The long-awaited third installment to the God of War trilogy is due out March 16 in the U.S. (March 19 for the E.U. and March 25 for Japan). I have been very excited about this game ever since I completed God of War II. I preordered my copy back in November and will be purchasing a used PS3 solely for this game.
What are your thoughts, predictions, expectations? I’m a little disappointed that the game will have only 720p resolution, which is hi-def, yes, but a little behind-the-times. The E3 trailer looks amazing, and I’ve been preventing myself from looking at other trailers to avoid any spoilers.
The entire God of War series is pretty hard to improve upon. I do hope they come up with viable main weapon alternatives to the Blades of Athena. So far, other weapons simply haven’t been as useful or fun. GoW3 will contain cesti as a new weapon, but I personally have never really had fun with hand-to-hand weaponry in any game (except maybe for Assassin’s Creed 2).
As long as they retain the a.) larger-than-life, epic environment and music and b.) ultraviolent boss kills, I will be a happy customer.
Very much looking forward to it as GoW has been a great series so far. This and needing a blue-ray player may push me into finally purchasing a PS3, too.
It will be a great game, and will probably sell a bunch of PS3s by itself. However, I wasn’t a fan of the the second game that much. The first game, even though it really could have used more boss battles, had a great narrative. The second game had tons of great and memorable boss fights, but [spoiler]the whole time travel thing was absurd.
I really respected the first game because it played out like a Greek tragedy, with the various twists and turns, the descent into madness, betrayal, etc. etc. The way the second game uses the time travel trope… it was like something out of a Star Trek episode. I’m not a scholar on Classical Antiquity or anything, but I’m pretty sure the Ancient Greeks didn’t have a concept of time travel like that; the past was the past. Not even the gods could alter it.[/spoiler]
Oh, and in the first game the gods were ethereal, other-worldly in the ways you interacted with them (the intro of GoW 1 for example, when Kratos is visited by Athena on his ship, the scene was totally inspired by Ray Harryhausen). In the second game, they seemed like they were the Super Friends or something. Just hanging out at the Hall of Justice. I know that the first and second game had different directors, and man, really you could tell.