Guerrilla Games: 'We can get more out of the PS3 in future projects'

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RAZ dude..you make no sense.

For one, the sequel to KZ2 would come WAY faster, because as someone else stated above, they were developing the engine for the game alongside developing the game. What's that mean? With a sequel, the engine is already there as are a lot of reusable elements of the game itself. They will have a lot less to produce to make a full-fledged sequel. Thus, it will take much less time, and since more than half the work will be done, it will cost much less as well.

Secondly, it doesn't matter when the game was showed...the game is as far as I know, already ready. It's been ready..they just postponed releasing it due to high competition during the holidays in order for the game to stand out a little better. It's not a Call of Duty or a Halo - they want this game to get a lot of attention on it's release, not get lost in the shuffle. A February release, to me, is a brilliant idea. I'm not saying it won't have any competition - but it will have far less competition than if they released it in, say November last year.

They've had a lot of time with the game basically done to just sit there and 'polish' it. It might make it cost a little more, but it's not critical work and will only make the game be received better. It won't cost a lot to polish it either. That being said, if they've been done for a few months like I'm assuming they have been, who's to say they haven't been working on a new game already? They could be 6 months into pre-production on a new game..it doesn't take their entire staff to polish a game.

I don't think the big thing here will be for KZ2 to post a profit necessarily - of course they want it to sell well. But if I'm not mistaken, people will have to pay licensing fees to use their engine, which will help a lot. On top of which, a sequel or new game built on the same engine will also be used to help recoup costs of producing the engine itself, so really whatever amount of the KZ2 budget is assumed for building the engine isn't expected to be made back on this game alone..the licensing fee's and any sequels will do that as well.