Announced last week, the Killzone Trilogy box set combines Killzone 2 and Killzone 3 with a high-definition PS3 remaster of the original Killzone. Today we take a closer look at Killzone HD, and the challenging new trophy set that comes with it.
Originally released for Killzone tells the story of Jan Templar, an ISA Captain whose home planet comes under attack from an invading Helghast 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.
Now, this rip-roaring introduction to the Killzone universe has been remastered in HD for inclusion with the Killzone Trilogy bundle. Featuring a single player campaign with four playable characters and an offline multiplayer mode against AI opponents, Killzone HD has received a thorough audiovisual overhaul: the game boasts 720p graphics at a steady 30fps, with MSAA filtering, sharper textures and higher quality sound effects. But don’t just take our word for it – check out these crisp HD screenshots:
In addition to these improvements, Killzone HD has also been enhanced with a full set of trophies. The trophy list is detailed below (beware of spoilers if you’ve never played the original Killzone):
| 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 three headshots in one magazine, using the secondary fire on the IvP-18 Tropov pistol |
| Bronze | 3 Birds With One Stone | Kill three Helghast with one cooked M194 Percussion Grenade |
| Bronze | One For You And One For You | Kill two Helghast with one Double Shot from the M13 Semi-Automatic Shotgun |
| Bronze | Disproportionate Force | Kill one unfortunate Helghast soldier with three 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 five 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 three 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 two Helghast with one 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 two Helghast Tanks attacking the Industrial level |
| Bronze | Elite? HA! | Take down your first two 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 four Helghast in under four 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 |
Killzone HD will be released as part of the Killzone Trilogy bundle on 24th October. A standalone version will hit the PlayStation Store on the same date for €14.99/£11.99/AU$23.95. Stay tuned to the PlayStation Blog and Killzone.com for more Killzone Trilogy and Killzone HD news, including a giveaway promo and a new Double XP Weekend!
20 CommentsAdd Yours
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Posted on 13 September, 2012 at 3:12 pm by wickenex
I have a question about the trophy “Two’s Company Win a battlefields game with another player in split screen”, does that mean that we will be able to play online against bots or it has to be someone playing in our console?
Posted on 13 September, 2012 at 3:16 pm by Victor Zuylen
It means playing offline against bots along with a friend, in split-screen view.
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Posted on 13 September, 2012 at 3:21 pm by MikLSP
Thanks for listing these, quite a few specific kill trophies there.
I can’t wait to get the game, the screenshots look really good although KZ was a very good looking PS2 game to start with.
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Posted on 13 September, 2012 at 3:28 pm by Brenden3
I’m buying it.
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Posted on 13 September, 2012 at 3:31 pm by sentry-23
A Scavenger trophy? Any relation to Joris de Man? (it was his old nick on the Atari)
Posted on 13 September, 2012 at 3:39 pm by Victor Zuylen
It’s kind of a coincidence to be honest, but I won’t tell Joris if you don’t.
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Posted on 13 September, 2012 at 3:46 pm by blendercat27
Count me in. Haven’t played the original in a long, long time, but still have some fond memories. As someone who is generally not a fan of first-person shooters, the Killzone series has continued to impress me – particularly the third. Looking forward to replaying this in HD. You have my money. Good luck.
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Posted on 13 September, 2012 at 4:02 pm by Stonesthrow
Best consoleshooter back in those days. Will enjoy playing this again, and hopefully those Rico haters will finally come to accept him after playing this one :p
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Posted on 13 September, 2012 at 4:13 pm by Carl-G
COOL:P I can’t wait;) So ‘KZ1 HD’ won’t be on a single Blu-ray disc to buy on its own then? (you can only buy it on its own as a PSN downloadable game?)
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Posted on 13 September, 2012 at 4:59 pm by SamTheSkater
I love the original Killzone! It would be great if you guys could release it on Blu-ray Disc separately outside the trilogy boxset!
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Posted on 13 September, 2012 at 4:59 pm by Alex-1124
Sweet, were Sev and Rico in the original?
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Posted on 13 September, 2012 at 6:02 pm by wardragon989
A platinum yes!
