Cliffy-B on Killzone 2 Dev: "I'm Professor X, he's Magneto."

At the Games for Windows event at E3, arstechnica.com were ushered into a magical room with playable stations with Bioshock, Crysis, and Gears of War for PC. They noticed Cliffy-B also watching journalists play his game. After chatting with him about the PC version of GoW, they asked what he thought of the Killzone 2 demo.

Ben: One last question and then I'll let you go. What did you think of the Killzone 2 footage shown?

Cliffy-B: I thought it looked hot!

Ben: Did you?

Cliffy-B: Yeah, the funny thing about that game is that the lead programmer (Arjan Brussee, from Guerilla Games) and I, actually, that was the programmer I did Jazz JackRabbit with back in the day.

Ben: Really?

Cliffy-B: Yeah, and that's always like, you know at E3 a couple years ago that was being compared to Gears and everything, so everything is kind of full circle. It's like, I'm fucking Professor X, and he's Magneto.

[drtysouf21]

I'm sure the developer of Killzone 2 would say the same about Gears they both look great. Now which one will look better? We'll see when Killzone 2 is released.

[riqued]

How can someone disagree with this?

[VendettaWFT]

Same reason someones gonna disagree with you within the next hour

[sajj316]

This is what I like! Give credit where credit is due. I think both lead programmers/designers of their respective games deserve much credit.

[Maldread]

Yeah i agree, he`s one of the few honest developers around. Wish more developers would do it too.

I was very suprised at the Killzone footage in a positive sense, and already think Killzone looks better than Gears of War, in my opinion (not trying to turn this into a flamewar here, and they are not in the same genre either, just expressing my thoughts here)

riqued, well this site is full of fanboys, so i guess one didn`t like Killzone 2 there.

[Also Known As]

WHEN ARE YOU GUYS GOING TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THIS SITE TO: NEWS FOR SONY FANBOY SPIN-MEISTERS?

[Kratosnake]

One week the PS3 gets some hype and you guys are already pissed?

The 360 is been doing great for the past year, and now its the PS3's turn, what's wrong with that? N4G is not bias, not by a long stretch.

[gta_cb]

i agree with Kratosnake, its good to see the PS3 getting some hype, even if you (n4g members) dont like it, all systems need to do well, otherwise whats to stop the winner next time ripping us off? not making as much effort to improve the system etc?

[TheXgamerLive]

F'in A!!!! :)

[Nicosia]

At least he doesn't act like free radical. Good intervieuw!

[MK_Red]

Supreb comment by Cliffy. And great find.
Cliffy and Arjan Brussee made Jazz JackRabbit? Now thats a great piece of information.

[THE_JUDGE]

that he'd say that. I love the X-men. I look forward to the game. If you didn't read the hands on impressions yet you should now! I think it will quell some fears of the gameplay mechanics.

[ALIEN]

Cliff b n Brussee were like brothers. This is funny.

[Sevir04]

they probably tried take a bubble. wow. this mystery disagreer. must not have wanted Killzone to look that good. heres abubble or all of you

help a brother out with a bubble or 2

[Says you]

I shall call him the disagreeing man because when somebody is not insulting one anothers console or agreeing to what this Cliffy B guy says than they just disagree I'mean when I didnt insult the XBox 360 I just got a disagreed man and thats when I said I wouldnt go to the XBox 360 forum anymore what is up with that?.

[Zhoutai]

Someone disagree with that?

[ArduousAndy]

since i do not like killzone2 and love gears of war does that make me an x-men and killzone lovers the brother hood of evil mutants?

[JIN KAZAMA]

that xbox360 must be pretty far up your butt. Take it out and play it sometime dude. But hey, atleast you can put it back up in your butt and take it everywhere you go, and you can call it port-a-ble.

[ArduousAndy]

who are you? Your nothing, your less then nothing. You are some guy that spends all his time on the internet trying to make cyber friends since apparently you can not make real ones. You act tough but in fact the only thing that is tough is the pic of tupac. You apparently must be attracted to me since this isnt the first time you have spoken to me and asked about putting stuff in my butt. You sly pooch.

