'And if we would have put all the levels in, which we didn't, because then the disc image generator broke, it would have been around 290 gigs of data.'įor those who purchase Killzone: Shadow Fall from the PlayStation Store next month, Sony's new PlayGo system-through which a portion of the game is playable before the full game finishes downloading-will allow gamers to get play more quickly, van der Leeuw said. 'I think at some point the disc image that we were generating was around 180 gigs,' he said. If 40GB sounds like a large file size, van der Leeuw explained that it could have been significantly bigger had the studio not reassessed its data management systems. 'The surface area, I'm just guessing here, must be five to 10 times bigger than Killzone 3 was,' he said.

Van der Leeuw also called out the game's more open levels, compared to previous Killzone games. 'I think we're probably a lot larger than the other cross-generation games, because we have no assets that have been made to a lower spec.' Guerrilla Games technical director Michiel van der Leeuw told Eurogamer that the main reason for Killzone: Shadow Fall's near-40GB file size comes down to the art assets. Sony previously described Killzone: Shadow Fall as an ' uber-file.' The PS4 features a 500GB hard drive, though players can expand this, just like on the PlayStation 3. By comparison, Infinity Ward recently announced that Call of Duty: Ghosts on PC will require 40GB of hard drive space. The 39.7GB file size is for the European version of the game, Guerrilla Games said, noting localized versions are closer to 37GB.

Killzone: Shadow Fall's final file size is 39.7GB, developer Guerrilla Games confirmed with Eurogamer during a recent press event at the company's Amsterdam offices this week.

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