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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

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Halo 3: ODST

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2009USK 16PC, Xbox86 % positive4.99 €

Fits your focus: Combat like Killzone and Systems 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.

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Gears of War

  • Combat like Killzone
  • Systems 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
  • Systems 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.

F.E.A.R.

  • Combat like Killzone
  • Systems 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.

Red Faction

  • Combat like Killzone
  • Systems 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 2

  • Combat like Killzone
  • Systems 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.

Star Wars: Battlefront

  • Combat like Killzone
  • Systems like Killzone

A large-scale battle shooter that lets you fight iconic Star Wars movie battles as infantry or in vehicles. Its conquest-style modes on big maps are the focus rather than any story.

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary

  • Combat like Killzone
  • Systems like Killzone

A remaster of the landmark shooter that sends Master Chief across a mysterious ring world against the Covenant. You can swap between updated and original visuals on the fly, with co-op and classic multiplayer maps included.

F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin

  • Combat like Killzone
  • Systems like Killzone

An intense first-person shooter that pairs slow-motion gunfights against smart AI soldiers with unsettling supernatural horror centered on the vengeful Alma. Mech sequences and movable cover add variety to its tightly paced, linear scares.

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch

  • Combat like Killzone
  • Systems like Killzone

Fast-paced online deathmatch in the Half-Life 2 universe where the Gravity Gun and physics engine turn barrels, sawblades and toilets into lethal projectiles. Play free-for-all or Combine vs. Resistance team matches.

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