Killzone Mercenary (PS Vita) review

[Neil]

Anyone still playing this online? Played for 6 hours straight yesterday, loads of matches and great fun. Few updates coming soon I downloaded the first one yesterday which frees up about 800MB of data from the last monster patch. Nice to see a couple more (Free) maps are coming and an offline bot mode which is nice.



Killzone: Mercenary developer Guerrilla Cambridge has outlined four upcoming updates for the Vita shooter due between now and mid-2014.

The game's third update should launch in the next few weeks, according to senior producer Mark Green, and offers few changes or additions to the game, but will free up 800mb of space on the user's Vita as it reduces the mammoth size of the game's previous patches--update 2 weighed in at 1.2GB.

Following in January 2014 will be update 4, which aims to improve the game's matchmaking, make it easier to connect to games, and automatically rebalance teams in multiplayer.

The fifth update will add offline bot play for the game's Mercenary and Guerrilla Warfare modes, as well and providing two additional multiplayer maps for free.

Support for the Vita TV will also be arriving in 2014 as part of the game's sixth update.

[J0e Musashi]

I just got it this morning. I'm up for some online.

[Neil]

Nice one, if I see you online I'll ping you an invite.

[J0e Musashi]

I've gelled with this game now that I've got it set up how I like it. What an excellent game, second only to KZ2 I reckon. The scene where you accompany Boris is particularly fantastic. Plenty of replay value to gather all items and intel too. I'll be playing this for a good while yet.

What does the swap crouch/dash option actually do though? I can't tell any difference.

[J0e Musashi]

I've done the main story now, it ended rather abruptly I thought. The last boss is very MGS.

I'm now onto collecting medals. I'd imagine it's going to take a few months to get them all as some of the criteria is insane. I thought there wasn't much SP content at first, but now all of this extra stuff needs to be done, I see that they've put it together very cleverly. It's a fantastic take on a handheld FPS, especially how there are different ways of going about things.

My only gripe is the weapon system and levelling up system. Unless you play on Veteran, you get hardly any cash at all. I haven't even got a full load out yet at level 18. I guess it's their way of making you play it multiple times.

[Neil]

Veteran is so easy, no harder than normal really (campaign).

[J0e Musashi]

I'll give it a go then. I'm currently going for all the intel in easy, so it's less trouble.

[capcom_suicide]

The level challenges reminded me of GoldeEye, and the same feeling of replaying the first mission time and time again, just because the level design was so fun. For me this is the best KZ after KZ2, certainly. Hope it gets a HD makeover, it would be a good PSN game & deserves more attention.

[J0e Musashi]

Definitely the best one after 2. I'm saving MP until it gets the TV update.

[25.05.2005]

Still undecided whether to pick this up. You guys aren't really helping with your mixed reviews.

I think I'll wait for sub ?10.

[J0e Musashi]

It's in the top two games on Vita. Unless you absolutely hate FPS, everyone should have it. Sub-?10 will be a good while yet I reckon, what with there being a number of updates still to come.

[Lebowski]

Still undecided whether to pick this up. You guys aren't really helping with your mixed reviews.

I think I'll wait for sub ?10.

sub ?10 its one of the best games on the vita, i doubt it will go that low.

i've been waiting for the ps vita Assassin creed to go down in price but I've had no luck

[ItsThere]

I paid ?25 delivered for it, first game purchase in a long time. Only done two missions but enjoying it more than any other KZ title I've ever played.

[25.05.2005]

sub ?10 its one of the best games on the vita, i doubt it will go that low.

i've been waiting for the ps vita Assassin creed to go down in price but I've had no luck

I got AC on the Vita for ?9.99 from GAME. I think it's around ?11.99 new now in a few places. So not too far off if you want to treat yourself.

Cheapest I've seen KZ:M new was ?21.99 I think.

[capcom_suicide]

Still undecided whether to pick this up. You guys aren't really helping with your mixed reviews.

I think I'll wait for sub ?10.

The only negative I remember was the gaming press who insited that I "Didn't need a console style shooter" on mobile. Muppets.