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Killzone 3 leaked – Halo Killer copies Halo Flame On
   May 24th, 2010 clock image 7:30 am

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Over the weekend some details about the upcoming Killzone 3 have been announced and while it looks awesome I just can’t move past the fact that they have blatantly copied Halo.

This normally wouldn’t be such a bad thing but this is the title that gave itself (actually it was dubbed by the media as) the title ‘Halo Killer’ and lined itself up as the PS3’s version of Halo.

The Halo Reach beta has just completed and one of the bigger game changers in that beta was the inclusion of Jet Packs to allow for even more vertical gameplay. The response from the beta is mainly positive and the jet pack didn’t dominate but did add a nice new dimension to the game.

Killzone 3’s great new addition to gaming is… yeah you guessed it. A jet pack. I can imagine the Killzone developers were shattered when they heard that Bungie was also implementing a jet pack but since Bungie got the announcement out first I really do believe that the Killzone developers should have gone back and come up with a new idea.

Though it’s not all bad news as they have also announced that the game will feature a greater storyline for the Hellghast and we’ll get to see their side of the story which shows us that they are not pure evil and also have dreams and ambitions.

It was also announced that Killzone 3 will be fully 3D enabled (if you have a 3D TV) and I expect this mode to be fully shown at E3 2010 so keep an eye out for our coverage of that.

Source: PALGN

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  • Fox1

    *Waits for CoD to implement jetpacks now :whistle: *

  • eltonriley

    So they copied Halo because of jet packs and now Killzone is the PS’s Halo?? hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. That has got to be the most pathetic thing I have ever read. I have played both franchises, and never mind that Killzone is technically far superior to Halo, the only similarities with them, apart from the jetpack now, is that they are FPS. If anything, Halo could learn more from Killzone than Killzone could learn from Halo.
    I still giggle when I think that Killzone copied Halo :w00t: Thats hilarious :biggrin:

    • http://www.facebook.com/adolph.visagie Adolph Current

      I couldn’t have said it better elton, and if you really want to shake the coke-can, for instance, Metroid had jetpacks ages ago. For heaven’s sake, towards the end of Halflife you also get a jetpack, and what about the cool one in San Andreas? Oh CJ… what fun we had.

      It’s unfortunate that Halo is seen as some sort of benchmark by ol’Gavin, when in fact it’s merely an inheritor. I don’t care if Gavin thinks Killzone is a Halo-clone, that’s his prerogative but I will say “Helghast forever baby!” :lol:

  • Mike

    What about PS3 exclusive Warhawk then? It had jetpacks!

  • RSA-Ace

    Just because someone announced a feature before the other doesn’t mean they copied. For all we know Killzone planned on having jetpacks in the first game before halo reach… Jetpacks have been in plenty of games already. Would it have helped if they didn’t call them jetpacks?

    Halo had guns*. Killzone had guns* as well. Halo was out before Killzone which means Killzone copied Halo’s idea. Sounds a bit silly right?

    [*Substitute guns for vehicles, jump, crouch, melee, upgrades, armor]

  • Fred

    Jetpacks are not a good idea for a FPS.

    • http://www.lazygamer.co.za Gavin Mannion

      I have to agree with you there.

  • element4life3

    I’m sorry, but Killzone is a complete joke. I am not a huge Halo fan, but to say Killzone is better than Halo is just worthless words from an obvious fanboy…..

  • Steve

    Killzone Liberation had jetpacks in, and that was out years ago…

  • lans

    ur refusal and needless dissing of killzone proves your the obvious fanboy. halo is good but ive had way more fun in killzone and thats my opinion i played the singlepalyer 2 weeks ago and the graphics still blow me away and i was addicted to multiplayer i put 100 hours into my online campaign and am almost a general 3 bar

    • http://www.lazygamer.co.za Gavin Mannion

      I am actually not a big Halo fan, I can’t even remember the last time I played.

