Lt. Boxy Angelman
I WILL EAT THIS GAME
7 out of 10 
. And that's being VERY generous.
I feel like the Condiment Twins and Enenra after Colonial Marines turned out to be a bomb.
Spoilers ahead. Be warned.
This game is God Of War 1: Redux. In some GREAT ways, and some shitty ways.
The music:
The atmospheres and landscapes LOOK amazing:
The Multiplayer:
Haven't touched it. Don't plan to. Next.
This where Box starts to get irate...
The Fighting:
The Story:
It gets a 7 because it's still a VERY good game when held against the merits of all other games.
As a God Of War game, it's the least exciting of the 6.
Sad, but true.
. And that's being VERY generous.I feel like the Condiment Twins and Enenra after Colonial Marines turned out to be a bomb.
Spoilers ahead. Be warned.
This game is God Of War 1: Redux. In some GREAT ways, and some shitty ways.
The music:
It sounds like the GOW1 soundtrack all over again. Loud, orchestral, has some really high high points, even though I was hoping for a new score.
The atmospheres and landscapes LOOK amazing:
But they seem very familiar. The puzzles are still mindbending and painful, the scope of some of the places you'll be doing battle in are huge and elaborate as always, but...nothing stands out. And just about every awesome place you cross, you can draw back to an old GOW location or event it's either almost exactly or exactly exactly like.
The Multiplayer:
Haven't touched it. Don't plan to. Next.
This where Box starts to get irate...
The Fighting:
Ther platforming is still the same, except now you scale walls via an auto crawl instead of moving around manually, which is a pain in the ass.
The weapons and magic are one in the same; here's the catch...you get 4 different powers: Ares, Hades, Poseidon, Zeus, and a few gimmicky bits that arent really worth having on the wheel, but they're there. Ares has 3 levels, the Blades and the other 3 all have 5. With Ares, you get your magic attack first. But with the other 3 powers, you have to max them out before you can get their respective magic attack. In all honesty, Max Blades and Ares Magic are all you need.
Rage Of The Gods/Titans/etc. is different...the bar fills via the size of your combo/consistency of your attacking, and the minute you get hit/stop striking, it empties. If you fill the bar and keep attacking, each element has a different power for when you do a certain combo (Poseidon freezes, Ares causes explosions, etc.), but if you get hit in the middle of Rage, it stops. You dont stay in the mode until the bar depletes, it cuts the fuck out.
The weapons and magic are one in the same; here's the catch...you get 4 different powers: Ares, Hades, Poseidon, Zeus, and a few gimmicky bits that arent really worth having on the wheel, but they're there. Ares has 3 levels, the Blades and the other 3 all have 5. With Ares, you get your magic attack first. But with the other 3 powers, you have to max them out before you can get their respective magic attack. In all honesty, Max Blades and Ares Magic are all you need.
Rage Of The Gods/Titans/etc. is different...the bar fills via the size of your combo/consistency of your attacking, and the minute you get hit/stop striking, it empties. If you fill the bar and keep attacking, each element has a different power for when you do a certain combo (Poseidon freezes, Ares causes explosions, etc.), but if you get hit in the middle of Rage, it stops. You dont stay in the mode until the bar depletes, it cuts the fuck out.
The Story:
Long Story Short: It's right after Kratos breaks his oath with Ares, the Furies are hunting him to punish him for it, he must defeat them to break the oath and be free of Ares.
IT'S THE FUCKING SISTERS OF FATE ALL OVER AGAIN.
THE SAME FUCKING THING AS GOD OF WAR 2.
Except instead of ending by going back in time, it flashes back between points BEFORE Kratos reaches the Furies, and after when he's trying to fight his way out of their realm. And the catch is Ares, who was apparently in the sack with one of the Furies in the hopes of finding a way to overthrow Zeus, and yadda yadda yadda, and so on. You NEVER see or speak with any of the gods, there's next to none of the usual heavy Greek presences, be it with landmarks or individuals, or crazy mythological shit...it seems/feels like it could've happened anywhere to anyone. It answers absolutely no questions usefully, at least ones that would make you want to go back in time AGAIN and help Kratos do some more shit that happened before things even got interesting.
For 3 years, I've been waiting to find out who the hell pulled Dead Kratos off the edge of the cliff after he killed Zeus in GOW3, and now I've gotta wait another 3 or 4 or 5 years until GOW makes is to the PS4 to find out. Fuck that. I knew the minute they said they were taking on multiplayer that the single player side was gonna suffer for it, and it did in spades.
IT'S THE FUCKING SISTERS OF FATE ALL OVER AGAIN.
THE SAME FUCKING THING AS GOD OF WAR 2.
Except instead of ending by going back in time, it flashes back between points BEFORE Kratos reaches the Furies, and after when he's trying to fight his way out of their realm. And the catch is Ares, who was apparently in the sack with one of the Furies in the hopes of finding a way to overthrow Zeus, and yadda yadda yadda, and so on. You NEVER see or speak with any of the gods, there's next to none of the usual heavy Greek presences, be it with landmarks or individuals, or crazy mythological shit...it seems/feels like it could've happened anywhere to anyone. It answers absolutely no questions usefully, at least ones that would make you want to go back in time AGAIN and help Kratos do some more shit that happened before things even got interesting.
For 3 years, I've been waiting to find out who the hell pulled Dead Kratos off the edge of the cliff after he killed Zeus in GOW3, and now I've gotta wait another 3 or 4 or 5 years until GOW makes is to the PS4 to find out. Fuck that. I knew the minute they said they were taking on multiplayer that the single player side was gonna suffer for it, and it did in spades.
It gets a 7 because it's still a VERY good game when held against the merits of all other games.
As a God Of War game, it's the least exciting of the 6.
Sad, but true.
