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2004PEGI 16PlayStation

A grim sci-fi first-person shooter set in the war between the Helghast and the ISA, letting you switch between four heroes with different strengths. It also offered 16-player online multiplayer, though the servers are now shut down.

  • Shooting and gunplay
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Action-packed real-time combat

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In short: Games like Killzone

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Killzone special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

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2009PEGI 18PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Steam Deck playable93 % positive19.99 €

Fits your focus: Combat like Killzone.

A blockbuster military shooter with a breakneck, set-piece-driven campaign full of iconic moments. It adds co-op Spec Ops missions and a legendary multiplayer mode with killstreaks and perks that defined a generation.

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Red Faction

  • Combat like Killzone

A first-person shooter set on Mars where you play a miner joining a rebellion. Its Geo-Mod tech lets you blast through walls and terrain in real time, which made for standout moments back then.

Halo 3: ODST

  • Combat like Killzone

Instead of Master Chief, you play a fragile ODST trooper roaming a dark, occupied New Mombasa, piecing together your squad's fate through flashback missions set to a moody noir-jazz score. The cooperative Firefight mode adds wave-survival battles against the Covenant with friends.

Half-Life

  • Combat like Killzone

The landmark shooter sends physicist Gordon Freeman through the alien- and soldier-infested Black Mesa facility, telling its story seamlessly without cutscenes while mixing tense firefights with environmental and physics puzzles.

F.E.A.R.

  • Combat like Killzone

A first-person shooter that pairs explosive slow-motion firefights against remarkably smart enemy AI with unsettling psychological horror built around the eerie girl Alma. Its destructible gunfights are still held up as a genre benchmark.

Gears of War

  • Combat like Killzone

A brutal third-person shooter that defined cover-based combat, pairing the chainsaw-bayonet Lancer and active reloads with a grim, ruined world overrun by the Locust. The campaign shines in two-player co-op, backed by tense competitive multiplayer.

Quake 4

  • Combat like Killzone

A linear sci-fi shooter on the Doom 3 engine where marine Matthew Kane takes the fight to the Strogg homeworld, featuring the infamous stroggification twist. Squad missions, vehicle sections and fast arena multiplayer round it out.

Overload

  • Combat like Killzone

Overload is a six-degrees-of-freedom shooter that revives the Descent formula: you fly weightlessly through tight mine complexes, blasting robots and hunting for keys and secrets. Precise controls and fast, frantic combat are the core appeal.

Descent II

  • Combat like Killzone

A classic six-degrees-of-freedom shooter where you pilot a ship in every direction through twisting alien mines full of hostile robots. Key hunting, new weapons and disorienting 3D navigation make for intense action.

Halo 2

  • Combat like Killzone

Bungie's landmark sci-fi shooter tells its war story from both sides, switching between Master Chief and the Arbiter, with dual-wielding, vehicle hijacking and co-op. Its pioneering Xbox Live matchmaking multiplayer made it a console online legend.

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