The game is very arbitrary about what you can and can't use as cover, which makes firefights very difficult.Some section are tedious to get past through and the hard difficulty (the start of Chapter 7 where you need to glide down to the core the ship, same thing with gliding through the ruins of planet Helgan).A Helghast enemy type has a shield, which is very annoying, especially on the hardest difficulty.While the multiplayer is fun, it can fell lifeless at times due the mode removing death sounds and screams from the previous game.

Cosmetics (aside with a few expectations from such as of the voice overs and tons of OWL skins) are awful, with multiplayer customization being abysmal for your VSA and Helghast troops.

Also, for some reason they speak with American accents while the soldiers still use British/Australian accents.

Terrible character design for the New Helgan citizens.

But as said in #4, they were only bought with real world money.

In speaking of #4, Valor grants players booster items that give them a decent advantage.

Thankfully, they were removed in the Valor update.

Pay-to-win micro-transactions were in the game.

That will include robotic Helghast weapons that can kill you very easily on the other sections (not too much on the easiest difficulty thankfully). This chapter is the worst of the campaign with you dying out of nowhere in the gliding section. The missions do a poor job of telling you the objective. And Chapter 10 has you controlling Echo and assassinating Sinclair when the war is still going on, thus the game ends in a cliffhanger. Sinclair shows up out of nowhere and shoots Kellan, who falls dead with one shot despite taking dozens of bullets in gameplay without dying.

How did Tyran survive the explosion in Chapter 5?.

How did Kellan get that kind of hardware through a Helghast checkpoint?.

The bioweapon you were chasing throughout the game (same as Mercenary) They were developing a bioweapon? So how did The Black Hand deploy a bioweapon intended to murder living beings and bring down a bunch of Vektan and Helgan ships and leave them to their deaths in the final mission? Why didn't they ever name the weapon?.

Lucas wields an overpowered suit (which you never use much) with shoulderpads that shoots rockets that could only be used when spite being a shadow marshal, which according to Killzone lore is supposed to be a stealth operative.

And why don't the VSA do anything about it? weren't evacuated yet? Why were they shooting at Vektans in the first place? Did Kellan's father refuse to leave? He didn't seem like the type to put his son in danger by refusing to go until they were threatened.

Why are The Helghast violently murdering people who.

Tyran is a bland and very unlikable antagonist, and his actions are deeply flawed, his terrorist group name (The Black Hand) is too a generic name.

But you never get to play in those sequences and let Lucas's character be more developed.

There is a sequence where Sinclair is talking to Lucas while he grows up.

She sounds like a old lady instead of a thirty year old.

Massar's voice acting is downright terrible.

Tons of continuity errors in the story which hurts the series.

She states she and The Helghast want peace, yet her father, Scolar Visari attacked Vekkta 32 years before the events of this game, and she turns a blind eye to terrorism committed by the Helghast against the VSA.

Lady Hera Visari is very hypocritical.

Sinclair (read BQ 9) is very cold-hearted and he is really mean spirited towards Lucas (best seen at the end of Chapter 9 where he kills him).

A example when Lucas escapes New Helgan with the help from Echo, Sinclair reacts very negativity to it, and doesn't even support Lucas from the end of Chapter 7 onward.

This is most likely because the game was rushed to be a launch title for the PS4.

Most notable is Sinclair and almost every VSA character but Lucas Kellan. A weak campaign and a very uninteresting, convoluted, poorly written story, with most of the characters being really unlikable.And to make things even worse, instead of organizing an orderly evacuation of Vektans from the portions of the planet allotted to the Helghast, the VSA give the Helghast weapons and allow them to commit literal ethnic cleansing against the Vektans.Out of all the places the VSA could have settled the surviving Helghast, they choose Vekta-the planet that the ISA and Helghast spent years fighting over, and whose inhabitants have the best reasons to hate the Helghast. While the game graphically succeeds very well, it is a hindrance on the gameplay and can lead to issues with the game, and it can lead to it being dubbed as a tech demo more than a actual game, which is a issue with most launch titles. The biggest issue with the game that it focuses on pretty graphics and nothing else.

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