Killzone: Liberation

Turning first-person shooters into overhead-perspective action games for handhelds is hardly a new idea, but Killzone: Liberation might be the first game to really nail it. A spinoff of 2004's futuristic FPS Killzone, Liberation casts players as one of that game's characters - a commando named Templar - and runs them through blasted trenches and colossal industrial complexes in a campaign to rescue hostages from the Nazi-like Helghast army. We recently got our hands on a near-complete version » Read Full Killzone: Liberation preview

Tuesday 23 May 2006 It's no secret that first-person shooters are tough to do properly on PSP, thanks to a rather limited control scheme. So we're not surprised that developer Guerrilla thought long and hard about how best to recreate its FPS hit Killzone - originally a PS2 title - for PSP. What did surprise us, in a very pleasant way, was the solution Guerrilla came up with - switching to an isometric, third-person view - and how well the resulting game plays after such a drastic » Read Full Killzone: Liberation preview