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Scrapyard Wasteland - Killzone, artwork by Guerrilla

Scrapyard Wasteland - Killzone -
Scrapyard Wasteland is part of Cook & Becker’s official Killzone Collection.

Killzone is one of the most visually impressive game series of the start of this century. The prizewinning and lauded franchise serves as a graphical and technical benchmark for Sony’s PlayStation consoles.

Killzone is about war. Aesthetically the games are science-fiction interpretations of WWII. Although the series has gradually become more exotic with locations featuring green skies and blue-hued jungles. As can been seen in concept artworks such as Jungle & The Massar Constant. Yet Killzone has always tried to depict a more raw and realistic version of science fiction warfare than other big game series. Concept art such as Derelict and Phyrrus Nuked Visari have that somber palet and almost depressed melancholic atmosphere associated with WWII and WWI. The uniforms and enemies are also based on those of the German, Russian and Allied forces of that era.
The concept art also calls to mind more recent conflicts. Collateral could almost be 9/11 news footage and battles are fought out over oil rigs in frozen arctic environments. An internal studio illustration such as Last of the Heroes evokes the archetypical image of the forgotten Vietnam war veteran.

Not uncommon for the top art teams in the games industry is that a lot of the artists are formally trained industrial designers and architects. As is the case with Guerrilla Games. Players spend most their game time peering over the barrel of a gun so a large part of the story and context is given via level, gun and vehicles design. All the while, players need to be effectively shepherd though levels and fictitious environments that still need to feel believable. Therefore professional designer with skills in these areas are vital and you can see that the concept art in itself already provides time, place and narrative.

Game development is a wonderful cocktail of IT, Art and Design. It is a typical production for the post-autonomous era in which we live, where art and entertainment can still be conceptualized by a single person or a handful of people but the actual production is done by a huge team of specialists and craftsmen. Sometimes over many years. The fact that Killzone has so consistently been developed and grown over some many years and in the hands of so many people underwrites Guerrilla Games' position as one of the leading game developers in Europe.

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More about Guerrilla

Guerrilla Guerrilla Games is a video game studio based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Renowned for its technical prowess, and having forged its impressive reputation with the sci-fi shooter series Killzone, the studio has made several great artistic leaps over the years.
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Scrapyard Wasteland - Killzone 2011

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