Original Killzone coming to PSN in HD

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An HD remake of the original Killzone was already on the way in next month’s Trilogy Collection, now Sony has announced that the game will also be available (sans parts 2&3) on the PSN.

It’s true, the first game in the Killzone series (billed as a Halo-killer by some before launch) was a pretty big letdown. The gunplay wasn’t all that great and the characters were pretty bland to say the least. The series has gotten much better though in recent years (personally, I loved K2’s campaign) and a re-release of Killzone with an HD coat of paint might be a big hit with fans who’ve never played the 2004 PS2 title.

Originally released for PlayStation 2 in 2004, Killzone tells the story of Jan Templar, an ISA Captain whose home planet comes under attack from a Helghast invasion 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.

The game will be hitting the PSN day and date with the Trilogy Collection on October 23rd in the US for $14.99 (USD). It’s a little unclear at this point if Killzone HD will see a simultaneous release in other territories as well, but we’ll find out soon enough I’m sure.

And I’m also sure there are more than a few folks out there who’ll be very happy to hear that the game will indeed be packing a full clip of Trophies. Sony was kind enough to release a full list of what you’ll get when you hear that magic tone, so hold on tight ’cause here we go:

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 3 headshots in one magazine, using the secondary fire on the IvP-18 Tropov pistol
Bronze 3 Birds With One Stone Kill 3 Helghast with one cooked M194 Percussion Grenade
Bronze One For You And One For You Kill 2 Helghast with one Double Shot from the M13 Semi-Automatic Shotgun
Bronze Disproportionate Force Kill 1 unfortunate Helghast soldier with 3 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 5 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 3 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 2 Helghast with 1 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 2 Helghast Tanks attacking the Industrial level
Bronze Elite? HA! Take down your first 2 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 4 Helghast in under 4 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

Source: Playstation Blog
Image from Killzone 3

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  • I thought that was a good move right there. I have never played any of the killzone games. They look solid, but I've just never gotten around to it. I may actually pick up this bundle of 3 though since I am fairly certain I will enjoy them. That said, I recall on several forums and sites that when this was announced, a lot of PS3 owners were bummed because they already owned 2 & 3, so offering 1 separately is a good move.

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