Gears of War has been praised for its graphical powers throughout the industry for some time now. However, there is a new kid on the block called Killzone 2, which blows away anything seen on the consoles to date. It may not come as a surprise, but the lead developer of Killzone 2 is cut from the very same cloth as the lead designer of Gears of War.
As many of you may already know, the lead designer for the Gears of War series is none other than Cliff Bleszinski. However, another name that might become a geek-household name is Arjan Brussee, the development director for Killzone 2.
Unbeknownst to most, Arjan Brussee worked together with Cliff Bleszinski back in 1994 on a little title called Jazz Jackrabbit for the PC. Those were the good old days when games were executed from the DOS prompt like Doom. The awesome title turned many heads back in day when collecting shareware discs with 2000 games on them were popular.
The PlayStation 3 may not have been the strongest generation for Sony, but there were still some diamonds in the rough that deserve a revisit as PS5 remasters.
Even if they could just remaster and put on PSVR2, some would still look great as VR titles and could do a whole lot to bolster the headset w these exclusives! I'd imagine the investment of reworking these titles into VR would be way less than building new games from the ground up, and they could be amazing experiences, and VR often makes flat games feel fresh again. The Resistance and Killzone games are particularly what I want to see!!
I played killzone 3 in 3d and it really changed the game per being immersive.
In vr, that would be even more awesome.
Funny you mention that... my son wanted to play some PS3 games in 3d on my PS tv and he was blown away by how good KZ3 was. It really was a great addition to the game. Im surprised there have not been more 3d games from that era being ported to the PSVR/VR2.
resistance 1-3, killzone 1-3, uncharted 1-3, uncharted golden abyss, folklore, socom 4 , motorstorm, twisted metal, MAG, heavenly sword
Killzone 2+3
Sly Thieves in Time
Crack in Time
God of War Ascension
Motorstorm
Modnation racer
Infamous 1+2
Killzone trilogy in VR would be amazing bonus points if they offer shadow fall.
There was a psvr1 Killzone project that supermassive was working on at one stage which wasn't up to scratch and Sony brand it back in house I was hoping we would see that on psvr2 eventually.
Personally I'd love to see some more love or acknowledgement of psvr2 from Sony in general it was a expensive headset and Sony barely acknowledge it's existence
The amount of work needed to remaster these games wouldn't be beneficial on a financial and business sense.. MGS4 would probably be the best bet as it would need the least amount of work!
The time is perfect for a resistance fall of man game campaign coop multiplayer
The resistance series is str8 trash to me. Socom 3 I would welcome. Or killzone MP.
Resistance was ok but Warhawk and Starhawk was better and kept me coming back for almost a decade of fun and petty revenge on the loud mouth unskilled players 🤣
Edit I loved capture the flag dropping the pot on the flag carrier was extremely satisfying as well as transforming your plane in bot form and stumping them to death 😱
The Amsterdam-based studio reflects on its humble beginnings, beloved franchises, and growth through the years.
Up there with the top tier in the industry. Love Guerrilla Games - Horizon Burning Shores is simply STUNNING.
Same. They nailed it with Horizon. The trouble is I also want a new Killzone! Can't I just have it all?!
I have yet to play Burning Shores as I just started Forbidden West (bought at launch, just unwrapped last weekend LOL) and playing on PS5.
man...I still can't believe the graphics especially now I'm playing it on my LG OLED. that graphics and with stable performance backing it up, GG really is the master of their craft!
32.7M sales in the Horizon franchise! With 8.4M coming from Forbidden West alone! Truly a hugely successful game and franchise as a whole. Looking forward to Horizon III
One year after realease HZD sold 7.6 million.
https://www.noobfeed.com/ne...
So not a drop off.
Unless you're saying a HFW should have sold as much now as HZD sold in 5 years?
It's been 3 games, this includes Call of the Mountain. Also no, its a great improvement over HZD.
lol you are comparing:
HZD: 28 February 2017 - May 2023 (6 years+)
HFW: 18 February 2022 - May 2023 (1 year+)
We will see if it surpass original number.
@shane, 2 full main games, 2 DLC add ons, 1 VR spin off game, oh and a an official LEGO set.
Not too bad for an ip that's only been on market for 6 years
Wow, very impressive. I didn't know the numbers were so high for Forbidden West. Still playing through it myself
Yooo, when I first saw that Killzone 1 footage at E3, my friends my brothers and I were like, Holy shit! When it came out, it didn't look exactly like it, but we sunk so many hours into 1 & 2.
