So God of War 3 came out a few days ago, and my brother in law managed to pick up a copy… naturally, while he was at work I absconded with it. I need to wholeheartedly agree with a comment one reviewer made early on – to paraphrase, if you bought a PS3 specifically for GoW3, you got your money’s worth.
The game is epic in the purest sense of the word – it might be the most beautiful video game I’ve ever played, giving FF13 a run for it’s money at first, then edging it out once you disqualify what is essentially an interactive movie for the most part (I know, I know, flamebait, whatever). No, this is a game that really starts to show what the PS3 is made of.
The first “level” – climbing up Mt Olympus and doing battle with leviathans and shit is absolutely sublime. The Titans are equally impressive, especially on a large TV – and the sound effects with Dolby Digital and a good sub are flawless… the word one keeps arriving back at is “Epic”.
I’m nowhere near finished the game – I’m hardly a veteran of the franchise having (shamefully) never played the first two, and because I’ve been burning through games at an alarming rate I’m only playing it on “Titan” difficulty (which should earn me an extra two gold trophies at the end of the experience) so it’s a bit of a slog to get through it.
The demo was grand, but the game proper is sublime. Everything about the gods is larger than life, and it’s all rendered beautifully – watching Kratos open a pair of 50′ doors as easy as I’d open my exterior shutters… hearing the huge creaks echoing all around me in 5.1… being accosted by a giant minotaur before drawing it at the end of the battle… using a mile-high titan as a battlefield…
… surely this is what games are supposed to be made of. I can’t wait till I’ve finished it.