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.
Ayi Sanchez: "Old work. I did this 10 years ago now as part of a material test for a remaster of Gears of War 2 that never happened."
Weird, in mean they had no studios to make anything really new so there's a part of me thats kinda glad they scrapped it. If they released this back then it would of gotten ridiculed for remakes and remastering stuff. Now they have new and interesting games so the collection is harmless.
Geez, Xbox, something like that I would’ve bought Day 1. Great business decisions over there.
10 years ago it wasn’t such a big deal. The games were only a few years old by that point
Gears of War: Ultimate Edition came out in 2015 (essentially 10 years ago), having a follow-up to that on the then next-gen console would’ve absolutely been welcomed, in my book.
I can only assume the the Gears of War Remaster flopped so they decided to scrap the other remakes?
Seems short sighted to me as I really enjoyed the 1st remaster. Regardless, I'll snap up some remakes to play on my PS5.
Hugely disappointingly, it seems that Guerrilla Games, developers of the Killzone and Horizon series, may be done with Killzone for good.
1 was fine, overhyped as a " halo" killer
2 was a graphical beast at the time, and felt heavy
3 was good a refinement of 2 but not much else. weird audio issues environment were to quiet
shadow fall was pretty but bland
Shadowfall had great Multiplayer though. Too bad the campaign was meh at best. It did have the occasional great moment sprinkled in.
I played through 2/3 multiple times. I played through the original once, but it felt pretty lukewarm for me. I couldn't be bothered to beat Shadow Fall. I got a couple hours in and just went "I'm done". Never touched it again. It was awesome on the tech side, being a launch title, but it didn't even match up to the first game when it came to actually having fun playing it.
3 in 3d was an amazing experience to be had.
Although not many experienced it as intended for good reasons.
You forgot the ai advancements on the playstation 2 killzone one you could have a full team of bots doing everything even playing the objective that was a big thing.
In killzone 2 they always flanked you and when available used the high ground.
Playing killzone 2 no hud 5.1 audio was/is awesome
I dont mind if someone else takes up the mantle for the KZ franchise. We are several years removed from the first game. It certainly could use a remake to gauge interest in the rest of the series. I know it has its fans... Im thinking of how a proper reboot can rekindle that old dormant flame and bring in a new generation of fans in the process.
You forgot killzone mercenaries on the ps vita but it was the worst selling sony game for awhile there.
Would like a new IP before Horizon 3. Just because games take so long to make these days.
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 😱
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)