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Guerilla Games cry foul in Killzone 2 ‘touched up’ affair

mistermostyn | December 11, 2007 | News | Playstation 3 
All press is good press, so they say. Well, that's being put to the test this week by Guerilla Games following news that screenshot images attributed to Killzone 2 have been touched up before release.
Recall the furore kicked up when it was discovered Sony had utilised target-rendered game footage to bolster the E3 appeal amassed by Killzone 2?

Hmm, well, guilty or innocent, series developer Guerilla Games has this week reacted swiftly to recent claims that screenshots for the eagerly anticipated sequel have been doctored to improve their overall quality.
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  • -3 thumbs!
    slumpy monkey | December 11, 2007
    lol first sony claim CGI is ingame gameplay and now this?

    Why cant they just let people druel over the actually GAME instead of blabing on about graphics.
    • 0 thumbs!
      Ameer | December 11, 2007
      Did you read the article?

      It's highly unlikely that Guerilla are the only ones doing this, and due to differences in quality between a screenshot and it's appearance in-game, touching up may be required to get the game to look at the quality of that in-game.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Raijin1999 | December 11, 2007
    If you've seen the screenshots, you don't have much an excuse not to have seen the in-game footage. If you can't draw comparisons off the bat, turn right round and get back to research. Even a dulled out youtube video conversion (56k friendly) provides enough for any to judge quality. So much that IO Interactive had Kane & Lynch: Dead Men advertised on youtube's front page for over a week.
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    Final Blade | December 11, 2007
    I heard they touched up the pictures before E3 and that they wanted to touch it up to the current graphics at this time. If thats true than i don't have a problem and i understand why they did it. Although people are complaining that they should have released New pictures instead of touching up older pictures. On the article i read anyway.
  • 1 thumbs!
    Silver Mirror | December 12, 2007
    Why won't people just leave Killzone 2 alone? It seems people are looking for anything to complain about ever since the games awesome graphics were shown two years ago
    • -1 thumbs!
      Seproth | December 12, 2007
      Those weren't the games graphics and everyone knew it. But Sony insisted for weeks that they were.

      This is a perfect example of a game getting hype for graphics alone. The original Killzone was mediocre at best. Even had it reached the impossibly high standards it set for itself it still needs to improve on other things.
      • 0 thumbs!
        Ameer | December 12, 2007
        A flat 70 out of 100 isn't exactly mediocre. Sure, it isn't the best, but it's far from bad.

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