Killzone popping in at Min-E3
by Ross Miller 
{ May 21st 2007 at 2:40PM }
After a long period of darkness, new details on Killzone for PlayStation 3 will be revealed at E3 Media Summit, according to Peter Dille, senior vice president of Sony Computer Entertainment."Yeah. I think all the stuff [from Sony Gamers' Day] you can have playable at E3. And then the one we've been holding back on is Killzone, so it's a good reason for you to come to E3, because we'll have some updates on that," he said in an interview with Game Informer.
Killzone hasn't been seen publicly since its unveiling at E3 2005, but a trailer was shown behind closed doors at this year's Game Developers Conference. While we'd love to see a playable demo, our interpretation of "some updates" implies that what we'll get is a new trailer and maybe a release window.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
rinks @ May 21st 2007 2:47PM
Halo Killer Redux, blah blah. Whatever, the first one sucked, and I can't think of anyone who's excited about the second one (except Sony, I guess). Why this game gets coverage is beyond me.
Digi Smalls @ May 21st 2007 2:46PM
sigh, whenever it drops, it will surely be after the PS3 price cut.
yay, PS3 early adoption FTL
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DBX00 @ May 21st 2007 2:59PM
rinks
It gets coverage because the PSP version was a pretty good game and like every other shooter on the market, they hype it up as pushing the system to the next level.
Shagittarius @ May 21st 2007 3:00PM
Man the Wii-hugger movement is strong. They can't let a single PS3 announcement go by without dropping in to prove their insecurities.
rinks @ May 21st 2007 3:03PM
@3 yeah, PSP version was cool. If this one is good though, it'd work better as a sleeper hit- ridiculous hype seems to just hurt this series.
dork @ May 21st 2007 3:04PM
whast the date for this show anyway?
samfish @ May 21st 2007 3:04PM
Alright, Halo 3. THIS IS IT!
PREPARE TO DIE, NOW! THE HALO KILLER IS FINALLY READY!!!
YYYYYYYEEEEAAARRGH!!!!!
Geo @ May 21st 2007 3:07PM
OH wow that`s a good new for Sony gamers they really need more games like this, i think this game will be good enough to compete with Halo 3 and Crysis best wishes for PS3...........
wackychan @ May 21st 2007 3:09PM
I don't have a ps3 yet, but I think this game is gonna be badass. My love for shooters is why I bought a 360. Perhaps it will be the same reason I get a PS3 after a price drop.
Geo @ May 21st 2007 3:14PM
if they make the gameplay and graphics of 2005 trailer this will be a monster hit for Playstation 3,
i hope this will happen for the enjoy of PS3 gamers im a PC gamer and i think PS3 gamers deserve something like this.........
noid @ May 21st 2007 3:25PM
Im a huge fan of the PS 1,2,3 but Sorry to say it I dont think they should have made this game the first one sucked, So im guessing that this one will look pretty but suck as well.
sheppy @ May 21st 2007 3:57PM
The only thing wrong with the first one is that it was created beyond the PS2s abilities. I'll say it now and don't care who hears me. The original Killzone looked like an Xbox game. Too bad, due to the particles, on top of heavy textures, high polies, and other such things, you would often lose far too many framerates. Playing it in a PS3 fixed this problem but there is no doubt in my mind, the game was built beyond PS2s abilities.
Next-Gen-Gamer @ May 21st 2007 3:57PM
"It gets coverage because the PSP version was a pretty good game and like every other shooter on the market, they hype it up as pushing the system to the next level."
Pfft! It gets coverage because Halo exists. Without Halo, what's Killzone? A crap main franchise (Liberation was good, but was a spin-off, and not a FPS), developed by a company that hasn't made a good game pre-Liberation. Props to Sony for being the ones to call it a "Halo Killer". Without that comment, or Halo, this franchise would've been buried.
apoc06 @ May 21st 2007 3:59PM
eh... the multiplayer was crap, the hit detection was spotty, but i rather liked the single player of the original killzone. the psp version was great; i have optimistic hopes for the ps3 version.
say what you will about the original killzone, but if you played through the entire campaign, you know that many of the great things about gears of war, were present in the original killzone first.
-"gritty" story
-multicultural four person commando team
-orbital weapon
-huge, "heavy" guns
-unabashed use of profanity [actually, it was more out of place in gears]
-cliffhanger ending
-stylized art direction
IMHO i will even go so far as to say that killzone outdid a few things in gears [dialogue? whats that? what story?]. its a shame it didnt live up to its full greatness [halo-killer? nope! sorry... denied!], but it was still a great game. outside of the halo games, it was the first non-PC FPS i bothered to play through til the end.
k0llateral @ May 21st 2007 4:09PM
agreed 100% with apoc
NvM @ May 21st 2007 4:09PM
A sequel to a repetitive shooter on the playstation!?
