God Of War 3 - Making 360 owners a bit jealous

[SIMON ADEBISI]

Sweet. The game that makes my purchase of a PS3 finally seem like the sensible choice :D Up for preorder from Play (http://www.thedvdforums.com/affiliatelink.php?localaffiliateid=2&url=http://www.play.com/Games/PlayStation3/4-/6072231/God-Of-War-III/Product.html) in march. Cant wait to see what Kratos gets up to next or how they will manage to shoehorn in a threesome this time :lol:

1 & 2 looked stunning on the PS2 so i can only imagine what part 3 will look like.

[Phayze]

Sweet. The game that makes my purchase of a PS3 finally seem like the sensible choice :D
Oh God. I'll have to cave to buying a PS3 now. I wonder if there's anything else I'll ever want to play on it though...

[MrSpeed]

Soon as the PS3 hits £150 or less, this'll be my 1st purchase :)

[MarcusUK]

First details:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/first-god-of-war-iii-details-emerge

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[SIMON ADEBISI]

**** me, they look fantastic.

[EdgeOfVictory]

Oh God. I'll have to cave to buying a PS3 now. I wonder if there's anything else I'll ever want to play on it though...

aye me too. especially if they bring out an ico/shadows of the colossus series game i wont be able to resist ( i believe they're working on one?)

[MarcusUK]

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[SIMON ADEBISI]

Woohoo :clap:

[Mr Majestik]

WooHooo x2

[cinq]

WooHoooo x3... looking good :)

[nsb]

TGS 2009 Video

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[SIMON ADEBISI]

:D :D :D

******* march though.

[MarcusUK]

Ultimate Edition:

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/10/god-of-war-iii-ultimate-edition-and-pre-order-items-announced/

The Ultimate Edition will feature the following:

Exclusive Collectibles
• High-End Sculpted Replica of Pandora’s Box
• Limited-Edition God of War Art Book featuring exclusive art, content and interviews

Exclusive Digital Content (Available via PlayStation Network voucher codes on day of launch)
• God of War Combat Arena containing an exclusive environment and seven challenges
• Premium Kratos Skin – Dominus
• God of War: Unearthing the Legend Franchise Documentary – a full-length movie documentary depicting the history of the God of War franchise
• God of War Trilogy Soundtrack – God of War, II, and III scores from the game (mp3 digital download).
• God of War: Blood and Metal EP – a heavy metal homage featuring original music inspired by God of War (mp3 digital download).


Also Sony are sending out random mails for people to download the demo this weekend.

[FlangeMonkey]

Just got my e-mail code a few mins ago - downloading the demo now! W00t!

[Scottola]

I just got one too, shame I'm now lying in bed having just 'closed' for the evening. No chance of downloading and playing with the kids around tomorrow, pants.

[tuco]

I've got the demo code as well, never played the previous games what are they like ?

[smst]

Does one have to join a special mailiing list to be in with a chance of a code, or is PSN membership sufficient?

[Matt KB]

You just have to receive the SCEE newsletter.

[Scottola]

Does one have to join a special mailiing list to be in with a chance of a code, or is PSN membership sufficient?

I'm not sure, my email said something like 'As an active member of the PSN' or thereabouts. I 've bought quite a few things before and download just about everything I can for free (I can't help it!).

Obviously it might just say that to make us feel special :)

[smst]

You just have to receive the SCEE newsletter.

Interesting -- my PSN notification settings are to receive a newsletter, but I've never had one.

[tuco]

Blimey, that's one hell of a demo !

[Matt KB]

I got stuck

Bit with the catapult, presumably you're supposed to move it and fire it at the lava man but I couldn't at all.

[tuco]

Fire at the chap on the flaming chariot when he speaks

[ShakeyJake]

Can PS3 demos be downloaded from elsewhere like the 360 ones can?

[FlangeMonkey]

Wow. Incredible demo - nice length and a shows a good mix of game mechanics. They need to work on the framerate - found it a bit jerky at times, but this was the same demo shown at E3 over three months ago - I'd imagine it'll be rock-solid by the time it goes gold...

Amazingly brutal, though - didn't think they could get any more violent than the first two games - love the disembowelling of the Centaur and pulling out the Cyclops' eye - amazing stuff! The flying sequence at the end was also brilliant.

This will certainly be an essential purchase in March!

[nsb]

Yep very fun demo, cannot wait for March now.

Oh and here is the Giant Bomb quick look!

http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-god-of-war-iii-demo/17-1573/

[d80s0q]

Really good stuff. At the start I was like 'Its GOW, cool, but that's it' but by the end was loving it all :)

Only played GOW1 before, so have the 1/2 pack on order from the US ahead of GOW3.

[RESSEH]

Loved the ending and what a great place for the demo to end - left me wanting more. will definitly by preordering the ultimate edition now :>

[smst]

Can anybody recall if a newsletter has been sent out since June, when I signed up to PSN? I'm wondering if some overzealous spam filter at some stage of my email pipeline has discarded PSN messages.

For a while, the PSU.com forums were offering the demo to anybody who asked (by allocating a demo code to a dummy account and sharing the account info; anybody could log in, start the download then delete the local reference to the account) but this afternoon they stopped after one recipient changed the account password. I missed it, frustratingly.

Seems like a daft way to distribute the demo though -- as one commenter noted, were they afraid they'd run out?

[Jim989]

Can anybody recall if a newsletter has been sent out since June, when I signed up to PSN? I'm wondering if some overzealous spam filter at some stage of my email pipeline has discarded PSN messages.

Last one was 30th October (3 days ago) using address : news(at)emails.eu.playstation.com

[smst]

Thanks -- was that the one with the God Of War code, or was it separate? I didn't get it.

[kanedaa]

Seems like a daft way to distribute the demo though -- as one commenter noted, were they afraid they'd run out?

They seem to do it a lot on the PS3 as well. Motorstorm 2 had a demo like this, then you have the various beta trials for games which are handled in the same way, I'm sure there have been others.

It tends to have an opposite effect on me (from what I assume they're going for, which is to make me want what the priveleged few have) - it just makes me think **** you and your game, i won't be bothering.

[smst]

I've changed the email address I use for PSN and am now receiving newsletters. I was also able to get the GoW3 demo from a shared dummy account. It was very impressive. As with the previous games, the camera in this game is really great. I never miss the ability to control it.

[odin]

New Chaos Will Rise Trailer :thumbs:

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[alphatyrant]

Is there anywhere still offering the Ultimate Edition for pre-order?

[the_daddy]

This month's Official Playstation Magazine has awarded it 9/10.

Is the demo available on the PSN? Wouldn't mind giving it a go, have never actually played a GOW release.

[RESSEH]

Is there anywhere still offering the Ultimate Edition for pre-order?

could always import it for about £70 from the US but then you wouldnt get the trilogy plus custom charges :/

Im hoping that Game (http://www.thedvdforums.com/affiliatelink.php?localaffiliateid=50)will have it back soon

[alphatyrant]

Already have 1 & 2 so will need to wait and see what happens.

[john316]

This month's Official Playstation Magazine has awarded it 9/10.

Not getting a 10/10 in the Official Playstation Mag? Hmm....

[the_daddy]

Can't seem to find the demo on the PSN, shame.

[anephric]

Who knows why Sony made the demo of this a fiddly exclusive code mess - seems ******* stupid to me, like most things Sony.

[Mr M0by]

Not getting a 10/10 in the Official Playstation Mag? Hmm....

I wouldn't be alarmed. Contrary to what most would expect OPSM UK often score equal or less than metacritic averages for PS3 exclusives, rather than 'expected' heavy overscoring.

10/10 (metacritic score in brackets)
Uncharted 2 (96) / LittleBigPlanet (95) / MGS4 (94)

9/10
Killzone 2 (91) / Heavy Rain (89) / God of War 3 (xx) / God of War Collection (91) / Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destructon (89) / Wipeout HD (87)

8/10
Motorstorm: Pacific Rift (82)

7/10
Heavenly Sword (79) / Resistance: Fall of Man (86) etc.

Personally I think the last 3 were worthy of another mark but that's for other threads. :D

[mikegray]

I've got a spare demo code - first person to reply to the thread gets it. Might be late tonight before I can mail...

[MetalGearAl]

I'll take it mike if it's still going, cheers :)

[mikegray]

I'll take it mike if it's still going, cheers :)

PMed to you.

[MarcusUK]

Game are meant to be dishing out codes for the demo to anyone who preordered. I've not been sent one yet. However on their site it also mentions they only have the 'exclusive' on this until today. So rumour is that the demo might be hitting the PSN Store tomorrow or next week when it updates.

