Killzone 3 to include 'total' PlayStation Home integration

by JC Fletcher on Jan 24th 2011 5:32PM

If you happen to wander into PlayStation Home's Central Plaza after this Thursday, January 27, you may not find it as antiseptic and serene as you remember. As part of a Killzone 3 promotion, Sony is going to transform Home's main meeting area into "the last ISA stronghold," wrecked by a Helghast attack. Players can fight back in three "levels" of Home minigames, earning points that can be used to unlock content in the real game's multiplayer mode.

Sony is also adding the somewhat impractical functionality of a Killzone 3 pre-order from Amazon ... from within Home. For the first time, you'll be able to reserve a game from within Sony's virtual world, securing an exclusive jet-pack "costume" for your avatar (are you really asking -- not a chance it actually works!); in addition to Amazon's standard pre-orders bonuses, including more multiplayer points and the "Retro Map Pack" (two maps from Killzone 2 playable in the new game). So, you're supposed to go to the fake Killzone to buy the real one -- is that right?

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PlayStation®Home Unveils Total Game Integration with Killzone®3, Featuring Extended Gaming Experiences and Exclusive Content

January 24, 2011 – Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC (SCEA) today announced PlayStation®Home's Total Game Integration on the platform with the soon-to-be-released Killzone®3, providing users with unique opportunities to extend the Killzone 3 experience. Beginning on January 27, the Killzone 3 Total Game Integration will kick off when the Helghast invade and destroy the PlayStation Home Central Plaza, leaving it as the last ISA stronghold. Once in PlayStation Home, users will be able to aid in the ISA evacuation of Helghan by launching into a series of games across three different levels to gain accessories for their PlayStation Home avatar. Completion of all three levels will reward players with Unlock Points, which can be redeemed for new weapons and abilities in Killzone 3 multiplayer.

Additionally, available for the first time in PlayStation Home, users will be able to pre-order Killzone 3 within the platform and will receive the exclusive Helghan jet pack costume for their PlayStation Home avatar as a gift with purchase.

"PlayStation Home has seen tremendous growth in the last year and now features hundreds of games, with more coming all the time," said Jack Buser, director of PlayStation Home, SCEA. "The introduction of Total Game Integration is another huge step forward, allowing Home to directly affect gameplay in your favorite PlayStation 3 titles."

The Killzone 3 pre-orders in PlayStation Home are hosted by Amazon.com and are available until February 24, 2011. In addition to the custom jet pack for their PlayStation Home avatar, users that pre-order through PlayStation Home will also receive the Amazon.com gift with purchase bundle. The bundle features the Unlock and Load Pack, which includes an exclusive PlayStation®Network code for instant access to three Unlock Points to use towards a weapon or ability of choice, as well as the Killzone 3 Retro Map Pack.

For additional details on the Killzone 3 Total Game Integration, visit PlayStation blog at http://blog.us.playstation.com/.

Source: PlayStation Blog

Tags: amazon, Guerrilla-Games, home, Killzone-3, playstation, playstation-home, pre-order, ps3

Reader Comments (51)

Still not enough to get me to remotely want to take any HDD space up with Home. Although I am psyched for KZ3.

@twistedfloyd Home isn't even present in my region. BS incomplete experience, no DLC, no RockBand songs, nothing. Waste of money.

Hearing all that negativity, I wonder what happened to all the people who used to be defending Home on here? Making you out to be an idiot for bashing their awesome virtual reality that had apparently evolved so much since launch.

@twistedfloyd

My interest in home is mediocre, the reason I bother with it is because of the few GOOD spaces and the friends I've made on it. There is and was a lot of potential for Home if it was in fact a Wow tyoe experience, lots of places to visit, lots of humour, lots of wacky missions to do to get some trophies, for home and for games too in the form of home spaces.

I think developers would also be more keen if they saw what else was possible, what about live streams in spaces of game tournaments? That would be cool, Killzone multiplayer tounaments streamed right to the Killzone space. There is lots that can be done, but it seems that like someone said, some of these spaces are just 3D advertisements rather then actual spaces :(

I'm think 3Realms for PS3 will push Home aside, because at least 3Realms is fun :P

It's a prop!

my internet can't handle Home.

@cylet my brain can't handle home.

I just feel dirty when I get on Home and see all the dudes hitting on the "chicks". I usually stay far away.

@InDurdenWeTrust i have also seen this happen shit's weird

@Dirtybombs
No what's weird is when I walk up to them and do the robot.

@Dirtybombs
Main reason why I deleted my daughter account SMh

haha thats crazy, they should do this with the next fallout game also, just sayin.

@Virus one

WHAT THE HELL IS A MATTER WITH YOU??!!

Damn. For a minute there I thought you could import your Home avatar into KZ3...

Which would be simultaneously hilarious and awesome.

@EliminatorZigma

Not if your avatar is wearing the helghast avatar outfit.

Honestly, is Home worthwhile? I have never touched since I've had my PS3. I know it gets shit on all over the place and is always being mocked, but for the people that have given it a shot and checked it out, should I do the same or is it actually a waste of space and time?

@Uncle Jesse
No.

@Uncle Jesse

There are a few interesting bits here and there, but more than just a bit of it is crap, a lot of pretty much empty rooms.

The Siren space is neat, Bowling Alley is worth it, there's an Atari style arcade game in the Uncharted space, there's some interesting stuff in the Xi museum or whatever and some decent content in the Assassin's Creed space and the Buzz space isn't half bad. Most spaces have a minigame, but some are much better than others, and some spaces are simply stores to sell you crap for your avatar (lame).

There just needs to be more to do, more events and a lot more reasons to go there.

