Art Friday : Killzone 2 Concepts

Friday, November 14th, 2008, 12:00 pmRoys

Concepts for Guerrilla Games’ Killzone 2, one of the three games on my must-have list if I had a PS3 (the other two being Metal Gear Solid 4 : Guns of The Patriots and Motorstorm)

The similiarities of the greatcoat and helmet shape to that worn by German soldiers in WWII (see this Tamiya model) bring to mind the conspiracy theories about a Fourth Reich (the Nazi regime was also known as the Third Reich) that I read about recently in Alan Baker’s book Invisible Eagle - History of Nazi Occultism.

Seeing all those concepts of Helghast troopers in their ominous gas masks make me very curious what actually lies beneath those masks. As quoted from the Wikipedia article for Killzone, it’s pretty obvious that they have mutated quite a great deal from their human origins but the question is by how much?

… the Helghast are a faction of human descendants who colonized the planet Helghan many generations ago. The planet’s harsh environment forced the Helghast to adapt and mutate so much that they can no longer be considered human.

The ISA tank is an imaginative yet believeably practical idea of of future armour design. Looks like an ultramodern spinoff of the air defense variant of the US M2 Bradley, the M6 Linebacker with four additional autocannons and an extra generous allocation of smoke grenade launchers.

Likewise, the ISA’s infantry assault rifle could easily pass off as a bullpup M16A4 with a M203 grenade launcher and and an EOTech Holosight (the one you get to use in the singleplayer missions of Call of Duty 4)

The Helghast infantry weapon with grenade launcer could be said to be a cross between the infamous Uzi (the sights) and the Russian PP-19 Bizon except that the underslung cylindrical object is actually the magazine for the Bizon.

The jaw-dropping lighting FX and the oppresively gloomy industrial cityscape that comprise the battlefields for the ISA and the Helghast are well demonstrated by the screenshots at the official site (a small selection below). And if you have never watched the E3 2005 prerendered trailer for Killzone 2 before, you really don’t know what you’ve been missing out