Killzone 2 Beta Next Year

It has been confirmed that PlayStation 3 owners are going to have to wait until next year before they get a pop at a Killzone 2 beta.

A representative for Sony Computer Entertainment America said, "We are hoping to do a beta but I don't think we'll have anything ready before this year is over... it is something we are working on for next year."^†

While Sony used the less-than-definite phrase "hoping to" in its statement, developer Guerilla Games' lead tester, Seb Downie has been more assertive on the subject of a beta in the past. In Killzone 2's official forum he wrote, "Of course there is going to be a public beta. I have always said that any game that has an online mode needs to go through a public beta to ensure it works as intended". That led many to hope that the beta would arrive sometime this year.

Meanwhile, a poster called DFCMaNTiS told the official Killzone 2 forum posts, "I JUST FOUND OUT FROM MY COUZIN WHO WORKS FOR KZ THAT ITHE NEW KZ WILL BE RELEASED ON 3/4/08".

The poster gave no indication of what region he was referring to, although SPOnG's guessing the date at least is in the American format - March 4th rather than April 3rd.

We called developer Guerrilla today to get the actual news - and were told "No date has been announced yet".

We'll keep you updated.

SPOnG got a look at Killzone 2 at Leipzig this year. You can find our report here.

^{†Source: PSU}