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Killzone 2 floors Insomniac community manager JStevenson

Killzone 2 has floored JStevenson - community manager at Insomniac games. This is what he had to say regarding the game:-

"I did indeed beat KZ2 tonight and it is indeed awesome. I know there will be plenty of comments, opinions, accolades and nitpicks, but for me, the game was fun.

My favorite part of the game was when you get this certain weapon. I really really love it and I got the trophy for oh so fast - wish it was available more.

Anyways --- major props to all the folks at GG. "
Updates:
NOTE : Insomniac and SONY's Santa Monica studio helped Guerilla to build the AI algorithms of Killzone 2
Alternative Sources:
Killzone 2 demo likely in E... - consolemonster.com | By: Rob Rymond
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Published: 359 days 20 hours ago | News | PlayStation 3
 
 

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Ninja-Sama - 359 days 20 hours ago
1 - Expecting great things from KZ2...
but on another note, would it be possible for Insomniac to use the KZ2 engine for R3? If they could that would be so awesome...
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silverchode - 359 days 20 hours ago
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that would be like halo 4 looking like kz2, i think that insomniac would keep r3 like the resistance games b4
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Lord Anubis - 359 days 19 hours ago
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sony's first party devs share technology. there's probably Insomniac technology in Kllzn2 and it's more likely guerilla has already shared technology back to insomniac. esp the lighting.
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silverchode - 359 days 19 hours ago
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i know they share the technology, im just saying that i dont think insomniac would completely change the way resistance looks.
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soljah - 359 days 19 hours ago
1.4 -
actually Sony investing so much into gg and kz2 has a dual purpose.
1 to develop the defining next gen fps on any system
2 let gg and their team of engineers develop the technology that will be seen in future ps3 titles for years to come.

the game has been in development since 05 but it is the tool sets and new routines and ps3 tech that will be the real shining star from gg and the game that is kill zone II
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superaktieboy - 359 days 17 hours ago
1.5 - Well
Seb Downie (QA Manager - Guerrilla Games) says no comment of sharing the technology for first party, so we could assume that it will be used, since they usually say no comment but then it is true lol

http://boardsus.playstation...
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EXCLUSIVEGAMER - 359 days 14 hours ago
1.6 -
im buying this twice.

1 for me and one for my friend (friend doesnt have alot of money):)
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Alcon - 359 days 14 hours ago
1.7 -
@ EXCLUSIVEGAMER: I wish I had friends as generous as you man! that's a real nice present you'll make. bubble to you!
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acedoh - 359 days 12 hours ago
1.8 - This is the game
that made me believe in the PS3. From the very first appearance over 3 years ago to now. For most who buy this game it will be their first Killzone game and I think most will be more than pleased to have the flagship shooter of the PS3...
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Proxy - 359 days 9 hours ago
1.9 - Insomniac is a real class act...
They seem to always have nice and respectable things to say.
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LONEWOLF231 - 359 days 7 hours ago
1.10 -
@EXCLUSIVEGAMER

Thats awesome dude, the gaming community needs more peeps like you man.
Bubbles for you my friend.
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BleuStreeks - 359 days 7 hours ago
1.11 -
day one purchase for me and I will call out of work when it comes out as well.
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xwabbit - 359 days 3 hours ago
1.12 -
This game will rape :P
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MURKERR - 359 days 20 hours ago
2 - nitpicking= are just haters who cant really find fault
but need to be negative coz it burns,great example..1up who said 'i dont like the helgans eyes' they said it in a way where it must ruin the experience so points need to be deducted lol
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Gambit07 - 359 days 19 hours ago
2.1 -
They also said Helghans butt cheeks are too pimply, so that's one more score reduction.
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MURKERR - 359 days 19 hours ago
2.2 - lol.and didnt they talk about sevs hair? cant remember but
youd think if it had poor collision detection,framerate etc that would be sutin to get points deducted...like i said 1up nitpicking thats how you know the games sick
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Graphics Whore - 359 days 20 hours ago
3 -
I can't wait.
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Gambit07 - 359 days 19 hours ago
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I wouldn't call it floored him, he just said it was fun.
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pixelsword - 359 days 19 hours ago
4.1 - "I did indeed beat KZ2 tonight and it is indeed awesome."
Hmm...
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chrisnick - 359 days 19 hours ago
5 - ........SERIOUSLY???
brb guys......i've got something to pre-order.
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Killzonegamer83 - 359 days 19 hours ago
6 - Ok
I think we all pretty much know this game is gold and is finished, they just havent announced it yet.. WHY do they have to wait until the tail end of FEB to release it?! I want this game so bad
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KillaManiac - 359 days 18 hours ago
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Prob just bugtesting and doing alot of online closed doors final testing.
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rogimusprime - 359 days 18 hours ago
6.2 - good point....
hopefully the wait is for sony to get their ad campaign together.

