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DF Retro: Killzone 2 Ten Years On - An Iconic PS3 Tech Showcase
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For me as well. I had no plans to do this until Thursday morning. Weird how things work out!
I didn't think it did. I wasn't hugely fond of the control scheme and there was input lag but it still felt good to play and the MP really did feel ahead of anything else available on consoles at the time. Such a shame we never had in game party chat back then
Bought a PS3 killzone bundle just for this game. Hated the sluggish controls but that multiplayer was fucking great!
A gam that nails its claustrophobic, smokey, toxic battlefield atmosphere with unrivaled success.
I spent over 700 hours playing KZ2. It's by far my most played game, and my game of that generation. There will never be another like it.
to each his/her own. I really loved it. 60FPS would have been great but eh...
I think this is my favourite DF Retro episode so far after the Shenmue ones and Metal Gear Solid 2.
For me this game was something special as I hadn't seen nothing like it on a technical level consistent with great tech and art combined.
As well as getting to actually play a multiplayer mode with friends in a team based way and for years at that. I don't really care for multiplayer so that says a lot for me.
Great game Guerrilla, hope this gets a remaster in 4K 60fps and HDR one day.
For me this game was something special as I hadn't seen nothing like it on a technical level consistent with great tech and art combined.
As well as getting to actually play a multiplayer mode with friends in a team based way and for years at that. I don't really care for multiplayer so that says a lot for me.
Great game Guerrilla, hope this gets a remaster in 4K 60fps and HDR one day.
I'm secretly holding out hope that a multiplayer remaster will be there at PS5 launch, with Horizon 2 following about 6 months later.
awesome video. this was the first game for me that separated ps3 from 360. 360 never produced anything that looked as good as this to my eyes. the animation in particular is so good it still beats the vast majority of games today
KZ2 is the best fps I played in the last generation. The campaign is quite good, excelent multiplayer and it controls great. They did a great job with the atmosphere, in terms of the war and the sense of despair as you would go deeper into Helghan territory.
Can't wait to watch this!
It would be a perfect PSVR game if it was feasible to get it working there.
It would be a perfect PSVR game if it was feasible to get it working there.
I wonder what Dictator thought about the muzzle flash shadows in this.
Legendary game.
I still remember the meltdowns when this pic was released :D
I think Horizon probably made more money/fame than this series ever did. KZ is probably dead sadly
Legendary game.
I still remember the meltdowns when this pic was released :D
Can you elaborate? Positive or negative? Today, if this screen was released for a game in 2019 we'd probably pick apart the blocky shadow being cast by the muzzle flash lol
Why did folk get upset?Legendary game.
I still remember the meltdowns when this pic was released :D
Awesome work John!
I am sad we might not get remasters of Killzone 2 and 3, and Resistance 1 and 3. Those games deserve to be remastered with 60 fps and upgraded resolution.
I am sad we might not get remasters of Killzone 2 and 3, and Resistance 1 and 3. Those games deserve to be remastered with 60 fps and upgraded resolution.
This one I've been looking forward to from quite some point. Killzone 2 was the first game which made me really look into graphics technology so as to read and understand what it was doing. I've had so many conversations about it and read so much about it that I can probably dissect the game from top to bottom as much as possible from an outsider's perspective heh !!
Thanks for this John.
Thanks for this John.
Positive + disbelief.
Plus, console war was still very strong then. PS3 was still behind sales-wize, there were a lot of bickering with X360 fans, and PS3 was then on a cusp of really getting some technical marvels [Uncharted 2 was still far from release].
It looked too good. :D [for that time, it really did]
It was because of the colours making textures look washed out and the shadows.
The game originally had a lot more muted colour palette than what we eventually got, originally it was all grey but the final game was actually quite colourful and had different colour palettes for different levels. I distinctively remember blue, red, yellow, green among the few dominating colour palettes in this game depending on the level. The final game also had considerably better shadow quality from muzzle flash shadows.
There's a gif that people posted a lot from the 2nd level of the game where there's a storm going around and you are in a helghan city, that gif is from pre release version and has that grey undertone. The final game turned out to have a green colour palette for that level.
No I distinctively remember that particular screenshot was unflattering and made people think it was not gonna look very good.
The disbelief and positive outlook followed immediately later with the following media release. And rightfully so because it looked so much better later on.
Those additional pics came if I remember the same day. :) It was fun seeing all that online chatter.
That was a great DF Retro episode. Gggmanlives also did a nice video on KZ2 recently.
The game holds up so well, though I wish there was a ps4 port that would fix the input lag.
The game holds up so well, though I wish there was a ps4 port that would fix the input lag.
I would take a PS4 remaster in a fucking heartbeat.
KZ2 and 3 were damn awesome. Loved the SP. I especially loved 3's SP honestly. IMO.
I wonder if they could work on the input. The game did feel kinda sluggish.
KZ2 and 3 were damn awesome. Loved the SP. I especially loved 3's SP honestly. IMO.
I wonder if they could work on the input. The game did feel kinda sluggish.
Killzone 2 really looks like a movie. Just an outstanding atmosphere and feel. Killzone 2, Gears of War 1&2, Uncharted 2, and God of War 3 literally made my jaw drop. Killzone 2 has stood the test of time the best as far as visuals go tho.
This game was mind blowing. I didn't see John mention how the some smoke effects interact with scene geometry. There's a really windy multiplayer map you can test this on when dropping spawn grenades. The smoke will hit geometry and move around it, an insane detail.