Killzone

[McWopper]

Does anyone else miss playing online on Visari Hammer (KZ2)?  Or those crazy Warzones on Tharsis Depot?  Southern Hills?  I know I do.

I'm requesting that in future KZ games Guerilla include all the maps from the PS3 games so far, preferably on the disc included in the game price.

Yes I know I could go back and play KZ2.  I have done.  But there's little or no action online anymore and the handling and gampeplay is better in KZ3.  I like the guns of KZ3 better and it would be great to have all of that on the old maps that I still love.

Anyway looking forward I had an idea for an interesting way to unlock maps in future KZ games.  Assassin's Creed unlocks maps when certain milestones are reached i.e community kills.  I like this idea so I pictured a world map of Helgan.  On it are several maps open and available to play from the outset.  When the Helgast win x number of matches on a map it opens up a neighbouring map where in story terms the Helgast have pushed the ISA back to, thus opening up a new map to play on.  It works the other way too.  From the same initial map if the ISA win x number of games then they push the Helgast back into a newly playable arena.

Although it might seem pointless to hold back maps when they are on the disc, a lot of games do it.  Past Call of Duty games reserved some maps for certain modes and those modes weren't available until you reached a certain rank.  The main reason for doing it is to encourage longer attention from online players.  If maps were unlocked by reaching a certain rank then everyone would get access to those maps at different times.  But if it's done on community achievements then they open for everyone at the same time.  It would hopefully act like a map pack or double XP weekend to get people playing again periodically.  At the moment I don't think the stimulus of double XP happens often enough.

[LesTom1]

I completley agree with everthing you've said. I just find it such a shame that they didn't release more Operations maps for KZ3 as the mode is incredibly enjoyable.

Roll on Killzone 4.

[McWopper]

I'm sure that's something they'll make more of in KZ4 (Operations mode). I can see that it would take a bit of effort to make more for KZ3 as DLC, but it is a great mode.