      I want to like it as people seem to love the game but I just don’t get it. Killzone on the other hand is a much better looking game but it’s community cannot even be remotely compared to Halo’s

      • Fox1

        And same applies to Forza. Huge community over there :smile:

        • lans

          forza community? you mean the one that luvs dlc , turn 10 bribes and dissing gt for no reason whatsoever, i played forza 3 this weekend online and it was empty. ok it was a sunday but still if its huge they should be lots of peeps playing on sunday!

  • Mornelithe

    Correction: The media gave Killzone the title ‘Halo Killer’. No developer ever state’s such stupid catch-phrases of the week, as developers are aware that once a game garners a following, that following usually remains loyal to that game.

    What this means, Gavin, is there is no ‘Halo Killer’, unless, of course, some teen is going around killing people in a Master Chief outfit. An amusing thought, no doubt, but still fits the bill more accurately than any game ever will.

    So, for those who are interested, it sounds like KZ3 is coming along nicely, even more importanly, Evan Wells of Naughty Dog recently announced that his team is working with Guerilla on KZ3′s engine. That’s huge news, and should mean great things for the game itself.

    For the rest, ignore the obvious troll attempt from the writer.

  • batman

    Ye they must have copied Halo, because Halo is the first game to have jetpacks in it………

  • AlKi

    eltonriley agreed…wot the hell,copies halo…?????cant believe i waisted seconds of my life reading this nonsens!!!

  • Hoolie

    Halo is Definitely not the first FPS with jet packs, not ever close, Jet packs played a huge part in games like Tribes.
    but having two franchises with jet packs as their new feature is a little odd

    • http://www.lazygamer.co.za Gavin Mannion

      I think you may be the first one to understand the point I was trying to make.

      It also doesn’t only apply to Halo/Killzone the gaming industry and movie industry constantly copies each other and it’s incredibly frustrating.

      Like I said the Killzone dev’s would have been seriously pissed when they found out that Halo was doing the same thing especially since Halo got the jump on them

      • RSA-Ace

        I have nothing against developers copying ideas. As long as the ideas are good ones and they can improve on it.

        Sony copied MS on the whole achievement thing and that is one of the best things they’ve done. What’s wrong with that. I even feel they improved on the way it was initially done.

      • BS

        okay halo fanboy… even though it was in liberation, which was out before reach….but keep telling yurself GG is coping them…

  • Potty391

    They definitely are copying it from another game, the thing is: that game isn’t Halo, nor any other game that came out this console generation. As far as I know the first FPS to ever have jetpacks was Duke Nukem 3D and everyone is copying that idea from 1995 :D

    • eltonriley

      So clearly, this extremely poor articles tries to highlight Killzone as a copycat, when in fact Halo is clearly a copycat as well.

      But of course, Lazy would conveniently miss that tiny fact. I mean Halo is an M$ game after all :whistle: Maybe Lazy will get lucky when he’s trolling the net one day and will come across a headline “Bill Gates becomes president, bans all Sony products and games”. :pinch:

      Got to admit, in the few months or so I’ve been visiting this site, the level of journalism here is the poorest I’ve seen.

      • Potty391

        I have to disagree with you, this article is well written (its harder than it looks to write gaming news articles, believe me).
        I have thought Lazy is a PS3 fanboy more often than I thought he was a Xbox fanboy, but I haven’t thought that he was any kind of fanboy more than once or twice in the last few years that I have been following the site.

        • eltonriley

          Potty391, how can this be a well written article when the contents and heading are total BS? And I need to correct you on something, its hard to write GOOD gaming news articles. Anybody can write crap like this. I mean “Halo Killer copies Halo”? Come on. Who’s fooling who here. @Parker: Those snow effects are ace! Copied directly from Shanu White snow boarding :biggrin: (end sarcasm)

  • Parker

    Doesn’t look seriously important methinks. For all we know jetpacks could just be a small vehicular mission. Mountain out of a molehill, once again.
    But have you guys seen the snow effects? Woah…

  • MARNEY

    Wow, interesting, but didn’t KZ liberation for the PSP have jet packs? the media (mostly biased journalists.) dubbed KZ a “halo killer”, to set expectations sky high, only to criticise any & every issue that differs from their unrealistic & irrelevant comparisons to a completely different game. any game pitched unfairly against one of the most popular IP’s this gen will have a tough time competing in sales.

