Killzone 3 debuts before E3!

Dutch developer Guerilla Games continues their beautiful, violent tale of the ferocious war between the red-eyed Helghast and the true-blue Interplanetary Strategic Alliance in Killzone 3.

The game is again flexing the muscles of the PS3, featuring 3-D support, ultra-violent "close melee combat", wider and more expansive level design, a revised game engine, new weapons, jetpacks, Move support, less swearing from a [hopefully] less infuriating Rico and a denser story which [hopefully] will draw on the detailed Killzone Chronicles on www.killzone.com. Actually, it will have a story full-stop, which for some will be a vast improvement on the acclaimed Killzone 2, where all the expense had been poured into the game's meaty gameplay and multiplayer, and barely a thought spared on the profanity-strewn dialogue and cookie-cutter space marine cast. That said, I for one loved that game's's Black Hawk Down-esque, ground-zero experience of a war against an enemy that has been sorely underestimated, and in this writer' s opinion it is still almost unmatched in it's intensity and oppressive atmosphere in the FPS genre. And, oh yeah, it's stunning to look at and features some of the most cunning AI seen anywhere on any system..

We can expect another round of dazzling, deafening technical prowess in February next year. We'll hopefully get to speak to Hermen and the crew at GamesCom in August, where we can find out if Sev is going to take his shirt off or not! Cannot wait.