In the year and a half since PS Vita launched, owners have been clamoring for a capable first-person shooter experience. Initially, it seemed that Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Declassified or Resistance: Burning Skies would fill that void, but as critics and fans of the franchise would soon discover, they were anything but. Now, as Killzone: Mercenary kicks off its multiplayer beta ahead of its September launch, has the PS Vita's first exceptional shooter arrived?
With 8-player multiplayer matches and both deathmatch and objective-based modes, Mercenary shares common DNA with Burning Skies and Declassified, but the similarities more or less end there. Harnessing the power of a modified version of the Killzone 3 engine, Mercenary is a significant graphical leap forward for the platform with detailed weapon models, lighting effects, and environmental textures. Most importantly, the visual experience isn't diminished or scaled back for multiplayer, even with the added load of multiple simultaneous firefights between human players.
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