Killzone Composer Wonders if People Have Moved on From the Series: 'I Get the Sense That People Want Something a Bit More Casual, a Bit More Quick'

Sony's Killzone franchise has been dormant for rather immoderate time. Now, successful a caller interview, Killzone composer Joris de Man has joined the chorus of radical who'd similar to spot it travel back.

Speaking to VideoGamer for the PlayStation: The Concert Tour, de Man expressed a tendency for Killzone's past entries to return.

"I cognize that determination person been petitions for it," de Man said. "I deliberation it's [tricky] because, I can't talk for Guerrilla oregon anything... I don't cognize if it volition ever happen. I anticipation it volition due to the fact that I deliberation it is rather an iconic franchise, but I besides deliberation it benignant of has to instrumentality into relationship benignant of the sensitivites and the displacement in, I guess, what radical privation due to the fact that it is rather bleak successful immoderate ways."

In what signifier oregon signifier Killzone could return, though, is simply a spot flexible. De Man noted that a remastered postulation could beryllium much palmy than a marque caller entry, to start.

"I deliberation [a] remastered 1 would beryllium successful, I don't cognize if a caller crippled would beryllium arsenic much," de Man said. "I don't cognize if radical person moved connected from it and privation something. I don't cognize sometimes I get the consciousness that radical privation thing a spot much casual, a spot much quick."

The Killzone games are slower-paced, weightier shooters compared to the likes of Call of Duty. Killzone 2 successful peculiar was infamous for its evident input lag, which made it consciousness similar it lacked responsiveness connected PlayStation 3. In presumption of visuals, tone, and atmosphere, the Killzone games are dark, depressing, muddy, and gritty.

In a caller interrogation with the Washington Post, it sounded similar Sony-owned developer Guerrilla had collectively moved connected from the Killzone franchise and was keeping its eyes connected the Horizon.

Still, it's been a small implicit a decennary since the past introduction successful Killzone Shadow Fall, and the thought of a instrumentality for Killzone — oregon adjacent 1 of Sony's different PlayStation shooter franchises — is inactive tantalizing for immoderate fans. Whether it ever happens oregon not, the hold-outs tin cognize they've got astatine slightest 1 much idiosyncratic successful their corner.

Eric is simply a freelance writer for IGN.