Behold the wonder: God of War mobile isn't bad

19 Comments by Alexander Sliwinski Jun 27th 2007 7:58PM
Filed under: Action, Mobile

When our own reporter came back from the Sony gamer's day and said God of War: Betrayal for the cell phone was good, we feared the poor man had cracked. But now comes word from IGN, which gave the game a 90 that it is, in fact, a good solid game. We may never look at our mobile the same way again.

God of War: Betrayal takes place after Ares' defeat but before the events of God of War II. IGN says the game is a 16-bit "glory days" 2D side-scroller and is a God of War title "through and through." Guess for those who can't wait for God of War: Chains of Olympus on PSP and have a compatible phone, maybe it could be worth checking out this mobile game. We hope this doesn't make us reexamine mobile gaming entirely -- let's call this a one hit wonder for now.

Tags: betrayal, GodOfWar, GodofWarBetrayal, mobile

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Ken: Jun 27th 2007; 8:01PM

It's still a cellphone game.

And it's still God of War.

Ken: Jun 27th 2007; 8:02PM

Oh, I should've said:

GOD OF WAR?! moar liek YAWN of war!!! olol so funni!!

Kamalot: Jun 27th 2007; 8:59PM

This game is proof that you don't need good graphics to make a good game. The PSP version is going to use extra horsepower (333 MHZ) to improve the graphics, but for what? Shorter battery life?

The developers should have worked in the confines of the original PSP speed and focused on making the game great instead of blindly chasing the graphics grail.

ComradeTrotskii: Jun 27th 2007; 9:17PM

Is that screenshot from the Wii version?

Taylor Falk: Jun 27th 2007; 9:36PM

@4 HILARIOUS!!! man too funny

even if the wii's graphics are btter than the ps2! Man cant get enough!

Xena: Jun 27th 2007; 9:40PM

Oh please, now all of sudden cell phone games are cool. Just because God Of War is on it now.

Hello, haven't you heard of Japan and China. They have cell phone games also. Even more better than this and they've had it for a longer time.

Rare Hare: Jun 27th 2007; 10:25PM

This doesn't actually surprise me. I've always thought that the core gameplay of God of War fits perfectly with games from that era. Playing God of War actually makes me nostalgic for those kinds of games.

I may consider buying this. And I don't even buy cell phone games.

sirpilf: Jun 27th 2007; 10:34PM

i wish the PSP version was a side scroller, because i fear when i play the PSP game, with only one crappy analog nub all im gonna want is to play the better console versions. devs need to learn to make games for PSP that are tailored for handhelds, not consoles.

Hafk: Jun 27th 2007; 11:35PM

@ #6

Exactly. I don't see great cell phone games like Gradius NEO getting featured.

Lijik: Jun 28th 2007; 12:26AM

@6- They didn't say that. They just said this one cellphone game happened to be really cool. Actually, what they said was really that other people thought the game was really cool. Hell, they even mentioned "We hope this doesn't make us reexamine mobile gaming entirely" which means mobile gaming as a whole to Joystiq is uncool.

mike: Jun 28th 2007; 1:51AM

cell phone gaming is just a bunch of bull shit. Even a game which is suppose to be mroe fun then them all, that cell phone version of zelda the guy made, still sucks balls whena ctually played on a cell phone. I feel I wasted money by even having the feature to play games on my cell phone. I would quite litteraly rather stare at a wall and do nothing while I wait then play a cell phone game. There just so lame.

Jonathan Tran: Jun 28th 2007; 2:23AM

@11

Try Tornado Mania.. It is addictive as hell. Kind of like Katamari meets Sim city

Martimus: Jun 28th 2007; 2:26AM

Time to downgrade those graphics a bit and port it over to DS and WII !!

Ragtime Pianist: Jun 28th 2007; 5:23AM

Yes, but can I play it on my N-Gage?

KilgoreTrout XL: Jun 28th 2007; 9:42AM

This wouldn't be the first cool cellphne game- Doom RPG was fun.

shiznno: Jun 28th 2007; 12:31PM

Will this be added on the PSP version? I'd hate to miss out on a God of War game just because I don't want to get a new phone for one game :(

ComradeTrotskii: Jun 28th 2007; 1:02PM

"even if the wii's graphics are btter than the ps2!"

Is part of that sentence missing? Are you asking a question? Or were you just so enraged that someone who owns a Wii, PS3 and 360 made a flippant comment about your precious console that you just had to spew forth the first nonsense that entered your head.

James: Jun 29th 2007; 12:13AM

Can anybody tell me why "action"-type cell games make up 90+% of the market? Every cell I've ever used has terrible controls when it comes to responsiveness, which means they have to dumb down the action to make it possible to win. Lame, lame, lame. The cell is obviously well suited for puzzle and RPG/strategy games, but nobody seems to make any (Popcap excepted, though they have their share of twitch titles).

Where are the good cell games that aren't response-time sensitive?

MiddyMadness: Jul 7th 2007; 2:57PM

BULLSHIT!
THAT GAME SUCKS
I PAID FOR A GAME THAT CAN BE BEATEN IN A HALF HOUR!

Seriously, 90/100? Are you retarded? More like 40/100.

This game is repetitive as fuck. The plot is tedious, the dialogue is boring, the sound is sub-par, there are only like 8 different enemies you come across. The battling is the same thing over and over and over and over again.

The game is not worht the money, the time, nor is it worth the effort.

Definately not worthy of 9/10.

The fuck are they smoking?

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