Killzone: Liberation Announced

[bapenguin]

Sony has announced a PSP version of Killzone entitled Killzone: Liberation set to be released Q42006.

Hermen Hulst, Guerrilla Managing Director, commented "We were keen to ensure Killzone: Liberation was totally unique and offered PSP owners a different Killzone experience. So, Killzone: Liberation has been developed from scratch – creating what we think is an intense portable gaming experience. Although Killzone: Liberation is totally new it stays true to what made the first Killzone such a great success - the characters, weapons, style and a continuation of the same great plot."
(Press Release inside (http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?p=183975#post183975))

[bapenguin]

KillzoneTM, the multi-million selling franchise from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) and Guerrilla (now a wholly owned subsidiary of SCEE), is to make its debut on the PlayStation®Portable (PSPTM) with KillzoneTM: Liberation.

Due for release in Q4 2006, this all new action packed instalment in the Killzone series has been developed specially for PSP and will feature a new intelligent third-person camera system – ideally suited for handheld gaming.

Hermen Hulst, Guerrilla Managing Director, commented "We were keen to ensure Killzone: Liberation was totally unique and offered PSP owners a different Killzone experience. So, Killzone: Liberation has been developed from scratch – creating what we think is an intense portable gaming experience. Although Killzone: Liberation is totally new it stays true to what made the first Killzone such a great success - the characters, weapons, style and a continuation of the same great plot."

The story follows the conclusion of events in the first Killzone, with the battle against the Helghast still raging on. In Southern Vekta, the rules of war have been cast aside with the Helghast General, Metrac, employing brutal measures in order to seize the initiative. Returning as Templar, your mission is to undertake a covert operation to save hostages captured by Metrac ...whilst ISA troops continue the fight for liberty...

About PlayStation PortableTM

PlayStation Portable is a new handheld entertainment system that allows users to enjoy 3D games, with high-quality full-motion video, and high-fidelity stereo audio. With graphics rendering capability comparable to that of PlayStation®2, PlayStation Portable features a 4.3 inch widescreen, high-resolution TFT display. PlayStation Portable also adopts a newly developed compact but high-capacity (1.8GB) optical disc, Universal Media Disc (UMD), as its storage medium. With a wide range of accessories and connectivity options, including Memory Stick DuoTM, USB 2.0, IR port and Wireless LAN PSP is the new entertainment platform from PlayStation.

About Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE), based in London, is responsible for the distribution, marketing and sales of PS one®, PlayStation®2 and PlayStation Portable® software and hardware in 104 territories across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Oceania. SCEE also develops, publishes, markets and distributes games software for the three formats, and manages the third party licensing programs for these platforms in the PAL territories. At the end of September 2005, over 40 million PlayStation® units had been shipped across these PAL territories, over 102 million worldwide. Between its European debut on 24 November 2000 and 29 November 2005, over 37 million PlayStation®2 units have been shipped across the PAL territories, over 100 million world-wide, making it one of the most successful consumer electronic products in history. Between the launch of the PSP in Japan in December 2004 and 21 October 2005, over 10 million PSPs have been shipped worldwide.

More information about PlayStation products can be found at www.playstation.com

[Cool AN]

Judging from the screenshots, I doubt it will be good.

[Reanimated]

*vomits*

Wonder what the load times will be like on this turd.

[Borys]

^^ Ehh, I think it looks cool, better than Ac!d anyway.

[Morratut]

Damn! For a split second I was thinking Sony was going to let us see a PS3 game.

/waits for E3

[JazGalaxy]

Interestingly, at the time of the PS3 Killzone video, this PSP version was being called Killzone 2. I wonder if they changed the title because everyone was prentending that the PS3 movie was Killzone 2 (even though it never said that).

Also, wasn't the story concidered pretty crappy by most people? I thought the only generally agreed upon success of the game was the art direction...?

[Reanimated]

^^ Ehh, I think it looks cool, better than Ac!d anyway.



Like that's an accomplishment...

[Demo_Boy]

This is the cinematic demo they showed previously, on UMD, and looping over and over.

"Check out these grafics man!!!"

[Tia]

it stays true to what made the first Killzone such a great success

I am confused. I thought Killzone was kindda sucky.

I mean "fiddy cent" sold a lot also, but saying it was a great success is kindda like saying the black plague was a great success.

Why is killzone the "flagship" of Sony now? What did I miss?

[The Iron Weasel]

I thought Killzone was actually pretty good. I thought it was really underrated.

[Mr.Green]

They sold it as a "Halo killer". I guess that didn't help setting up the expectations.

And yes Tia, I hate to break it to you but sales determine if a product is a success or not. From a business standpoint anyway.

[Roman]

The art direction of the first Killzone was great. The story was good, or at least as good as a well-made action movie, and better than most of the generic space marine shit that developers usually crank out. The gameplay was ok, but could have been great. It was really tarnished by a lack of polish, and held back by the hardware.

The PS3 game should be incredible only because the hardware will be able to handle it. This PSP version... I don't know. I'm not a big fan of isometric third person games. It could go either way.

[miah]

Sadly I've just not been a big fan of my PSP lately.. I just haven't been able to get into it, and the library of games is kinda well, it sucks.

[EGO]

I was really anticipating the original Killzone, until it came out.