1- A military term describing an area of ground that is
well defended, possibly including
pre-sighted machine guns, mortars, artillery, as
well as a variety of obstacles such as razor wire and tripflares. (Weapons will be presighted to these obstacles, as approaching troops will get caught in them, making them ideal targets.) This creates a literal "killing zone," hence the name.
2- A recent FPS for the playstation 2. A decent
game that can be accurately described as "Call of duty in space." This fun and well-rounded (although linear)
game is unfortunate enough to have been over-hyped as a "Halo-killer" which is nothing more than a kiss of
death, as now everyone, especially reviewers, will try to campare it to Halo, and of course, find this
game lacking.
(And yes, I've played killzone. It's good, but not to the scale of Halo.)
1- "With our platoon support weapons pre-sighted to these tripflares, we've created a fairly
night-effective killzone."
2- "Killzone's no Halo-
Killer, but it's still a really good
game."