  • Ladunia

    Killzone sucks, and always will bow to Halo. Now they’re copying jetpacks? Seriously devs, stop copying Bungie. Get your own ideas. Halo 3′s community still 100 000+ every night and Killzone’s? Yeah well, I’ll leave it at that :angel:

    • Neven

      The Killzone series had jetpacks before Halo did. You should read other comments before posting nonsense.

    • ewie

      Actually a little more every night, but i think COD still beat it with number of players.

      Halo should average out over 400 000 per day,

  • Biff

    Are you serious?! Killzone had jetpacks way before Halo reach did its more like Halo reach copied Killzone! and Ladunia Halo sucks, that piece of shitty game should bow down to Killzone.

  • eltonriley

    Xbox fanboys trying to make a PS3 game look bad when in fact its the Xbox game thats the copycat: PRICELESS

    • Opio

      ….Your statement is incorrect. I’m not a fanboy of both and I don’t support both, but by fact Halo was the one the change FPS gaming. If you hate on Halo and wish it was never made then Killzone won’t be here. Halo changed the gaming of FPS and many people started copying how Halo started out to be. They copy an copy and copy and so Halo is left behind. Then, all PS3 fanboys started accusing that Halo is a copycat while in fact all the FPS games now just copy each other. You have no need to flame but the truth is the truth.

  • Ladunia

    Oh I just love how easily I can get under Sony Fanboy’s skins. Reach. Peace.

    • eltonriley

      Dont flatter yourself Ladunia. I dont think anybody even noticed you were here. Come to think of it, you were one of the okes I used to mute on LIVE.

      • Steve

        LOL

  • lans

    killzone is 5000 to 30 000 per night its not like im going to play killzone with even 1% of the community so why bring up pointless numbers unless your implying you have 100 000 friends playing with u every night?

    • http://www.designwave.co.za Nick de Bruyne

      To be honest, I think it’s the players that make the game. I actually really like playing Killzone 2 multiplayer. More than Halo or MW2, but the truth is that if all of those MW2 and Halo players all played Killzone 2 I would probably hate it as well.

  • tr4v1s

    Killzone titles have featured jetpacks as a gameplay element for longer than halo, so this article seems as a biased attack on the playstation and killzone. The push to put jetpacks into killzone 3 may have been because of the competition from halo: reach, but is in no way a “copy-cat” move. This kind of article annoys me to say the least.

  • Parker

    You guys should really try out MAG if you want a great and deep online shooter experience. You’re forced to communicate properly if you want to achieve anything in that game.

  • EndZero

    Wow some xbox losers are still trying to bring down killzone. Like halo invented jet packs. Killzone can’t be compared to halo, they are 2 different games. Those nerdy trolls need to get over themselves and accept that there are better things out there, and sorry but they’re not on xbox. Just cause halo is more popular like the brittany spears of shooters, doesn’t mean it’s the best. Killzone is dark and gritty, and has weight that makes it feel realistic. Just when i thought i was gunna get bored of shooting games, the beast sequel came out and refreshed my love for the genre.

    • Opio

      That’s why i hate people like you. I’m not a loser but you’re one. It’s you’re hating on Xbox instead.

  • caveman

    This guy is a complete idiot. Killzone Liberation had jetpacks so that means the Killzone franchise had them way before Halo. Even at IGN they stated that Killzone 3 had the idea before Halo and that Halo was just the first to show them. Thats like saying Halo stole the idea of using guns from another shooting game.LMFAO pointless article. No wonder he has a bag on his head he doesnt want people to see how realy dumb he is. TARD.

