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Killzone 2 uses 4 and half SPE's of the 6 Cell SPE's!!

Final Blade | June 25, 2008 | News | Playstation 3 
Here's something that might wet the appetite of PS3 fans, news from August issue of EGM news featuring Killzone 2 noting that KZ2 will utilize 4 and half of the 6 SPE's of the Cell. This should not only make the great looking physics even better, it should also make the AI that much impressive.

Technical director of Guerilla Games, Michiel van der Leeuw, has stated:
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"Sony basically has an international forum for sharing character technology, animation tools and graphics shaders. ~ We've even taken a few tricks directly from the Resistance guys at Insomniac, and we've even been talking directly to the God of War guys in Santa Monica."




If that doesn't get you excited for Killzone 2 than I don't know what will, its looking mighty impressive for Killzone 2.
EGM/1UP.com revealed that the August issue of EGM has a feature story on Killzone 2. Subscribers should have their copies as early as today and the magazine hits news stands later this week.

The magazine features 12 pages of Killzone 2 goodness, some of which mentions that four-and-a-half of the six cores of the PS3's Cell chip are being used by Killzone 2 at the moment. Guerrilla Games' Technical Directer, Michiel van der Leeuw also mentions, "Sony basically has an international forum for sharing character technology, animation tools and graphics shaders. We've even taken a few tricks directly from the Resistance guys at Insomniac, and we've even been talking directly to the God of War guys in Santa Monica."
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    reaver11 | June 26, 2008
    They can say all they want. We'll see if its awesome when it actually gets here. Granted I lost interest in this game a long time ago (due to it being delayed so much), but if it turns out alright I might pick up a cheaper, used copy eventually.
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    anatomyofme | June 26, 2008
    I do think Risistance 2 is going 2 better, and was going 2 buy that over Killzone 2, if they released around the same time. But congrats to them, by delaying it again I will buy a launch copy instead of waiting a few months then picking it up.
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    Silver Mirror | June 26, 2008
    Hmm that about 75% of the PS3's power, not too bad
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    Final Blade | June 26, 2008
    The thing thats interesting is they're getting the tools from devs like Insomniac and Ready and Dawn I mean those guys know how to make games, it at least shows you that the game is quality.
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    VeGiTAX2 | June 26, 2008
    Odd, there's no half SPE to be used, they're using 5 but the 5th probably isn't handling a full load, possibly it's doing some form of compiling before it gets sent back to the PPU.

    SPE programming has apparently been a large problem for developers since the cache on the SPE is so tiny and has to really have accurate threading to punch in and out without creating a backlog because of overflow. =/ Unfortunately Sony, Toshiba and IBM were in such a race to get this to market that they didn't entirely test out the module to the fullest as I'm sure if they could have they would have considered this more and increased the memory available to each SPE.

    Also I thought the Cell was packing PPU + 7 SPE's?
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    BlackLabel | June 26, 2008
    The CELL does have 7 SPE's but one is turned off incase of one SPE failing, in that instance SPE 7 is activated and the system runs as normal.

    Onto the news, this is nothing major, just because they are using so much doesn't mean it would make a difference, they could be using this much of the CELL just to get the framerate constant, i feel that this could be the Crysis of the PS3, it is putting forth all these graphics and all this amazing stuff, but when it comes down to it, it is running on an unoptimised engine that makes the game harder to run than really necessary.
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    Red 9 | June 26, 2008
    I'm still not wholly interested. Most likely it'll fall victim to hype murder; with the way it's being promoted, it's like it'll be the best game in the history of history.
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    pwned227 | June 26, 2008
    I wouldn't mind if it's the best game in history.
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      Red 9 | June 26, 2008
      But what are the odds of it living up to that kind of expectations?
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        Final Blade | June 27, 2008
        What are the odds of any game to be accepted to expectation by YOU!?!

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