This will be my 4th Killzone platinum when I get it.
Are you guys going to do any competitions to receive a download code?
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Posted on 13 September, 2012 at 6:12 pm by Skydancerx
14,99 Euro sounds really fair. NEVER PLAYED the First one. Loved the second and third, except the Ending of the third.
Hope there is a little Discount for Plus Members
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Posted on 13 September, 2012 at 8:36 pm by FxAxF
Thanks for posting, Victor!
I know it’s a big ask, but will Guerilla Games be releasing any information soon regarding Killzone 4? There is still a massive amount of closure needed for the series after the ending of Killzone 3. As you know already, a lot of the fans on killzone.com have been hoping to see something more of the Helghast side of the story. The planet Helghan still has so many more secrets to divulge!
FxAxF
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Posted on 13 September, 2012 at 10:15 pm by fps_d0minat0r
should be doing more than 30fps at 720p because thats what killzone 3 does, doesnt it?
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Posted on 14 September, 2012 at 10:31 am by jac3k5
As above. Why is not in 60fps?
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Posted on 14 September, 2012 at 2:44 pm by chrisy21
Will God of War collection be coming to Europe?
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Posted on 15 September, 2012 at 5:28 pm by JediKnight246
Yay!, i never got to play Killzone 1 since it wasn’t on PS3(i missed it when it originally came out), so i’ll probably get the Killzone Trilogy since it has all of the DLC for KZ 2 and 3 as well.
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Posted on 17 September, 2012 at 3:53 pm by chrisandsheva
omg..
Finally, i get another chance, i got this around 07/8.. and it really blew me away, unfortunately i started at hard diff, and didn’t get to finish, in fact i have no idea exactly where i got to… i remember blowing up/disabling rail guns, then sometime after this i had to drop down a hatch into a room, some ‘mega solder’ (or two.?.) greeted me, and duly wasted me.. over and over and, .. well, you get the idea.. i mean for days though, well, the few hours a day i could game… eventually i just stopped loading the disc.. Have Allways wanted to revisit that particular scene, And rest of the following game, So a definate buy for me, (picture Kratos, i guess), This time though, even though i could get a online guide, i think i will begin on normal… lol. Please i Hope no-one posts saying i was only still at beginning/that part IS easy etc..
btw, Lot of trophies there, allways a good bonus.
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Posted on 18 September, 2012 at 8:55 am by Scuffy_P
@ Chrisy21
Erm…both the original God Of War Collection, and the prequel God of War Collection (the remastered PSP titles) have been out for nearly two years my friend.
You can buy them at retail or via PSN if you wish to support Sony’s outrageous digital pricing structure.
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Posted on 18 September, 2012 at 1:18 pm by chrisandsheva
@ Scuffy_P
No m8, i think chrisy21 is asking about the, (can’t think of name) full collection, it’s got all 5 games in one box, But, it is a con, i actually bought a US vers last week, £35 (new) from a Grainger games, shop. They allways seem to have US games, red sleeve at top, on case etc.. Anyway i thought Bargain, until i looked inside the case, the GoW1+2 on disc1 and GoW3 on disc2, But the origins games are just a digital download. which has to be done via US ac, Shame as if it were all discs i would of kept it, oh, another little bonus thats on US vers, 1 months free plus, But was worthless when i read the t+cs, needed to register a c-card to claim, Then IF you didn’t cancel manually they’d charge you for another 3or12 months.. i know it’s easy getting US ac, for digital games, But can’t get US cc, i Still thought about keeping it, but tbh i haven’t got enough hdd space left.. they give me refund etc, but am sure i could of sold/traded it for same or bit more.
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Posted on 18 September, 2012 at 1:26 pm by chrisandsheva
Just want to remention something for our store team, did you see above ?.. £35 for All Five GoWs, New, when are you lot going to start pricing digital games in the Real world ?.
Guess it’s a old blog so not expectin much/Any response.. Though i wonder, IS anyone even there, i mean i counted about 3 (THREE!) replies Since, well yesterday/start of week/work. And they wasn’t worth reading, imo.
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