At E3, Sony showed a clip from the PS3 sequel to Killzone. GameSpot Forums posted an email from apparently a developer over at Guerilla Games, who's working on the new Killzone.

The emails goes:

The video shown at E3 was not in real time. It was a CGI demo sped up from 5 FPS as you said. The development team did this because we could not make a demo of that calibur [SIC] at 30-60 FPS on the hardware we had at the time.

This email is bogus says Guerilla.

However, what this supposed hoax email says doesn't sound too strange when taking into account what Sony's Phil Harrison's told Eurogamer back in May.

Eurogamer: And what about the game footage clips?

Phil Harrison: Not all of that — in fact, none of it was real-time because it was running off video. If you made a presentation to two and a half thousand people, you're going to put some of it on video just to be on the safe side.

'Kay, but there's where the Guerilla hoax email and Harrison's comments differ:

Phil Harrison: The way we put those videos together, everything was done to specification. Everything was done to PS3 spec. Virtually everything used in-game assets; some things were rendered.

After reading back through Harrison's comments, it seems like this "hoax" email doesn't sound so unfounded. We're sick of clips. What the heck are the actual PS3 games like? Just drag 'em out of those dark basements where the programmers live. We won't break them or even criticize the hell outta 'em We just want to play them. The Tokyo Game Show starts this Friday, and I'll be there covering what could finally settle these PS3 concerns once and for all. Fingers crossed.

Email Hoax [Eurogamer]
Harrison Talks PS3 [Eurogamer Forums]

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