[mikegray]

Game are meant to be dishing out codes for the demo to anyone who preordered. I've not been sent one yet. However on their site it also mentions they only have the 'exclusive' on this until today. So rumour is that the demo might be hitting the PSN Store tomorrow or next week when it updates.

They sent me two... :doh:

[AFC]

anyone have any spare codes :thumbs: they would like to share

[MarcusUK]

They sent me two... :doh:

I didn't get sent one even though I ordered the Ultimate Edition :mad:

[swanny]

Demo now up on PS store for everyone.

[simong]

Game are meant to be dishing out codes for the demo to anyone who preordered. I've not been sent one yet. However on their site it also mentions they only have the 'exclusive' on this until today. So rumour is that the demo might be hitting the PSN Store tomorrow or next week when it updates.

I know this is a moot point now it's available for everyone but surely the purpose of a demo is to encourage people to buy the game, so what's the point of only letting people who have already preorded play it first? :shrug:

[MarcusUK]

I know this is a moot point now it's available for everyone but surely the purpose of a demo is to encourage people to buy the game, so what's the point of only letting people who have already preorded play it first? :shrug:

If you look back in this thread, a code for the demo was also mailed out to a lot of people by Sony a while back. Game had this 'exclusive' for all of a week.

But I agree, they should have just bunged it on the store for everyone a long while back.

[platty]

:notworthy My first experience with a GOW game is this demo...and what can i say , its blown me away , i dont think i have ever played a demo with a constant bloody great big grin on my face...a deffo purchase for me...just one minor gripe , i havent got a DS3 pad and noticed in the demo that at certain parts of the game the pad will rumble to aid you , will this featue be a necessity do you think ?

[Matt KB]

Unclear but you should deffo get a DS3 pad anyway as they're awesome :)

[Se7en]

I'm confused at all the acclaim of this game having now played it. You just seem to have to hit the square and triangle until everythings dead. The only thing that took skill was the flight at the end. I assume the full game will have puzzles and platform jumping bits? I've seen earlier GOW being played, but never played them myself.

[nsb]

Dunno if I'm thick, but I found the puzzle rooms in past GoW games to be quite challenging.

[nsb]

:notworthy My first experience with a GOW game is this demo...and what can i say , its blown me away , i dont think i have ever played a demo with a constant bloody great big grin on my face...a deffo purchase for me...just one minor gripe , i havent got a DS3 pad and noticed in the demo that at certain parts of the game the pad will rumble to aid you , will this featue be a necessity do you think ?

If you enjoyed the demo you should definately try out the other games in the series, especially GoW 2.

[S_K_N]

I'm confused at all the acclaim of this game having now played it. You just seem to have to hit the square and triangle until everythings dead. The only thing that took skill was the flight at the end. I assume the full game will have puzzles and platform jumping bits? I've seen earlier GOW being played, but never played them myself.

You can get away with mashing to a point more so than something like Ninja Gaiden but in the first two games it fairly quickly gets to the poiint where you need to throw in dives and blocks...bare in mind that the enemies in the demo are the equivalent of the grunts/cannon fodder in this game, those are the easiest guys you'll face and they are intended to be mowed down with aplomb.

Yeah the first two games had some very well done puzzle rooms and platforming sections, plus alot of skills to aquire and upgrade using the orbs.....medusas head for example and he didn't always have those wings that he sports in GOW3.

I can't wait for this personally, the story and the mythology elements were two of my favourite things about the series and Kratos is just an insane character with masses of depth so im really interested to see where they go with the story this time round. The music and voice acting have always been brill in the series too.

I never did pick up the collection for PS3 so think I'll whip out the PS2 over the weekend and have a bash at the first 2 games again.

[Se7en]

I'm sure it's a very good game, and I can see why the demo was structured in the way that it was. Just having never played GOW before (and having played games like Ninja Gaiden which were ******* hard) I just found it a bit too simple. Looks pretty though. Must try and pick up the collection cheap from somewhere.

[the_daddy]

Played the demo, it's a tad overated. Oh hum.

[double_cut]

Really wish I hadn't played the GoW3 demo before the Darksiders one, totally ruined it for me, didn't make it much beyond 5 minutes in Darksiders. Will try and go back to it as I know the RPG elements should mix things up a bit but the combat seems pretty poor straight off the back of the pretty damn good GoW3 demo.

As for the demo itself, I don't think it's exaggerating to say that there are a number of sections that look like full on pre-rendered cutscenes but must be real-time due to the way they're spliced into proceedings. The combat is classic GoW and while fun did seem a bit "spam the circular hitting moves" when taking down the cannon fodder type enemies. The chain blades are as cool as ever and the glove things really had a heavy impact feel to them like you're doing some real damage.

I did laugh out loud when I ripped the troll/cyclops thing's eye out. :)

Overall, more of the same gameplay wise so far which is no bad thing, visuals rivalling the best we've seen this generation, typical GoW scale and gore (which is anything but typical) means I'm quite looking forward to it. :)

[kanedaa]

Maybe it's just me but I thought the graphics were pretty damn average. As for the game, well, it's more of the same. Fine if you like that kind of thing. Personally I'd pick Darksiders over this every time.

[Mr Majestik]

Fine if you like that kind of thing. Personally I'd pick Darksiders over this every time.

It is just you.

darksiders is like Hermans hermits to GOW's Beatles.

[Matt KB]

Think about Darksiders is the full game is literally just the demo repeated. I thought God of War was another smash the same button but it does evolve after the start and I was soon engrossed in playing GoW1 and 2 via the PS3 collection and am really looking forward to this one also.

[S_K_N]

I'm sure it's a very good game, and I can see why the demo was structured in the way that it was. Just having never played GOW before (and having played games like Ninja Gaiden which were ******* hard) I just found it a bit too simple. Looks pretty though. Must try and pick up the collection cheap from somewhere.

Yeah I came from the Ninja Gaiden games before I got God of War on my PS2 and was always looking for that comparison and indeed argued with people on other forums about the merits of this game vs that and vice versa, there fairly different though. I found once I just relaxed into the story of the first 2 games which it has to be said is amazing, you start to love it.

The stuff with his wife, the way aries and the other gods use him so he effectively declares war on them, battling out of hades to change his fate, the way he aquires all of the skills etc its like a gory adult version of Jason and the argonauts with you partaking in all those battles you watched on film as a kid. :clap:

I tryed Darksiders demo after this as well and was completely put off, im sure its great and all as the metacritic score is great but I'll stick to this. ;)

[fivebyfive]

not this **** again, they are 2 different types of games, Darksiders is action RPG (more like zelda than GOW, just because the main character has a sword and there is combo thats where the main similarities end

Still waiting for the demo to d/l as I stopped it last night as it was going slow

Both games are worth playing

[S_K_N]

not this **** again, they are 2 different types of games, Darksiders is action RPG (more like zelda than GOW, just because the main character has a sword and there is combo thats where the main similarities end

Both games are worth playing

Yeah I know there different games :lol:, I was gearing towards buying both but after an hour the demo was doing nothing for me just like the GOW3 demo seems to have did nothing for the_daddy and kanaeda its just personal preference isn't it. :shrug:

Theres captions from two of the lower score reviews over at metacritic which spot on summed up how I fealt about it playing through the demo, one of them referenced both GOW and Zelda. I won't quote them though as this is the GOW3 thread. 84% over at metacritic seems pretty high as an average so I'll keep an eye on it and probably pick it up when it drops to £15, I was following the Darksiders thread on this forum for a few days after release and everyone seemed to enjoy it. :)

[Mr Majestik]

Darksiders is about 40%Gow and 40% Zelda (20% other)

Comparisions are very very fair.

[fivebyfive]

I was following the Darksiders thread on this forum for a few days after release and everyone seemed to enjoy it. :)

Its a good game and fairly cheap at the minute

Darksiders is about 40%Gow and 40% Zelda (20% other)

Comparisions are very very fair.

:lol:

only in your view

Played the demo now and liked the game (its the first time I've played a GOW game) and its really nothing like DS at all apart from the tiny similarities that makes up most games (same weapons and combo presses)

[double_cut]

Played the demo now and liked the game (its the first time I've played a GOW game) and its really nothing like DS at all apart from the tiny similarities that makes up most games (same weapons and combo presses)
I dunno, the combat looks very similar:


Green glowing globes flying around everywhere: check
Flying mount section: check
Jumping onto some flying creature to gain height: check
Temporary gliding wings when you jump: check
God derived powers and weapons: check
Very similar combo system: check


The overall game obviously has a different focus to GoW without a doubt, but taking the combat sections in isolation for just a second it is very much a poor man's God of War jumping from one demo to the other imo. The Zelda elements must make up for a lot going by the scores Darksiders has received but I think it's quite fair to compare the combat between the two as Darksiders undeniably takes its inspiration from GoW for the combat sections. In fact after the brief go on the demos I thought the combat in Dantes Inferno was far more fluid and enjoyable than Darksiders. :shrug:

Then again, what isn't a rip-off of some game or the other these days? At least Darksiders does have something to differentiate itself from GoW enough to stand on its own merits if the reviews are anything to go by.

