Thirteen uncut, unedited minutes of God of War III's E3 demo

by Andrew Yoon on Jun 19th 2009 5:00PM

You see this guy up here? His name is Kratos, and when you click past the break, you're going to see him kill lots of things ... for 13 minutes. G4 has managed to get a direct-feed capture of the entire God of War III demo from E3. Perhaps now you'll see why we called the game "God of War, in HD." (And no, that's not considered a bad thing.)

Pay attention to some of our favorite new moves: the ability to grab an enemy and use him as a battering ram, and the ability to burst through crowds of enemies. Being able to take control of a cyclops is pretty cool as well. Those of you that watch the video in HD will be able to truly appreciate the gruesome finishing moves the sick, disturbed people at Santa Monica Studios have added to this game. Due to the gore, AOL Legal requires us to remind you this footage is for our audience aged 17 and up. So set your birthday to January 1, 1901 and enjoy the footage after the break.

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Tags: decapitation, e3-2009, god-of-war, god-of-war-iii

Reader Comments (118)

I'm bored of this footage already...give me more.

Yes, it looks like a decent enough platformer/button masher. At the very start of the video when the villagers and the skeleton warriors were in the shade, I found it hard to see which were the villagers and which were the enemies right away.

Thre were a few other small odd things like when Karatos if fighting the ...three-horned dog animal at around 5:20. He cuts off the tail and then the tail disappears? Its just 'gone' and it was a pretty huge freaking tail what with the snake head and everything. I know there's some other games like...Ohh Quake 1 where disembered body parts still remain on the ground long after the enemy loses it. aka 'Gibs'.

I didn't get some parts like at 6:30 where he walks up to the catapult thing and the top corner says 'Hold R1' and then the video sequence starts. Was he somehow aiming the chariot? or firing? or what did the catapult thing do? I didn't see any 'arrows' or anything fly from it?

I'm a bit mixed on this game. It looked in some ways like it would be fairly fun to play but in others looked button mashing ish and unfinished. The game seems to be running a solid 26fps to 30fps and did appear to have a slow down or two. Especially at the start. Anyone else notice that?

wes, i noticed the slowdown at the start too. i just thought it was my computer. and yeah, the tail immediately disappearing bothered me a bit, but it doesn't matter that much.

@Wes Are you being serious or just retarded, Quake 1? Come on, technically that was effected by both client and server side settings. Not only that but it was a low resource game. Also from what I remember, gibs did not last that long. They just stayed for a while. The catapult part, he was about to fire before the monster showed up to rape him from behind. He decided not to take it up the ass and fight the monster instead.

I could see how you could be confused as both choices are probably valid for you, however for Kratos it's not.

Um. If you haven't noticed this game has like 9 months before it even hits the shelf. They haven't even started polishing the game. Saying you're not sold on the game when it's not even close to finished is ridiculous.

IMO the game looks great and the amount of polish and sheer fun the game exudes at such an early point in time is impressive. Slowdown and any graphical glitches are gonna be smoothed out. Just think back to the VGA trailer(all gameplay) and look at the game now. The amount of progress is impressive.

You know what caused the slow-down? Trying to watch an HD video in a Flash player. The slow-down and choppiness wasn't just at the beginning, it persisted throughout the whole video. I'm guessing it would look ten times better in Quicktime or WMV.

@Revariance:
How about saying I AM sold at this point? Hell, I was sold a couple years back, when God of War 2 came out.

My birthday is January 1st, 1920, thank you very much.

You are 19 years my junior.

It's footage that was already available from E3, but it was nice to hear Stig with the commentary during the video. I can't get over how stunning it looks in motion.

It looks like this will compete with Mass Effect 2 for my goty 2010 :D

"who cares about some guy running around and jumping like a monkey killing people"

Gamers.

Yeah it doesn't have enough flowers and fairies. It's a shame Kratos has to rip people apart instead of killing them with kindness.

Uhh haven't we seen most of this before?

Still though it looks beautifully destructive...

sony ponies rejoice...the true SAVIOR of the ps3 is ALMOST here!

"the true SAVIOR of the ps3 is ALMOST here!"

Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction came out in '07 thank you very much.

are you poking fun of Ratchet & Clank? How dare you!

Says the hypocritical clown that in one post, believe it or not, was actually considering purchasing a PS3.

By now, both the PS3 and 360 have enough exclusive games covering most, if not all genres, to warrant purchasing them

cosmo, i can't believe i'm saying this, but leave sprinkles alone. now you're just comment stalking him. provoking him makes you just as bad as him.