I see what you are doing. You make those comments see if I'm into then you start to talk more to me on a more friendly matter about games and what not. Then finally after months of talk and dreams of asking me out you do.

But im sorry friend lets not have this dance continue. The truth is I am not gay. Im flattered at your attempts of flirtation I really am. But theres other fish in the sea. If you use google I'm sure you will find someone. And it will be glorious.

So since you asked about my picture again. The truth is no something is not up my butt. Let alone a X-box 360 because the damage that would do to a persons innards would kill them.
No the story of the picture is simple. I went on a vacation to Orlando Florida with my girlfriend. Shes great you two should talk she can teach you about talking to guys. Anyway, so she took the picture what I was doing was simple she told me to make a funny face, and well I did. The face that i was trying to make actually was an impression of my brother when he was trying to take off some green lantern ring that was at the con. It was stuck on his finger. When he found out it cost over 200 dollars well lets just say this. His finger hurt for a good day and a half.

It was a great trip. Maybe if your nice I'll show you my myspace where you can see more pictures of the trip.

So there you go..

Dont worry girlfriend one day your prince will come.

[nobizlikesnowbiz]

PWNED!

16 agrees! If you agree with that tard congrats your balls were just destroyed by thor with his hammer.

[tehcellownu]

cliffy is kool..gears of war is awesome game.but killzone 2 will have better graphic in the end results...and unreal goin to be awesome on the ps3

[gta_cb]

that reminds me, will Unreal be optimised for the PS3 and ported to the Xbox 360? or is it going to be optimised for the PS3 and optimised for the Xbox 360? as most people know, when Unreal comes out on the Xbox 360 there WILL be a comparison and well there will be flaming, just wondered if people are gonna be saying one of the versions is a port.

[sjappie]

whats up with this head-tilting thing? Every picture I see of him he has his head tilted in a 60 degree angle looking all cute and stuff like a posterboy for 13 year old girls. Don't try so hard Cliffy just make the games!

[nurayi]

hehe then you dont want to see this http://www.youtube.com/watc...

but I am a huge UT fan so I forgive the guy. gears is great. killzone2 looks to be unbelievably good. great to see developers praising other developers for good work. + respect cliffy

[sjappie]

Jeah I saw that clip last year lol. They should've played "Vogue" from Madonna with it.

[Komrad]

'man in bus with headphones going to apply for work at magnetos' cafe' in this marvel universe.. :{

[Shaka2K6]

That guy makes video games reallY? wow i thought he was metrosexual hollywood model nice geeks arent your average fat and geeky glasses anymore it seems.

now make some PS3 games you metrosexual freak.

[kornbeaner]

Despite Cliffy being a win/MS guy I really respect this guy. GeOW was a game that I was looking foward and almost bought a 360 for, but since it's coming to the PC I'll just play it in full on my PC.

Now cliffy all I ask is if you can try to at least give us some PS3 love.

It doesn't have to be GeOW but something would be nice.

@below

Is he doing UT3? cause I know its from the same studio but am not sure if it was the same team. IF it is my bad if not I still want cliffy to design a game for the PS3

@ The Snake

Thanks wasn't to sure if he was the lead designer for the studio, I thought he was just lead design on GeOW.

[The Snake]

It's called Unreal Tournament 3.

[nurayi]

was about to say the same thing.

[The Snake]

Epic has 3 teams. Two for games and one entirely dedicated to Unreal Engine 3 tech and support. The 2 game teams were working on Gears and UT3. Cliffy doesn't work exclusively for any team. He is Epic's project lead for both teams.

[sak500]

But still he's happy cuz Gears beat Kz2 to kingdom come in terms of graphics and gameplay.

[ps3FTW]

Have you played KZ2?

[THX7168]

So basically that whole "Only on Xbox 360" was complete bullshit.

[ArduousAndy]

it is and isnt a lie.

It is a lie because it clearly states this game will only be on xbox 360.

It isnt a lie because most people do not consider a PC a console. So gears is clearly only playable on the 360 console not ps3 or WII

also it can also be for that that particular disc is only playable on an xbox 360.

