If you like cutscene heavy games that you can watch just as much as you can play then you're going to like this news concerning Killzone 3.  During it's rating process, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has listed the cutscenes of the Guerilla Games shooter clocking in at 70 minutes. That's a lot of gruff and buff men grumbling to each other in gritty voices while explosions happen in the background.

It's somewhat expected in that our shooters have taken to trade-in complex level design for a more cinematic, cutscene heavy, experience.   A trade off to be sure, and it can sometimes be easy to grumble about it until you find yourself getting completely sucked into said cinematic experience.



Killzone 3 contains over an hour of cutscenes (Joystiq)

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    Skrams
    13 years, 10 months ago

    Wondering if they count intros as I remember the KZ2 intro with the speech being a bit long. Sounds fine as long each cutscene doesn't drag on too long.

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    Raydizzle0304
    13 years, 10 months ago

    Holy crap! I hope that doesn't result in a cutscene every 10-15 minutes or so.

    Oh and that reminds me, I still need to finish the 2nd. It's just sitting around, collecting dust.

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    Drew
    13 years, 10 months ago

    I'm fine so long as they are good cutscenes.

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    SomethingSnappy
    13 years, 10 months ago

    jesus thats long

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    Muddy_Donuts
    13 years, 10 months ago

    The story trailer looked great, but the dialogue wasn't. Hopefully the story is better than "RAMIREZ go disarm that nuke in 2 minutes!". If I recall Killzone 2 did not have many cutscenes so the story sucked ass, except the ending, but this clocks in a little bit less than Uncharted 2's cutscene length, so here is hoping!

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    Comradebearjew
    13 years, 10 months ago

    I am ok with this, but they better be damn good.

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    s1yfox
    13 years, 10 months ago

    Not sure if thats a good thing or a bad thing: killzone never got to me storywise

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    necronomicon121
    13 years, 10 months ago

    well killzone always sucked in my eyes, I hated the games they controlled like shit for a fps, hopefully the cut scenes take away from the shitty gameplay

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    Hiroki
    13 years, 10 months ago

    Isn't Malcolm McDowell in it? Who can get upset about at least 30+ minutes of Malcolm McDowell?

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    Vulgarbrando
    13 years, 10 months ago

    We're all going to be doing what we do in Zelda OoT, you know the part when you have to talk to the Deku tree, then Zelda herself gives you pretty much the same schpeel, ya set the troller down and a snack and potty break.

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    SilentChief
    13 years, 10 months ago

    Holy shit Killzone 2's story was so awful it wanted to make me slit my wrists, and now Killzone 3 has an hour long fucking cutscene?!? Watching an hour long Killzone cutscene sounds about as much fun as putting a shotgun in my mouth. And FUCK RICO.