Killzone 2 developers admit to touching up screenshots

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Killzone 2 developers pull a fast one (again): Admit touching up screenshots

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http://www.destructoid.com/killzone-2-developers-pull-a-fast-one-again-admit-touching-up-screenshots-58685.phtml

If you thought that Killzone 2 had been looking too good to be true, then it's quite possible you were correct in your assumption. Developer Guerilla has admitted that the last batch of screenshots had been "touched up" to make them look better than they actually were. Bad form, you dirty boys. Bad, bad form.

Guerilla's Seb Downie made the confession on the official PS3 forums, trying to justify the misleading promotional material by saying the enhancements were only small:

They are only the tiniest bit touched up. Short answer is yes. Long answer is that there was a little bit of colour-correction done and some minor polish, but nothing major. Still very close to reality and it looks better in motion in my opinion.

Frankly, I think it's a pretty crappy stunt to pull on the people following this game. We'd already been lied to once before when the infamous "demo" footage for Killzone 2 a few years back turned out to be CGI, and now they're admitting to altering screenshots to make them look better. Touching up pictures may work for supermodels and pornstars, but when games are judged on how they actually look, this kind of underhanded behavior is not cool and not something any consumer should condone.

It's worrying how obsessed with the graphics Guerilla and Sony seem to be with Killzone games, to the point of lying about them. Might explain why the first one had such disappointing gameplay. Stop trying to wave your graphics-peen around and actually concentrate on making a good game, please.
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:lol :lol

even sonys biggest game isnt as good as sony fanboys think it is








EDIT - another story

Killzone 2 dev admits screenshots 'touched up'

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Even virtual worlds need to visit the powder room before parading in public. The practice of 'touching up' is something our shallow, image-conscious society accepts (heck, we expect it!), so long as the object doesn't stray too far from our idealized imaginations. So when Guerrilla Games rolled out a new batch of Killzone 2 screens, captured from this year's E3 demo, fans noticed the images looked a little too good to be true, drawing obvious connections to Killzone's infamous E3 2005 debut trailer, which substituted actual game content with pre-rendered 'target' video.

Guerrilla QA manager Seb Downie joined the discussion on the PlayStation Forums, admitting, "[The screenshots] are only the tiniest bit touched up ... there was a little bit of colour-correction done and some minor polish, but nothing major." The comparison image above, also posted in the discussion (via PSU), seems to corroborate Downie's admission, revealing sharper colors and deeper contrasts in the 'doctored' screen on the right (effects that seem within the limits of standard display settings; i.e., a television could be capable of displaying both the dull and stylized versions of this scene by tinkering with its display settings). Also, the "original" version of the image is a frame snagged directly from video, so it's subject to a certain amount of blurring that's not necessarily an accurate depiction of gameplay frozen in that instant. In any case, how can a screenshot ever tell the truth? Downie concludes that Killzone 2 simply "looks better in motion."
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http://www.joystiq.com/2007/12/10/killzone-2-dev-admits-screenshots-touched-up/





i find it hilarious, and nobody can deny that sony was grasping at straws when they did this. now that i see the real version, it proves to be yet another ps3 game that cannot compare to gears of war graphically.
 
Those weren't majorly touched. The game may possibly get better graphically as production goes. It's just a touch-up.....<_<
 
Yes. It was darkened a bit....so what? It looks good both ways. It'll get better doing production.
 
Fr0dus Maximus said:
OMG People its freaking Alpha build right now I wouldn't even worry about what it looks like now...
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regardless of build... it's the fact they "had" to touch them up at 1st.

It's not like this stuff doesn't happen all them time (like cosmetic surgery on models)... but seriously... I get tired of fake images, and other fake devices that try to make something look better than it is or like somethig it is not.

†B†V† :hat
 
I read this last night and didn't even post it cause it didn't seem like a big deal to me. There's really barely any difference. :lol
 
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