[Se7en]

I downloaded both demo's, played GOW for the 20 mins it lasted and then played Darksiders. From the demo Darksiders just came off as a clunky, less pretty version of GOW. Had they released the Darksiders demo last week I might have been more impressed.

To say their completely different games is pushing it. The core combat mechanics are similar to say the least. When I triple jumped and wings sprung out of my character I thought I was back to playing GOW again with a World of Warcraft graphics filter on.

[fivebyfive]

I've played both games and the combat does not feel similar at all there is some similarities of course and as Double cut said: souls/globes from enemies etc but there have been games before GoW was made. The only game that feels like GOW is Dante's inferno (but not as good)

The key aspect in GOW is the combat and GOW has more loads of enemies at once to hack and slash through and darksiders is more smaller numbers.

Comparing GOW and DS is like comparing CoD and fallout 3, just because you can shoot in FPS mode

[double_cut]

Comparing GOW and DS is like comparing CoD and fallout 3, just because you can shoot in FPS mode
I think comparing Call of Duty to Borderlands would be a more apt metaphor from what I've seen, but I don't totally disagree with your point, GoW and Darksiders have very different overall focuses.

[nsb]

God of War III blowout on the latest episode of GameTrailers TV.

It being Gametrailers means it will be hugely spoilerific, so watch at your own peril.

http://www.gametrailers.com/episode/gametrailers-tv/85&ch=1&sd=0?ep=85&ch=1&sd=0

[platty]

Well , i've just ordered the GOW collection from axelmusic , i think i owe it to myself to play the first two before the third :)

[S_K_N]

£23.79 over at videogamesplus.ca including shipping incase you fancy cancelling at axelmusic, I just checked there and it seemed a fair bit more expensive on axel. :)

Definetly worth picking up to learn the back story of the 3rd game.

[platty]

£23.79 over at videogamesplus.ca including shipping incase you fancy cancelling at axelmusic, I just checked there and it seemed a fair bit more expensive on axel. :)

Definetly worth picking up to learn the back story of the 3rd game.

Yeah i tried to order there first but my card kept getting declined :thinking: but it was ok at axelmusic :shrug:

[S_K_N]

Yeah i tried to order there first but my card kept getting declined :thinking: but it was ok at axelmusic :shrug:

Yeah, whilst I was messing around on the site I noticed they accept Paypal as well if you have an account. I toyed with the idea of ordering it at time of posting before deciding that I don't have the money to throw around when I already have the PS2 versions. :lol:

[LotusElan]

Just downloaded and played this. Not really had much past experience with GoW so didn't realise there was quite so much button bashing. Good fun, though, and very pretty.

But 2.6Gb for a 20 minute demo?! I know that that'll include the graphics engine (and so on) and not just the level info, but how big's the full blown release going to be? :eek:

[MarcusUK]

Full release is meant to be about 39Gb, there will be no hard drive install.

[LotusElan]

Blimey!

[nsb]

Finished GoW 2 tonight, what an excellent game.

Not sure why I didn't play it back when it first released on PS2, but after seeing the ending, I'm glad I didn't. Would have had to wait 3 years?! :lol:

[S_K_N]

Yeah theres masses to do and masses to unlock once you complete it as well presuming they left all that stuff in on the conversions. Some of the guys saying its a button basher should have a go at the Challenge of the Titans on GOW2, its kind of like mission mode in Ninja Gaiden - I know back when I tryed it originally I got my arse handed to me, mashing buttons just doesn't cut it as far as thats concerned. :)

[odin]

Finished GoW 2 tonight, what an excellent game.

Not sure why I didn't play it back when it first released on PS2, but after seeing the ending, I'm glad I didn't. Would have had to wait 3 years?! :lol:

I finished one tonight and just started two, loved the first game. I also never played them on the PS2, have no idea why though !!

[Scruffy the Janitor]

£23.79 over at videogamesplus.ca including shipping incase you fancy cancelling at axelmusic, I just checked there and it seemed a fair bit more expensive on axel. :)

Definetly worth picking up to learn the back story of the 3rd game.

Will the Canadian version of the collection run on UK PS3 or US only?

[Matt KB]

Works fine on UK ps3s.

[S_K_N]

Did you notice the Cod of War costume when you complete GOW2. :lol:

I had a bash on it on my PS2 last night and started a fresh run through with all the powers from the completed save game unlocked plus noticed all those costumes. Playing with the weapons and powers unlocked from the start just confused things imo.

Truly classic game though, other than the soft looking visuals it hasn't aged in the slightest. :thumbs:

[AKPiggott]

Played GoW3 demo yesterday and completely loved it. If this is a 9-month old build, you can only imagine how good the final release will be. :D

I've never played any of these before. Will the GoW collection ever be available over here?

[TonyG]

Finally got around to playing the demo at the weekend & was impressed. No huge leap in visuals or gameplay but when the first two were so good, it was always going to be difficult to improve it further.

[double_cut]

Finally got around to playing the demo at the weekend & was impressed. No huge leap in visuals or gameplay but when the first two were so good, it was always going to be difficult to improve it further.

No huge leap in visuals? Compared to God of War 1 & 2 or generally? It's a pretty huge jump over the GoW Collection, not to mention the original PS2 versions and I would say it's up there with Uncharted 2 and Killzone 2 (arguably the benchmarks this generation) in terms of looks and scale (maybe even moreso in terms of scale tbh). Gameplay wise I agree it is more of the same judging from the demo, I doubt it will convert many non-fans of the previous games but it should go down well with fans of the series and those new to it.

There is a slightly spoilerific video over on Gametrailers TV (http://www.gametrailers.com/episode/gametrailers-tv/85?ep=85) and that shows off quite a lot more than the demo does (which is already pretty spectacular for an older build of the game). Worth taking a look. :thumbs:

[TonyG]

It's a pretty huge jump over the GoW Collection
I have to disagree. It's just more of the same but with better textures, higher resolution & improved lighting. I have read the reports that the demo was an old build & there's been significant visual improvements added since then, so i'll expect it'll look more on par with the titles you mention (Uncharted 2 & Killzone 2) ... I'm certainly not knocking it. It looks very good, but so far I don't see any big advancement over similar, recent titles like Bayonetta or Dantes Inferno.

[PlexShaw]

I've never played any of these before. Will the GoW collection ever be available over here?
I thought it was only going to be made available in that Ultimate set thingy. Personally, I wouldn't waste time waiting for a UK release of the GoW Collection and recommend that you simply import it instead.

[double_cut]

I have to disagree. It's just more of the same but with better textures, higher resolution & improved lighting.
Isn't that the same for pretty much every current gen sequel to a game of the previous generation though?

[AKPiggott]

I thought it was only going to be made available in that Ultimate set thingy. Personally, I wouldn't waste time waiting for a UK release of the GoW Collection and recommend that you simply import it instead.

You're right. Did a quick look on eBay and it can be had for ~£25 delivered. :thumbs:

[brock_landers]

I haven't played either prequel, but having just played gthe demo TWICE!! I have to say that I haven't been as excited at a game release since Half Life 2.

I cannot wait!!:thumbs:

[odin]

Eurogamer & TheSixthAxis reviews :thumbs:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/god-of-war-iii-review?page=1

http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2010/03/08/review-god-of-war-iii/

And some more ! :D

http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3178252

http://www.videogamer.com/ps3/gow3/review.html

http://g4tv.com/games/ps3/44695/god-of-war-iii/review/

http://ps3.ign.com/dor/objects/886158/god-of-war-iii/videos/gow3_vdr_030510.html

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-god-of-war/62753

http://uk.gamespot.com/ps3/action/godofwariii/review.html

[Mr Majestik]

For those of you wondering "Just how much better does the game look now than the demo did?"


http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-godofwariii-demo-vs-retail-blog-entry

[S_K_N]

Thats pretty impressive imo, I thought this would have shipped in a similiar state to the demo as there were no glaring problems with it.

Top marks to the developers for tweaking it and striving for perfection. :)

[LordoftheDance]

Never played the first or second part of this game, but I downloaded the third and played it yesterday. Got bored after 10 minutes and deleted it. Honestly don't know why people are raving about it...

Guess I'm in the minority!

