Another PS3 exclusive FPS on the way?
Evidence of an as-yet announced shooter leaks, with photo-realistic fizzogs.Published 11/09/2009 at 14:30 by Tuffcub
The last thing the Playstation 3 needs is another First Person Shooter but it appears Sony disagrees, apparently another one is “Coming soon”. The Outsource and Project Manager for SCEA, Su-Cheng Wu has posted on his Linkedin profile that he is working on “Producing character faces for a coming soon AAA FPS PS3 title”. No further details were given but four options spring to mind. Could it be Killzone 3? Perhaps, but why would Sony America be involved when Killzone is a Sony Europe product? Su-Cheng did work on Killzone: Liberation for the PSP (check out his website for a show real) so he does have ties with the title.
A more likely IP would be Resistance 3 of which nothing has been heard. Insomniac Games, the creators of the Resistance series, has a great working relationship with SCEA so that would lend weight to this theory. Option number three is yet another addition to the SOCOM family as Su-Cheng Wu has worked on SOCOM on the PS2 and PSP. The final possibility is a completely new game, one that has yet to be announced - I am hoping for something involving Hannah Montana and shotguns. Su-Cheng Wu is working on the “MVP Pipeline” that creates photo-realistic facial features so whatever this mysterious FPS is you are going to have some very handsome in-game characters to admire – and then kill with a well timed RPG.
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mynameisblair | 11/09/2009 14:34
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Don’t want another new IP that is an FPS, but an addition to an existing IP is welcome.
C_S15 | 11/09/2009 14:34
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“The last thing the Playstation 3 needs is another First Person Shooter”
*sigh*
yobrenoops | 11/09/2009 14:49
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In what way is the *sign*?
C_S15 | 11/09/2009 14:50
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It’s a “h”
Raen | 11/09/2009 14:55
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Well does it really need any more? MAG + Resistance + KZ as exclusive is a fair whack.
C_S15 | 11/09/2009 14:57
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I didn’t realise there was a set limit? Until you know more about the game, you can’t really judge it. What if it does something revolutionary for the genre? Instantly putting it down *just* because it’s an FPS doesn’t set right with me.
Raen | 11/09/2009 15:02
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Of course there is you may have no more than three exclusive FPS’s, an MMORPG, and a half dozen RPGs. It was decided back in the cease fire from the last generation’s console War.
Jamie Solo | 11/09/2009 17:26
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I agree with you C_S15, and also lol at Raen
Tuffcub | 11/09/2009 15:11
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I’m not saying another really good FPS is a bad thing – just that it’s nothing new – we need more Heavy Rains, Uncharted 2s – games that make you sit up and go “Wow! Look at that”.
C_S15 | 11/09/2009 15:15
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That depends what the game brings. If it’s just generic PMC vs PMC crap that we see all the time, then I will agree with you. I realise the FPS market is over-bloated with rubbish, but just because a new game *is* an FPS, doesn’t mean it should be written off instantly.
teflon | 11/09/2009 17:39
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Its not being written off, its just being pointed out that there’s already a lot of competition for our attention when it comes to FPSs.
Anyway, I hope that its Resistance 3 or KZ3, though it could also be related to Insomniac’s 3rd project…
My guess would be one of the latter two, since right now would be the beginnings of pre-production for KZ3 (and GG have a history of using their own developer’s faces as the basis for their in game models) whilst Insomniac’s 3rd project is still in the design phase, but should soon be ramping up to full production.
Just because the guy works for SCEA doesn’t rule him or his tech out of being used by studios in other parts of the world. Mainly because he’s in charge of the world wide outsourcing management, has worked on Killzone’s cinematics before, and he’s working with the technology behind the content creation rather than the creation itself.
