We know that most of you haven't read an instruction manual since the days of Gyromite -- not that we can judge you. Aside from the occasional steamy Sonic the Hedgehog fanfiction, we try to avoid video game literature as well. Lucky for us, IGN recently cracked the narrow spine of the God of War: Chains of Olympus instruction manual and discovered this treat on the back cover -- an advertisement for a new God of War game for the PS3, presumably the third chapter in the series.While the series' tremendous sales success and God of War II's cliffhanger ending didn't leave much room for doubt that the threequel was on it's way, we didn't think we'd be hearing from our good pal Kratos so "soon" after the release of Chains. Ah, well; no rest for the familicidal, as they say.













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I'm a 360 fanboy and I still can't help but praise the GoW series. If I could choose one PS3-exclusive series to come to the 360, screw MGS, I'd honestly take this.
Well, I wouldn't mind MGS either, but that's besides the point.
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Wow. Are gamers really willing to accept the filth of the gutter as engaging plot? What happened to culture and prestiege. Not just for our environment, but our minds. Is this what has become of gamers? Is this the zenith? Wow.
Wow.
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KrazyKen: yeah sure, whatever you say. Go think elsewhere.
On the surface, God Of War is a violent game with *gasp* nudity. Do yourself a favor and look at Greek art sometime. If breasts and sex make you that uncomfortable, please continue your decrying of it and for god's sake, never breed.
But when you get beyond the base violence and the sheer "screwed up" nature of Greek Mythology, it's actually quite an engaging story. You have a man who promised himself to Ares just to avoid death and win a battle. He became a tool for Ares (who, according to the mythos... was a sick, sick bastard) and spread death all over ancient greece. Ares forced him to slaughter his family and his sanity snapped. Faced with the harsh reality of his actions, he wanted to take his own life. But the gods, being the sick, twisted bastards they were back then, becided to use his rage and offer up false hopes to end the threat of Ares. He was betrayed in the end because his sins, and his memories of them, remained with him still as he brooded upon his throne. He decides to resume Ares's previous path before the gods once again betray him and he's forced to try and prevent the tragedy of his life ever from occuring.
Fit within the mythology of Ancient Greece, it's actually quite appropriate and despite your protest, does not seem base or pointless at all. The gods of Ancient Greece were evil, petty creatures. After all, Aphrodite, the goddess of love, once was jealous of Psyche, the most beautiful mortal ever because she was stealing attention away from Aphrodite. And so Aphrodite, being the loving bitch that she was, sent her son Eros (known as Cupid nowadays) to force Psyche into falling in love with the ugliest creature on earth.
I have no problem with sex, in fact I quite like it. Breasts on their own aren't sexual, it's just flesh. That's why I say God of War is basic teenage nudity. There is no sexual desire, no lead up, just tits shoved on the screen. I'm not uncomforatble with it, just don't force it. And especially don't force it because you seek controversy. Which is what I think Jaffe was looking for. That and a reputation as a rulebreaker. When in reality, is a little disappointing.
Tits for tits sake is redundant. Just because you can does't make it any better or worse.
You realize that aspect was paying homage to the high fantasy, barbarian films of the past and even a lot of the pulp fantasy fiction, right? Fuck em and forget em is soo engrained in those styles of stories that it's a bit silly when it isn't even acknowledged. Now, I know the scene are are talking about however... here's the thing. You're attacking an entire series for a scene that lasts about 2 minutes at the most.
Now, if this theme truly was tits for tits sake, I would have a problem with it. However, in most scenes where the breasts are exposed, they rarely are framed in the center. Even with the oracle and sex scene, it centers around their faces or their full bodies. You claim you have no problem with Nudity but your statements here seem fairly prudish. A quick sex scene in a Greece saga makers you THAT uncomfortable?
Now I argue that this decision wasn't tits for tits sake because of one main thing, this partial or full nudity theme was repeated for both male and female gendered characters AND CREATURES. Yes, if you take a good look, the giants in 1&2 both feature male genetalia. Many of the female branded creatures like Medusas and such had no tops either. And as proven by the big Medusa and Clothos, the breasts there were not designed as a flattering scenario. The game, as a whole, pays a HUGE homage to greek art and you'd see that reflected in the character designs and environment.
If you want to see blatant tit games, look at DOA, Guy game, and BMX XXX. the nudity in GOW series may not always be the most respectful, but it certainly did NOT break Mise En Scene as it were. And frankly, we NEED developers to try and push that issue rather than last minute changing the character design like on Giants: Citizen Kabuto (the female lead gained a top last minute rather than sticking with the tarditional Sirens source material they intended). And frankly, I find it ridiculous that a quick flash of a females topside is controversial when any other media does much worse.
Harvest Moon or Tetris, they have no violence, perfect for you.
Just because he switched to attacking Sony doesn't mean he deserves any more attention.
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It IS coming sometime, right SCEI? Right??!!
What'd be your games of choice just out of curiosity?
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Not in that order.
And violence and sex being some of your points for disliking GoW?
And Halo made the list? But GoW's plot is...
Okie doke. I figured your list would be something like that.
You win. LMAO.
Your fired.
Ken,
you can't fire me, I quit.
Guess I've been punk'd.
Ahhh, woe is me.
Try again, Ken.
And you didn't like Super Mario Word? Your opinion on games is now officially worthless.
What in tarnation do you mean by this statement? What is Godly? Why does it matter?
You better watch yourself with this preaching of your Infidel God.
The Lords of Kobal, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the Gay Brady, the Celestial Teapot and the Pink Unicorn will come to your house and do all kinds of mean, bad, and hurtful things to you and your "soul" for all eternity.
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Those words are blastfemous. Yew better watch out cuz the allmighty is gunna git yew real bad.
I went back and read some of your posts. Golf klap 2 u sir. Well done indeed. This blog needs more joking around and sarcasm...to many serious whiny babbies.
Oh and Deaftly....kiss mah ass homeboy.
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Got it now ladies? Please no more complaining about the reply system on Joystiq...and try opening your eyes and SOLVING the problem instead of complaining over and over. No one told me how to "fix" the reply system...I just noticed the blue font missing and you know the rest.
Praise be to me for thinking outside the box.
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Still, sometimes those out-of-place comments are hilarious!
Maybe it's the browser. I use Safari on OSX and I have never had a reply go AWOL, except for a few times where I committed an error and replied to the wrong person by starting a reply then clicking on another 'reply' button.
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