[MetalGearAl]

God Of War Collection arrived for me today from VG+. I bought the first back on the PS2 and loved it (except the final boss which I never beat), but didn't play 2. Thought I'd play through them both now on the PS3, just in time for the 3rd to drop in price and to pick that up too :)

[baffled]

You're right. Did a quick look on eBay and it can be had for ~£25 delivered. :thumbs:

That's how I got mine, with next day delivery cost me £30

[Stone Cold]

My Game (http://www.thedvdforums.com/affiliatelink.php?localaffiliateid=50) order is packing now so roll on Wed/Thurs.:clap:

[odin]

Had an email from shopto (http://www.thedvdforums.com/affiliatelink.php?localaffiliateid=429) today saying it will be dispatched tomorrow, i better get GoW2 finished !! :eek:

[AKPiggott]

Do you really need to play the first two beforehand? From the demo, it doesn't seem remotely story driven... just a load of cool random crap happening.

[Matt KB]

The story is awesome and worth understanding what happens in the first two (check wiki).

[Damage Inc]

HMV are doing a Heavy Rain trade in + £4.99 for GoW 3 for the next 2 days starting tomorrow. Think i'll head there in the morning and take advantage of what I think is a very good deal.

[PlexShaw]

do you really need to play the first two beforehand?
Yes!

[odin]

Got my copy here but have to wait another day until i can finish GoW2.

[JohnMac]

I would like to give some detailed first impressions of God of War 3 but I found the first main encounter so annoying, random and frustrating I just couldn't be bothered continuing... Now granted it has been a whilte since I played God of War 2 and I didn't think my button bashing combo skills were that bad but some of the attacks you face just seem cheap, so much so that the game has to refill your health bar after each short stage of the battle in order to give you a chance of progressing. Even when you roll out of thw way you still get knocked back which shouldn't happen. Perhaps my God of War skills have just disappeared who knows...

[Matt KB]

The first boss in these games has always been the hardest imo so no surprises there.

[JohnMac]

I'll give it another try later and will probably do it first time without a problem. Actually I got to a part where the circle prompt appears and I thought it was just a QTE sequence after that but I think maybe I was supposed to keep tapping the square button instead of just pressing it once, so maybe that was why it didn't work for me.

[Matt KB]

I did it first time (on easy), beat his ass to a pulp :D

[TonyG]

Just played through the opening upto when the game starts proper In Hades & i can sum up my first impressions with a simple, but effective ..... WOW!! :notworthy

The scale is enormous, the visuals are superb & the action is widescreen, bombastic, OTT, uber-violent, Summer Blockbuster awesomeness. :thumbs:

Yes, the first multi-part Boss battle is a bit fiddly & tricky to work out the patterns of its clawed attacks & I occasionally made a hash of the QTE bits in all the excitement of soaking in the visuals, but I managed it comfortably (on Normal) without throwing my controller out the window.

I was impressed with the demo (with reservations that it was just more of the same with better visuals) but the game proper is already exceeding my expectations.

[JohnMac]

I got through that section first time on Normal difficulty but then later I was fighting the boss proper and accidentally switched to easy mode.

God of War 3 is very good but also using exactly the same tried and tested gameplay of the first two games, no bad thing. It is also employing the same graphics techniques as the first two God of War games. Does it matter that the PS3 (or PS2 for the earlier games) isn't actually doing all those things in the background rather just projecting movies made in Maya on a fake backdrop - no it probably doesn't as long as it sells the world to the player. But I notice it more in God of War 3 than I did the first two and with the power of PS3 they could have attempted to do it all for real.

Going back to something I was saying in the Final Fantasy XIII thread, the game is very linear but unlike Final Fantasy XIII's early chapters the makers of God of War 3 are constantly trying to draw your attention away from that fact and making the world look bigger than it really is. The actual playable area in God of War 3 so far is in reality tiny (even compared to Final Fantasy XIII) but they creatively use every trick they have and the best work is merging the foreground and background elements together but this means tight control over the camera.

[alphatyrant]

I like the simple fact that the QTE button presses now show up in relation to how the face buttons are laid out on the DS3, after Heavy Rain this'll be a doddle.

[TonyG]

I like the simple fact that the QTE button presses now show up in relation to how the face buttons are laid out on the DS3, after Heavy Rain this'll be a doddle.
:lol: That never occured to me until you just said it. D'oh! ... That'll help me as I still to this day get square & circle confused in the heat of battle.

[JohnMac]

Happy birthday Tony, I take it you'll be celebrating by spilling some blood. I'm a year behind you, 39 today, again. ;)

[TonyG]

Happy birthday Tony, I take it you'll be celebrating by spilling some blood. I'm a year behind you, 39 today, again. ;)
Cheers John. Yes, day off work to catch up on this & FF XIII is my birthday treat. :)

[msm13579]

I like the simple fact that the QTE button presses now show up in relation to how the face buttons are laid out on the DS3, after Heavy Rain this'll be a doddle.

awesome, thanks for that info :thumbs: i wasn't going to get this because i couldn't do the qte's fast enough in the second game but that should help a lot.

[AKPiggott]

:lol: That never occured to me until you just said it. D'oh! ... That'll help me as I still to this day get square & circle confused in the heat of battle.

X is the one that throws me off. Damned Xbox having X where square is.

[S_K_N]

Got this from Tesco instore tonight for £36 if anyones looking for a decent(ish) price on it.

The games just phenomenal, you really see the changes over the demo build just like they'd pointed out in the article earlier in this thread, visually I'd say its up there with the best of the best on PS3.

I've just played through to the start of Path of Eos, its the area just after you take Helios head, brilliant stuff so far. I see theres armour to collect as well which can be used once you do one run through of the game, I've nabbed Hades Helmet and Helios Shield so far, have a funny feeling I've missed some stuff though.

[fivebyfive]

traded in Dragons age and bioshock 2, only done the 1st boss fight and already is been amazing and OTT :D its the 1st god of war game i've played and the graphics are amazing

[Idle Child]

I would like to give some detailed first impressions of God of War 3 but I found the first main encounter so annoying, random and frustrating I just couldn't be bothered continuing... Now granted it has been a whilte since I played God of War 2 and I didn't think my button bashing combo skills were that bad but some of the attacks you face just seem cheap, so much so that the game has to refill your health bar after each short stage of the battle in order to give you a chance of progressing. Even when you roll out of thw way you still get knocked back which shouldn't happen. Perhaps my God of War skills have just disappeared who knows...

I have to echo what John Mac is saying in regards to the controls, as I had the exact same reaction. The opening few scenes with the first boss would have been amazing had it not been for the poor camera angle and the assumption by the developers that players have come directly from God Of War II and played nothing inbetween for 3 years - meaning that they remember the quirks of movement "while hanging" to not get themeslves killed by fathing around with the control sticks... and that's if you can survive long enough to figure out how to topple the boss by avoiding it's bizarre attack patterns.

I'm no God of War stranger but even playing this on normal has tended to be a frustrating experience, particularly when you're locked in an attack animation while Kratos is whirling his blades and you are unable to block quick enough leading to an unavoidable pounding. The evade seems a little slow and still does the PS2 thing of not actually auto-facing your main aggressor (as seen most often in boss fights) so you're in effect guarding your opponent with your back turned to them. Didn't pick up on these things from the demo - because you're not really facing anything challenging in the demo but it's become glaringly obvious now.

I can't fault the visuals though - because as hard as a time I was having with the boss, I did think that it looked very pretty. Whatever else, it's still great and it's most certainly epic beyond whatever else is going to be released this year.

[alphatyrant]

Thing is I found getting back into it very easy, maybe because of the refresher course that Dante gave me last month.

Having just killed Cronos...or is it Kronos? Nevermind, the point isit pretty much just topped my list of boss fights so far, only SOTC on PS2 would be it's competition.

[Grandmaster]

It looks very good, but so far I don't see any big advancement over similar, recent titles like Bayonetta or Dantes Inferno.

Kratos would smash your face to a pulp, disembowel and de-cock you for that level of insolence! :lol: Though it is a case of the demo being in no way representive of the final game, I'll grant you.

Based on your later posts I assume the final game has more than made amends :)

[TonyG]

Kratos would smash your face to a pulp, disembowel and de-cock you for that level of insolence! :lol: Though it is a case of the demo being in no way representive of the final game, I'll grant you.

Based on your later posts I assume the final game has more than made amends :)

Indeed, especially as i've now reached the level from the demo & it looks vastly superior to the demo. It's definitely up there along with the likes of Uncharted 2 & Killzone 2 in the visuals department.

[JohnMac]

Granted I haven't got very far with it yet and it is very good so far. But I still feel a bit disappointed after the phenomenal God of War II which built up huge momentum at the end of the game; then to wait so long only to have the dreaded reset button early in the game (not entirely unexpected though) and undo all that potential.

