E3: Killzone 2 - Gameplay

Published 13 July, 2007 Duration 3:21

Some fairly murky footage of Killzone 2 in action. The quality of the video is down to the method of capture rather than being indicative of actual graphical quality, so don't start your trolling just yet...

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  • Steroyd #1 5 years ago

    The contrast is so dark i can't see shit on my PC.

    Damn my old PC.

  • Scump #2 5 years ago

    Wow actually, obviously not for quality but i noticed how well cinematics, well checkpoints at least blend with live play. Few games i can think of do this well, actually none to this point.
    And notice the nice jumping around of the gun sight, not call of duty 'frozen' in place. Small video and even then i can see they seem to be paying attention to detail. The ps3 seems to carry a huge amount of dev time.

    EDIT: Spell ye
    Edited by Scump at 13/07/07 @ 15:50

  • Triggerhappytel #3 5 years ago

    Scump - "Few games i can think of do this well, actually none to this point."

    Half Life 1 & 2 are still the best example of this IMO because they remain real-time.


    Anyway, this video looks pretty decent (if a little dark). Hopefully the level design will be more wide-open in many places, I'd like to be able to melee attack and jump whenever I want, and I'm glad there's an iron sight viewpoint for accuracy. Some of the deaths look a little scripted still. I'd rather full-on ragdoll.

    Anyway, I'm trying to keep my cynic hat on for the moment (didn't particularly like KZ1), but I'm liking how this is looking so far.


    EDIT - bad grammar
    Edited by Triggerhappytel at 13/07/07 @ 13:15

  • Steroyd #4 5 years ago

    Killzone won't have jump, but there's an impression laying about how Guerilla paused the screen and shown the impressive scale of the whole level.

    So it doesn't look like the game will only be loaded in little chunks.

    I liked KZ1 even if it was flawed, and this one is ticking all the right boxes in terms of the improvements.

  • bad #5 5 years ago

    Looks like fun. Nothing desperately original but if the storyline is interesting and the pacing is good that doesn't really matter.

    Far more impressive than I was expecting to be honest.

  • Moz #6 5 years ago

    @Bad

    Good to see someone else who's stopped expecting everything to be hugley orignal.

    I feel that games have got to a point now that being original is very hard.
    So I now look for games that have a good engaging story with fun game play.

  • Steroyd #7 5 years ago

    I think the way the game does everything in first person mode is original, like when they took cover behind a pillar not once did it go into 3rd person view... well maybe when you die.

    I also like the sound of doing blind fire... while still in first person view so it really is blind fire, providing the cover isn't blown to crap.

  • PapaSmurf630 #8 5 years ago

    I think it looks brill.

    This emphasis on 'originality' is getting me down to...what happened to just enjoying a game?

    The only problem with this trailer is for some reason the sound continues but the video changes to other ingame clips....but with the original clips sound still in the background :S

  • Kostabi #9 5 years ago

    I'm not a big FPS fan but Killzone 2 looks like it could be fun, but then I'm a sucker for gritty sci-fi action games.

  • Aphexman #10 5 years ago

    i saw trailer in 720p hd,holy shit...

  • huxathon #11 5 years ago

    The level design looked quite good, if a little grey. Well a lot grey. And I don't think it was down to poor video quality.

  • theweaze #12 5 years ago

    And I'll tell you what - it looks a f*** of a lot better than that rubbish screenshot.

    is this eurogamer trying desperatley to defend themselves on the whole " real next gen" thing. this article reads to me as if they are saying "see look it does look good, it is the real next gen" please just admit there isnt much of a difference between the 2 systems - stop trying to defend a false statement you made. and just admit you were wrong.

    at the moment there appears less of a difference between the ps3 and the 360 than the ps2 and original xbox.

  • redd #13 5 years ago

    "at the moment there appears less of a difference between the ps3 and the 360 than the ps2 and original xbox."

    Well, last time around the differences were monumental, starting with twice the system ram on the box, hard drive, programmable shaders and advanced (for its time) post effects, etc.

  • Steroyd #14 5 years ago

    When has a demo been on Normal or Hard, they usually gimp the Ai so they can run through the presentation demo very easily and quickly.

    I wouldn't gauge at stuff like Ai, from a coming out demo like that, the same thing happened to God of War, and Heavenly Sword.

  • mkreku #15 5 years ago

    I once went to a press preview of Black, where the AI was so unbalanced that when the guy who was supposed to show it played, he died within 20 seconds.

    Not all demos have gimped AI :)

  • CHAOS_BROON #16 4 years ago

    ps3 is clearly more powerful than 360, watch the other vid on ign where the guy pauses the game and goes into a camera mode (much like halo 3's theatre) and you can see the vastness of the level and the detail is incredible, this is down to blu-ray and yes the dev times are going to be huge for big games but its well worth the wait and i think that the future belongs to sony for their much scoffed at gem blu-ray. the game looks imense but watch it in 720p hd plz.

  • MaxiSleep #17 4 years ago

    "vastness of the level and the detail is incredible, this is down to blu-ray"

    No it is nothing at all to do with blue ray. Jeesh.

    It may however be down to the hard drive where theu are caching the information so allowing smoother updates and less texture pop in.

  • CHAOS_BROON #18 4 years ago

    yeah i worded it wrong, apologies.
    what i meant was when games start to get extremely technical and more memory hungry somewhere along the line blu-ray is going to be essential and at the moment developers are very happy because they dont have to worry about how much they can cram onto one disk etc.