One of the biggest complaints following the release of Killzone 2 was how sluggish everything felt. This may have mainly been due to gamers coming off of a 20-hour gaming period of nothing but pure Call of Duty shooting, but it was still a fair complaint, none-the-less. Obviously the development team took this complain to heart, because in a recent conversation with Edge magazine, one of the Director’s for Killzone 3, Mathijis de Jonge, pointed out how Killzone 3 will definitely feel more fluid than Killzone 2.

“[While] we were still tweaking and checking framerate, I checked this game back-to-back with Killzone 2 and have to say that it plays so much more fluidly. Also, the adjustments we made to lean-and-peek – you can actually slide into cover now, vault over, brutally melee your enemies – it feels more fluid, stutters less. There’s fewer points of irritation.”

Furthermore, de Jonge revealed that the locations featured in Killzone 3 ultimately will be a big change from its predecessor and eventually enters the realm of space battle on a whole new level.

“We’re going from the Helghast interpretation of jungle to very Killzone-esque scrapyards, and at the end we go into space. It’s a big departure from Killzone 2, where the first five levels were all urban settings.”

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