content so much I can't even go back to see the old stream highlights.

Reluctantly crouched at the starting line 🤣😂

Bro I love your channel it reminds me of my childhood especially the jokes

Killzone 1 has some neat ideas but ultimately... it was kinda weird and nothing was executed quite right. Edit: Still, solid enough game. Killzone 2 however, HOH BOI THAT GAME IS GOATED. It's just so dark and grimey and claustrophobic. I'd say it's one of the really good "dark and gritty" shooters from that era of games. Also the story is solid. And then there's 3 which like... decided to just randomly up everything to 11 and add shit like giant robots and ehhhh it just ain't it. Not talking about spinoff/ later sequels because I know zero about em.

Beautiful cake joke. A good cake joke goes straight to my heart

To this day, I'm still stuck in the swamp level.

You forgot about Rico from Starship Troopers. "Rico's Roughnecks!"

7:38 You’re too good to us, Oboe

I actually really loved this game back in the day. Might not hold up very well nowadays though.

Playing the halo achievement sound gave me flashbacks to memories I thought were long forgotten

The Check Point bit was funnier than it should've been. Thanks Oboe

Cant wait for the oboe's water slurping sfx to show up in some YTPs

I am so glad to see oboe playing a childhood game

5:42 I saw it coming from over 9000km away, and when it arrived I still loved it

The display CAKE joke got me 😂

in hindsight it's so funny how companies used to think one game could kill another game

01:14 You're right, I miss that sound so much! Took me right back to being 13 again, I want to hear that sound when I'm a dementia ridden old man, it'll take me right back.

We also had two gamestops in one mall, on opposite ends.

7:37 "display cake? Okay, here we go i guess" 🤣

I was doing an oboshoesgames marathon, and I saw this vid and I was like no way, really wow

In 2005 F.E.A.R. was released, by the way, which plays flawless till this day

Alright, that Cake gag got me

I have 2 gamestops in my local mall as well. Strange stuff

We had 2 gamestops in a strip mall, an another one in the mall like 5 minutes away

I only remember a few things from first KZ: AI being so fucking bad that you could solo vs 8 and win, that annoying mix of smg and shotgun and glitching shotgun so it fired twice but used one round (most popular thing, but there was a ton of ways to abuse multiple firing modes). Yes, I played this game waaaay too much.

I love playing this on that summer jam ps2 demo

I liked the video and I was already subscribed but you should definitely play Killzone 3 with only gyro aiming/motion controls.

I still love the KZ enemy designs with glowing red eyes

When I was a kid at my local mall there was a GameStop and right across from the GameStop was an EB games. Remember EB games.

I love the part where handsome jack makes a cameo in killzone

I like, I’m already subbed, please for the love of god give me full game in move/ gyro aiming

Damn I was not expecting a lego cherry blossom callout post

The cake joke murdered me

My and my friend had so much fun on killlzone splitscreen

My favorite part of this game is how the voice actress for the Spec Ops lady was clearly working with a crappy mic that peaked way too easily. The lazy-seeming "Incoming frag" or "Jan, nooooo" always sent me into laughing fits.

I def want the killzone 3 gyro video

I beat Killzone 2 again like a day or three ago and started on Killzone 3 again, and now you upload a Killzone video? You watching me Oboe?

snoopy vs the red baron review when

That Cake joke dates me so hard

Watching him not use the instant kill on Lugers rifle was hilarious to me.

Got the lego pink frogs reference 🫡

Speaking of RU-vid, one of the biggest things I miss is the sort by age feature

It might not have killed halo, but it was my first game ever and I still have a soft spot for it, I love killzone 1.

wasn't expecting a laurel and yani joke

1:11 steam achievements , if achievement play sound every time i get one, it will drive me insane.

I loved this game about the third time I tried to play it. Then I beat it and went right back to NG+ Shadow of the Colossus.

Reluctantly-crouched, At the starting-line, Engines, Pumping And-thumping in-time.

You didn't have to kill Halo, you just had to wait for it to kill itself.

04:24 Rico from Starship Troopers

I used to play as Rico because his gun was the only gun where the bullets went forward.

4:50 wtf ay mall also had 2 Gamestops, and then in the same town there were 2 other Gamestops less than a mile away from each other