Gears 2 Producer Plays Killzone 2

[theSovietConnection]

This article is standing proof that fanboyism is a phenomena unique only to consumer gamers.

Amen to that. Would be nice if the fanboys would shut up and realize all consoles are equally capable systems in that they all provide entertainment, no matter how pretty it looks

 

[sgtshock]

I would find it surprising if they didn't play rival franchises. If you only play your own games, you aren't much of a gamer, and probably aren't going to be very good at designing them if your work is the only example you've seen.

 

[GRoXERs]

I really don't understand all the comparisons between Killzone 2 and Gears 2. Sure, they came out fairly close together, but Killzone is really a lot closer to Halo 3 in game mechanics (at least in multiplayer).

 

[Jumplion]

Heresy! Our developers are betraying us to the hated forces of the PS3! [/sarcasm]

I don't like it any better than you do, 3-boi. It seems we'll have to do something about this blasphemy. I'm willing to work together this once to prevent this from ever happening again!

Agreed PSWeenie. Let us make a sworn truce, so how generals shall never enjoy each other's company ever!

(Little does Jumplion know that Sanity's giant death ray shall soon destroy the waste of mass called the PS3)

Good, I see we're on he same page. Shall we bait the Wii-side to covering up our tracks?

Little does Sanity know that Jumplion's conversion center for coverting 360 fanboys into the PS3 side is connected to the Giant Death ray, so in fact he shall be the doom of his own people!

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA- oh wait, did I say that out loud?

 

[Leyvin]

How exactly is this news?
This feels like an artical you'd read in a nerdy version of Heat or something.

I think news would probably be if they finally admitted to ripping off the cover system from Kill.Switch and figured no one would notice given it was one of those hidden gem games that very few people actually played... not only that but that he admited that Kill.Switch was actually a damn sight better than Gears in gameplay terms, and that they added chainsaws to improve the awesome factor but that they felt that calling it Chainsaws of Pain X would've probably made it a little too cool for people to handle, so they settled for the standardised facimily of the armed forces being like a machine-like military complex. One of those commonly overlooked facts when people talk about the game, ya know.
Oh and that they once used a real-life mock-up Lancer to give CliffyB a hair-cut only to have him deflect it with the ridiculous amount of hair gel he uses and accidentally giving the haircut to Tim Sweeney instead, but that Tim liked the haircut so much he's since decided to keep it.

Could just be me, but yeah that'd sound some much more awesome as news.
God I wish all of that would actually happen some day

 

[KDR_11k]

But Killzone 2 is not a shoot'em up, it's a first (?) person shooter. Different genre.

GoW is a third person shooter, KZ2 is a first person shooter. The only real difference between them is camera perspective and a chainsaw gun.

But neither is a shoot'em up!

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

TRAITOR!!!!!!!!

Naah, he's getting a scope on other games, good for him.

 

[mattttherman3]

I don't see how this is news worthy, most people play more than one platform.

 

[painfull2006]

OHHHH my god!!!

What is happening to the world!!

Gears 2 Dev plays a PS3 game D:?!
i just... cant go on!!... its like... i have lost the will to live, this is such major news!....

NOT.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

I didn't think that Killzone and Gears were exactly rival franchises. If one man sells fish only in Argentina and one sells fish only in Canada, are they competing against each other?

Of course, it's a bit more iffy here because these games are trying to attract new players to the console (I assume?) Although both are really just likely to attract those who already own the target console.

Strange metaphor

 

[Simalacrum]

I applaud him for not being a fanboy to his own company. We should know that Gears of War isn't everything in life and some other shoot-em-ups need to be played, too.

agreed. besides, playing the game that you yourself developed well... it may be cool to have made it but would be kinda boring, considering you know everything the game has to offer already...

 

[Doc Theta Sigma]

See, they don't have mass burnings of copies of Killzone 2 in the Epic parking lot. Myth busted.

Fixed that for you

But anyway, good for him. Just because someone develops a game it doesn't mean they're chained to that game and that game only. About time someone brought things like this to light.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Gears 2 and Killzone 2 are both the visual benchmarks for their respective consoles. Now if someone from Bungie was playing KZ2 then it would be direct competition.

Thank God I've got Peggle on my laptop, if I downloaded it to my 360 I'd never get my wife off it.