After the results of the Game Critics Awards were announced earlier this week, we reached out to several winners for their reactions and some updates about their games in progress. The winner of the Special Commendation for Graphics was Killzone 2 from Guerrilla Games. We emailed some questions to Hermen Hulst, managing director of Guerrilla Games: Here's what he wrote back:

What was your reaction to winning the Special Commendation for Graphics?

The Special Commendation is quite an honor as we weren't playable at the show, which I understood to be a requirement. I am particularly pleased that the team nevertheless got the recognition from the jury.

Expectations for and skepticism about Killzone 2 were so high after the E3 2005 trailer. How confident were you going into E3 that your demo would deliver the goods. What was it like watching the reactions of first group of journalists at the Killzone 2 preview event, and when did you realize that you'd gotten them hooked on the demo?

The vision that we set for the game through the E3 2005 trailer was purposefully ambitious yet achievable. But even though we always believed we could live up to our own benchmark, after a while it becomes hard to judge your own stuff. For me it was clear that our game was going to make quite an impact when we demoed the game to [Playstation studio chief] Phil Harrison and some of the marketing folks a few weeks before E3 and their first response was "Wow...what a rush!"

The game looked great at E3. How much work is left to be done before launch, and when can we expect to hear some details about multiplayer?

At E3 we wanted to show that we can live up to the promise of the original trailer. As for the second part of the question, we plan to follow up with more information on the game as additional details become available.