| jarrod said: I wouldn't exactly call GOW3 an "innovative groundbreaking adult themed game". When you get down to it, GOW3's actually rather derivative and juvenile, and more typifies why outside media tends to the discredit the industry as being meritless and essentially good for nothing but manchildren power fantasies. It's spectacle is impressive though, and most importantly, it's really fun. |
"Normally straight up fantasy storylines have all the significance of a Wardner sequel, but God of War III is so visually refined and so well written and acted, it resonates on a higher level. The line between pre-rendered and in-game fidelity has been erased. Every facet of the game seems to be taken as far as humanly possible (and maybe then some). And where the visuals and story end, a perfect blend of old and new gameplay devices begin. Relics galore offer myriad new devices; and all of Kratos foe-launching, gut-ripping, earth-bashing chain (chortle) combo moves are here, only many fold and about a zillion times better by way of the all-new weapons of Zeus destruction he extracts from various benefactors in the game he hasn't murdered yet...."
"There are moments looking out over the horizon that you'll feel genuinely at one with the game. I can't recall ever seeing such grand panoramas. Anyone who says technology doesn't affect a game's narrative or story either doesn't know any better or has written one of those books that try to convey the social relevance of video games (like they know) by rambling on about the same prerequisite, prepackaged, predictable franchises.
"I would argue that God of War III proves otherwise and then lock them in a room with a box of Twinkies and Ninja Gaiden I, II, and III. They can come out and talk about what it means to be a gamer and how modern videogames are all superflous when they get done...if the Twinkies don't kill 'em first."
--from Dave Halverson's review of God of War III in Gamefan Issue I Kitten Blade cover.
After reading Dave Halverson's opinions of gaming for the past twenty years beginning in Diehard Gamefan, I would have to say that I trust that he is right in his judgement.
