The team will probably not talk about it during E3 2014

May 21, 2014 01:15 GMT  ·  By

The development team at Guerrilla Games might still be working on more content for Killzone: Shadow Fall, but the company has acknowledged that it is also putting plenty of its resources into a new project that is linked to the PlayStation 4 home console.

Poria Torkan, a producer working at the studio, tells Eurogamer that no more details will be offered for some time but that, “It's really awesome! It's exciting times. If I even say one word people will kill me.”

Apparently, Guerrilla Games is at the moment more focused on actually creating the core features of the new title rather than in showing it to players, which means that it is unlikely that it will be mentioned by Sony during its presentation at the upcoming E3 2014 event.

Torkan is willing to say that his team has learned a lot when working on the PlayStation 4 Killzone, which means that the new title will look and run better on the Sony platform than any other product.

He explains, “Compare the first games that came out on the PS3 to The Last of Us or GTA5. It's amazing. That's the thing. We had two-and-a-half years to figure out what we wanted to do with our engine and one-and-a-half years to figure out what we wanted to do with the hardware. Imagine when comparably technically advanced studios get four or five years under their belts with the hardware.”

Guerrilla Games is working exclusively with Sony and the company has been praised for its ability to squeeze performance from the older PlayStation 3.

The new Killzone was a solid game success when it launched alongside the next-gen console and there are long-term plans to continue to deliver support for the title with free maps and some more gameplay modes.

The company says that it is now looking at all titles that it is launching as services rather than as simple products and that the needs of the gamer are at the moment its main concern.

Rumors about the new title from the studio are saying that it will include an open world structure and will use an entirely new universe that Sony aims to turn into a long-term franchise for the PlayStation 4.

Guerrilla Games will also include core first-person shooter elements, but if the new series wants to differentiate itself from competitors, it will also need some solid innovation.