Killzone 2 Footage: Nowhere Near the E3 2005 Demo says Gamedaily

The guys at Gamedaily had the opportunity to watch a brand new trailer of the ubber hyped Killzone 2 for the Playstation 3 which featured real In-Game footage. Unfortunately, it seems that it failed to impress.

Gamedaily Reports:

"Before we exited, we were teased with a brand new Killzone video, which looked nowhere near the level of the CG video shown at E32005, but it did look quite good, probably visually on par with some of what we've seen in the Metal Gear Solid 4 trailers. Harrison said that more will be shown at this year's E3."

However Sony's Phil Harrison explained that it was only a tech demonstration of PlayStation 3 tools used to make games.

[ReconHope]

i liked the way you capitalized the nowhere near. Real professional catcher.

[ReconHope]

still be satisfied with graphics on par with mgs4 because they look great.

[Joe]

Looking at the MGS4 trailers, I would have to say that MGS4 is on par with Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2(GRAW2). Therefore, Killzone 2 is on par with GRAW2.

Man, I hate to be the developers of Killzone 2 right now... Another game that over promises and under delivers.

[Antan]

Well harrison said what was shown was only a "tech" demo. But i guess come E3, they MUST show the actual game, especially if its to hit fall 2007.

[Devastator_oftheweak]

I wanted to say quickly that before you flame make sure you get the facts about this..Phil Harrison stated that this was a non-finished game, but that they wanted to showcase some of the power of the PS3. Other editors noted that it looked grainy, guess what, its a F'ing W.O.P (work in progress) for the slow.

Im out

[PS3n360]

I think its WIP not WOP for the even slower POS3rs

[PureGamer]

considering they have already said the trailer was for the engine being shown, i dont know why they are moaning -.- this trailer wasnt made to see the graphics.

[Grown Folks Talk]

sony fans from badmouthing the halo 3 alpha build. who cares anyway? we can't see it and judge for ourselves. soon enough we will all know the truth.

[n4g sucks]

graphics on par with mgs4??? sounds good to me. did any one really expect the game to look like the the cg trailer??? i didn't( the trailer looked to cinematic to be playable)

[techie]

As far as I can tell they were showing off physics, lighting and effects. We have seen how much faces can improve with Heavenly Sword over time. Wait for them to release the actual gameplay footage for us to see. Otherwise this is simply getting worked up over nothing. As Gamespot have said they were impressed by the effects shown in the Killzone demo.

[techie]

Haha I know why it wasn't up to the trailer! The simple reason is that no people were shown. Only hellgast were shown with lighting effects and physics effects...so of course it didn't have the impressiveness of the facial characters in the 2005 trailer. Also they didn't show any of the interaction AI...so DUH.

[Covenant]

It's being compared to a CG video...of course it's not as good. This game's still a while away from being released...once we have a playable demo, then we'll get an idea of what Killzone will (or won't) bring to the table.

[BOOSTIN]

The GOW demo footage from a year or more before launch looked just as good as the finished version. so dont gimme that WOP (work in progres) BS

[candystop]

Actually the gow footage looked alot better upon release compared to what was shown on MTV or was it e3!

[Bhai]

Yeah the gears demo showed 'Normal Maps' and what the final game delivered...'Normal Maps' that's all. Visuals...that's all UE3 engine is basically capable of. Did the final gears had all that jumping off the walls action ?! Nah, did it have 10s or 100s of enemies swarming the screen? Nah(only 3), vahicular combat? Nah. Insane next-gen physics ? no, just no way.

How many environmental themes just gears had...2 HeeHeeHee, city scapes(streets and industrial) and undergrounds that's all. It had the 'same old' gameplay, smae old storyline, only 6 hours of game-length...just some awesome visuals, a camera borrowed from Resident Evil 4 and a story flow borrowed from god of war !!!

Sony is different you know, a 'world' with raw interactivity, physics, procedural synthesis and lets not forget multitudes of weaponary, content and lengthy gametime in action/adventure/shooter genres and diversity of gameplay has been their preference. That's why they are the leaders with even a 7 years old console(PS2). PS3 is out only 3 months you know, it is going to have games that are next-gen all aspects, not just visuals !!!

[frostbite06]

"a camera borrowed from Resident Evil 4"....seriously dude? Thats like me saying Killzone's camera is borrowed from Halo. And you ripping Gears of War just makes people want to stop listening to you(bubbles) since the game was so highly recieved. But who knows, maybe they knew nothing and your God.