    • Opio

      Tribes has jetpack as well LMFAO you’re statement is just as pointless as the article. Please try to use your brain next time before you post.

  • caveman

    Ladunia your statements stupid as are you Killaone had them first so that means Bungie copied them dumbass hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah.

  • caveman

    Killzone

  • whodat

    At least I don’t have to pay $50 a year to play online with a bunch of whiney kids. I like KZ2 and the different game types per round. Makes you change strategies throughout the game. It rocks when you’re on a good team.

  • RedSuinit

    I hope all of you realize that Killzone had Jetpack troopers in Killzone: Liberation. So Halo copied Killzone.

    • Opio

      And so you realize that Tribes also have jetpacks so Killzone copied Tribes. Epic fail :devil:

      • eltonriley

        Actually the epic fail for is for you Opio. Jetpacks have been around since ZX Spectrum days (Jetpac, look it up on Wiki) so Tribes must have copied them as well. So maybe it is YOU that should use your brain. Tit.

  • Riseer

    Jetpacks have been in videogames forever.People want to bring up Halo is so much better then Killzone,i enjoyed Kz2 much more then Halo3.Kz2 is immersive the guns have weight,everything feels really solid.Why do people talk down about a great game i don’t understand.The online was the best thing about it.Ya Killzone Liberation had jetpacks long before Halo.So get over it if anything Halo took the idea from Kz.

  • Fred

    Dammit everybody , I invented Jetpacks , go look it up.

  • reggie hopkins

    first of all gavin…. killzone has had jetpacks since killzon liberation . they just decided to bring it back. they didnt copy anything fanboy…

  • ksussan

    u guys do know their were jetpacks in halo 2 which came out before the original killzone, the elites used them to fight master chief.

  • honesty

    nombre mis compitas desde halo 2 hay jet packs jajajajajaja la antiguedad dice todo desde ell 2002 – 2010 halo mejor juego sin duda yo tengo ambas consolas y ambos juegos logicamente y no la netha la histioa de killzone es una porqueria ya hasta arrumbe el juego y con halo tss es una chulada de juega es el mejor juego de ciencia ficcion que eh jugado eso me recuerda que todo eso esta sacado de otra franquicia para la pc starcraft jaja como dije antes la antiguedad lo dice todo killzone no vale la pena! halo reach si se lo viene tranamdo bien y bonito! :biggrin:

  • Sobek

    yeah….umm….you should be fired for posting this article…and i think a large amount of people know why im saying this, mainly cause i dont believe your doing your job correctly

  • Sir James

    But… Halo single-handedly created the FPS genre, before the Halo games there was nothing… no Marathon (Mac Sys 7), no Doom (PC), no Duke Nukem (PC), no Goldeneye 64 (Nintendo 64), nada Medal of Honor (PSX).

    Master Chief created it all, man, and the single player story, wow… so thought provoking, almost Shakespearean. The guys at Bungie are master story tellers (almost in the same league as the guys who brought us COD Modern Warfare 2), and not in the least bit generic chicken scratch.

    Don’t forget the multiplayer, wow.. Halo created multiplayer games too. Before Halo, we didn’t play games with other people, and the old Sega Dreamcast was just a myth.

    I’m just saying…

  • Sir James

    Speaking of Halo Reach, this was the most hilarious bit of news to break over the weekend. Bungie bans 15 000 for cheating. The cries and threats from Halo cheaters filled me with joy.

    http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=49997802

  • JnrScareCrow

    Realy, why are you all feeding the troll,
    RULE #1: NEVER FEED A TROLL ON A FORUM. And to you sir james, YOU ARE AN IDIOT.
    You say that halo started everything, what about counter stike, a game made 11 years ago and is still one of the best shooters out for pc. If anything, it was Wolfenstein 3D that started fps games. So shut up and stop with your useless rant

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