If you go with the third option then technically all game discs are exclusive to there respective systems.

[Bloodmask]

to see mutual respect among developers.

I wont mention any names but their have been a lot of arrogant pot shots taken by other developers. Almost like a fanboy war at the developer level.

This is a level of maturity that is needed.

[IBLEEDBLU]

good info to know

but remember professor X dies while magneto dominates :)

[ArduousAndy]

its comics so they always come back. Hell magneto died 4 times already in the last 8 years.

Professor x dies like 2 times

[360_Rules]

Kojima loved playing Gears last year!

[caffman]

Good to see respect somewhere on this site.LoL

[Rybnik]

WOW, I knew that Cliffy-B always gives props where they are deserved but I never knew he WORKED with the lead for KZ2, Damn!!!! that is really funny!

[airforcex]

I guess the bar was set too high!

[SuperSaiyan4]

The last time a developer slated another person's work? I don't think developers do that out of respect so all they can say is that they liked it I guess.

[Hayabusa 117]

You obviously haven't heard the Haze developers talking about Halo 3 then...

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

NEW RULE!!!

I love that ya'll can be refined and distinguished here, but can we STOP USING THE PHRASE "Give credit where credit is due"???????

It's a terrible phrase and needs to be changed to something cool like..."give 'em props" or...ANYTHING but THAT PHRASE!

I'm gonna go puke now, if you all don't mind.

[vidoardes]

I can see it now... Guerrila and Epic team up to produce a next-gen Jazz Jackrabbit! How awesome would that game be... Jazz for XBox LIVE/PSN anyone?

Anyway, back on topic, developers usually do have respect for each other, because they are not all rabid fanboys. Like art being appreciated by other artists

[progx]

that video was hilarious.

[Havince]

instead of comparing Killzone GRAPHIC WISE to agame that will be over a year old by time killzone is released you also consider the ACTUAL GAMESPLAY, Coz i think gears will be better than killzone via the actual story, gamesplay and the multiplayer

[TruthHurts]

listen.
Gears looks great, really great.
but gameplay wise is nothing special.

and multiplayer is 4 0n 4.

be real w/ yourself.
gameplay is not Gears strength.

[Hayabusa 117]

Likwise, Killzone looks awesome, but has shown nothing gameplay wise to impress at the moment.

[nobizlikesnowbiz]

I know it was done in Killswitch first, but you act like Gears was nothing new and innovative. That is completely false.

KZ2 has yet to show anything but run and gun linear gameplay with pre-staged cinematic stuff(MoH), with really good graphics...

[TruthHurts]

@Hayabusa
i agree, but i do think KZ is more impressive so far.
but, i know what your sayin.

@no biz
i agree but,
i`m saying gameplay wasn`t the strongest part of it, the graphics were.

[Bill Gates]

Magneto, is a badass. Professor X is a chump....HAHAHAHHAHHHA

[mcgrawgamer]

why can't fanboys give each other's consoles props????

[codeazrael]

Excellent comparison. Not downtalking the other guy's work, just giving an honest assessment of it, I respect that. We need more guys like him in the limelight instead of all these people with the negative stuff.

[Salvadore]

Thats the thing I like about Cliffy-B. He's honest, cool, respectful and doesn't come of like a fanboy.

Kudos for him

[Scions Wrath]

Awesome to see respect from these great developers. I love Gears of War for 360 but am not afraid to admit that Killzone 2 is looking a much, much, Better game all round.

[Hayabusa 117]

mcgrawgamer - 29

"if Devs can give each other props on their games
why can't fanboys give each other's consoles props???? "

'Nuff said.

[Rims]

KIllzone 2 >>> Halo 3

[Hayabusa 117]

No, it's because they fear Halo3.

[Rhezin]

yah they better release gears 2 around that time to battle K2 and to make up for the extra exclusive content being released for PC geeks everywhere and not the 360.

[SDS Overfiend]

Cliffy B Was being Sarcastic.

He really meant to say Fuk Guerilla games.