Killzone 2 (PS3) to cost over $21 million

Ever since it’s most mysterious and controversial appearance at E3 2005, Killzone 2 seemed to vanish into thin air. Then, out of nowhere, we get word from Sony’s head honcho, Phil Harrison that there’s some major announcement regarding the game in 2007.

Now that news this ain’t, but what we did hear of however is an article named “A video game more expensive than the most expensive film,” published by Dutch magazine de Volksrant. The most expensive film they’re talking about here, by the way is director Paul Verhoven’s (Robocop, Starship Troopers) World War II thriller, Black Book (Zwartboek), which by the way cost nearly 16 million euros (approximately $21 million) to make. Now even though, we don’t have an exact figure regarding Killzone 2’s budget here, the project’s director, Arjan Brussee had this to say, “Our budget tops [the film>, we’re working on the biggest multimedia project in Dutch history.”

Not too surprising if what they showed at E3 2005 was in fact true.