Future’s Official PlayStation® Magazine UK scoops Killzone 2 exclusive!

Holographic wallet as magazine celebrates first UK review of PS3TM blockbuster

19/01/09 – Future’s Official PlayStation Magazine UK is celebrating its exclusive review of Killzone 2, with a special collectors’ holographic wallet for the February issue.

Created by Guerrilla Games, Killzone 2 is a PlayStation3 exclusive game, published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) on Friday, 27th February, and is eagerly awaited by gamers and critics alike.

On sale Tuesday 20th January, the latest issue of Official PlayStation Magazine UK is the first place gamers will get the definitive verdict on the game. Showcasing the true next-gen power of the PlayStation3, Killzone 2 gets a comprehensive 6-page review, thanks to the Official magazine’s unrivalled access.

To mark the event, the February issue comes encased in a highly collectable holographic wallet, emblazoned with an image of a Helghast trooper which shifts colour, as the light catches it.

Tim Clark, Editor in Chief of Official PlayStation Magazine UK, said:

“Killzone 2 is without doubt the best looking game on the PlayStation 3, and we wanted to come up with a treatment that mirrored the visual voodoo which the development team at Guerrilla Games has pulled off. We couldn’t be happier with the finished results.”

David Wilson, UK PR Manager at Sony Computer Entertainment UK, added:

“Killzone 2 has been a long time in the making, and best showcases why PlayStation 3 is the only console powerful enough to deliver a ground-breaking title of this nature. Who better to partner with than the Official PlayStation Magazine, in order to offer the readers a special collectors edition issue. It’s a great way to celebrate the launch of this milestone game”

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Lol, classic PR line.

Special collectors’ holographic wallet? That could be awesome, or completely gay.

130 employees working on a game for 5+ years with a budget of 30-60 million dollars will get you a game unlike any other.

Seriously Sony.. why don't you stop saying those comments?

because it might be true, you have to look at how the game is coded. If it is a massively process heavy game then it would have to be dumbed down for the 360. If its shader heavy than the 360 could easily accomplish it.

Still there is one comment that no one can deny, Crysis can't be done on consoles. ;P

Let's just hope/see if the game itself is worth being only able to be made on the PS3...

If the game is anything like KZ1, then it'll be a complete waste.

XBox 360 has a better graphics card than PS3. I will take Gears of War 2 over Kill Zone 2 any day of the week.
Sony PR again and they are lying/misleading gamers once again.

Let's not get too worked up over this, he's just some PR guy... He's just doing his job.

A GPU doesnt make a system... and the GPU and extra few mbs of ram doesnt make much difference. The PS3 is stronger, just only slightly. The CELL can perform video decoding just like its GPU as it was originally designed to be a CPU/GPU hybrid with the original design of the PS3 having two CELLs. So while the 360 has a better GPU the PS3 has a CPU/GPU and a GPU.

The CELL is a pain in the rear to code, this is why Killzone 2 is probably nearly the best we will see for a year or two.

Also your comment on what you would take doesnt matter. Its just fanboy speech. Frankly If you want to go there Ill take every PC TPS out there over Gears and have a WAY better experience.

Negative. The cell processor was never designed to be a CPU/GPU hybrid. From day one, it was designed to be CPU with an unprecedented ability to rip through floating point operations. Remember, IBM planned to sell the Cell CPU on servers and supercomputers. Having it be a GPU hybrid would have made it more expensive to produce without any real benefits. Although CPUs suck at rendering, Sony hoped the Cell processor would be so powerful that although it's extremely inefficient at rendering, it could handle the task without breaking a sweat. If you remember, the original Cell processor patent had over 16 cores and was clocked at 5Ghz. Even if the original plan worked, the Cell wouldn't be able to compete with a modern GPU at the time. Sony made a bad business decision and it bit them in the ass so they had to turn to Nvidia for a quick GPU.