Killzone Composer Says Remaster “Would Be Successful”

If the recent Helldivers 2 collab has proven anything, it’s that we all miss Killzone. And if you say you don’t, you’re lying. Even composer Joris de Man, who continued working with Guerrilla Games for Horizon Zero Dawn, wants to see the series make a comeback.

“I know that there have been petitions for it,” de Man told VideoGamer at PlayStation: The Concert Tour. “I think it’s tricky because, I can’t speak for Guerrilla or anything… I don’t know if it will ever happen. I hope it will because I think it is quite an iconic franchise.

“I think [a] remastered one would be successful. I don’t know if a new game would be as much. I don’t know if people have moved on from it and want something [sic]. I don’t know, sometimes I get the sense that people want something a bit more casual, a bit more quick.”

Don’t Hold Your Breath: Guerrilla Probably Isn’t Interested In A New Killzone

While remasters could happen — as they tend to be outsourced to other studios — a new Killzone seems unlikely. The last entry in the series was released over ten years ago as a launch title for the PS4 before Guerrilla embraced all things robo-dinosaur. And when asked by Washington Post about a potential sequel, finally returning to Helghast all these years later, art director Roy Postma didn’t seem all that enthused.

“We were done with it as a team,” Postma said, speaking about the launch of Shadow Fall. “As a studio, we needed to refresh the palette. It was, by choice, the opposite of Killzone.”

Granted, he said they “were” done with it, past tense, so it could always make a comeback, especially as the studio has been working on nothing but Horizon for nearly a decade now, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. Still, the old games hold up, so if you still have them tucked away somewhere, they’re worth going back to.

Killzone

Systems

Released

December 2, 2004

ESRB

m

Publisher(s)

Sony Computer Entertainment