What is here appears to be the same great God of War 1 and 2 experience but without shifting it up a gear in the way you would expect from the conclusion to a trilogy on the next generation of games consoles. After the first few minutes it is like starting God of War 1 or 2 all over again when it should be pusing the boundaries and setting new standards. I'm sure that by the end of God of War 3 I'll have had a great time with it, especially anticipating seeing how the story ends. But after the opening sequence it settles down into what seems like a game I've already played through twice before.

[alphatyrant]

Picked up the last main weapon before quitting out last night, but the cestus are the absolute business and seem to harvest the most red orbs, certainly don't remember them being as much fun on the PSP version.

Oddly it's daft things that I seem to be screwing up, double jumps seem to be bloody awkward for some reason and the directional QTE's seem to have such a short span in which to do them.

Still enjoying it immensely despite it not being the massive leap forwards a lot of people expected it to be.

[Ono]

I thought Hades was done very well. Especially with the constant dropping of bodies out of the sky :lol:

[Harsin]

There's far too many instadeath bits in this for my liking and the double-jump controls seem a bit unresponsive which can lead to frustration.

[S_K_N]

I thought Hades was done very well. Especially with the constant dropping of bodies out of the sky :lol:

Yep and the dark chamber where you fight Hades, I edged into the darkness and swung my weapons around to see what was in the darkness....:lol: at the walls in that chamber.

Yeah the game sure doesn't pull any punches, just reached aphrodites chamber. I liked the creative use of the Poseidon women leading up to that area :lol:

Already said it before but some of the stuff they've done with the visuals in this is mind blowing, im finding myself stopping alot just to check out lighting and reflections and fine details on the scenery.

[Harsin]

I think the start may be using an updated version of the technique in Final Fantasy 8 where FMV played in the background.

[TonyG]

I agree that the double-jump feels a little random whether it works or not. I'm not sure it's because it doesn't work the way you think it should, ie you press the 2nd time when you reach the peak of the first jump, it seems more like you just have to almost double-tap quickly. Other forums mention it may have something to do with the analog nature of the buttons.

[AKPiggott]

Been stuck on Hades for 90-odd minutes. True git of a boss. :mad:

[alphatyrant]

What difficulty level? The Hercules fight has been the closest one for me so far, though the crazy beatdown that Kratos put on him at the end was worth it :D

[S_K_N]

Been stuck on Hades for 90-odd minutes. True git of a boss. :mad:

The way I took that fight was in 3 stages, 1st 2 stages just batter into him/dodge etc do the QTE stuff, rip the flesh off him and get the health orbs from doing so and when he does the move where he makes the room go dark and uses the chains obviously run to the light spot. The 3rd part was where I originally had problems when he starts sending out the souls as I didn't see a way too defend against them so I'd saved back all my magic and just rushed him and used it until the QTE prompt was above his head.

Hes not dead after that but the final parts of the battle are pretty easy. Im only playing on normal though.

[AKPiggott]

I beat it shortly after my last post (only playing on normal :eek:).

The way I defended against the souls was the Spartan shield (R2) power. I ended up just assaulting him from the rear and rolling to avoid his attacks. It was drawn out, but it worked....

[alphatyrant]

Finished it about half an hour ago, was hoping for more costumes than a piddly 1. Some good voice talent in the game as well.

[AKPiggott]

How long was the game approx? I'd like to try and make it last...

[alphatyrant]

Played for a few hours yesterday morning, then another 3 or 4 last night, maybe 3 or 4 tonight as well. Not massively long, mind you none of them have been. Got 65% of the trophies, was literally 50 away from upgrading all of my weapons :(

[S_K_N]

I think im just about completed it as well, funnily enough I think the voice talent picks up from the excellent job that they did on the last 2 games with the exception of Kratos.

In parts its excellent but I don't remember him ever giving as odd a delivery of some of the lines in any of the previous games - its like since the last game he turned into a black man :thinking:, for the best part I loved his voice work, some parts made me laugh others were just vicious in their delivery but yeah some parts the delivery and apparent accent and pronunciation just seemed off, maybe its just me though. :?:

Hermes annoyed me slightly but I guess it suits the character.

I do think the musical score is excellent.

[alphatyrant]

In parts its excellent but I don't remember him ever giving as odd a delivery of some of the lines in any of the previous games - its like since the last game he turned into a black man :thinking:

The voice actor for Kratos is a black guy :D

[S_K_N]

yeah don't mind me I thought he was but it never seemed more apparent to me than in this game, Kratos isn't a black dude is he though unless Hera had an interacial relationship and didn't tell Zeus which seems likely as shes pretty much on the lash all the way through GOW3. :suspect:

I just thought in relation to the character of Kratos the voice acting doesn't match in places and I didn't notice it in the previous games. Im not saying theres anything strictly wrong with the voice acting I just fealt it was patchy in places with several lines nearly making me wet myself when im not sure that was the intention. :lol:

Anyway its all good, any game where I can say my biggest gripe is the main characters voice acting sounds a little wayward on several lines of dialogue is doing something right as im a picky ******.

The Cronos battle was immense btw, 3-4 hours past that area now but wow great stuff.

Would any of you guys recommend picking up Dantes Inferno on the cheap or would it be a letdown after playing through this?

[alphatyrant]

It's a decent game in it's own right yeah, you'll miss some of the variety in weapons as it's pretty much just the scythe all the way through with orbs upgrading magic and adding more attack moves to the weapon. Some decent bosses, though it has slightly less variety in normal enemy fodder though. Good for a cheapy, I traded mine in before the DLC and there's more out for it at the end of April as well.

[mr_woo]

Played the first two hours and it's a strange one. I love God Of War 1 and 2, this looks stunning and it feels great to control. Yet in the few hours I've been playing it I've not had one pang of excitement or 'Wooow' moments despite it being quite the spectacle. Maybe I'm just tired, I don't know, turned it off and shall go back to it tomorrow (or later today technically!) and see how I feel then.

[TonyG]

Probably playing Yakuza 3 for over 60hrs recently has dulled your senses. ;)

[fivebyfive]

Probably playing that crappy AvsP game and Yakuza 3 for over 60hrs recently has dulled your senses. ;)

Fixed

:D

[mr_woo]

Probably playing Yakuza 3 for over 60hrs recently has dulled your senses. ;)

I actually think that's why I wasn't finding the combat in GoW that exciting. In Yakuza 3 you can feel every single hit, especially the awesome HEAT moves, it's really brutal and when you're taking on 20 people with nunchuks and tonfas that's cool as hell. I do enjoy Kratos being as angry as ever though :D


Fixed

:D

Quiet you, I played AvP survivor mode before playing GoW3 and had a great time :p

[S_K_N]

Completed this just there, great ending as I didn't really see it coming.

Enjoyed it and all, I think its the best made GOW game and technically one of the best games I've played recently, im perhaps of the opinion that the first two games captured my imagination a little more in terms of story and general gameplay/characters.

I can't find fault in many areas though, perhaps if the game were a little longer but theres some replay value I guess just trying out the gods items and the challenges. :thumbs:

[alphatyrant]

Have only 2 challenges left, and they are complete swines. Know the best way to do them, but a right swine if you mis-time any of your moves...really frustrating stuff.

[S_K_N]

Im the same, its the unarmed combat one which is annoying me - must have got it down to the last guy at least a dozen times now but ran out of time, 1 second more and I'd have done it.

Wasn't that impressed with the costume unlock for completion compared to the previous games, maybe there are more for titan completion or completing the other modes?

[alphatyrant]

That and the stoned one left, annoying thing about that one is I'd just finished the challenge then something killed me at the last second, challenge failed :(

The bare hands one is driving me batty, can never seem to knock the stone guys off the edge.

[S_K_N]

I'd just been doing laps to pound the stone guys, every once in a while you hit them twice or get 2 hits in on one and another hit on the other. I'd also not been using the contextual buttons to finish them as it saves time.

So close so many times its likes 1 guy or 1 second more. :lol:

The challenge where your riding the cyclops and battering enemies out of the arena has been my favourite so far,its just carnage.

[S_K_N]

Managed to do the bare hands one just there, I got down to the last guy with 15-20 seconds to spare and then started to panic as there were no grunts left to charge with and the final guy was the cyclops. Ran around like a headless chicken hoping a grunt would spawn before deciding to lure the cyclops to the edge of the arena, from there just dodged at the last second as he attacked and his momentum took him out.

1 second remaining. :lol:

The gorgon challenge is a nightmare.

edit....beat the final challenge just then, also posted a 5000+ hit combo in the combat arena the game didn't give me the trophy though so that must be available during the campaign only.

