Three direct feed Killzone 2 beta gameplay videos

Following on from our onslaught of shaky camera U.S Killzone 2 beta footage this past week, we've managed to nab three all-new videos from the on-going event via a direct feed source, providing enhanced visual and audio quality.

Viewers will now be able to discern the subtle ambiences of the Helgan city or the clatter of bullets fired from a high-powered rifle. The second video also offers a better insight into the superb texture quality of both the environments and character models used in the game.

[Noctis Lucis Caelum]

Looks very nice, and animation looks great as ever.

[i am the truth]

Im beta and i can tell u it looks much better than what ur seeing here.

[Liquid Dust]

The game looks fantastic, I will be picking it up day one, enjoyed the first one, Im all in, but I just know its going to get slammed by certain sights (ahem Gamedaily) about the lack of color variation and they will probably go on again about the "red explosion drums stick out like a sore thumb among grey environments" rant. I know explosions and some of the lighting gives some variety, what do you think "i am the truth"? Visuals are stunning no doubt, but does it need something more to spice it up do you think?

[Max Power]

if sites have complained about the exploding barrels is Call of Duty 4?

[psnDevistator356]

game is orgasmic

[Megaton]

PSU really doesn't give a flying f@$% about the NDA huh? They've been reported several times on the beta forums.

[Pennywise]

Do you mind? I know I dont. I love watching footage from this game!!!

[i am the truth]

I personaly dont let reviews get in my way of games.If they want to say it dose not have colours then thats there business.Im in the beta and i love the dark and grimey look,I dont care what any body says about the game, i have played the beta and i love what i have played and im buying it day 1.If they want to look for something bad to say about the game then they are sad. "REVIEWS ARE JUST SOMEONES OPINION"

[Jpinter]

According to the email I just received from Sony, hands on previews and the rest of the NDA lifts tomorrow. These are just videos found on youtube, gametrailers, etc.

[SSCOOLCHEA]

is sony website .Thats where I got my beta code from so why should they get in trouble . im in the beta and everything about this game rocks . You cant get the haters to buy this game anyways so why argue . but for those that are buying it will have one hell of a game . peace ....for those in the beta i be on

psn ":: sscoolchea

[Megaton]

@ 2.4

The official PSU is PlayStation Underground. This NDA-breaking, PSU knockoff is PlayStation Universe, and has nothing to do with Sony.

I personally don't care, seeing as how I can play the beta myself whenever I want, but if you're lucky enough to get in with the rest of us, be so kind as to follow the NDA you agree to when you download it.

[ToastyMcNibbles]

sexy!

[Ve3tro]

Wow, PSU love's stealing other sites content.

[Jpinter]

I wasn't aware that the videos were from your site. I found them on Youtube. I've posted a source link on the PSU article to Ve3tro for you.

[joydestroy]

someone had to put 'em up since you didn't get around to fixing your broken links dude. i don't care who puts them up, i just wanna see gameplay since i can't be a part of the beta unfortunately. this game will be the best game in '09, guaranteed.

[gdguide]

Man, I feel for ya. PSU is becoming a blood sucking site that can't nab anything on their own. At least give your site credit. Those jerks took credit for it... Not cool. :/

[Marceles]

The crazy thing is the game looks way more attractive in person, visually and gameplay wise. The action in the videos is nothing compared to what you'll see in a real server with 32 people...it's seriously unbelievable and addictive

[wil4hire]

as if you dont want anyone stealing it... or that you want the credit for it..

I mean, any jackass can start a gaming website. This just adds to the laughable idea of any actual "journalism" or professional work ethic. Don't worry, the more and more talentless hacks start websites, the more saturated it will become, and soon it will start to fall apart. People will start wondering why they are bothering with what a 15 year old thinks, and start looking for more reputable sources for information and news.

[FantasyStar]

Ve3tro took too long to fix the links. Someone else was bound to have the goods, and well...PSU delivered. I won't argue that the footage was taken, but this is what happens when you don't fix your problems quick enough.