I CAN"T WAIT!
Geo @ May 21st 2007 4:19PM
there is also another FPS game is coming out for PS3 called Haze but it will be out on 2008 it seem that it will be a very good one however Sony need more games like this that way can compete more directly with Xbox 360 and PC remember western culture like shooter, PS3 hardware has enough potential to have very good FPS but for now there are only few of them.........
AoE @ May 21st 2007 5:23PM
@apoc,
Why take pot-shots at Gears of War? Granted nothing that you mentioned was introduced in Gears; but none of it was introduced in Killzone either... Some of the crap you mentioned can be traced back to even the earliest FPS games... So what was your point? That a highly derivative genre has highly derivative games? That Sony's latest highly-derivative shooter franchise hit before MS's latest highly-derivative shooter franchise? Let's face it, it's not a genre that gets lots of totally new anything, beside perhaps graphical tweaks.
horngreen @ May 21st 2007 5:25PM
All this hiding of Killzone 2 is surely not a good thing. I'd guess it is not coming along as well as they would like and they don't know how to fix it. This feels like B.C. for the original Xbox. Lot of hype at first, dies down, dies down more, goes away completely. If you want to make it right see if the lads at Bungie will clean it up for you!
mccomber @ May 21st 2007 5:27PM
Count me as another person who actually enjoyed the first Killzone. It wasn't the greatest game I've ever played, but it kept my attention and was entertaining, had quite a few great moments, was one of the better looking ps2 titles, and if this title builds upon the original Killzone foundation it'll be worth it.
mccomber @ May 21st 2007 5:29PM
Count me as another person who actually enjoyed the first Killzone. It wasn't the greatest game I've ever played, but it kept my attention and was entertaining, had quite a few great moments, was one of the better looking ps2 titles, and if this title builds upon the original Killzone foundation it'll be worth it.
NeverSage @ May 21st 2007 5:50PM
The reason this game is still getting press is because everyone wants to see how the graphics will turn out. Will it look even close to the prerender? Or will it be like motorstorm (which I realize some people still claim to be as good graphically to the prerender... but that's just not true).
kevin @ May 21st 2007 6:37PM
never, if you went into first person in motorstorm it looks exactly like the trailer they showed for it. only thing missing was the wind shield wipers.
NeverSage @ May 21st 2007 7:55PM
kevin,
Mud splatter and all? I honestly haven't played it. I'm just going by (admittedly lowres) videos online.
NeverSage @ May 21st 2007 8:04PM
This is the video I was basing my statement on:
http://kotaku.com/gaming/sony/motorstorm-e3-2005-vs-reality-218761.php
To me, it looks no where close. It looks good, but the particle effects, physics, lightning, and vehicle disintigration look nothing like the target render. The pre render looks almost real even in 3rd person view.
They seem to be spending a lot more time on killzone, which is good. I'm not expecting target render quality, but I hope it'll look better than gears.
Digi Smalls @ May 21st 2007 8:09PM
no, the mud splatter and dirt effects are about as far from the target render as you can get.
the lighting isn't though. they did a great job with that.
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JKPierce @ May 21st 2007 8:25PM
The original Killzone was hyped because of what little information they released. 'Halo-killer' was immediably pushed by the media because what little information they had was vividly interesting.
The silence isn't new for Guerilla Games; it's just how they do things. Those that get off on poking fun at something kept hush-hush would get off just the same seeing the game during production. It would be great to see how things are moving along, of course, but that's just not how they play their cards.
Those that at least pretend to have objectivity can wait for the beta testing and hands-on previews from the media.
apoc06 @ May 21st 2007 8:59PM
hey sorry AoE, didnt mean my comment to bash gears. gears is a great game that could have easily been better. i own the game[gears], so thats my seal of approval.
killzone was a decent game that may have tried to outdo itself or just needed more development time. it was not the halo-killer that the media aimed to make it into, and it had more than its fair share of glitches/ graphic problems/ crappy multiplayer. im just saying that there are quite a few similarities between the two titles.
either way, now that guerilla is wholely owned by sony they have 1) money to develop something of this scale and 2) the freedom to hold the release date until they "get it right". i dont think the ps3 version will live up to the lofty expectations everyone has for it; similar to the original game. given the potential that the original game had, i know a sequel will at least keep me entertained.
mj @ May 21st 2007 10:09PM
This is what Sony always does: ridiculous game trailers that the game can't achieve in real time.
The original is painful. Not a horrible game, but I'm so sick of the aliens yelling when they die, and they die A LOT. Why is it so hard to make Call of Duty with Ray guns? I don't get it.