[mr_woo]

Been enjoying this a lot more since Hades Getting a lot bigger and badder and I did laugh my head off at how they killed Hermes off, I knew Kratos would do something like that

Also like the way they are introducing new stuff such as air dashing to give more options during combat Only disappointing thing being that you can't really cancel out of a move once you start it (as far as I can see) but the GOW series isn't Bayonetta or Ninja Gaiden so not exactly a breaking point

[MarcusUK]

Finished this earlier on, epic game and a great end to the trilogy. Just gets better and better the further and further you get into the game. Totally stunning looking and a fantastic score. Maybe could have done with a few more puzzles, but that's about all I could fault it on.

[TonyG]

Popped this on earlier for a quick hour session, which turned into a 4hr session. Totally agree that it just gets better & better as you progress. Just completed the massive Boss battle with Kronos which is probably the best boss battle i've ever had the pleasure of playing. The scale was astounding & some of the action choreography was sublime. :notworthy

[JohnMac]

I'm trying to stagger my gameplay of this to make it last longer, but good to read the quality stays high throughout the game.

[MarcusUK]

Quick one for those who've finished the game

How long did you spend bashing the circle button to smash Zeus' face in after the trophy popped up :lol:

[S_K_N]

yeah I was just mashing for a good few minutes before I thought hmmm this doesn't seem right. Tryed pressing all other sorts of buttons in the hope it would clear the camera like a kind of wipe his eyes things.

I did the aphrodite minigame again just there, some of the stuff the two women onlookers say is pretty funny, one of em said "this most certainly is not suitable for children even under parental supervision". :lol:

[TonyG]

Yeah, the two lady onlookers had me chuckling a lot with their observations. Lots of great touches throughout. Eurogamer got it spot on about the best use of dog carcasses in a game. :lol: ... oh & that poor topless slave girl. :D

[S_K_N]

Yeah I was doing a second playthrough just there to mop up one of the character upgrade trophies and fully upgraded weapons trophy and the stuff you notice on the second playthrough is unreal, like I'd never noticed the rats in Hades on my first run through lots of other stuff too as you obviously know whats going to happen so have more time to take stuff in.

Even the slave girl you mention first run through I ran without looking to see what happens to her incase the doors shut, second time I watched as her body buckles and gets sucked into the workings of the machine.

[AKPiggott]

There's not much puzzling in this game, but the few puzzles they've got are extremely well done. The "perspective" puzzle in particular was impressive. Out of all the Tomb Raiders etc I've played over the years, I've never seen anything quite as clever.

[TonyG]

Puzzles have been fine so far (although i'd prefer more) apart from that horrible "guitar hero" moment. What were they thinking?!?

[Idle Child]

I'm currently playing through my God Of War Collection disc - God of War 2 in actual fact. My reasons for doing this was because I never did get round to completing it on PS2 and so now with trophy support and higher res graphics I've got no excuse not to. Initially, I had been underwhlemed by the improvements and thought the textures looked rather washed out, but having compared it with the original PS2 game I can see there is a definite improvement - and it plays silky smooth.

I also decided to play through the 2nd game in the trilogy first because with the opening scenes of God Of War 3, I felt like it was a direct follow on in story and I didn't want to miss out on that. I'm thinking in terms of God Of War 2 being "God of War 2: Part 1", while this new game is "God of War 2: Part 2"!

[mr_woo]

Finished this there now and overall I enjoyed it a lot but had a few problems.

There was one part where you have to fall down to break the chains for the balance of olympus. This seemed to be much harder than when flying up as you are falling much faster. It doesn't help that the stupid ******* have blood spatter right in the middle of the screen everytime you get hit, giving you next to no time to position yourself for the next opening and hence keep getting hit until you die, was VERY annoying

Also, after the end fight with Zeus the dream sequence was utter utter ****. The first person beat down of Zeus was excellent but the ending overall was far too drawn out. The whole bit about 'hope' was bobbins too

Still, it's the best God Of War game and I did enjoy it a lot, it's getting traded in pretty quickly though, certainly no desire to play it again.

[bencrawford]

Holy cow this is my dream game! I can't imagine why I don't have a copy of it yet

[Grant666uk]

I'm currently playing through my God Of War Collection disc - God of War 2 in actual fact.

Doing the same thing myself. Hope to pick the new game up in a week or two.

[Matt KB]

They've announced the God of War Collection to be released over here now. £24.99. 30th April.

[AKPiggott]

I might just wait for that then, save the hassle of importing it and risking customs charges etc. :thumbs:

[S_K_N]

They've announced the God of War Collection to be released over here now. £24.99. 30th April.

good prices on that over at play.com - £18 for the collection, £55 for the trilogy.

[TonyG]

Just completed it on Normal difficulty (55% of trophies) & loved every minute of it. Certainly my favourite of the GoW series. Sure it doesn't do much new with the gameplay from the previous games, but the extra visual/audio polish really makes it shine. Minor gripe with the drawn out final battle, didn't have the inventiveness of some of the previous boss battles. I was fine with the story ending, it kinda fit with the tone, although I can see how it'll annoy some.

Only real annoying thing was I was less than 6000 red orbs off upgrading the final weapon.

Overall, a worthy 9 outta 10 slice of pure widescreen blockbuster gaming entertainment. :notworthy

[S_K_N]

I've just about platinumed it.......just need hitman and a few more hours on the titan campaign.

One thing I did notice when playing the labyrinth again is you'll use the scorpion ice thing on one of the blocks to rotate the labyrinth and on 3 separate occasions the game has thrown me into a position where I've just died - annoying because theres no special way to use the switch it just seems to be a bug. On the same labyrinth area I've been knocked onto scenery during battle and my character has literally been floating for 30 seconds before an enemy has appeared to knock me off the scenery or the game has just killed me itself.

Should be easy enough to patch that stuff up, one will be a minor scripting error presumably and the other collision detection.

[mr_woo]

Thinking about it a bit more I'd say this wasn't my favourite GoW, GOW2 probably is. The combat in GoW3 is better but I really wasn't keen on a few of the levels, especially the Labyrinth with the big cube, didn't really do anything for me For anyone wanting to trade in looks like HMV are doing £30 trade in until next week.

[PlexShaw]

They've announced the God of War Collection to be released over here now. £24.99. 30th April.
Do we know if God of War I will be the "censored" EU version?

[alphatyrant]

In reference to the sacrifice section?

[PlexShaw]

In reference to the sacrifice section?
Correct. Not an issue for me as I have the US version, but I just wonder if some of the reason for the delay was due to that sequence. I've no idea, of course, and I'm hoping someone will be able to answer.

[alphatyrant]

Haven't touched my US collection since I bought it actually, about time I went back through the original games. Though the thought of those spiky pillars in the underworld still give me nightmares.

Nice to see the ship captain still got a mention in this one :D

[Damage Inc]

I had my first experience of the spiky pillars on Saturday eve after a few beers, I have never been so infuriated with a game before. Took me at least an hour and a half to clear both of them and was so sick of the game after that I didn't even cheer, in fact after clearing the first I could have cried when I saw the next one. I was so ****** off I even trawled through google looking for an invincibility cheat.

Anyway, hope you enjoy the experience again as much as I did ;)

[MarcusUK]

There's a thread for the GOW Collection here:

http://www.thedvdforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=582516

[smst]

I've just realised that I missed a collectible from really early on (and I knew at the time that there was a suspicious-looking area to investigate! No idea why I didn't look) and am considering whether to go back and start again, for the Trophy.I missed Gaia's godly possession; since then I've defeated Hades and taken Helios' head off

I'm not sure if I want to fight through it all again, so can somebody tell me: does anything carry over to a new game after finishing it the first time? If I get the other 9 collectibles on this playthrough, can I pick up the missing 10th (first!) on a new game to get the Trophy? Or am I going to have to go all the way through it again?

EDIT: I've just read something which suggests that the Godly Possessions are saved globally, so if I was to go back to the start to get the one I missed (then save, presumably), and then load a later save, I'd see that new one in the list. I will try that later.

[S_K_N]

yeah that works, I missed the same one.

Thats one thing which annoyed me about the godly possessions, some of them were so small you had to stop and really scan scenes to look for the flashing light even on a big telly. Reminded me of Yakuza with the locker keys. :lol:

[smst]

Cool, thanks. I guess I was spoiled by Ratchet & Clank, which allows you to go back to find anything you've missed (despite being similarly linear).

I also missed a Gorgon's Eye (I could see there were two ways to go, tried one way but then couldn't get back) but, like in previous GoW games, there are loads of them and one only needs to find the first however-many, after which the chests which would have held them are filled with red orbs.

[AKPiggott]

Anyone got any idea how much I will get if I trade this into HMV or GAME over the weekend?

Decided to pre-order the trilogy boxset y'see.

[Mr M0by]

£30 trade-in at hmv until next Thursday.

