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These Screenshots Are Fake!

Warning: Do not believe your eyes. Not even a little bit

Words: Ben Richardson, GamesRadar UK

Excite Truck 2

Rule two of fake screenshots: If it comes accompanied by a press release riddled with basic spelling mistakes (like "ambiances") then it's fake. Probably. You can never be too sure when it comes to press releases.


Killzone 2

Eagle-eyed gamers will notice the Helghast soldier is lifted straight from the first controversial footage of Killzone 2. Others will simply see the out-of-place weapon (cribbed from Enemy Territory: Quake Wars) and realise something is up. Either way, this is bobbins.


Halo 3

To paraphrase the infinite monkey theorem, a thousand web monkeys on a thousand keyboards will eventually uncover even the most obscure of images used to create a fake composition. In this case, the background is a bit of French vapourware.


Kid Icarus DS

Rule one of fake screenshots: If it looks too good to... no, we've done that one. Needless to say, though, that this fanboy-pleasing image is naught but a Deviant Artist's fantasy.


 
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Chiropteran  - 11 months 16 days ago 
One reason for doing some of these, is to learn how to use Photoshop, or whatever graphics package you're using. (There's something other than Photoshop?) It's the posting them as 1) original art or, in this case 2) as authentic screen shots that's the sad thing. My daughter is learning photoshop. What better way to learn texture blending and lighting angles.
oryandymackie  - 11 months 16 days ago 
DS Halo? FYI, people who think the DS is a "serious" console, no.
Well you might just fit Master Chief's head in.....
Corsair89  - 11 months 15 days ago 
A Death Star in Star Trek? Nice...
damaddok  - 11 months 15 days ago 
LOL@ Halo 3...Again. I could almost make out the G-Man in the background.

Most of them were stupid, but Super Mario Galaxy DS...that was believable. I kinda wish it was real.
AbleCluster  - 11 months 15 days ago 
Wow! Sim City sure has come a LONG way now hasnt it.

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nubs  - 11 months 15 days ago 
The in game XMB is real, not sure who you have checking to see if the screenshots are fake.
Oronkira  - 11 months 15 days ago 
lol halo 3 and star treck. loved it, who would waste their time doing fake pictres like these?
CH3BURASHKA  - 11 months 14 days ago 
By the way, with all the of the Killzone screens, it reminds me of the actual story. I haven't played the first (didn't have a PS2), but from what I gather it wasn't a great success, and the hype for the new one is shaky at best.

I have been looking through the story and the history of Killzone of the official website, and I gotta say, it is fucking mindblowing. It's great not because of it's originiality (space marines and colonialization, etc), but that the future they've painted with the story is so believable (the only problem with it is the timeline; within 200 years the human race has completely evolved into the Helghast, not probable). If they incorporate the story at least into the manual or make a history book based on it, I'd buy that shit.

Speaking of, why the hell don't video game companies market the shit out of games with history books (not fan fiction shit)? I'm sure that the Halo series (an easy target) would sell even more copies (if that's even possible) if, before 3 came out, they put out a complete history book for the common crowd to buy and be invested in the story and the universe.
MyThIC  - 4 months 15 days ago 
halo on DS...pff¨
I can image Mastere Chief saying :"I need a stick for my totchscreen"...no!
jddillon_187  - 4 months 15 days ago 
Death Star in Star Trek was my favorite, I'm a star wars lover myself, so trekkies getting mad is always fun in my books
GeneralTickTock  - 4 months 14 days ago 
yeah the DSi is a joke (an overpriced joke at that)and halo on DS? that will never happen for several hundred very good reasons.
LinkSceptile333  - 4 months 9 days ago 
The DS is one of the better consoles out there right now...

Also, the guy who made the Mario Galaxy DS video is the same one who made the Nintendo ON.
nikrusty  - 3 months 26 days ago 
wow Call of Duty stuff looked awesome!!!!
Kikyabut2  - 3 months 22 days ago 
the Half-Life 3 one looked really good, until i noticed the crowbar was blue, lol. okay, so maybe i didnt notice anything until i read about it in the article... GET OFF MY CASE!!
Kikyabut2  - 3 months 22 days ago 
mario galaxy DS... wow... such losers XD
Kikyabut2  - 3 months 22 days ago 
i just saw the Trek one XD my cousin likes star trek and seeing the death star in an acyual game might make him go insane XD
fandude66  - 3 months 9 days ago 
halo on ds is rubbish its a disgrace to the halo franchise.
ZombieCrazed  - 2 months 24 days ago 
Halo 3 in Half-Life environments? Oh, to dream...
shadow000  - 2 months 23 days ago 
i noticed a ds super mario galaxy flaw when you get all 121 stars you unlock a third character in wii galaxy.(can't remember the character though but it is on the unlockables for the gam on this site)
seifer93  - 2 months 18 days ago 
The Half Life3 one looks so awesome, and I would love to play with those additional characters in Super Smash
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