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Killzone 2 for PlayStation 3
Killzone 2 for PlayStation 3 is a first-person shooter in which you play ISA soldier Sev during the invasion of Helghan. The Helghast defend their home planet with heavy equipment and guarded positions. You advance with your unit through streets, factories and military installations. Progress requires shooting, finding cover and navigating enemy fire. This war is not fought across empty ground: buildings and narrow passages constantly define your room to move.
From the first-person view, you can shelter behind low obstacles and aim around their edges. You choose when to emerge and when to seek a different position. Weapons vary in range and firepower, while explosions and counterattacks quickly put safe places under pressure. The campaign alternates infantry battles with larger military hardware. Your teammates are part of the fighting, but you control the story campaign as a single player.
Killzone 2 follows a set sequence of missions on Helghan rather than a freely explored city with separate jobs. The focus is the unit’s assault and the resistance it meets. Official online services have ended; working network matches are not promised. This page covers the standard PS3 game. Special packaging contents or extra maps from other offers are not automatically part of this copy.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 3 games are European editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Killzone 2 for PlayStation 3 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Killzone 2
Guerrilla Games developed Killzone 2, and Sony released it for PlayStation 3 in 2009. The sequel moved the war to Helghan, where the ISA launches its own invasion. This reversed the earlier Killzone’s situation: the enemy was attacked on its home ground. Sev and his unit gave the campaign a different perspective from the first game’s protagonists, while the conflict between ISA and Helghast remained central.
The PS3 production paid close attention to lighting, smoke and soldiers’ reactions during combat, shaping Helghan’s industrial world. The cover system kept you in first person, so sheltering and aiming shared the same battlefield view. This gave the campaign an emphasis on position and firefights between buildings. The combination distinguished it from adventures whose approach is defined by supernatural powers or a large collection of weapons.
Killzone 3 followed in 2011 and continued events on Helghan. Killzone 2 originally also had online battles, but Guerrilla closed the servers in 2018. The solo campaign remained a separate component. The original PS3 disc thus preserves this phase of the series: an invasion on enemy soil, not the later PS4 game Shadow Fall. The story route requires neither an online match nor a special edition.
Similar games for PlayStation 3
Killzone 3 continues the Helghan war on PS3 with Sev as protagonist. It adds different environments and local two-player campaign cooperation, among other things. Killzone 2’s story is played alone. Both emphasise cover and military firefights, but the third offers more variety in the means of advancing.
Resistance: Fall of Man uses a different PS3 war: the Chimera invade an alternate Britain. Its human and alien arsenal has unusual functions. Killzone 2 focuses more on cover during an invasion of Helghan. Resistance also allows local two-player campaign play, while Killzone 2 keeps its story solo.
Resistance 2 shares large-scale PS3 fighting with soldiers and heavily armed enemies. Nathan Hale battles Chimera in America, not Helghast on their home planet. Both main campaigns are single-player. Resistance 2 uses alien weapons and different enemy types, while Killzone 2 more strongly integrates first-person cover into your regular approach.
Resistance 3 sends Joseph Capelli across a largely conquered America on PS3. You carry a larger arsenal through a weapon wheel and seek health packs. Killzone 2 puts you within a military assault alongside your unit. Both have set campaigns, but Resistance 3 frames combat around scarcity and survivors’ journey.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare switches between contemporary military missions and perspectives on PS3. Its weapons and locations are closer to the real world than Helghan. Killzone 2 keeps its campaign within one science-fiction conflict and regular unit. Both guide scripted battles, but Killzone adds its own cover system and industrial Helghast world.
