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God of War 3 - the new trailer!

15 Dec

Kratos is back. As usual he appears to be in a pretty bad mood. Perhaps he’ll lighten up when he realises it’s nearly Christmas…

In: Uncategorized by: Three Speech Dec 15, 2008 @ 6:22 pm

17 Comments

……..im moist

Comment by Rev — Dec 15, 2008 @ 7:08 pm
……..im hard!

Comment by orgazzam — Dec 15, 2008 @ 7:14 pm
Early Build of the game used to make the trailer…

Give me the latest build!!!!!!!

Comment by JohnSketch — Dec 15, 2008 @ 7:51 pm
I’ve never played any of of the God of War games, are they worth it?

This trailer looks ok, but does not seem to match David Jaffe’s recent description of him saying it looked like an oil painting in motion.

I look forward to seeing more.

Comment by CartBlanche — Dec 15, 2008 @ 8:24 pm
MY VENGEANCE IS EVERYTHING!!! ARGHHHH!!!

guess they didn’t have chill pills at the time…

Comment by darkos87 — Dec 15, 2008 @ 8:41 pm
@JohnSketch
David Jaffe has said that Gears of War 2 is the best looking game he has seen this gen so far, but GoW3 is going to look even better…

Trailer does look a bit like how God of War 2 looks on my SD CRT telly. Not blown away by next gen (well THIS gen) goodness, but a day one purchase it shall be…

Who wants to bet there is a Hades level tho

@CartBlanche
Think of Devil may cry 1&3 (the good ones) but far more easy, and with QTE thrown in…
Thats God of War, and its great!

Comment by Mr.Monkey — Dec 15, 2008 @ 8:51 pm
FYI:
[ http://playstationlifestyle.net/2008/12/15/god-of-war-iii-hd-trailer-in-ps-store-now/ ]
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Just a quick heads up, the God of War III trailer from last night’s Spike TV Video Game Awards, is now LIVE on the US PlayStation Store. The trailer is available in full 1080p, and just might change the minds of the naysayers out there.
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Also on GameTrailers{dot}com, in HD (and SD) format…
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Spike VGA World Premier Trailer
Dec 15, 2008
The revenge of Kratos will soon be at hand.
File Size: 7.54mb

E3 2008: Sony Press Conference Cam Debut Trailer
Jul 15, 2008
In the end there will be only chaos.
File Size: 9.30mb

E3 2008: Sony Press Conference Debut Trailer
Jul 15, 2008
In the end there will be only chaos.
File Size: 6.61mb
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BFN,

fp.

Comment by fanpages — Dec 15, 2008 @ 9:23 pm
I downloaded this from the US PSN last night, looks good! Would be able to judge better if the video wasn’t so short!

Incidently, anyone know why the US gets SO MUCH MORE CONTENT THAN US EUROPEANS?? It’s really beginning to annoy me now, they even get different content in Home!

EQUALITY FOR EU! EQUALITY FOR EU! Oh whats the point, like anyone’s listening?!

Comment by Monkey Rimemr — Dec 16, 2008 @ 9:20 am
Sorry, but this looks lackluster at best.

Uncharted looks so much better.

Comment by anthonyp — Dec 16, 2008 @ 9:32 am
I think people are being a little harsh on this (not just here but elsewhere on the net). Suppose that’s what happens when David Jaffe hypes it into the stratosphere! It’s not marvellous but part of that is the fault of trailer’s content and not just the graphics.

I think the people saying it’s like God of War 2 are going a bit over the top, this game looks miles better! It’s like saying Street Fighter II HD Remix looks the same as the original Street Fighter - i.e. Rose-tinted memories!

Some have said this is an early build of the game, so it’s entirely possible it’s had a lot more spit and polish on the version David Jaffe has seen. Or maybe he was shown a more intense bit of gameplay - better to have a rocksolid framerate for a game as fast and furious as God of War.

There have been plenty of games that look a bit ropey on their first public showing and end up looking miles better when the final game ships. Better to start you with reduced expectations and give you a pleasant surprise than give you a CG target render of how they think the game will end up - which leaves you open to disappointment.

