If you thought that Killzone 2 had been looking too good to be true, then it's quite possible you were correct in your assumption. Developer Guerilla has admitted that the last batch of screenshots had been "touched up" to make them look better than they actually were. Bad form, you dirty boys. Bad, bad form.
Guerilla's Seb Downie made the confession on the official PS3 forums, trying to justify the misleading promotional material by saying the enhancements were only small:
They are only the tiniest bit touched up. Short answer is yes. Long answer is that there was a little bit of colour-correction done and some minor polish, but nothing major. Still very close to reality and it looks better in motion in my opinion.
Frankly, I think it's a pretty crappy stunt to pull on the people following this game. We'd already been lied to once before when the infamous "demo" footage for Killzone 2 a few years back turned out to be CGI, and now they're admitting to altering screenshots to make them look better. Touching up pictures may work for supermodels and pornstars, but when games are judged on how they actually look, this kind of underhanded behavior is not cool and not something any consumer should condone.
It's worrying how obsessed with the graphics Guerilla and Sony seem to be with Killzone games, to the point of lying about them. Might explain why the first one had such disappointing gameplay. Stop trying to wave your graphics-peen around and actually concentrate on making a good game, please.
Jim Sterling serves as reviews editor for Destructoid.com, head of the Podtoid podcast, and produces a number of news stories, original features, one-of-a-kind videos. With his passionate argumentative style, controversial opinions, harsh delivery, and dedication to brutal honesty Sterling is a name that you can't help but recognize.
Likes
PS2, iPod Touch, Silent Hill 2, Metal Gear Solid, Dynasty Warriors 3
Meet the rest of the team
| BBcode help |
| [b]Bold text[/b] |
Bold text |
| [i]Italic text[/i] |
Italic text |
| [url]http://www.dtoid.com/[/url] |
http://www.dtoid.com |
| [url=http://www.dtoid.com/]Web link[/url] |
Web link |
|
| [img]http://www.example.com/robot.jpg[/img] |
 |
Post a comment! You can also post a photo below:
Comment with Facebook
Click connect and comment instantly!
|
Comment with Dtoid
New? SIGN UP - it takes 5 seconds
|
91 comments | showing # 1 to 50
|
Comment with Facebook
Click connect and comment instantly!
|
Comment with Dtoid
New? SIGN UP - it takes 5 seconds
|
Comments policy
Destructoid is an open discussion community. You don't need to "audition" to post a comment - just speak your mind. We respect differing opinions on the site, so have at it. Be smart, funny, insightful, clueless, or cute -- but back it up with substance. Keep your cool, keep it fun. We only ask that you act respectfully and above all: don't be a troll and ruin it for everyone else. Don't bring down gamers or we'll, you know, gently shoot you in the face and stuff you into a flaming mailbox. Each comment is your opportuntity to make this community awesomer. Is that even a word?
Avoiding the banhammer only requires common sense: spamming, trolling, racism, NSFW stuff, and other forms of sucking will not be tolerated. If anyone is griefing please report abuse. Be good. Don't suck!
Contest:
9:06 AM on 12.10.2007
| 
Also, touching.
Why bother with this when you got stuff like BioShock, The Orange Box, Resistance (PS3), Halo 3 (XBox 360), etc. Even TimeShift looks more interesting and fun than this game.
Anyway, enough of my ranting. I'm just tired of this nonsense.
they only catching shit cause of the 2005 trailer fiasco...
touched up or not.. both shots look great.
I honestly don't care. We haven't seen a true screenshot in 10 years, why is it a problem with this game all of a sudden?
If Killzone 2 turns out to be a blast to play then the crap Guerilla and Sony has been doing to fool gamers about the game's graphics will be forgotten, but if the game doesn't live up to expectations then everyone will point to them concentrating on graphics too much and not much else.
@FLAY: see what i've done there....
THAY TOUCHED UP TEH IMAGES!!!!!11111111111111111
DRAAAAAAAAAAAMA.
Everyone does Bullshots. If you didn't know it when you first looked at the images, you're just a sap either way.
I would really like to think that the screenshots just came out totally unrepresentative of the game and they fixed them for accuracy, but I know that's not (entirely) the case.
Dammit, Gorilla Games, I want to shoot space nazis with fancy mo-cap/physics bullet impacts and pretty graphics. Is that too much to ask? Its what you're trying to sell me. Just make sure it looks CLOSE to what you're showing off.
do all you BLOGS just copy stories from each other and act like self righteous drama queens?
*wanders back to the self righteous drama queen group*
There's a big difference... The touched up pictures are looking way more better...
Thanks for the before & after...
@ DTOID
We are talking about Sony... And to give them the benifit of the doubt.
Target Rendering is pretty far off. I think March or April release date on it now? They have time to rectify the "lies"...
Not saying it's all good now! Just, it is "Sony"!
Booyah. Of course, I myself am not a tech/graphics whore (for God's sake, I have a friggin' Wii), so apart from Crysis I've never really been swooned over a game's visuals.
But I'm really disappointed at how shallow a huge demographic of gamers have become (and companies, for that matter). There are a lot of very mediocre games that get acknowledged as "good/great" titles just on their graphics alone. Makes you wonder if some of these gamers remember the 8-bit days... or were even around for them.
But I am sure they are so sorry about it already, look at the over-reaction.
PS. Iam not a Halo Fan, but i played the game.
well to be honest, I take ALL my real pictures in RAW with my EOS, and then touch the lighting up like that as well, so who am I to blame them? :-)
it's not like they added a huge levels of details or object or anything, they basicly just fixed the lighting...
Also, which developer doesn't do a bit of touching up and polish anyway?
If you don't know, they're the ones crying "everyone does it... sob... it's not his fault... sob... he wanted to be cool like the big kids... sob... let my poor little black doorstop alone... sob..."
Fuck 'em. Killzone = FAIL.
"Other companies may do bullshots, but then other companies aren't always lying about how superior the graphics are."
-Jim
That's all the companies talk about when comparing each other. Aside from Nintendo who throw the word innovation. You saying Microsoft doesn't thump it's own chest about their graphics..pleease.
While what they did is shitty, they just got caught!
By the way I'm a graphic whore and proud of it and took offense on your earlier comment.