[Ve3tro]

With the video's not working, that would be due to the bandwidth from the video host, at the time of them going down it was like 4am in the morning and with my current internet speed it would of taken roughly 3-4 hours to re-upload the files.

With PSU taking the video's, I have no problem them taking them as long as they give credit and ask first.

If they start to do this with other website's problems will occur and they will start to get a bad reputation.

[remanutd55]

just got my beta code , i seriously believe guerrilla games WILL redeem themselves.

[AngryHippo]

.... when playing in the beta, i was on one of the bridges looking over across the map at other bridges which were in the distance and had the helghan enemies on it. The fact that the only thing you could identify as the enemy was the red eyes of the helgan helmets through the misty air was a great feature. Its a visually pleasing game, thats for sure. My only complaint at the moment in the beta is the lack of variety in the maps. Im sure there will be more upon release. The look and feel of the game though is top notch, the release can not come soon enough.

[wibble]

yep, every screenshot I've seen of Killzone looks the same.

I don't think they're understanding that it's all about variety. COD4 was a journey through cool and varied environments and all the shooting and crap was just something to do along the way.

[NickIni]

This is a beta. It won't have all the maps and be up to the standard and quality of the final game ;) Otherwise some people wouldn't bother buying the full game.

[James Vanderbeek]

way better than cod4, mgs4, gears 2, and anything ever released on a console.. this game looks freaking unreal.. I will be running around the maps just looking at how great the game looks for a couple of hours.. everything about this game looks above the rest. animation, physics, graphics, gameplay, and ahhhhh i want this game now.. where is my beta key..

[Spike47]

I was in the beta, it looks awesome.

[running rampid]

getting a ps3 for this game.

[Nitrowolf2]

HOlY Sh1t!!!

that looks f-n amazing

[Sheddi]

god damn this game looks good!

[PS3CELLGRILL]

I must be blind i mean it looks good but 50 million times better than any thing else is crazy.

[drdre74]

I love the game. Ive been playing the beta for a few nights and enjoy it. Just sometimes with the colors you cant really tell if you are hitting the person youre shooting at all the time but it could just be me. I'm not the greatest FPS type. I just enjoy playing. I die more than i kill. lol!

[ApocalypseShadow]

my only question is this:

"why are we seeing explosions,sounds,animation,li ghting,destruction,etc.,like this in ps3's second year and NOT seeing this in 360's third year?do we have to wait for 360's fourth year to see what ps3 is doing in two?

and this is only MULTIPLAYER.

games like killzone2,MGS4,GT5 and uncharted show that there is a clear difference in game development.if third parties haven't reached this with multiplatform games and exclusive devs haven't reached this on 360 alone,even with 360 development being EASY.......

what does that tell you about which system is more powerful?

gears should be doing this or better being that it hides low poly builds with high res textures.unless all that power is wasted on textures.or UE3 is not powerful enough.or the devs not good enough.

funny still is that killzone2 is doing it with more players onscreen.which is TYPICAL of a ps3 game......doing more with more objects onscreen.

great videos.

apocalypse.................

[NewShadow101]

im lovin this game, but when you bring crap up like this i lose interest. my game of choice on 360 is gears. gears also has desructible environments. when everyone says the kills in killzone look amazing, its really just an animation. there are only so many animations they will put in the game so you will see them over and over again. a kill in gears is unpredictable, body parts, explosions, headshots are satisfying! i think killzone has the best lighting ive seen in any game. but the blurr affect when you move is to hide low textures. and to those who say its just pre alpha stage... its way passed that by now, it comes out at the beginning of next year. thats a couple of months. still pics of this game, not so good. thats why it looks so good in person b/c a game always looks better while being played. im buying a PS3 just for this game.

[rockleex]

I'm not sure whether you're bullsh1tting or maybe you just don't know anything about Killzone 2.

But I can assure you Killzone 2 doesn't use preset animations. They have a hit-response animation system so that every shot will produce a different animation each time.