Why do they suck so bad at promoting the PS3 AAA (supposedly) titles?
I can't remember how many commercials I saw back in the day for old PSone games like battle arena toshinden and bushido blade, but now that every games takes 10's of millions to make...

...sony seems to not push the games like they should.

I learned in college marketing jobs were hard to come by...but I still don't see why. I could sell Killzone 2 faster than Amy Winehouse can make a man sober.

but I digress, this game can't come soon enough!
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snipermk0 - 359 days 17 hours ago
6.3 - ^^^^
Well, that's probably because Sony is broke by the time they are finished investing 10s of millions of dollars that they haven't got enough left for ad campaigns. LOL :P

On another note, sony would really need to promote this game.. And I mean heavily!
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Sarcasm - 359 days 15 hours ago
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Don't rush to get it now, or else we'll end up with another SOCOM for online issues.

WHEN IT'S DONE, IT'S DONE. Then that's when it should be released.
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micro_invader - 359 days 12 hours ago
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I think they're holding it off a bit to release it in the dry season, ensuring maximum sales.

I agree they should be marketing it more heavily, this close to launch.
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IWentBrokeForGaming - 359 days 19 hours ago
7 - This is what I've got to say
Resistance can't compare to Killzone in graphics, but I personally see originality going to Resistance!

Both are great PS3 exclusive titles, for what they respectivley do!

And although I'd absolutely love to see Killzone pave the way of next gen console graphics... I don't want the exact engine to be w#ored out like the Unreal Engine like it's some kind of novelty. Cause if that would happen, it would make Killzone way less special than it is now... and would definatley take away from the initial impact Killzone already has on the console gaming community!
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360RRODFIX - 359 days 15 hours ago
7.1 -
Yeah sine aliens invading Earth is such a fresh and new subject, no one has ever done that before in game or eve movies /roll eyes
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Boty - 359 days 15 hours ago
7.2 - @ Above ME
The "things" in Resestance arn't aliens in terms of like HALO. There people who got a virus.(Like a nasty Flu. A REAL NASTY FLU!)LOL
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gameraxis - 359 days 10 hours ago
7.3 - here's the thing though
just because it comes from the same engine doesn't mean it'll look anything like killzone 2, picture a TOTALLY different art style, with Chimeara, and sci-fi weapons of resistance just looking as good as K2...

Infinite I looked NOTHING like gears or army of two... see what i'm saying??

insomniac could use emphasis on entirely different engine tools, and that alone would make it look different
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Ju - 359 days 3 hours ago
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I think the only thing missing in R2 was time. Time to polish it all the way thru. There are moments in the game which look absolutely gorgeous. And then some seamed to be rushed thru. Add a little bit polish, maybe add the deferred renderer (I think the do a lot of geometry processing already to make 200K monsters work), and there you go. I believe (if they'll do it) R3 will match (or even surpass) KZ2. KZ2 is not the end of the line, there is more possible down the road.
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SmokingMonkey - 359 days 19 hours ago
8 - awesome
Sony games are the best...it's true
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billez - 359 days 19 hours ago
9 - OFF TOPIC:
wats the difference between a 1st and 2nd party dev.???
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firelogic - 359 days 19 hours ago
9.1 - Well
First party is in-house or a developer that the studio owns.
Second-party is a company that is independent but is contracted and primarily works for the one console.
Third party is a company like Capcom or Bethesda that makes games for all platforms.
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Gambit07 - 359 days 19 hours ago
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1st party developers are owned by the console maker, 2nd party are the developers that only work with a certain console maker but are not owned by them.
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Ramzadel - 359 days 19 hours ago
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I think a first party developer only can make games for the company they work for and the IP's they make belong to that company

2nd party developers are more freelance and can make games on other systems but the IP's they make for one company can only be made for that one company if that one company publishes it

Example, Insomniac is 2nd party so they can make a game on 360 but can't make another Ratchet game for 360 as Sony owns the IP

I don't know if this is all right better check google =)
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orakga - 359 days 17 hours ago
9.4 - hmmm
well... here's the wiki definition of 2nd party.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

BUT, the term "2nd party" is not really a real term (the wiki page notes this as well). It's the same reason why first-person shooters and third-person shooters exist, but not second-person shooters. (okay i botched that analogy, but still)

Only 1st party and 3rd party are commonly accepted terms, and the distinction is quite simple:

<imagine the following as a statement by Sony/MS/Nin>
- 1st party: I/We made the game
- 3rd party: Someone else made the game

So, if the game was made by the hardware manufacturer (or someone who is owned by the manufacturer), it would be considered a 1st party title. But if the hardware manufacturer did not have a controlling stake in the developing company, it would be considered a 3rd party software.

