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If you're a COD fan, you'll probably not like KZ's gameplay.
It's slower and the controls aren't as solid as COD's.
Speaking from KZ 2 experience.
At an event at Guerrilla's Amsterdam offices this week, the developer confirmed that the final version of PlayStation 4 launch title Killzone Shadow Fall clocks in at 39.7GB (in Europe, anyway: some localised versions of the game, needing fewer audio tracks in different languages, are closer to 37GB). Using Sony's PlayGo system, which allows a game to be played while it's still streaming data off the servers, Shadow Fall will be playable after a 7.5GB download.
For players who chose to buy Killzone Shadow Fall from the PlayStation Store, Sony's new PlayGo system alleviates the game's unwieldy size - to an extent. Van der Leeuw reckons those with decent internet connections will be able to download the first 7.5GB, start playing while the second level downloads and then play that, all in a single evening - and then have the complete game downloaded by the next morning. But he acknowledges that even this could be more streamlined.
"Realistically, I think a lot of people can do this... It's just that the initial chunk of 7.5GB is quite big. I think if we would have known exactly how everything would work... I think next time around we'll try to see if we can design something that doesn't jeopardise the game which will make it even friendlier. But I think all things considered, this being launch and we've got like 2 minutes 44 from disc to the first level and no installs, I think it's already a massive improvement over previous generations."
Whether played from hard disc or Blu-ray, van der Leeuw is particularly proud of how fast and seamlessly the game loads; it's been a pet project for the tech director, who hates how slow modern games have become to operate. Guerrilla has completely eliminated in-game load times after an initial 30 seconds, and removed all logos and splash screens from the game's start-up routine. It may take a while to download Killzone Shadow Fall, but once you have it, the game comes to you very quickly indeed.
"To me, that's still something that fills my heart with joy when I see it. You insert the disc and go straight to menu," he says. "People here worked very hard... We had to ask legal and Dolby, the epilepsy warning stuff, the logos from Havok - we had to negotiate with them that we could put it in the credits and not the title screen... All the rules are built around the previous generation. I'm really happy that we're one of the first ones in, and I hope it's an example that people are going to follow.
I hope gamestop lets me switch my BF4 pre order from PS4 to PS3 so I can just upgrade when the PS4 version comes out
I think I've just been convinced that I NEED Killzone!
So it's looking like 2K, COD/BF4 (gametime decision), & KZ at launch.
I have no games pre ordered at this point :\ i'm hoping i can just gonna walk in the store on the 14th or the 15th and just grab 2k and killzone.. that should be possible right ?
As much as I love 2K's gameplay as well as its graphics, I can see what people are saying about being disappointed in it. I was hoping that Nex Gen would bring about a more fluid looking/feeling 2K game. I've always been bothered by it's animation and controls, which reminds me that I'm watching a videogame and not a real broadcast. The animation feels exactly what it is, animations.. I would prefer something like Fifa where you have control of the player 90% of the time and not have to wait for an animation to finish.
Also, has never played Killzone but those screenshots probably convinced me to get it...
Do I need to know the story of 1,2,3 to play this one?
If you're a COD fan, you'll probably not like KZ's gameplay.
It's slower and the controls aren't as solid as COD's.
Speaking from KZ 2 experience.
^i'm not interested in shadow fall. I've watched gameplay vids and I prefer cod.