No review of a video game should start with multiplayer. If Call of Duty wants to really just become a multiplayer game then release one big ass game PC style and send in patches every year. They release a $60 retail game EVERY. FREAKING. YEAR. For any reviewer not taking that into consideration when reviewing CoD really shouldn't have a job reviewing video games. Ignoring campaigns is a bad precendent to set in gaming. Online experience is secondary, alternative FEATURE. Not the main attraction. Again, if CoD's business model was just for multiplayer it doesn't require a new disc every year to do that.

Furthermore, I'm not bashing other people (or rather critics) for liking CoD. I'm pointing out the absolutely GLARING hypocrcisy involved in their chastisement of one title to another. You can't claim GoW:A is "more of the same" (because its not. I mean, it's really, really not.) and mark that as a negative and then turn around and give Call of Duty a higher score (because EVERYONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND KNOWS COD IS ALWAYS MORE OF THE SAME AND NOTHING MORE! lol). It makes you not only a hypocrite. But a horrible "journalist". Take a look at the websites who scored God of War Under an 80 or better yet even under an 85. And see what they gave CoD. It's higher in 90% of the reviews.

Gaming "journalism" is a cess pool. And it has to stop. Stop defending malpractice.

Man, multiplayer in this game is INDEED SPECIAL and unique. There is nothing. And I mean absolutely nothing on the market like it. How anyone can call this a lack of innovation is beyond me.

I love how they built the campaign around making get better at learning how to play God of War correctly (which I think they did) to make you be a more competent God of War player when you step into the multiplayer arena. But the multiplayer is deep and expansive. And button mashing will get you myriads and myriads of Deathstreaks haha

This God of War spells out a new style of gameplay which is actually tougher than the old GOW games. You can just hack n slash your way to glory, you now have to think. COD doesn't make a person think, much like the old GOW's its simple see and reflex attack. The new God of War will have a satisfy its core that wanted a more different and in depth version.

The funny thing will be they will praise it again for having 60fps NEXTGEN while they still use an engine from 1999 and give it 10% extra while others that look like CGI need to fight for every %.
Reviews are mostly complete garbage and opinions.User Ratings on Metacritic are mostly full of crying babies not liking something.

The only thing that really works without buying the game is watching Livestreams on twitch.tv for example.
Not the whole game of course but you can see pretty fast if you like a game that much to justify the full price.

God of War A. is a solid 95 at least.
It is another step forward in the franchise.

And the talk about comparing two games from different genres is funny.
Good lets compare CoD with Battlefield 3...Why didn't BF3 get a 100/100 everywhere?
It is by far the better game - Better NEXTGEN Visuals,better multiplayer,better maps,more players and and...Hell its a NextGen Game in current Gen but it doesn't get the praise it deserves aka BEST SHOOTER OF THIS GEN.
No people somehow justify their copy+paste CoD while even CoD4 was nothing special.

Best gameplay in hack and slah series by a log shot really ? hahaha. You obviously haven't played many quality hack and slash games  becaue DMC series old and the new dmc one says hello!. The combat is so simple and lacks  the level of depth and teh variety of moves found in dmc. Because the combat of GOD of war is so simple, the pacing feels slow and sluggish especially in the latest installement. Before you bash for bein an anti Sony , i have the latest instlalemtn and  playing i t,, plu is played every single God of war game from ps2, ps3 and psp versions.  When you mention on hard , you die quick. The reason for that is not because its fair or skillful or the enmies are smarter.  Its just that the enemies are alot stronger , do more dmage and there tonnes of it which sometimes the camera fails to cope with it. What suprises me about all the reviews is that reviewers fails to mention the obvious slow down present in the lates GOW installement. Its obvious that it puzzle me how they can miss it. Theres no slowdown while you fight which i s good but there slowdown when you walk an d there things happening in the back ground and durign cut scenes.

Thirdly the story in GOW has never been good or award winning. In the previous installments is about Kratos being stupid and gullible which leads to him being tricked  which then leads him to rage and then provides him the motivate to kill people hence the god of war games from 1 -3 plus the psp versions. He to me is the dumbest videogma character ever created as its okay to be fooled once or twice but to be fooled all the time , the same exact way based on the same exact promises is hillarious. Makes you wonder who writes this scripts. Fourthy the the game changing deal is that god war doesn't use the greek mythology in any accurate form. Instead they just use their name nad make up the soty around it . Thats a shame as it could be a more interesting game if it followed the greek mythology properly.  In sayign all of this teh graphics are nice and to some extent beautiful but neither of it is WOW " jizz in my pants epic" because the game only  looks epic or wow stunning is when there is titan sized monster and kratos or important cutscenes . Apart from taht m when its aoomed out and you have to explore teh graphics are still good but nothign specials you can see lots of jaggies especially in the lates installments. Thats my opinion  i do respect yours and its good you  enjoy teh game. If  were to review it would be between adam sessler 3/5 review and 7/10 from eurogamer/ Its in between. 

He's talking about the gameplay. The gameplay has never been this good for GOW in a while. Adam Sessler even said it himself but he doesn't know if its just him getting old but the gameplay was just downright tough. This game could be purely for the God of War core gamer. Look at Street Fighter 3, most people cannot stand it because its too technical while true fans of street fighter hail it as being amongst the best in the franchise.

Tougher really? haha . Its the same for me and its quite easy especially since parrying is a breeze to do and yoru powers stuns and freezes your enemies lol. you can still hack and slash your wayt through. the only differnce is that enemies are stronger.

Your condescending tone says you're obviously never going to get it so I'll just end this now.

i was too. obviously you haven't read my post . i said " Best gameplay in hack and slah series by a log shot really ? hahaha. You obviously haven't played many quality hack and slash games  becaue DMC series old and the new dmc one says hello!. The combat is so simple and lacks  the level of depth and teh variety of moves found in dmc. Because the combat of GOD of war is so simple, the pacing feels slow and sluggish especially in the latest installement."  Adam sessler is not good at gaming lol.  The thing i don't understand is, the gameplay hasn't significantly. I mean instead of having tonnes of differnt weapons to upgrade , the main gets ice, fire , thunder and son each with its own unique advantages. Thats not innovative gameplay. The amount of moves in any gow series including the newest one , is very small and certainly not to the scale found in the DMC series which has teh best combat system. Theirs no flair when you string combos as you will end up repeating teh same set of moves with every monster. Beacuse of its gameplay limitation , the pacing of teh game gets affected as its feels slow rather then fast paced  therefore to me it feels like sluggish .

You are wrong. Was jsut stating my opinion. Nothign wrong wit that. Was reading your guyspost and you guys were bashing teh revieweers for havign an opinion. You mmake it sound  liek your opinion is fact and if teh reviwers review and teh score don't conform with yoru opinion then theirs is mute and worthless. You gusy fail to understand that opinion is not dact . Its based on personal bias. There are alot game reveiwers been giving the game around 7. Its just eurgamer but other sites as well. The game is not good , but far fraom flawless.