Sony Killing Killzone 2, Killzone 3 Servers in March 2018

Sad times. 8 years is pretty good going though.

Welp...you're next Uncharted and Modnation Racers.

Do these games have a bots mode that could be played with local MP. Obviously not the same as a full online experience but it's be something. I think online multiplayer games should all come with this mode for when the day comes that online is taken away.

Radec Academy...nooooooooooooo! 😭

Killzone 2 is probably the only shooter I spent some time playing online. I never did get good at it but it was pretty fun. I really liked that you could play against bots so you could familiarize yourself with the maps before jumping online.

Killzone 2 is pretty old. I'm surprised it lasted this long.

Killzone 3 is my favorite shooter i loved Operations my favorite mode ever. The mode COD WW2 ripped off. 😉

I have a Platinum for Killzone 3 what a blast was that.😀😁

I'm not a multiplayer guy, but multiplayer modes of Killzone 2 and MAG really should be released on PS4. A game like MAG would be a huge success nowadays.

I would buy the Killzone games remastered on PS4 as well, the campaign of Killzone 2 still is one of the best FPS games ever.

Killzone 2 was a great game. I still think it had the best campaign of all the Killzone games. Killzone 3's campaign was gorgeous for its time but I felt it was a 'secondary' option as the MP was much bigger than Killzone 2's. Shadowfall disappointed because the campaign wasn't as good as 2's and its MP wasn't as good as 3's.

I do think its disappointing to see the servers close but I also don't play on my PS3 anymore - doubt I would play Killzones MP if I did - not with 'better' options on current consoles.

With Sony shutting down servers, it does make me wonder how they would handle Backwards Compatibility. MS doesn't appear to shut down their servers so these are still working 'online' - at least at the moment but who knows in the future.

Sony do appear to be more interested in the present and future rather than preserving their 'history' - at least in terms of the 'original' but will bring some of these up to date with remasters/remakes. Its not a criticism but an observation and doesn't mean that Sony are 'wrong' in their approach - its not different from the 'general' console approach of the past - although there has been 'exceptions' too.

between early 2008 and late 2012, i pretty much played bad company, killzone 2, bad company 2 and killzone 3 almost non-stop. although i think both KZ2 and KZ3 are great, i have a preference for KZ2 - it has a better more gritty campaign, and a much better realised 'villian' in scolar visari. i think its multiplayer is slightly better too. i think the faster movement and more fluid controls in KZ3 actually work better, but the number of players was reduced from 32 to 24, and there were some mistakes made in the class system (cloaked scouts with assault rifles??) and the exemplary stats tracking from KZ2 was pretty much removed in its entirety. it did have operations mode which was good, but they never really fleshed it out, by adding configurations of others maps - it only ever had 3 maps. i was hoping it was something they would really expand upon it in shadowfall - instead we got something else entirely which didn't feel like killzone at all imo.

sad days to see the servers shutdown, i have a lot of fond memories of both games. since multiplayers this gen have largely been crap and there's nothing anywhere near in the same league as KZ2/3 or BFBC1/2, periodically i have tried to go back and play these, but KZ3 is mostly populated with south americans and lag switchers so it's practically unplayable, at least not in a way that feels fair/competitive, and since KZ2 had custom games - i found it difficult to find more than a couple of decently populated games, and they tend to be radec academy non-stop - which i just don't understand its popularity - in fact they've remade it in both KZ3, and again in KZ:SF and none of the three versions of it are among the best KZ maps.

i have the plat for KZ3 (and 100% dlc completion), but fell short on KZ2 by a couple of trophies - fortunately i do have all online trophies, though in all honesty there's almost 0% chance i'll get the rest. i think sony should have remastered KZ2/3 (more than likely multiplayers could have run @ 60fps) in the first couple of years of PS4, but i think the chance has totally gone, and at this point i think guerrilla will have to totally reboot it if it wants to continue the franchise at some point in the future. despite shadowfall being a bit naff, i hope it's not the end for killzone.

@get2sammyb i also liked MAG too, though its ambition was never really matched by its execution. the main problem was the shooting felt a bit inconsequential, not a good thing for an FPS really. the potential was there though and i would like to have seen a more technically competent team like guerrilla make a sequel.

i played KZ2 about 9 months ago - at that time it had a small but dedicated playerbase - i think there was something around 2000 unique players listed in the stats leaderboards for the previous week.

@Dange - yes, all killzone games have 'botzone' - it's multiplayer with bots, though reduced - KZ2/3 and SF cap the number of bots at 15 - so you can have 8v8, whereas it's 16v16 (KZ2) or 12v12 (KZ3/SF) for the main multiplayer. botzone's actually pretty good if you don't want to play competitively, and if you set the bot level at 'elite' it's quite a serious challenge.

@leucocyte Awesome. Cheers for confirming. It just makes sense and prolongs that part of the games.

The original KZ had the best botzone. I dont remember the name of the map, I think it was the train station. I loved the mode where you have to defend the generators and I can still remember the anticipation everyone sitting in front of the generators and one or two guys sitting in the stairwell as we wait for the group of Helghast to come through the lobby. Then next thing you hear is a shotgun blast as one of the guys in the stairwell gets taken out, and then half the team starts unloading bullets up the stairs as the whole group of Helghast storms down the stairs. I'm surprised how many times they made it through and slaughtered my entire team! And on top of it setting the timer for an hour and trying to survive every wave of the relentless b@$t*rd$! Good times!

Rude

Even though these games are several years old. I'm sure they still have some sort of fan base. (I still have 3 somewhere). This is why I can't understand the appeal of online only games? Well it is what it is...

@get2sammyb I LOVED MAG and I was just telling someone about it today. Would love a sequel but it’ll obviously never come without Zipper.

they are closing gravity rush servers wich came a year ago so why not killzone or other games?!!!
What is really new about closing servers in exclusive games?!
I hope they never ever think about closing Tlou servers ...
P.s: i'm not a multi fan but i know killzone2 is one of the best games on multiplayer , so here we go again ! What a shame. I hope to see more support for these games , like remaster or remake(hey boy that's killzone you don't need remake !!! Graphic is already next GEN)
But it's almost 2018 ...and there is not even a rumor about it.

I think, I bought all the DLC for KZ2 and never really played any of it.

@Dange They should also support Linked Consoles/Local play support as well. It's really such a shame to lose such a huge aspect of the game. Sadly Killzone never got mass appeal, but it is honestly one of favorite FPS online games to play. Shadowfall is a lot of fun, but KZ 3 was my personal best.