@Uncle Jesse - I used it to watch the first season of the Tester since they were streaming it there instead of me having to wait forever for the episodes to download from PSN but outside of that, no it wasn't really worthwhile and one could argue that didn't exactly make it worthwhile either since that show was dreadful.

@Uncle Jesse

I wouldn't use it every day, but sodium 1 is good and trialing the mini-games is fun, load times have gotten much better since launch and most of it has gotten an overhaul.

@MrAlex

For people who peruse this site, I would say no, but for people who enjoyed Second Life, I would say yes. I pop in about once a month to see what's going on and the new changes. It's pretty freakin big now with all the spaces and it is usually quite busy. Again, not for everyone and as you can tell, most people on this site hate it but we are not the demographic that leans towards this type of world.

@ToTheMoon if you could blow peoples heads off in home all these people would be all up on it.... including me. untill that happens it's meh, though i will admit it has its upsides.

LOL:
"an exclusive jet-pack "costume" for your avatar (are you really asking -- not a chance it actually works!)"

But yeah, Home is a joke. Really not much reason to go there, unless you're a screeching adolescent. It takes an insane eternity to load Home, and the stuff to "do" there is pretty boring and pointless

Best thing ever is the parody of Home in the movie "Gamer":

NWS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HImC_oJeoE

Morons acting like idiots dressed in ridiculous outfits no one would ever really wear in public.

@Dizazter
2 things.
First, how was that a parody of Home?

Second, dear god...you actually watched that movie!?

@mywhitenoise

#1 You'd have to watch to movie to get the full grasp. But it's totally a home parody. Basically people log in, and take full mind control of these living human avatars and just walk them around doing moronic stuff like this, dressed like clubkid crackwhores. One really bizarre moment, some idiot avatar person gets hit by a scooter car or something, and is seriously hurt, and all the other avatars turn and laugh at this guy, and he starts laughing at his own injuries. (Because the user in control isn't hurt, just the poor bastard avatar person)

#2 Yeah, I forced myself to watch it. Friend recommended it, but it's pretty much a big shit sandwich. Had a few entertaining moments. Honestly the Home parody was probably the best part of the whole thing. Rent it, fast forward past the terrible "action" and just watch the ridiculous Home parts. Side note - the guy who plays Dexter on Showtime is the main bad guy.

@Dizazter

I'm pretty sure it's going more for second life than home

@MrAlex

Yeah I dunno, seems kind of a mix of the two but yeah probably more raunchy like Second life, but the club gear and environments seem more like PS Home to me.

@Dizazter

I seriously doubt Home had any influence over Gamer at all. Home wasn't even remotely known outside the gaming community (then and now) for those movie execs to note it IMO. I think its only Second Life and "Every Other Shooter" that made that movie, as terrible as it was.

As long as there is o crazy loading times then I may give it a try

Yeah sorry, that won't make me reinstall Home. That place is gross.

This actually makes PS Home even less appealing to me. The point of Home, I thought, was to be a virtual version of reality, kind of like the Sims or something except you control one person, yourself, and its more grounded and less wacky, and the contents of your home would be sort of like a different, more interactive way of accessing your PS3 menu. The problem is in the execution. Home has nothing to offer, nothing to do. But completely changing the point of Home by turning it into a KZ3 styled world seems even more detrimental to the whole point of Home in the first place. I'll just steer clear of it, I forgot Home even existed until I read this lol

@bluem00se It's temporary, none of the game was ever like real life

For 3 unlock points I may just take the leap.

That scene reminds me of the Half Life city when you land off the train in 2. Anyway, I like this idea. Too bad the jet packs dont work :(

Another missed opportunity.

They should have kept Home as normal and then had random Helghast attacks that massacred the user population and leveled buildings. During attacks pockets of resistance fighters would spontaneously appear to fight them back. The only choice he users would have would be to run and hide.

If you got killed you couldn't go back to Home for a week and when you returned your fake house would be ransacked.

@arkweld

Erm, well considering children are using it and this is a central space, that wouldn't be a smart idea now would it -_- Or are you looking for Sony to get sued?

Wow, that looks good pretty good, never was a fan of buying a lot for my avatar. I'd rather just use it towards games but the jet pack sounds cool.

Finally a reason to visit Home! I kid. Its an interesting concept, however its not my cup of tea. I haven't visited in a while so perhaps the loading has improved? Can anyone verify?

It'd be pretty damn funny to someone to go into Home one day and just get randomly blown up within a couple seconds. Oh, if only it could be that exciting.

So spend 20 minutes and another 30 minutes installing this theme on @home? Is that a good thing?

So spend 20 minutes download and another 30 minutes installing this theme on @home? Is that a good thing?

I think HOME is awesome, and best of all it's free.

"For the first time, you'll be able to reserve a game from within Sony's virtual world, securing an exclusive jet-pack "costume" for your avatar (are you really asking -- not a chance it actually work!)"

In the video on the PS Blog, it shows the jet-pack in home. It does hover off the ground as you move. But you still can not fly away.

I like home bug hardly ever in it cause it lacks game integration, so for me this is a welcomed addon but they should have been be doing this for all first party titles at least for the last year or so

Is it me, or does the PlayStationHome needs to be integrated more into the PSNID? I'm just sayin'.

Home can be enjoyable for a little bit but I do like that Sony is integrating their franchise games with it. It gives people more of a reason to go to it. The minigames are enjoyable for a little bit. It's more so of a place to go to unwind at the end of the night.

I still don't even completely understand Home, but I get so bored before I figure it out and end up playing a REAL game.

I check into Home once in awhile when I hear about something neat like this. There are always loads of people in there so i'm not sure that it's the epic failure we all assume it to be.

if we don't get the special edition can we still buy the retro map pack.?

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