[AKPiggott]

Cheers, I might do that and get Heavy Rain then. :thumbs:

[Matt KB]

Presumably you can trade it for store credit, or does it include cash too?

[alphatyrant]

Cash too, but at a decreased amount from the credit value obviously.

[Joober]

I played the demo briefly the other day and wasn't too impressed. I sat down again today and played it fully........and oh my god.....it's spectacular!!!!!! I'll be getting this :D

[fivebyfive]

still can't use to the naff double jump method, can do it sometimes, it just feels wrong

[Jimmyboy]

still can't use to the naff double jump method, can do it sometimes, it just feels wrong

You need to double tap X rather than tap it a 2nd time at the peak of the jump.

[stampax]

Ok - quick question - is this one of those run around and bash buttons constantly type games? I never really got on with Bayonetta (spelling?) as i just seemed to run around hitting the buttons and killing yet more monsters....

[Matt KB]

Not really, you could play it like that up to a point and certainly at first but you do need to use certain tactics/combos/weapons for certain enemies although I must say I didn't find quite as much a need for varied combat in this than I did the others.

[AKPiggott]

I got through it on normal by not learning any lengthy combos and just remembering to use quick and power attacks appropriately.

[S_K_N]

yeah I agree, I just used the R1 and L1 modifiers once I'd powered weapons past levels 1 and 2 and other than using the gauntlets for some of the shielded and armoured enemies I just messed around with the other weapons for the sake of it. I think completion of any combos is key though as the final strike seems to send enemies reeling backwards even if the combo is just a simple mash of the same button repeatedly.

The guys with the double bladed spears that like to vault around the place were a real pain first time I played it, I guess playing through the challenges gave me a few ideas of how to get rid of them a little easier.

[Jedibitch]

Started playing this the weekend and i think it's god awful, visuals are great but it's the biggest button basher I've ever played.

You just so bored so quickly and the difficulty level seems all over the place.

Having never played 1 or 2 i was hoping I'd love this as people go mad for it but it's not my cup of tea.

[fivebyfive]

mixed view over the game:

the patch has fixed the doubler jump, its much easier now. There is no doubt the graphics are amazing and the 1st big battle on Gaia looks stunning. You get into the game, its good mostly although there is a lack of new ideas. Have not played past GoW games but my friend has and other reviews and other gamer comments have said the same comments.

There is some bad or odd game design choices, the guitar hero music bit, instant fail QTE (pointless!) the "sex" scene (funny for the wrong reason) and the bit with the wall bits popping out and the harpies bit just after the Aphrodite scene)

Noticed on this forum if you don't love a game like some do "you hate it" :cuckoo: eg ff13, bioshock 2

far from it, I like the game to a degree but as I said above, you expect more the "trend" setter gamer

[Jedibitch]

Noticed on this forum if you don't love a game like some do "you hate it" :cuckoo:

It's called taste. ;)

[Matt KB]

Started playing this the weekend and i think it's god awful, visuals are great but it's the biggest button basher I've ever played.

You just so bored so quickly and the difficulty level seems all over the place.

Having never played 1 or 2 i was hoping I'd love this as people go mad for it but it's not my cup of tea.

It's a bit more button bashy than the first two imo but you need to play it a bit to understand some of the benefits of different combos/strategies. Certainly in the earlier games button bashing only really gets you through the first hour or so.

[nsb]

I thought it was brilliant, finished it in a couple of sittings and done all the Challenges. Fantastic boss set pieces and soundtrack, will probably go for the Titan run too.

Some of the scenes were awesome, Gaia shooting Kratos through Poseidon was :notworthy. I also felt pretty bad for Chronos during his beatdown :(

Only problem is, it's really put me off playing other recent releases as I know they wont be a patch on this. Production values on this are insane.

Preferred the story in part 2, but on the whole 3 > 2 > 1.

[S_K_N]

Yeah I've not been back to it since completing the challenges, I fealt like I'd playing nothing but GOW for 3-4 days so needed a break.

My feelings on the third as I said were that the previous two games captured my imagination a little more, Ares as an example is far and away one of the standout characters of the series, the sisters of fate as well.....by the time they got to the third game they'd pretty much exhausted the best of greek mythology.

I thought some of the bosses were cheap, the Scorpion and Zeus mainly.

I thought the Labyrinth could have done with being 2 hours longer, a 10 minute run through isn't much of a labyrinth imo plus they should have filled it with puzzles. The echochrome style perspective puzzle was so well done that I would have also liked that to be a bigger area.

In a perfect world though developers would make games just for me. :lol:

The soundtrack is possibly my favourite score since Shadow of the Collossus.

[double_cut]

mixed view over the game:

the patch has fixed the doubler jump, its much easier now. There is no doubt the graphics are amazing and the 1st big battle on Gaia looks stunning. You get into the game, its good mostly although there is a lack of new ideas. Have not played past GoW games but my friend has and other reviews and other gamer comments have said the same comments.
Does this mean that the "lack of new ideas" didn't actually effect your playthrough because you haven't played GoW and GoWII? Or compared to something else you've played? Not sure on your wording here...

There is some bad or odd game design choices, the guitar hero music bit, instant fail QTE (pointless!) the "sex" scene (funny for the wrong reason) and the bit with the wall bits popping out and the harpies bit just after the Aphrodite scene)
Agreed, some of the sections seem almost shoehorned in, the Guitar Hero bit especially, but then I quite liked the homage to Portal. I don't know if these different sections were kind of a nod to other major games since GoWII but at the very least they do break up the combat.

Noticed on this forum if you don't love a game like some do "you hate it" :cuckoo: eg ff13, bioshock 2

far from it, I like the game to a degree but as I said above, you expect more the "trend" setter gamer
I do tend to agree it is less impressive than it might have been (especially with how spoiled we've been this gen already by some titles), although I have played through GoW and GoWII and attribute it to that mainly, but what else could they have done while keeping it true to GoW principles? I mean it is already pretty spectacular in what it does.

Personally I am quite enjoying the game, although I'm burned out after an hour or so of playing and I do get frustrated with it at times. After a decent few prolonged fights I find myself begging for a save point so I can turn the thing off and since acquiring and fully upgrading the Cestus mitts I'm finding a good few slaps of the square button with the odd press of triangle is getting me through most of the fights adequately (playing on God mode).

There are times when it is just a button mashing fest, quite a lot of the time, although you do hit certain walls that you have to raise your game for and learn how to fight properly, but then you can slide back into mashing again until the next wall you meet. I don't think it does enough to force you to play well in general and the times it does seem like huge spikes in difficulty, at least to me.

However, when the combat works well, generally when there are fewer but tougher baddies, getting them airborne and then slamming them into the ground, grappling another enemy, dragging yourself in, dodging incoming attacks all the while. It can be amazing to behold and experience and it makes you work for it and is very rewarding, but much of the combat to me seems like a trawl through damage sponges and very stop start due to interrupts and the like.

The overall experience is certainly epic though and the scale is impressive to say the least. The production values put pretty much everything else to shame and visually it is up there with Killzone 2 and Uncharted 2 at the very cutting edge of this generation (on consoles at least although with this new MLAA technique used it could be argued it rivals some of the best visuals on the PC). Aurally it is nothing short of a masterpiece imo, the soundtrack is one of the best I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing.

Despite the gameplay being very mashy at times and how it doesn't consistently encourage you to go much beyond that, on God mode at least, the actual experience is pretty top drawer. Not long goes by between being impressed by something, be it a boss fight, the scenery, cutscenes, even some of the bigger standard enemies are great fun to fight and all these things do generally outweigh the gameplay gripes I do have which may not be so easily glossed over in a less well presented and structured game.

A solid 8/10 for me, with some moments being genuinely memorable and stand out high points of this generation. :thumbs:

[S_K_N]

Noticed Sony are giving away the trilogy OST....for anyone thats interested. :thumbs:

http://www.godofwar.com/ucmdev/groups/public/documents/webasset/g3_trilogy_soundtrack.zip

[anephric]

Zavvi have just sent me an email saying the cheapo-ish GOW Collection has been cancelled. If so, that's a bit of a bummer, considering the only other option for all three outside of importing is the stupidly expensive LE.

EDIT... and it's not been cancelled anywhere else. They must've decided not to sell it at that price.

[S_K_N]

aye that is a shame, Asda had the cheapest price on it if I recollect with Shopto not being far behind both between £48 and £50.

Think I preordered the old game pack for just over £16, I may cancel anyway as im not iin the mood at the moment for more hack and slash/plus own the ps2 originals and it seems like its always going to be easy to pick that up for £18.

[lentini]

I've just noticed that shopto have it's availability as 'Stopped' and 'This item is not currently available through preorder or live order' :suspect:

[anephric]

Hmm, must've been cancelled then. It's still there on Play. I imagine they haven't removed it yet.

