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Sony's upcoming PSP version of Killzone is due out in November on both sides of the Atlantic, and features co-operative and online multiplayer options, according to a bundle of leaked Sony marketing documentation that the publisher has yet to comment on.

The third-person tactical shooter was confirmed by Sony recently (there's also a PS3 instalment in development, as you know!) and the documentation we've seen sheds more light on its content and positioning.

Due out on November 3rd in both the USA and PAL regions, it's set two months after the conclusion of Killzone, and sees players take control of Jan Templar again on a covert rescue mission to save hostages from new bad guy General Metrac, who uses captured VIPs as bargaining chips. Which isn't very nice...

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=63013

 

[PjotrStroganov]

Online mode would be nice.

Co-op ftw!

 

[Amir0x]

Online

if true, and if a solid framerate, and if they can make a game that works well in handheld format, and if they...

...ok, there's a lot of ifs. But online makes me happy.

 

[drohne]

this looks really cool. though i wish it was a top-down shooter like shock troopers instead of some tactical hostage rescuing hoohah.

 

[Keio]

Did anyone read the whole article - it's taken down from the site and I'd love to hear the other information.

Seems like the SCEE leak was real - Eurogamer removed all the stories (GT4 Online and GoW 2 too) based on the marketing materials...

 

[Mmmkay]

Did anyone read the whole article - it's taken down from the site and I'd love to hear the other information.

Seems like the SCEE leak was real - Eurogamer removed all the stories (GT4 Online and GoW 2 too) based on the marketing materials...

Here you go:

Sony's upcoming PSP version of Killzone is due out in November on both sides of the Atlantic, and features co-operative and online multiplayer options, according to a bundle of leaked Sony marketing documentation that the publisher has yet to comment on.

The third-person tactical shooter was confirmed by Sony recently (there's also a PS3 instalment in development, as you know!) and the documentation we've seen sheds more light on its content and positioning.

Due out on November 3rd in both the USA and PAL regions, it's set two months after the conclusion of Killzone, and sees players take control of Jan Templar again on a covert rescue mission to save hostages from new bad guy General Metrac, who uses captured VIPs as bargaining chips. Which isn't very nice.

The backdrop of the game is a new Helghast strategy - following the liberation of Vektar City - to capture southern island bases and use VIPs as leverage.

Beyond the single-player game, we're told to expect challenge modes, co-operative play, and multiplayer options through both ad hoc and infrastructure modes - so online play is a potential option.

What's more, the documentation points to "Gameshare" - i.e. the option to play using one UMD to some extent - as well as downloadable mission packs to follow up on the game's November release.

 

[PjotrStroganov]

Yeah, and al the info seemed to specific not to be true.


Eurogamer stated that there is going to be an online mode but they only came to this conclusion because the game is going to have infrastructure mode. This doesn't necessarily mean online.

Then again, nothing xlink can't fix.

 

[ganja]

The information that previously appeared here has been removed under the threat of legal action from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
:lol

 

[Keio]

Here you go:

Thanks! Interesting info. All the leaked news has probably spread so far and wide that Sony has no chance of keeping all this bottled up, even though Eurogamer removed the stories...

 

[Chris_C]

The game will indeed feature online play both ad-hoc and infrastructure for up to 6 players.

 

[Funky Papa]

The information that previously appeared here has been removed under the threat of legal action from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
:lol

I don't understand how Sony can threat Eurogamer if nobody signed a NDA for that material :?

 

[fronn]

I don't understand how Sony can threat Eurogamer if nobody signed a NDA for that material :?

I've seen this asked a few times... It isn't so much that Eurogamer is in the wrong, it's that the information shouldn't have leaked in the first place and Sony is saying "please remove it or we'll bring you to court to find out who gave you the information that is possibly detrimental to our PR campaign, etc, etc, costing you all kinds of money and wasting both of our time."

It's in the best interest of Eurogamer to just go "okay, removed."

All companies do it -- most notably Apple actually took someone to court for it (that's rare, most of the time they'll just remove it and nothing else will happen).

 

[Alien Bob]

still love the fact that they called the main character "Jan"

dutchland 444 lyfe yo