Combine that with a scale and scope not seen in any other Killzone title before and we have a game that stands as our pick for the best single-player PS4 launch title (64-player Battlefield 4 has to take multiplayer honours). It's native 1080p and the engine makes the most of the full HD resolution in terms of beautifully high resolution artwork and stunning effects. Guerrilla is really pushing the envelope here - the materials-based deferred renderer seamlessly blends pre-computed and real-time dynamic lighting using techniques that will quickly becoming the standard on next-gen console. After watching the video, we hope you'll agree. Current Metacritic scores for the game are good, if not stratospheric, but if you're a Digital Foundry reader, we can give the game our wholehearted, unreserved recommendation.

In order to give this article value if you aren't intent on downloading gigabytes of video data, we've also included performance analysis on each of the three games, kicking off with Killzone Shadow Fall. So if the Mega download links don't work out for you, please use the torrents this time around and help spread the load and ease the downloading burden. We've also had to limit download options owing to the insane levels of bandwidth the videos managed to consume last time we did this - about 9.7TB in total from many thousands of users, and that's only from one download source, excluding day one data, where we lost the logs. That's pretty much exactly what we did a couple of weeks ago when we shared some of our Battlefield 4 footage, the difference being that we've adjusted encoding settings on a per game basis to better suit the material.

We've captured the video and encoded it in such a way that you'll get a taste of the next-gen experience by playing back the video files on your PC or, for the full living room experience, you can watch on PlayStation 3. To help bridge the gap, we're happy to provide some 1080p60 download video of the key Sony first-party exclusives: Killzone Shadow Fall, Resogun and Knack. For the UK and Europe, the next generation doesn't start for another couple of weeks, while Japan is months away from the arrival of Sony's latest hardware. It's PlayStation 4 launch week - in the US at least.

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