This is probably one of the biggest hopes for Vita this year. The handheld has been doing exceptionally well for indie announcements recently but it hasn’t had the same sort of momentum for so-called “AAA” style games.

It’s also lacking a really decent first person shooter, Resistance was just average and Black Ops Declassified wasn’t up to much at all. Killzone Mercenary has a lot to live up to.

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Thankfully, it seems like a smart concept for a handheld approach to the Killzone universe and it has looked solid enough in all the demonstrations we’ve seen so far.

Now a trickle of images has appeared (via AGB) that also look pretty decent. They’re presented without commentary but titled as screenshots and they do appear to be taken from in-game – as the aliasing would indicate.