Guerilla Games has said that the developer is pushing around 100 percent of the PlayStation 3’s SPU load with Killzone 3, describing the studio as “going way overboard” with the eagerly anticipated sequel.
Speaking with VG247 in Amsterdam earlier this month, the company’s managing director, Hermen Hulst, commented: “But I think we’re pushing 100 percent right now,” adding, “You see there’s steam coming out of the machine, almost.”
“All the stuff that we’re squeezing. It’s got everything to do with the scale and the environments and the action that you’re seeing on the screen right now. As I was talking about earlier in the presentation, we’re having a footprint of a level that’s ten times bigger than the average Killzone 2 level. Killzone 2 was not a small game, but that was as far as we could push it back then.”
“We’re going way overboard this time around, and I think we’re reaching the kind of maximum that we can do. But we always do that. We always find a way to go above and beyond.”
According to recent reports, Killzone 3 is scheduled for release in May 2011.