A barrage of information on Sony’s upcoming God of War III has surfaced via a user post on GameFAQs, which claims to have obtained the scoop from an upcoming feature in Game Informer.

Needless to say, this should be taken strictly as a colossal rumor for the time being, with official details on the game embargoed until this Friday following an LA press event last night.

With that out of the way, on with the gossip:

·Unlike God of War 1 and 2 where there are only 15 enemies on screen, there will now be around 50 this time.
·You can ride monsters like the Cyclops and “control”.
·Kratos on the PS2 used 5,000 polygons, now he uses 20,000.
·They made the weapons “better” so it adds more variety. Like with a different weapon, you don’t get just a couple different attacks, but a whole different play style.
·The lion gauntlets are called Cestus.
·Enemy AI’s are a lot smarter. Some of the enemies will be “commanders” and control the other grunts.
·Enemies will look different, even if they’re the same type. Like, even though the skeleton soldiers are in the same category, they will have varied looks, so it’s not like everyone looks the same.
·More boss fights than GoW 1, but less than GoW 2.
·No multiplayer.
·Hades boss fight confirmed.

Stay tuned for more details on God of War III later in the week. Thanks to VG247.com for the heads up.

not ot troll i am getting GOW 3 and all but it just does not feel as epic as previous GPW for the time of release. I dont know the games graphics so seem that impressive relative to what is getting released around the same time.

is 20,000 poygons a lot for a hd console lead character model?

Sound like a great experience. Can't wait till it's released.

@Serious: I think we should wait until gameplay videos before judging the epicness of the game.

^agree... besides.. it's god of war.. not only that it does already look freakin awesome if you've seen the same footage i have (downloaded the trailer on the ps store..) and 50 enemys on screen.... damn.

I hope it has the following:

1) epic sized levels like gow2
2) more gruesome hacking and slashing
3) larger then life stages like the 3horses you activate to get to the iseland in gow2 and navigating around the Titan holding up the earths crust.
4) gigantic bosses
5) some good useage of sixaxis like in heavenly sword
6) aerial battles that are more epic then gow2
7) a living stage like in devil may cry series- imagine if kratos gets swolliwed alive by a giant god or Titan and has to hack his way out.
8) more puzzles
9) multiple enemy finisher super moves- let him go into a killing frenzy with interactive cgi set pieces.
10) destructivle scenery that hurts enemies and kratos.

50 enemies on screen! I want to see this bad boy in motion

50 enemies on screen seems like a bad thing to me, feels more dynasty warriors hack and slash to me (where improved ai = they'll swing their weapons more than once every 10 minutes).

Otherwise, Awesome.

Woot!

God of War II had like a boss every 10 minutes. Some of them were completely unnecessary, but all of them were awesome. I swear, there were at least 9 bosses.

And 20,000 polygons is more than Snake. Enough said.