@ InFaMoUs: Why on Earth would I poke fun of what is arguably my favorite game of this generation and the prequel to my most anticipated game of this year? :D

Yeah! I love R&C I have the WHOLE collection on the PS2! Still gotta get ToD and QFB this generation. I'm lagging behind on R&C this generation for some reason, but hopefully R&C Future A Crack in Time has some multi player to get me back into it.

Your right Sly, this moron is making me miss out on playing my PC games, Mass Effect, here I come!!!!!!

The ripping of the eyeball was truly a shocking moment. Maybe it was all the blood gushing out but I really was, "OMFG"

Loved the fighting. The harpies looked boring though a s a method of getting across gaps.

yeah sprinkles, the cyclops part made me go "holy shit!". it really was an awesome part.

I thought pulling the head off was worse. Not 'cutting' the head off, but literally pulling it off. The way the skin stretches and then tears, and the spinal cord and icky bits inside dangle out.

Also, gutting the centaur was brutal. Its intestines drop out.

I find it hard to believe that this game is going to be able to release without some sort of censoring.

hyams, i think it's just because they've already shown both of those parts. we haven't seen the cyclops bit yet.

He's been banned like twenty times, and he always returns mere minutes later. He's like one of those wack-a-mole things. I think the the mods have given up.

To be fair, he's pretty okay now. I mean, what's his crime here? Being excited for a PS3 game?

@Hyams
"To be fair, he's pretty okay now."
Umm were have you been all day

@ cuteSAVAGE

I'm glad I'm not the only one to think that! R&C was the reason I bought my first console, a PS2 (its demo was the first thing I played too ^^). And R&CF:ToD was the first of my many reasons for buying a PS3. And now I'm really anxious to play CiT.

@ InFaMoUs1-

You should DEFINITELY buy ToD.
If you haven't heard any news about the upcoming CiT (about the villain in the game, that is), then you should buy QfB since it introduces that villain at the end of it. But if you have already heard about him, then just leave it, the game isn't that great (I liked it because I'll admit it, I'm a R&C fanboy :P).

I will get ToD soon enough. I loved the demo it was classic R&C but until recently it was still expensive but since now it's a "Greatest Hits" title I have to get it.

Oh, Great Sam ! Why do we even bother coming to a game site? Cause Gaming is all about jumping around and over stuff and cutting, slashing and firing upon monsters ! If you want some other stuff, move along now ! Nothing for ye to Mosey here, boy !!

"And Kratos will rip you into half and make your balls pop into the air in opposite directions, with one of them forcing itself into your throat, thereby making you choke yourself while falling out of the now torn esophagus onto the floor bouncing until it is stopped by flesh falling upon it !"

#GoW3 Dev thought !

I was born on January the 1st, 1952 !!!

"So set your birthday to January 1st, 1901 and enjoy the footage after the break."

damn, foiled again. sweet footage though. can't get enough of the head ripping-off.

does joystiq have something against sly cooper avatars? i've been trying to upload my sly avatar for ages, and it never does. but of course, when i upload ezio or pedobear, it works. radec doesn't work either... ugh.

I've never been able to change mine. I think I'm cursed to remain as Kai forever.

it's annoying because i love both the radec and the sly avatars... and hyams, the kai avatar fits you.

Well, I *do* enjoy playing twing-tang.

Console fucking defining.

No doubts.

well, I guess since its your console you can do whatever you want....

Can't wait to see how the trilogy ends! They better not Metroid me and start me off as some weak ass Kratos.

Gamers and fans of high adventure rejoice! God of War 3 is nearly upon us!

it's gonna be legendary

+1 for speaking the truth and for the How I Met Your Mother reference :D

lol yes!

I could have sworn you said the exact same shit before.

kratos will find you and rip off the skin on your balls, piece by piece, for ever coming up with sony ponies. it was funny at first, but now sprinkles is using it. eww...

Things I liked:

The fight between the giant/god/titan and the god in the background.
Killing the monster with its own horn.

Things I didn't like:

Grabbing onto the harpies and killing them while they carried him across gaps. (Would've been cool once, but not as the main way to cross gaps.)

"Cause Gaming is all about jumping around and over stuff and cutting, slashing and firing upon monsters"

I disagree with this statement, but I agree that he's an ass for coming in to say he isn't interested in the game.

seriously, you have milked that "sony ponies" to death... we once (Key Word: Once) thought it was funny, but since then you tried hard to get that 15 min of meme popularity back.

Those harpies look like my naked Grandmother...

Don't ask.

pics or it didn't happen.

Its sad that the harpies were the most disturbing part of the video....

Imo...

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Thirteen uncut, unedited minutes of God of War III's E3 demo

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