20 Years of Guerrilla: The Story of a PlayStation Studio

The Amsterdam-based studio reflects on its humble beginnings, beloved franchises, and growth through the years.

[SullysCigar]

Up there with the top tier in the industry. Love Guerrilla Games - Horizon Burning Shores is simply STUNNING.

[1Victor]

Can’t wait for their next franchise

[SullysCigar]

Same. They nailed it with Horizon. The trouble is I also want a new Killzone! Can't I just have it all?!

[jznrpg]

I’m with you I want Horizon 3 , Killzone and new IPs

[badz149]

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!

[Vengeance1138]

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

[Shane Kim]

That's kind of a huge drop though. It's only been two games.

[VersusDMC]

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?

[Vengeance1138]

It's been 3 games, this includes Call of the Mountain. Also no, its a great improvement over HZD.

[solideagle]

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.

[Phoenix76]

@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

[anast]

nice

[REDGUM]

Wow, very impressive. I didn't know the numbers were so high for Forbidden West. Still playing through it myself

[thesoftware730]

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.

[blacktiger]

thank you fps lover, I'm with you

[talocaca]

Such a wonderful studio. They deserve all their success.

The Decima Engine is absolute 🔥 I'm just mad they have abandoned Killzone.

[OzzY-waZZy]

Kinda wish they move on from Horizon tbh.

[lukasmain]

They are probably working on mutiple projects. One of them is Horizon 3, but another is a multiplaer game and probably somehting else.

[Imalwaysright]

There were rumours that they were working on a Socom reboot.

[blacktiger]

me too

[ModsDoBetter]

Killzone again pls 🥺

[blacktiger]

same!

[Vithar]

Gratz Guerilla, amazing Studio and engine, love Decima!

[S2Killinit]

I was never a huge fan of Killzone, but thoroughly enjoy Horizon. Guerrilla are superb developer and easily up there with the best of the best.

[Outside_ofthe_Box]

Need a killzone 2 remake from the ground up.

[Ninver]

We need a kz 1&2 remake asap

[anast]

One of the most creative studios out. I hope they keep it up.

[Aloymetal]

Rest assured, she'll be back in 2026 and looking better than ever;)

[Abnor_Mal]

Great studio, loved the Killzone series, I wish they would do a remake of the first three games. Horizon is a real step up and truly put Guerrilla Games on the map.

Too bad I never got a chance to play Shellshock: Nam’67 would have loved to try that game out back in the days to see what were their beginnings.

[derek]

Bring back killzone (maybe in 3rd person perspective)

[Tacoboto]

It would fantastic to see what they could do in Killzone after the lessons learned through Horizon.

Or heck, give us even a short linear FPS from the people who designed Cauldron THETA in the Burning Shores expansion. Even just flying into it (after gliding around and finding its opening amongst the lava and Sunwings perched around it, with other bigger machines just along the path toward it) was an incredible experience.

[VersusDMC]

The cauldrons do look amazing. Imagine a dead space game using this engine...

[darkrider]

Great work until now. Keep on this path

[Crows90]

Hope they get the opportunity to create a new IP this gen as well.

[jznrpg]

I would guess they will at some point toward the end or beginning of next gen. Sony has expanded their studios to have multiple teams.
They know new IP needs to be added after a 2-3 games in a series and can have one team work on sequels and another on a new IP.

But new IPs are risky and I’m sure some don’t make it to release as they shouldn’t of they aren’t good instead of saying F it we are releasing it anyway. Sometimes games just don’t work out.

But Sony had the best track record with new Ip even their worst new IP last however long was a really good game , Days Gone it just had some bugs in the beginning

[Crows90]

Days gone is one of my favourite games of last gen. Shame it won't continue. I think it was politically driven to cancel a sequel. I've noticed most of Sony 1st party going the route of political correctness so I think the shade of the white gruff male protagonist hit them hard.

[refocusedman]

going the way of political correctness????? this comment makes no sense.

[jznrpg]

Forbidden West is awesome, It’s pretty damn big compared to Zero Dawn and it takes a little while to get your skills up and get the equipment you need to fully explore the game (not going to spoil it) but once you do those things and start fighting the big ass machines it really is amazing. Some cool side quests to where you hold the fate of peoples lives by your choice and the cauldrons look amazing. Lots of skills , combos, special moves and add ons for your weapons so you can approach fights many ways. Looking forward to the name game but I wonder how/if Silas will be a part of it or not ? Sad he’s gone.

[Crows90]

Platinumed pretty quickly all things considered.

[dmonee]

Killzone games weren’t the best shooters but damn did they look purty!!!!

[Goozex]

Killzone 2 remade with the multiplayer

[ThEusAisPoisonous]

20 years of mid-tier games and they are trending down.

[BlaqMagiq1]

I'm hyped for whenever Horizon 3 releases but Killzone 1 needs a remake BAD and 2 & 3 need remasters. Criminal those games are stuck on PS3.

[FallenAngel1984]

Hold up

Horizon: Zero Dawn sold 24.3 million
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sold 29.81 million

With the way journalists have been consistently saying BotW overshadowed Horizon you’d think the gap between an entry in a new IP and a longrunning one would be bigger Even if you want to include however much the Wii U version of BotW did, both series still did impressive numbers

I never want to hear that Horizon is an overlooked franchise ever again

[VersusDMC]

While i love horizon way more than breath of the wild(wasn't for me) if they counted dollars made the gap would be way bigger as Horizon base was 9.99 and Complete edition was 19.99 on sale as soon as 2018.

I think Breath of the wild was maybe 40-50 at some points for a short period.

[chobit_A5HL3Y]

i really loved the atmosphere and idea of killzone. i hope they revisit it at some point because it always had so much potential.

[fxa5209]

Bring Back Killzone please or at least a KZ2 remake with MP.