I even liked Killzone: SF, it was a spectacle to look at, and even today it looks good. I hope they make a new one. Can you imagine how that will look, and they can get some modern FPS pointers from Bungie.
Such a wonderful studio. They deserve all their success.
The Decima Engine is absolute 🔥 I'm just mad they have abandoned Killzone.
They are probably working on mutiple projects. One of them is Horizon 3, but another is a multiplaer game and probably somehting else.
The Gears of War series has been a consistent deliverer of quality for Xbox, but which games are the best?
Gears of War is my favorite video game franchise, and the Locust is my all-time favorite faction.
My rank list:
1. Gears of War 2
2. Gears of War 3
3. Gears of War 1
4. Gears of War 4
5. Gears of War 5
6. Gears of War Judgment (No Locust in multiplayer was a disgrace)
Agree 100% with this ranking. The campaign in Gears of War 2 is among the most fun campaigns ever made. It’s been downhill from there.
2 is still my favorite but 5 is also up there (for me). Then I'd say 1, 3, 4 and Judgement. Tactics isnt the same type of game, so it seems odd to rank it among TPS when its a strategy game. So I make that one all its own. Pretty fun game too.
The first is and has always been the best one imo - the story, the levels, the set pieces, the soundtrack - as close to perfect as a campaign can get.
I’d say the series had been on a continual downhill slide until 5.
3
5
2
1
4
Judgement
I love the series as a whole, but 4 was pretty by the numbers, and Judgement was just ok.
I played them all since picking up a Series X about 7 months ago. Personally, I don't think time has been kind to the earlier games and they feel very slow and repetitive to play. Whilst the newer games may be prettier, they stick with the original gameplay mechanics too much in my view so as a whole series of titles, I think they are pretty average games.
Not to say they weren't fun and I have a lot of nostalgia for 1 and 2, I just think there are far better action games out there.
I dont see this ending very well, it only takes one fanboy to start off a whole flame war
Battle of the weird names confirmed.
Arjy B.
His name is now Arjy B.
graphics are much much better then Killzone 2.
why a fanboy war? its a decent article and something i didnt know.
as to the comment by "pimp614"
debatable.. this really shows how to get the best out of your console.
the 360 games like gears do a much better job of standard tv's. i applaud (mark this day i'm giving microsoft props) for demanding that all games look good on a standard 13" tube tv. add the fact that the best games on the 360 are (for lack of a better term) room based. what you see where your at is what you get. and many games on the 360 take advantage of that..
on the ps3 scale is the difference. more is done in the background. meaning its more of a landscape than a room. things happening in the weather, things happening in the background not game related but aesthetic. ability to run more action in a scene etc.
to those that will argue that let me pre reply to you.
a great game on the 360 with no jaggies etc. ported to the ps3 sucks. mainly do to the porting process. its made to work on 360 hardware and what IT can handle. and many companies have made magic with it. (if you havent noticed i hate microsoft and what microsoft did hardware wise with the 360, i dont hate the xbox brand). so little is done as far as settings but tons is done at the close up gameplay.
the ps3 may show jaggies and a few other flaws. but it can handle more enemies on screen, more weather patterns running at the same time etc. so graphics are suffered for a bit for more expansive environment. the only two game i can think of that play (visually) like the xbox 360 standard is mgs 4 and killzone 2 that look more than amazing on a standard tube tv. (excluding uncharted, its a different animal)
my point to all that? to say that killzone 2 or gears 2 looks way better than the other is a fanboy comment. on my standard tube 32 inch television (2 of my ps3's and hdtv's were stolen in december) both looked amazing. and on standard def thats saying a lot cause most games show why you need an hdtv.
if you cant see why gears 2 and killzone 2 are BOTH good looking games without dissing the other then you may
1. need to get your eyes checked. no seriously, its been proven/said that many people dont get their eyes checked and dont know if they have poor or poorer vision than a few years ago to appreciate high definition.
2. you have a crappy tv or a good tv but dont know how to calibrate it and cant tell if you have the right settings for black levels.
i challenge all future fanboy posters to give up the one liners and actually post a reason for their comments.
i love n4g but i'm slowly dropping it as a source for information due to all the fanboys.
(if you want to call me a fanboy, i'm slowly checking myself and trying to back away from my fanboy comments as well)