Killzone: Shadow Fall
Killzone Shadow Fall is the sixth game of the Killzone series. Gameplay in Shadow Fall is fairly similar to previous installments, though now with more improvements. The game is much more open-ended allowing…
Killzone: Shadow Fall is a shooter developed by Guerrilla Games, released 15 November 2013 on PlayStation 4. The main story takes about 6 hrs to finish.
What Killzone: Shadow Fall is
Killzone: Shadow Fall is a shooter game developed by Guerrilla Games and released in 2013. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4 only. It runs on Decima.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Killzone: Shadow Fall is set 30 years after the events of Killzone 3. Life on the Helghast home planet Helghan has been left in ruins, however, the war still goes on. The Interplanetary Strategic Alliance (ISA) allows Helghast refugees to resettle on planet Vekta. The Vektan and Helghast factions are living in a city which is divided by a large security wall. The Helghast are fighting for their right to exist, while the Vektans are fighting for survival, leading to a "Cold War" between Vektans and Helghast. The story is seen through the perspective of Lucas Kellan, an agent of the elite ISA special forces branch known as the Shadow Marshals.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Killzone series
Killzone: Shadow Fall is the 13th of 15 entries we hold in the Killzone series. The next entry was Killzone: Shadow Fall - Intercept in 2014. Its critic score of 65 is 8 points below the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is Killzone 2 at 90.
How it was received
Killzone: Shadow Fall holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 28% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 5 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 67, across 169 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6 hrs.
What it launched against
Killzone: Shadow Fall launched on 15 November 2013, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds and Super Mario 3D World. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Super Mario 3D World.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Killzone: Shadow Fall yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Dlc
Quick answers
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