Just got off a bender of playing God of War games. Recently bought the God of War collection (GoW1 & 2) for the PS3. I really did miss out on these great games when they came out. Wonderful stuff. I thought it would be pure hack and slash, but to my surprise, they're all sorts of these little puzzles. Some easy others SUPER difficult to figure out. Seriously pulling my hair out for some of them, when it was just the smallest little thing needed to solve them. The boss battles in these are pretty fun, too. Probably the real hall mark of the series, to be honest.
Then I got GoW3, being sold on it's predecessors being solid titles. Wow, glad I got this one. Gorgeous graphics, period. And the boss battles are the best I've seen in a game yet. The Poseidon battle(my favorite god of mythology, kinda' sucked to see him the first to go so quickly...) was immense. The Titan battle was pretty good(think it's with Chronos again). The puzzles in this game, though, were much easier to figure out. Not very many brain teasers. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing for most long time players.
The only thing I wasn't too fond of, was the story itself....I know it's a silly game-story, to provide an excuse for Kratos to hack and slash the gods of Olympus. But it was a bit too corny for my tastes, for what it was. I think out of all the games, the weakest story was in the latest GoW game. Just a bit of a jumbled mess. Don't want to spoil it for any one who hasn't bought or beaten it yet, but it's just feels a bit...slapped together? I guess I'm a guy who needs a solid story before details get into the mixing bag.
However, this is one of the few exceptions, where the graphics and battles are enough to push silly story line issues aside, and make a great game...awesome stuff here.
*still waiting for Super Street Fighter IV to come out, so I can get frustrated with getting my arse whooped online*
As a side note, I've been getting into reading comics as of late. I usually get about 3 volumes/comics a month. Been getting so addicted, now I'm getting 6(especially Marvel comics...that's right, I'm getting it for the story line!....The B.o.b.=hypocrite) Gotta' calm this down, probably need to save up for something later on that'll be important...oh, and some of you guys that mentioned it a couple of months to a year back were right: Scott Pilgrim books are definitely awesome...still not sure about the movie though...
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