God of War - IGN and GameSpot Reviews

Kolgar said:
Mr. Jaffe says God of War is the game he always wanted to make. It's uncompromisingly adult, and includes not just nudity but, from what I gather, slightly interactive sex scenes.

:oops: , Now I want it right now. ;)
 
Dr Evil said:
Bohdy said:
Ign is not worth listening to on any matter these days.

I agree that they give super high scores little too easily, but I would like you to give some examples to back up your outburst. What examples make IGN not worth listening.

I'm too lazy to give specific examples, but I have been very disappointed with the careless and consistently falling standards in review writing, and especially journalism that I have observed in IGN over the last few years. I just don't bother anymore.
 
Is this game any good ? The video over at gametrailers look pretty boring. Any interesting combat or gameplay video ?
 
V3 said:
Is this game any good ? The video over at gametrailers look pretty boring. Any interesting combat or gameplay video ?

Download Gamespot's videoreview, if you still think it's boring, I quess there is nothing for you there.
 
It's really cool that Sony is pushing the envelope with the adult themes. Maybe some barriers will be broken to help with the next Grand Theft Auto game have even more mature content.
 
Brimstone said:
It's really cool that Sony is pushing the envelope with the adult themes. Maybe some barriers will be broken to help with the next Grand Theft Auto game have even more mature content.

What else do you want?? ;)
 
From reading the reviews, the "adult" content is a bit thin imo.
Just some standard blood&violence, bare breasts and an "interactive sexual intercourse minigame" which really is just bouncing moaning furniture.
Why be shameful, they already show some nipple, why can't they show two naked bodies. They would not need to show genitals, just do the scene from a "tasteful" angle maybe showing some butt back and leg...
It would have been nice to be able to control that scene with the analog stick, doing the back-forth-round and round motions analogically controlling the speed and "depth" :)
They can add the bouncing furniture and dropping jar to that if they want to, but those itself do not make me think "sex" or "adult".

Anyway, it's just a minor part of the game and by no means makes it a worse game. But that sex scene just had so much potential to make this game the first truly adult game. Now that content is just that same all other games that like to call themselves "adult" offer.
 
Heh. Too funny.

I think at the moment we're all a bit taken by the shock value that there is indeed interactive sex scenes in here, however tame.

In the context of the game, I'm sure everything will be put back in perspective and the scenes will simply help round out the personality of the game and that of our protagonist. A little texture, if you will.

We'll still have to wait a while before someone uses the DualShock analog joysticks for "rotation" and "depth," hehehe.
 
Reviews so far are all very positive, and what I've played of the game (basically just the demo) certainly has me sided with them.

9.8 IGN
10/10 GI
9.5 Play Magazine
9.3 Gamespot
10/10 1up

It's good to see Sony formed another dev team of such quality. I just hope this game sells like crazy now so that they can continue being funded the way they've been for this game. I do have some doubts about the sales potential of this game, though. For whatever reason it was kept very low profile, and underhyped, untill very recently - even though it was unveiled as early as last E3, and everyone who played any portion of it since then has been singing praises. Not to mention it's being released close to a juggernaut like GT4, and just two days before PSP which is garnering massive attention in comparision.
 
Yeah please people buy this game. Can you picture games of this quality coming out for the PS3 at launch do to the success of God of War.
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Dr Evil said:
V3 said:
Is this game any good ? The video over at gametrailers look pretty boring. Any interesting combat or gameplay video ?

Download Gamespot's videoreview, if you still think it's boring, I quess there is nothing for you there.

:( That looks boring to me. Damn, next generation can't come soon enough.
 
Deepak said:
Brimstone said:
It's really cool that Sony is pushing the envelope with the adult themes. Maybe some barriers will be broken to help with the next Grand Theft Auto game have even more mature content.
What else do you want?? ;)
Well, you can't officially be a pimp yet... ;)
 
Kolgar said:
:oops:

V3, did you see any of the vids on this page?

http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=498

Check out the second one down, the battle with the hydra.

These vids have me SO psyched to play this game. I've never seen anything like it, and never imagined we'd get anything quite this intense on this round of consoles. :eek:

I did :( I watched them all, I am really trying hard to get psyched for this game, just can't find it. :(
 
rabidrabbit said:
From reading the reviews, the "adult" content is a bit thin imo.
Just some standard blood&violence, bare breasts and an "interactive sexual intercourse minigame" which really is just bouncing moaning furniture.
Why be shameful, they already show some nipple, why can't they show two naked bodies. They would not need to show genitals, just do the scene from a "tasteful" angle maybe showing some butt back and leg...
It would have been nice to be able to control that scene with the analog stick, doing the back-forth-round and round motions analogically controlling the speed and "depth" :)
They can add the bouncing furniture and dropping jar to that if they want to, but those itself do not make me think "sex" or "adult".

Anyway, it's just a minor part of the game and by no means makes it a worse game. But that sex scene just had so much potential to make this game the first truly adult game. Now that content is just that same all other games that like to call themselves "adult" offer.

That is the weird thing about censorship these days. You can have T rated games that allow you to cut people into little peices. But when it comes to sex, god forbid.
 
I've had the game for some time and I'm stoked for it. Since picking up RE4, I've never been so excited about games. Next week I'm going dutch:

Cold Fear(cause it is like RE4)
Tekken5(Dead or Alive SUCKS in comparison)
Devil May Cry 3(difficulty, bring it on I say, I thrive on hardness)
Splinter Cell 3(never played the others cause x-box was sooo much
better looking, i felt the Devs were not trying............until now, WIll support their effords bybuying the game. And look forward to a refined Geo-texturing method for SC4)
GT4(not much for racing but it looks good, this is my pure eye-candy game)
GOD of WAR(have the demo, polished, and the final product supposed to look better :oops: . Sweet game, even though I still have not figured out how to put down the hydra, i tried so many methods.................HELP)
 
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