Whatever it ends up like it’s still a day-one purchase for me, the others in the series were amazing!

Also, I believe this is the last God of War game about as much as I believed Halo 3 was the last Halo game… i.e. see you in 2011 Kratos!!!

Comment by Apnomis — Dec 16, 2008 @ 10:27 am
Why did sing star update not include disc swapping with ps2 games????????????????????????????????????????????

Comment by Phoenix2912 — Dec 16, 2008 @ 10:42 am
Where’s my comment gone? What, it gets pulled because I make an observation about the US PSN getting better and more content than the EU PSN?

Comment by Monkey Rimmer — Dec 16, 2008 @ 11:44 am
Turns out that this is not the God of War III that blew David Jaffe’s socks off. This clarification from his blog:

“It is NOT the thing I was raving about- as I made clear in a video post a week ago- but I still think it looks darn good. To me, the stuff Spike showed when viewed in proper resolution looks like a AAA God Of War to me. It doesn’t rock my world but it doesn’t look: meh. It looks like I’d expect a next-gen GOW to look. Granted, the team still has a long way to go and I imagine the final game- in all areas- will look much better. But I still thought it looked good. Fair to disagree but at least you know where I am coming from/where my barometer is set for my expectations of AAA next gen graphics.

What I was raving about has not been shown outside of internal Sony meetings. I imagine it will be shown soon, but I have no idea. I also assume that the Spike stuff was turned in earlier than the stuff I saw (that I raved about) as the stuff I saw was for a meeting and didn’t need to be edited, reviewed by Spike, Sony marketing, etc. The stuff I saw that I raved about was probably finished 1-2 days before I got to the studios. The Spike stuff I saw had already been turned into Spike so it was 100% older. Not that I thought it was bad- again- just I can see how the new stuff I saw looked further along, for sure.

… to give you an idea, the stuff I saw that I raved about looked about 25-30% better [than the Spike footage played on HD]. If that’s not exciting and cool enough for you, fair enough. It happened to blow me away and remains the best looking console game I’ve ever seen…beyond Gears 2 which so far is the best looking console game ever released.”

So there you have it, it’s already 25%-30% better than the raw HD video given to Spike, so that probably means it’s 250%-300% better than the crappy and compressed SD Flash videos availabe on the net of the copy given to Spike!!!

And since there’s at least 9 months of development time left I don’t think there’s any need to worry that God of War will be anything less than phenomenal…

Comment by Apnomis — Dec 16, 2008 @ 12:06 pm
@Apnomis

Cheers for backing me up on this

Comment by JohnSketch — Dec 16, 2008 @ 1:02 pm
@12 [Monkey Rimmer]:

No, I think it is because you mis-typed your name as “Monkey Rimemr” & the moderation queue kept hold of your comment because that user had not submitted anything below.

Why it has kept hold of so much of my spam recently is another good question!

@13 [Apnomis]:

Thanks for the text. What was that Vic Reeves said about statistics? Mr Jaffe doth protest too loudly, methinks.

I am sure the commercial release will have more “jazz hands”, less spit, and plenty of polish [that's the smoothing action, not a race of Central Europeans], but how can you say something is 25-30% better than something else?

Early-to-mid 2009 sounds just as hectic for worthwhile titles as the latter two months of this year.

Anybody know where I can auction a kidney or two…?

Or would that me taking the p155 too much?

BFN,

fp.

Comment by fanpages — Dec 16, 2008 @ 6:44 pm
Oops… thanks fp, my bad. I’ll endeavour to calm down before I type, or at least wait till both eyes are working!

Comment by Monkey Rimmer — Dec 17, 2008 @ 9:15 am
Jaffe said prior to the VGA that the footage that was going to be shown was not the one he saw. I’ve seen the video were he states that my self. I think it is on he’s blog. He said on his blog “The footage that is going to be shown in VGA is good, but it’s not what I saw. It’s good, but the other is much better”.

Comment by Torpedo — Dec 17, 2008 @ 2:12 pm