Killzone (PlayStation 3)

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Killzone 3 (working title)

Developer(s)	Guerrilla Games
Publisher(s)	Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
Release date(s)	TBA 2007
Genre(s)	First-person shooter
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer, online multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Rating Pending (RP)
Platform(s)	PlayStation 3
Media	Blu-ray Disc
Input	SIXAXIS controller

Killzone (PS3) is the working title of the next installment to the Killzone franchise that began on the PlayStation 2. It is being developed for PlayStation 3 by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was announced in the magazine EGM.

1 Current Development
2 Graphics Expectations
3 See also
4 External links
5 References

[edit] Current Development

There are more than 120 developers in the Netherlands working on the game at the moment. The new Killzone (PS3) will be fully translated in 20 different languages. The budget currently surpasses $20 million (£11 million), which is comparable to a small-budget Hollywood picture and is the most expensive multimedia project in Holland's history. It will have downloadable content like other contemporary games, possibly in the form of episodic content.

A trailer was shown at the GDC 2007. It showed a variety of battles ranging on foot and on vehicles.^[1]

[edit] Graphics Expectations

Critics in the media argued that the trailer shown at the E3 2005 trade show did not show actual gameplay footage, as its high level of visual detail has been argued to be impossible to render in real-time even with the PlayStation 3's processing power.

SCEA's Vice President, Jack Tretton, was quoted as saying that the Killzone (PS3) footage, that is believed to be pre-rendered,"is definitely real" and "is real gameplay", but it was later claimed that Tretton was referring to Resistance: Fall of Man , not Killzone (PS3). Sony's Chris Ivester later stated the video was done "to spec". They later revealed that the video presented at E3 was a CGI video created by Guerrilla and not gameplay footage.^{[citation needed]}Phil Harrison recently stated in an interview: "With Killzone, the expectation internally and externally is very high - and I won't show it until it's going to exceed people's expectations. It will be next year before we show it again, but it's coming along very well. The teams are working very hard, they know exactly what they have to do and there's no doubt they will achieve it, but there's nothing to be served by something that doesn't satisfy my goals for the project. I can tell you, though, that some elements already exceed the trailer."

Killzone 2 will be shown at this upcoming E3 show after having a teaser shown at the earlier Game Developer's Conference.