You say a kill in Gears is unpredictable, yes a KILL... but not when they're alive and moving around. Because they use Havok or Ragdoll physics, it wouldn't work with their animations while they're alive. Nothing we haven't seen before. Whereas in Killzone 2, they'll react realisticly WHILE they're still alive and moving around. Even Killzone 2's death animations are awesome.

Gears may have destructible environments, but not as impressive as Killzone 2.

Motion Blur to hide low res-textures? That's the most lame argument anyone has ever made. What if the player decides to stay still and stare at the texture? They would be able to see the low quality textures, but that's not the case with Killzone 2.

Come on, we've seen PLENTY of pictures of the textures and they looked AMAZING. People have even compared screenshots to COD4 and Gears and blown them away.

And the videos? You should watch the original direct feed version of these videos... not the one uploaded onto PSU because they've been compressed. No low-res, low-quality textures ANYWHERE.

It looks amazing on pictures OR videos... if they're not compressed. Please, just stop trying to downplay Killzone 2 to Gears' level. Especially if you cared enough to read all the technology behind the game, you would know that Killzone 2 does not try to HIDE any flaws because there ARE no hidden flaws... at least graphically.

And according to all those beta testers, the gameplay is also awesome.

[ReTarDedFisHy]

This is the video from yesterday
This guy's connection is fail :}

[wil4hire]

1. Its on the ps3 (didn't know that was a negative until I read Kotaku's article on why Bioshocks DLC was bad)
2. 6 axis Sniper Controls (Wait 6 axis, didn't LAIR use that?!@?! I dont want to move while I game, but playing Wii games as well as You're in the Movies and Lips will is perfectly fine.
3. Short Single Player(Although im sure it will be longer than KZ1, KZ2 will be nailed for having a short Single player, and the story will be criticized as if it were written to rival citizen cane, you know a great tale like some generi-space-marine adventure #434. But those are amazing tales of heroism, the problem appears to be when the story is told through a ps3.
4. Online ( Wait, wait wait.. was that.. .002 seconds of lag?!?!?! PSN IS A FAILURE, forget all of the innovations and improvements in online gaming Kz2 will bring as well as 32 player servers and mixable classes, who cares when there is a nano second of lag on the ps3. Lag on other consoles is perfectly fine, and in some cases host advantage is perfectly fine.. but Sony Promised 4d and the Cell. The cell is perfect, lag is not perfect.
5. Color ( all of the color theoristy/part time game reviewers will come out of the woodwork to pretend that they know what color harmonies and values are, yet pretend to have no clue of Art\Set Design. Just as in hollywood, some movies are vibrant colors, others aren't, and hell even some are hue'd Green like The Matrix. This will be yet another problem for the PS3 though, some how people equate the lack of Uncharted like color palletes, to some sort of lack in hardware capacity? I guess, never really understood this one considering some of the older popular, and current popular games are all very muted when it comes to vibrant warm & cool colors.)

6. The Game Isn't CGI. ( PR representatives said Killzone2's CGI target render was realtime ps3 graphics. Even though its been cleared up since then, and now in the year 2008 Gurilla Games is bringing the best looking console graphics a gamer has ever seen on the consoles, KZ2 will still be flopped for not being CGI, silly. I know, but just do a quick search to see media outlets still doing comparisons.

7. Gameplay ( The PS3 isn't allowed to make first person games that follow the universal first person guide since inception of first person gaming. Questions will be brought up about innovation, dont worry logically you would just say "Well look at the multiplayer" But no, no.. The FPS game on a PS3 has to fire on all cylinders, that includes the best single player fps ever made dripping with innovation, or else it will suffer a 70-80% average due to the fact that it didn't improve on the FPS. NOw I know, other games haven't but we aren't talking about other games, we are talking about the PS3. Kz2 should have been a multi dimensonal first person / 5th person RPG that runs based on your real life choices. But even then, im sure it would get pegged for not being JUST like COD4.)

