| makingmusic476 said: Killzone 2 better end up being better (if not MUCH better) than Resistance 2. The game is Sony's flagship title. They have given GG 3 years and over $40 mil. to work on this game, and dedicated an entire E3 press event to it's official gameplay unveiling. With all that effort, if they are trumped by Insomniac who puts out a game every freakin' year (praise to them for it, their games always kick ass), I think Sony will be kinda pissed. They'll be thinking, why didn't we just throw tons of cash at Insomniac instead? They managed to make the better game without an assload of support. |
I'll be surprised if Killzone 2 turns out much better than RFOM 2 (or even better at all). Mainly because:
a) Insomniac have RFOM under their belts and it was better all round than Killzone 1
b) RFOM 2 is coming on back of what I think of as popular hype - i.e. I liked RFOM and its very likely sequel will improve on it in lots of ways
c) R&C showed how far they'd pushed the original engine from RFOM in a fairly short time and I fully expect from the snippets that have been released RFOM 2 is going to see the engine pushed ever further again
d) the recent information makes RFOM2 look huge! 60 players on multi - seperate 8 player coop campaign, coop for main campaign, etc. (guess the Insomniac guys really don't sleep)
This is not to say KZ2 might not also be a great game of course - just that RFOM is in a sense already proven and RFOM2 is expected to be great, while KZ2 is still more about hype than anything concrete.
It get the feelling KZ2 has got caught in that nasty loop where something keeps topping it a little in the market so they try and push the game in development to catch up (used to happen with FPS on PC all the time).
They need to lock in a level of excellence to go for and get it out before (and reasonably well away from) RFOM2 or it will steal its thunder for sure. Hell, RFOM2 is building on plus 2M sales base and most PS3 owners I know really like it and buying the second game is a given for them (me too).
I think KZ2 needs to be out July/August or September at the very latest as Insomniac also don't tend to miss release dates they've issued so I doubt RFOM2 is going to be delayed much and if KZ2 launches too close and doesn't review sweetly could see people wait for RFOM2 instead for FPS (SP and Online).
