First of all, I would like to thank IGN.COM for the image. Thanks, dudes.My initial reaction to this game is that I am willing to suspend my disbelief and accept that there is a man covered in his dead families ashes that battles centaurs and rides unicorns. But it is hard to extend that disbelief to the next chapter in this saga. I say this because if I were a cyclops, and saw Kratos coming toward me I would have to change my loin cloth. This is because 1. I know I am not going to take out Kratos and 2. There is no shame in running away from Kratos, a man/god who makes Snake Pliskin looks like a Care Bear. So if you are a monster, just get out of Kratos' way. Anything less results in your painful demise. So with no monsters for Kratos to fight, the game would be pretty lame.
Luckily, the programmers can make the monsters stupid, thus making this game possible. First of all, the original game rocked all a$$, combining both platform gaming and puzzle solving into the goriest thing to be put in a box since SE7EN. And I want more, dammit! Next, I suppose Kratos, after killing the Hydra, Medusa, 1000 Mega-Taurs and finally wiping his ashy backside with Ares has become kind of like the guy with the quickest draw in the old west. It is 99.9% certain he is gonna put you in a crate, but if you DO happen to beat him, you'll look TFAC and will probably get some sweet ass because of it. And isn't that a good reason to face certain doom?
Anyway, if this game is just a rehash of the original, I'll be happy. Hell, if they just put the same levels in the game in a different order it will probably still be one of the best PS2 games ever released. I only hope this game is not released close to MK:Armageddon, because I am on a limited budget.
I don't have Atari.
ReplyDeleteAnd you never will, with that attitude.
ReplyDeleteKratos takes no pity, especially on those without a PS2. That system has had a tremendous lifespan for a modern console, and is home to many excellent games. Very much worth the investment.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, this assessment is no doubt right on, and even if the game is being rushed to hit stores for the 2006 holidays it will still probably be awesome... if for no other reason than that Kratos is a well-nigh unstoppable monster, and hence, fun to play as. The first installment was challenging enough without being too hard or too easy - really, if you were defeated in God of War, it was because you weren't killing hard enough, fast enough, or both. In the right hands (i.e. Ian's, or mine), Kratos becomes the digital equivalent of a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.
It's MURDERIFIC!
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