[candystop]

Well I would rather see the game when it's ready to for an opinion just like any other game!

[MissAubrey]

you'd have to be a fool. not even the most powerful pc can achieve those graphics. I expect this game to look close or slightly better than RFOM.

[Caxtus750]

hey killzone will look great!

no where did the article say they wernt impressed. They just pointed it out. No one was really expecting the trailer quality. If the visuals are only GOW style it will still look great :)

[BOOSTIN]

LMAO!! sony would be more than happy if they EVER get a game on their console that looks AS good as GOW. but with only 256mb it isnt likely

[Bhai]

You unlucky lad !
you need to visit web more you know. Mark Rein of Epic himself told that both Gears and UT2007 are running at their '2-THREADED' Gemini system on a two core PC. Didn't you see Gears had nothing at all impressive besides visuals ??? no water, no procedural synthesis, no bigtime physics, no vehicles, no more than 3 NPCs on-screen(shameful for a next-gen title) ??? Its because all it takes to run are only two cores, which 360 has 3 and PS3 has 7. And yeah, two cores are more than enough than it takes to throw beautiful textures HaHaHa !!!

Besides PS3 has 512 mb RAM, its only divided in 256 mb parts. If Epic couldn't utilize the memory as such JUST TO RUN TEXTURES on the PS3, its their short-coming for its only three months PS3 launched and VF5 and MotorStorm has already shown how photo-realistic visuals PS3 can cast as well as true next-gen processes as procedural content generation. You also need to look at the Heavenly Sword video and the latest Lair images to get an idea not only at how next-gen games look b3yond on PS3 but also at how they play b3yond as well.

[Boink]

I think that cg video in 2005 is turning out to be the biggest mistake sony has ever made.

[Caxtus750]

biggest mistake ever? if that is a companies biggest mistake....then the company sure as hell must be doing well :)

But yes it wont help....

[gnothe1]

getting ready to defend the killzone game IF it turns out not looking like the cgi trailer!!DID YOU EXPECT THE GAME TO LOOK LIKE THAT!!NOT EVEN THE MOST POWERFUL PC CAN MAKE THOSE GRAPHICS!! YOU MUST BE STUPID IF YOU THOUGHT THE GAME WOULD LOOK LIKE THAT(even though sony said it was ingame!!

all I know is that game BETTER look better than GEARS!! because if it dont there will be hell to pay for the sonyboys that bash all the time!! im not even gonna as far an say it better look better than HALO 3 because as far as im concerned Gears has raised the graphical bar an I think HALO better surpass Gears also!!if Halo 3 doesnt surpass Gears graphically it wont hurt as bad because we KNOW that the 360 can do those graphics but can the PS3!!

[Devastator_oftheweak]

And I suppose to you that the video that Microsuck showed off during the NFL season for Halo3 is on par with true in-game graphics, please!!!

Why don't you 360 flamers go suck your thumbs in the corner and get ready to get owned. Face sony is taking the strides now that you wish Microsoft had taken in the first place.

Here is something to imagine, Sony has a huge monopoly of the movie industry, they have sales figures from theatre showings they have done. Imagine sony using the Home feature to allow us to watch movies like Spider-Man 3 for example right from your PS3. You would of course pay for an admission price, just like Pay-per-view, after you finished the movie since it would be (streaming), you would be able to go back and rewind the movie and watch again if you chose, because you would have a pass to do so as long as you didn't power down the PS3 or until the day flipped or another movie was purchased. It would be a great way for Sony to use all facets of the media industry in their favor. Whereas with the 360 you can download movies you've already seen on DVD in HD woo hoo *points and laughs at the 360*

White System + White Controller = Dreamcast wannabe

[PS3n360]

MS never said that was in game They said it was live action mixed with cgi. Sony is the lame company trying to pass off cgi as in game. They must have been right on the money as far as fooling dumbass POS3rs cause you all still believe it. When PS3 delivers one mind blowing game I will buy but I sure as hell am not gonna buy lies or potential. Untill then I will play the 360 and the dozen games I have that kick ass on anything ps3 atm.

[FirstknighT]

Only people that believed it was going to look like the cgi video are the gullible minds of the sonyboys. I expect it to look like Call of Duty 3. Nothing mindblowing and nothing new.

Devastator...just keep imagining.