An HD remake of the original Killzone was already on the way in next month’s Trilogy Collection, now Sony has announced that the game will also be available (sans parts 2&3) on the PSN.
It’s true, the first game in the Killzone series (billed as a Halo-killer by some before launch) was a pretty big letdown. The gunplay wasn’t all that great and the characters were pretty bland to say the least. The series has gotten much better though in recent years (personally, I loved K2’s campaign) and a re-release of Killzone with an HD coat of paint might be a big hit with fans who’ve never played the 2004 PS2 title.
Originally released for PlayStation 2 in 2004, Killzone tells the story of Jan Templar, an ISA Captain whose home planet comes under attack from a Helghast invasion army. Together with a hot-headed sergeant named Rico, a deadly Shadow Marshal known as Luger, and the half-human, half-Helghast spy Hakha, Templar must attempt to reactivate the Orbital Defense Platform and drive the invading forces from his planet Vekta.
The game will be hitting the PSN day and date with the Trilogy Collection on October 23rd in the US for $14.99 (USD). It’s a little unclear at this point if Killzone HD will see a simultaneous release in other territories as well, but we’ll find out soon enough I’m sure.
And I’m also sure there are more than a few folks out there who’ll be very happy to hear that the game will indeed be packing a full clip of Trophies. Sony was kind enough to release a full list of what you’ll get when you hear that magic tone, so hold on tight ’cause here we go:
| Trophy | Title | Description |
| Bronze | Captain | Complete all levels on the easy difficulty |
| Bronze | Toothpick Master | 20 kills with the M32 combat knife |
| Bronze | Backstabber | 20 kills with the FSK-7 Fury |
| Bronze | Bullheaded | 20 headshots with the M4 Semi-Automatic Pistol |
| Bronze | Tripletapper | Get 3 headshots in one magazine, using the secondary fire on the IvP-18 Tropov pistol |
| Bronze | 3 Birds With One Stone | Kill 3 Helghast with one cooked M194 Percussion Grenade |
| Bronze | One For You And One For You | Kill 2 Helghast with one Double Shot from the M13 Semi-Automatic Shotgun |
| Bronze | Disproportionate Force | Kill 1 unfortunate Helghast soldier with 3 rockets from the BLR-06 Hadra |
| Bronze | Eco-Warrior | Hit 15 Helghast soldiers without reloading, using the secondary fire on the M66 SD Submachine gun |
| Bronze | Call Of The Siren | Kill 25 Helghast soldiers with the VnD-10M Siren |
| Bronze | Explosive Consequences | Kill 5 Helghast soldiers with one grenade using the attachment on the M82-G Assault Rifle |
| Bronze | Right In The Jewels | Use the M224-A3 Heavy Support Weapon to melee 20 Helghast soldiers |
| Bronze | Designation: Demolition | Destroy 3 Towers using the BDL-23 Dohvat |
| Bronze | The Reds Of Their Eyes | 10 headshots with the STA-52 SLAR Sniper rifle |
| Bronze | 2 For The Price Of 1 | Kill 2 Helghast with 1 shot from the BP-02 Pup launcher |
| Bronze | Beep Beep Beeeep | Kill 10 Helghast with the secondary fire on the M327 Grenade Launcher |
| Bronze | Get Out Of My Comfort Zone | Kill a Helghast within 1m with the M404-MAW M. Anti Tank Weapon …and don’t die. |
| Bronze | Artillery Artist | Kill a Helghast from 200m+ away with the Pnv-3 Siska |
| Bronze | Covering Fire | Kill 10 Helghast with the M224 Mounted Machine Gun |
| Bronze | Something Borrowed | Kill 20 Helghast soldiers with the VnS-10 Scylla Mounted Machine Gun |
| Bronze | Short Controlled Bursts | Finish a level above 50% hit ratio |
| Bronze | Economical Soldier | Finish a level above 75% hit ratio |
| Bronze | 1 V 50 | Kill 50 Helghast soldiers without dying |
| Bronze | Brouhaha | Kill 30 Helghast soldiers in under a minute |
| Bronze | Burn Baby Burn | Destroy your first enemy APC |
| Bronze | Tanks For The Good Times | Destroy 2 Helghast Tanks attacking the Industrial level |
| Bronze | Elite? HA! | Take down your first 2 Helghast Elite |
| Bronze | That Got Their Attention | Destroy the Missile launching APCs in the Misty Waters Firebase |
| Bronze | They’re On Our Side Now | Switch allegiance of Helghast Sentry bots as Hakha |
| Bronze | Anti-Air Specialist | Bring two Dropships crashing down in the Mist Waters Firebase |
| Bronze | Bounty Hunted | Kill the IFO Bounty Hunter |
| Bronze | Abridged Bridge | Collapse the Helghast bridge in the Jungle Valley |
| Bronze | Supply And Demand | Blow up the ammo dumps in the Forward Logistics Base |
| Bronze | Generally Better | Kill General Lente and his bodyguards |
| Bronze | Orbital Strike | Take down General Adams with a melee attack |
| Bronze | Helghast Assault | Complete Chapter 1 |
| Bronze | Vekta Evacuates | Complete Chapter 2 |
| Bronze | New Allies | Complete Chapter 3 |
| Bronze | Strange Company | Complete Chapter 4 |
| Bronze | Escape | Complete Chapter 5 |
| Bronze | Misty Waters | Complete Chapter 6 |
| Bronze | Hunting The Traitor | Complete Chapter 7 |
| Bronze | Forging A Path | Complete Chapter 8 |
| Bronze | Hidden Pasts | Complete Chapter 9 |
| Bronze | Onwards And Upwards | Complete Chapter 10 |
| Bronze | Hope | Complete Chapter 11 |
| Bronze | Rapid Reaction Force | Complete Chapter 1 to 11 playing as Templar |
| Bronze | Shadow Marshal | Complete Chapter 3 to 11 playing as Luger |
| Bronze | ISA Regular | Complete Chapter 4 to 11 playing as Rico |
| Bronze | Field Operative | Complete Chapter 5 to 11 playing as Hakha |
| Bronze | Helghast Champion | Win a battlefields game playing on the Helghast’s side with the enemy Ai set to hard |
| Bronze | ISA Saviour | Win a battlefields game playing on the ISA’s side with the enemy Ai set to hard |
| Bronze | Two’s Company | Win a battlefields game with another player in split screen |
| Silver | Scavenger | Pick up 10,000 rounds for the STA-52 LAR rifle |
| Silver | 4 X 4 X 4 | Kill 4 Helghast in under 4 seconds with the EAW-25/4 Chimera |
| Silver | Nobody Hides From Me | Finish a level above 90% hit ratio |
| Silver | Colonel | Complete all levels on the medium difficulty |
| Gold | General | Complete all levels on the hard difficulty |
| Platinum | Platinum | Collect all trophies in Killzone |
Source: Playstation Blog
Image from Killzone 3
I thought that was a good move right there. I have never played any of the killzone games. They look solid, but I've just never gotten around to it. I may actually pick up this bundle of 3 though since I am fairly certain I will enjoy them. That said, I recall on several forums and sites that when this was announced, a lot of PS3 owners were bummed because they already owned 2 & 3, so offering 1 separately is a good move.
I'm one of those who never played 1, but spent plenty of time with 2 & 3, so this is indeed a good thing for me 😀
I traded away my copies of K2 and 3 a while ago so I'm thinking about the Trilogy pack too.