EDIT #2 I didn't realise the first two were being released separately in Europe now. I'm happy enough picking them up alongside III then.

[SIMON ADEBISI]

:D Im loving this

Just after finishing off Posideon

That was brutal!!

[andyp2]

I've pre-ordered the first two and will rent the third.

Looks like Sony are only selling the three game pack through certain retailers - http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/sony-sorting-gow-trilogy-availability

Odd move.

[lentini]

Looks like Sony are only selling the three game pack through certain retailers - http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/sony-sorting-gow-trilogy-availability

Odd move.

How bizarre

[AKPiggott]

For God's sake. :mad:

I traded in my copy of GoW3 while HMV were offering £30 trade-in, so that I could pre-order the trilogy cheap.

[GAmbrose]

I started this on Hard, like every game I play but I am regretting it slightly.

A lot of the fights seem like a massive slog and have been taking many attempts to get through. At the moment I am only in Hades but just last night I played it for about an hour and had at least 3x different fights which took ages because I kept dying. One of those battles were the 2x lava Cerberus(es) guarding a door.

And prior to that 3x statues came to life and when you kill them you immediatly get attacked by some bloody Legionnaires.

Eventually I find a way through but it's frustrating rather than fun.

[smst]

Finished the normal mode this morning with all but two Trophies (Titan mode and the Challenge thing). I had tens of thousands of red orbs spare so I know I won't have to look so hard for them on the hard playthrough (especially as I won't bother upgrading most of the weapons).

The most obvious word for GoW3 is "spectacular", and it was a lot of fun. Puzzles were pretty decent, although perhaps underdeveloped (the perspective-shifting one was overrated IMO since the player doesn't get to move the perspective -- there's only ever one or two things one can do at a time; and as somebody else said, the Labyrinth seemed very short). Combat was always enjoyable but occasionally tough (a Cerberus near the end in particular), which is the only thing putting me off trying the Titan mode.

Personally I am quite enjoying the game, although I'm burned out after an hour or so of playing and I do get frustrated with it at times. After a decent few prolonged fights I find myself begging for a save point so I can turn the thing off
There are auto-saves in many places between the manual save points, although I don't know how you recognise them occurring. They're in fairly sensible places though I think.

[AKPiggott]

Sony are probably doing the trilogy with selective retailers to hit the trade-in trend. I know that GAME for instance don't accept Play.com or HMV exclusive editions because their barcode scanner won't pick up on them.

Which suppliers can we get the set from then? (I'm unable to read the link at work)

[double_cut]

Finished it over the weekend, overall stand by the 8/10 I originally gave it. Great experience overall, loved the...2D fight with Zeus...which was epic as hell in that first phase imo.

Decent story overall and left open enough to do something else in the same universe quite easily. Generally in terms of visuals this game is amazing, only some of the co-starring cast didn't get as much love as Kratos in the looks department, but apart from that it is certainly head and shoulders above the vast majority of what we've seen this gen and, as has been said before, deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Uncharted 2 and Killzone 2 as visual stand outs this generation.

In terms of audio and sound design I would say it is probably peerless at this point.

An epic experience and a great way to round off an amazing trilogy. Everyone that can should play this game and experience the scale of most of it, nothing else gives quite the same experience this generation. :thumbs:

[lentini]

Which suppliers can we get the set from then? (I'm unable to read the link at work)

We don't know yet

[SIMON ADEBISI]

Just finished it on normal. Brilliant stuff. Had 30000+ orbs at the end as well after upgrades. Next time around i wont be searching every inch of the game quite so extensively.

[AKPiggott]

Any update to the poxy supplier status of the trilgoy set? It's supposed to be out next week.

Shopto haven't contacted me to say my pre-order has been cancelled.

[lentini]

Well my God of War Trilogy has shipped from shopto so hurrah!

[andyp2]

I went for the collection (1 & 2) from play for £18 and it's shipped - cannot wait - too many games at the moment!

[welshmatt]

Saw a post elsewhere that GoW3 is going to be reduced to £25 instore at Gamestation (http://www.thedvdforums.com/affiliatelink.php?localaffiliateid=52), should be a cheaper way to complete the trilogy.

[AKPiggott]

Well my God of War Trilogy has shipped from shopto so hurrah!

Same here. Was expecting a cancellation.

[lentini]

Got my trilogy today from shopto and I was expecting some decent packaging. But no, it's just a ****** thin cardboard box holding the 2 game cases :mad:

Bunch of arse

[andyp2]

hmmm now that Amazon are doing it for £25 and I have some vouchers I think I may indeed complete the trilogy.

Currently working my way through the first one and it is awesome in HD - I honestly wouldn't mind if they brought back some other PS2 classics in the same fashion, at £8.50 a game I have no complaints at all!

[andyp2]

Just completed the first one, cracking game, although a few pad throwing moments with moving platforms and spinning towers with spikes on - annoying.

On to the next one!

[smst]

I got my Platinum Trophy for GoW3 this morning. :thumbs:

Titan mode was the last thing I had to do. With the experience gained on normal mode, this wasn't too hard (and was quicker since I had to explore less; having said that, I wasn't going to bother upgrading some of the weapons but I still ended up with loads more red orbs than I needed). There were three boss fights that gave me trouble:Hades, who I got past easily in normal mode. After many tries I looked up techniques on the Internet, where I saw a couple of videos of people beating him who seemed to be less effective (eg dodging instead of blocking/returning certain attacks). Steeled by shame I made it soon after.

The Cerberus breeder near the end, which was a nightmare on normal mode. The key here was to remember I didn't have to be stingy with my magic and Rage (and that triple-triangle with the Blades Of Exile is a very damaging move). Previously I'd been kicking exploding dogs and shooting arrows, but getting bored with the time it was taking and invariably making a mistake. This time I used the triple-triangle and some Army Of Sparta for the first two rounds, then activated Rage for most of the third.

Zeus' first phase was much easier this time too when I realised that after grabbing him in the air I could do two triangle hits with the Cestus and fling him up again, for another grab. Sometimes he blocked it, but other times I could get in 30 hits in a row.

I won't be going for Chaos mode; I think I'd find it more frustrating than fun. I see that some people have gone for a Chaos run with no upgrades. Crazy!

Overall this has been one of the quintessential gaming experiences of the year for me. The presentation of this game was slick, and the set-pieces jaw-dropping. I understand they consider the main series over; David Jaffe apparently originally envisaged Kratos moving on to the Norse gods, which could have been ace.

[RESSEH]

and the bit with the wall bits popping out and the harpies bit just after the Aphrodite scene)r

That bit was terrible. If i was a games reviewer I'd so knock off marks for **** poor sections like that that arent fun. it was so frustrating.

Only just finished GoW. Awesome game. Tempted to play the PSP games now :)

[Mr Flibble]

hi! all new to PS3, but I have completed the PSP god of war game - does GOW3 follow on from that?

[MarcusUK]

Not played the PSP one, but isn't that a prequel to the first GOW?

[Mr Flibble]

ah! so I might as well try and pick up the first two games then! Didn't know if it was a prequel or anything though

[MarcusUK]

Definitely worth picking up and playing GOW1 and 2. Especially the PS3 "HD" versions. Not only will it give more background to the story, they are both really good games :)

[LordoftheDance]

I'm absolutely bloody loving this at the moment, but at the same time, I'm becoming totally frustrated at a bit I've spent the last 1/2 hour trying to get past and can't.... it's where

you're chasing after Hermes, and the bridge starts collapsing and being swallowed up by flames... I'm trying to climb up it, but there are 2 people in the way, hanging on, and I can't get bloody past them!!!! I've tried every button I can think of to stab them, or slide around them, but the flames keep getting me... :( any ideas??

[alphatyrant]

If I remember you just slash them and they fall like most of the innocent bystanders.

[smst]

Try pushing up while you hit the light-attack button, to aim the attack at them. Do it quickly though: you don't have time for mistakes on that bit.

[LordoftheDance]

Yup, got past it now - thanks fellas!!!

[AKPiggott]

I'm absolutely bloody loving this at the moment...

That's good to hear. :thumbs: I seem to remember you hating it after playing the demo.

[LordoftheDance]

That's good to hear. :thumbs: I seem to remember you hating it after playing the demo.

I did - thought the demo was boring and deleted it after 10 minutes. Good memory! :)

So glad I gave it a go - it's in my top 5 PS3 games, definitely. I loved fighting The massive creature (Cronos?) in Tartarus. Best fight in any game ever. And it's fabulously gory. :D

[AKPiggott]

I only ever seem to have a good memory trivial things like people's tastes and comments on games and movies. I'm pretty rubbish when it comes to "important" stuff. :D