C_S15 | 11/09/2009 17:54
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“The last thing the Playstation 3 needs is another First Person Shooter”
HURR DURR
Boomshanks | 11/09/2009 14:41
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If it’s coming soon, how could it be a sequel to a game released in the beginning of this year. Couldn’t it be MAG or something. Just my ideas
Raen | 11/09/2009 14:56
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I was thinking MAG myself, although it’s odd that he doesn’t name it if it is.
Tuffcub | 11/09/2009 15:12
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I’m the Mag Beta – the faces are NOT photorealistic – hence i ruled it out
bajere | 11/09/2009 14:46
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not more FPS!!! surly Sony must relies people play other games too, not just FPS day in day out!!!
Kaizer83 | 11/09/2009 14:49
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Socom is traditionally a TPS, confrontation is the first iteration not to have FPS cam option too, so u can rule that out
AG2297 | 11/09/2009 14:55
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“MVP Pipeline that creates photo-realistic facial features” – why use this technology in an FPS when you cant even see your own face, surely this would be much better used in a game where you can create your own character such as an RPG like Oblivion.The PS3 could do with a good RPG. It will just be the occasional glimpse of an enemys face or in cinematics that the tech will be put to much use.
Bilbo_bobbins | 11/09/2009 15:13
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COD7?
Bilbo_bobbins | 11/09/2009 15:15
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huh, why didn’t the rest get posted? I think I have something wrong with my broswer. Anyway I was joking.
theshockwave | 11/09/2009 17:03
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As if CoD would become exclusive to PS3 after what was said. Not in a million years.
BIGAL-1992 | 11/09/2009 15:14
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If it does involve hannah montana and shotguns, will I be able to use it on her. I can’t STAND that show. Back to reality, I do hope it’s a third Resistance game, but they do need to clean up the story,it did feel fractured at times.
BetaGhast | 11/09/2009 16:35
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Resistance 3 is likely, but the whole graphics thing… im not sure
rht992 | 11/09/2009 17:00
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well it may not be a FPS with guns if that makes sense. i mean it could be an oblivion styled game
captainhaz | 11/09/2009 17:03
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or mirrors edge style you never know
Raen | 11/09/2009 17:08
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An FPS is a ‘First Person Shooter’. It if was a game without guns I’d assume that shooter part would be missing. For example Mirrors Edge is a game from the first person perspective, not an FPS.
BetaGhast | 11/09/2009 17:37
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@Raen
But Mirrors Edge DOES have guns
(but i never used them, its not hard to resist gunplay at all)
Alex_Assassin_08 | 11/09/2009 17:12
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i hope its an entirely new IP
pspsamurai | 11/09/2009 17:20
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I’ll stand behind Sony in what ever they do, *sigh* I all ways do…..
TheJoker | 11/09/2009 17:29
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I´m hoping it´s Resistance 3 because the 2nd one ended with a mistery (those who played know what I´m talking about…) but it´s still too soon to release it.
It would be nice if Insomniac Games released info about it.
Boomshanks | 11/09/2009 17:57
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Indeed. The PS3 may not need another FPS but I need Resistance 3
pOOpInFlames | 11/09/2009 22:04
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More FPS to the people!!!!
Rob92 | 11/09/2009 22:13
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Resistance 3 would be cool. But I just think the franchise is a bit lame and copycat. I like the story and everything but it seems like its stuck and doesnt know what to do. Like it tried to reinvent itself with the last installment but just seemed quite average. Insomniac would be better off learning from their mistakes and possibly making a new IP.
After Resistance 3 ofcourse. I wana know how it ends!
Roynaldo | 11/09/2009 23:30
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Why is FPS so bad?
We have Killzone and Resistance as exclusives. Thats not a lot. I would welcome another FPS, especially a Timesplitters or a Goldeneye type of groundbreaking game.
I would like an Uncharted type of exclusive as muchasthe next man but FPSs are games that can never be outdated-see Call of Juarez for the most recent evidence of that.
What I feel we have to much of is underpar RPGs or samey sanbox style games…..Prototype, Infamous anyone?!!