Killzone 2 has some rather neat special effects due to the enormous effort put in by Guerrilla Games in decoding PlayStation 3’s processing power and enhancing its graphical quality. The game is regarded, by many, as the best looking war game to have invaded a console, some even label it as Crysis for consoles.
What has come to our notice are a few upgrades that are being spoken about regarding the next engine update that is powering their next game which is NOT a sequel to Killzone 2:
- Improving Texture Quality for Environmental Effects (High frequency Detail Mapping).
Raising Anti-Aliasing features for a faster processing module.
5X increase polygon count on character modules/environment.
Real time reflection effects, improving ambient occlusion capacity for dynamic shadows.
Light indexed deferred shading for foliage and decals.
This is, perhaps, only the tip of the iceberg and is a rough idea for what Guerrilla plans to do with their existing engine. More on this as time flows by.