2nd party is just a term that was sort of made up to help refer to those titles that fall in between, but they are still technically 3rd party titles unless the development contract did somehow involve some form of acquisition by the console/hardware manufacturer.

So, regardless of whether a developer creates games exclusively for one hardware or for all consoles, if it is not owned by the hardware manufacturer itself, it is a 3rd party developer/publisher, and everything they produce would be considered 3rd party software, regardless of platform or exclusivity.

Therefore, unless Sony actually OWNS Guerilla Games, KZ2 is a 3rd party software. Same applies to Insomniac and R2. And Media Molecule and LBP. If I'm not mistaken, Sony has no controlling stake in any of those companies, so all of those games are 3rd party titles (unless someone can kindly correct me).

And that would actually explain why their marketing efforts have been so poor. (just look at how marketing efforts differ between 1st party titles (Mario, etc) and 3rd party titles (Boom Blox, etc) on the Wii, and you'll get the idea)

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Now, if you really want to get technical... you could imagine a scenario where Sony produces a game for the PS3 but then also releases it on the 360 and/or Wii (this would most likely never happen for obvious reasons). Still, if this ever happened, this title would be considered a 1st party title for any Sony console, but a 3rd party for the 360 and Wii.

But who am I kidding. That would never happen.
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thebudgetgamer - 359 days 17 hours ago
9.5 - too complicated people
naughty dog 1st party owned by sony
insomniac 2nd party not owned by sony but makes games only for sony
kojima prod 3rd party makes games for anyone

:)

edit: above you mean like people said sonic would never end up on a nintendo?
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orakga - 359 days 9 hours ago
9.6 - @ budgetgamer
Sega did not release Sonic on any other system until their hardware division was killed.

Therefore, by the time Sonic came out on Nintendo/Microsoft/Sony's system's Sega itself was no longer a console manufacturer, making it just another 3rd party developer.
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cayal - 359 days 18 hours ago
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Damn I want this game! Now!
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Bob Dole - 359 days 18 hours ago
10.1 -
Bob Dole too :)
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ShinFuYux - 359 days 18 hours ago
11 - I'm having the LBP syndrom
People say it's an amazing game but I'm not completely sold until I get a demo or see something so new an spectacular like FarCry2 did (I was sold when they showed the dunia engine).

Right now, I Sony hasn't released LBP demo nor does the LBP commercials sell me.

For Killzone 2, what makes this game so much better than R2 or FarCry2? My impression of it, right now, is "it's another FPS game using the same stuff as every other FPS game."
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Bob Dole - 359 days 18 hours ago
11.1 -
Rent it.
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IWentBrokeForGaming - 359 days 18 hours ago
11.2 - Im pretty sure you can count on
Killzone 2 having more quality invested in it than Farcry 2, especially because Killzone 2 carries more weight to deliver something graphically that we've never done on a console before, on its shoulder than ANY console game this gen. Something that beyond fact Farcry 2 didn't have to even begin to worry about!

If you were impressed with Farcry 2, I find it too hard to believe that you aren't impressed with KZ2!
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Sarcasm - 359 days 15 hours ago
11.3 -
"If you were impressed with Farcry 2, I find it too hard to believe that you aren't impressed with KZ2! "

Seriously.

It's like saying "I'm not impressed seeing God. I've seen Jesus already"
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himdeel - 359 days 10 hours ago
11.4 - Bubbles for Sarcasm...
...on the God and Jesus comment. It got me to chuckle.
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ronando - 359 days 7 hours ago
11.5 - LBP Problem? Go to Blockbuster!
My friend,

your sceptisism of LittleBigPlanet will immediately be addressed once you either purchase the game, or atleast rent it. LBP would not make a good demo as their are so many aspects that can't be summed up in a 10 minute experience. It's truly a unique and incredible game, the best I've played since the likes of Mario Bros. 3 (truly legendary).

If your a person who appreciates creativity and loves a challenge, LBP is for you! Trust me, this game makes Tim Burton look like an accountant.

As for Killzone 2, trust the redundant, over written articles that appear every single day. This game is going to set the bar, high enough that the current competition won't be able to touch it. Don't spoil the anticiaption with a silly demo and shotty Youtube footage, go to your local game store on Feb 27th!

Good luck, my friend!
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Ju - 359 days 3 hours ago
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I am surprised that you are impressed by FC2. Nice game, but nothing to be impressed about, IMO. R2 is way more fun, more scale, more impressive already.
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sinncross - 359 days 18 hours ago
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Wow, I can seriously see the next title that uses the Killzone 2 engine (perhaps R3) to be able to incorporate split screen multi player.
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mrsatan - 359 days 18 hours ago
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I read a comment from the devs that they are thinking of adding in coop mode. Not sure if that means split screen or not. The engine may not handle split screen well.
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