8. Sony Lied.

hmm, am I forgetting anything?

[Messenger]

Dualshock 3 sucks for shooters , X360 pad ftw

[Jamaicangmr]

I agree 100% bubbles for you.

[JBaby343]

I'm waiting for the 360 fans to watch these and say something like "look how crappy that AI is. See KZ2 is the suxors."

[dylantalon]

this is the best game i've seen on a console, i've played it and it is way better than c.o.d 4 in everyway. we might not see another fps or shooter this good again until ps3 decides to make one or when killzone 3 comes out. nothing compares to killzone 2 and anyone that have played the beta knows what i'm talking about, the attention to detail is amazing and the visuals are jaw droppingly realistic. the animation in this game makes my home family videos look like its fake.ps3 is the future and the future is ps3.

ps. The Talon stands for Talented

[pornflakes]

"every screenshot I've seen of Killzone looks the same.

I don't think they're understanding that it's all about variety. COD4 was a journey through cool and varied environments and all the shooting and crap was just something to do along the way."

This is not CGI :(

Sony failed with their promises. Physics and animations in CGI are 200% better, they look REAL.

[PoSTedUP]

aw man... pornflakes is right.... im not going to buy this game now (-_-) /sarcasm.

[ThatCanadianGuy]

This is just the multiplayer BETA.

And strange how you're in every Killzone 2 article pornflakes..

Jealous much?

[cam2030]

i'm a beta tester also. whoever played in this video is lagging real bad. it only takes a few round to kill an enemy

[SaberEdge]

Hmm....looks good, but not as good as some people make it out to be. Lighting and environmental destruction looks great. A lot of nice post processing effects going on. Many of the textures, however, seem to be pretty low resolution. You can see how flat many of them look whenever players get close to objects/walls, such as when climbing the red ladders. Some of the textures look nice, but many look pretty flat, similar to what we saw in MGS4. I also noticed some fairly significant texture pop-in at 1:30 minute mark in the 3rd video. There seemed to be quite a few instances of screen tear as well.

I'm not trying to cut it down, I just don't like when people get ahead of themselves and start hyping something beyond the reality of what is there. Killzone 2 is no doubt one of the best looking games we have seen on consoles, but it isn't flawless. And it should be pointed out that while it looks really great in some areas, there are other areas where other games have done better. Killzone 2 has great real-time lighting and a nice clean look about it, not unlike Mirror's Edge.

[Max Power]

how dare a 500mb beta running on pre alpha have low res textures.

[Mindsucker]

dude you can pick up on that from a low res video? or have you actualy played the game? and are you a game developer? if so what studio?

[rockleex]

Before you talk your stuff, go download the original videos from the alternate links.

Those low quality videos from PSU are nothing to talk about.

EDIT: Nevermind, these aren't even the same videos I was talking about. I thought these were the 4 high-def direct-feed videos I had.

Anyways, all those "low quality textures" you speak of is actually because of the low quality video.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Seems like this game has been in beta all year.

[PotNoodle]

I'm as glad as you lot are that the ps3 is really starting to show its braun, but the comparisons to the 360 about it not being as powerful annoys me and it makes you lot look like paranoid freaks that need constant reasurance that their console is going to beat the other to stay sane.

[tudors]

I think I will wait until a price cut before I get a PS3.

[Mindsucker]

It good to see that you have a opinion in this buddy but sounds more like you have an emotional problem that should be reviewed. I mean for you to search for killzone 2 just to do a comparison to a game like gears of war 2 and then express your opinion on hear. That you feel it the two look as good as each other? seriously did they use the same game development engine? how is it possible for these to game to be equal? either one is better then the other or they look completely different but I guarantee they are not equal. Now hears my opinion I think your opinion is a joke and derived from a weak minded fear that there could be a better game out there other then your game.

[rockleex]

Because I've played Gears 2, and it can't even compare to this.

Even Uncharted looks better than Gears 2.

You would clearly see the difference if you had a PS3 and have played Uncharted and MGS4.