God of war is ruined (opinion)

[Fei-Hung]

I've been a huge God of War fan and immediately fell in love with the game and combat.

Onionberry is right though, the combat is slower and they have taken away the hordes of enemies from previous games from the looks of things to focus on smaller more intimate encounters.

For me it makes sense. Kratos is older, he no longer has the chains and blades that can be used for crowd control and he is in a different world.

I know some people are complaining but the reality is SSM was never going to win this. Some people want Kratos, some don't. Some people loved the fix camera, others have been asking for it to change. Some people loved the combat, others were bored of it by the end as nothing much changed at all over the series and every weapon handled the same. Some people didn't mind Kratos as a character others felt he was too 2 dimensional and needed more depth.

There is no way they could please both and from the looks of things Corey has designed the game around the story he had created for Kratos.

The combat doesn't look as slow as Ryse, nor as fast as previous GOWs, and you are right about NG etc, but you have to remember this, in those games you are in the same time, same world, with the same person and the same or very similar circumstances. This is not the same as that.