Haha, funny all these people are playing GoW series for the first time. Me too! I just started GoW I. I never thought i would enjoy these games, and only tried the series bc a friend of mine had it sitting around his house; I like a wide variety of games but not hack and slash and not rpg. But wow I am enjoying the heck out of GoW I so far. I guess I'm probably at least 2/3 of the way through. Excellent game! There is only one thing I am frustrated with though...I don't mind the brutality with the blood and all that jazz with the enemies, but (small SPOILER i guess) when u have to murder that human soldier in ur hunt for pandora's box, that was awful. It actually angered me bc it was so brutal, and made me want to stop playing the game. I'm sure I'm the minority in this situation, and I know it's just a game, but it was still unnecessary imo. I think they could have and should have found a way around that scenario. Anyone else feel the same way at all? Or am I truly the only one?
Oh, and going along with that, I don't understand one thing about Kratos...they make him out to have all this regret for his past where he murdered a bunch of innocent ppl or something, yet he seems no different now. Not just in the case where he flamebroiled the soldier in the situation I talked about above, but other times throughout the story. He simply seems to have no regard or care for human life, yet the regret he's made out to have made me expect differently from him. Am i missing something? Just seems contradictory...