The_vagabond7 said:
This is one of the few times where I think the gratuitous violence is being taken just a bit too far. This looks dramatically more violent than even the first two (which I've played and beat).
I have no problem with violence in games, I have no problem with even gratuitous violence in games. But at some point it actually becomes beyond just tasteless and becomes a combination of dumb/sick. Hostel is the movie equivalent of what I see here. Ridiculously graphic over the top violence that serves absolutely no purpose other than to show how violent somebody can make something.
I mean seriously, entrails spilling out of the centaurs gut, seeings the flesh and tendons separating as he pulls somebodies head off with his bear hands and then the flesh and tendons just dangle their afterwards? It's like the scene in Hostel where they in great detail show a man take a blowtorch to a japanese girl's eye and then it's just dangling there while she screams and the good guy has to use scissors to cut off her dangling eye ball and she's screaming while some random green pus squirts out of her eye socket. It's just gorno (gore porn). It's over the top in an attempt to try and stay shocking, but it's so over the top it ceases to be shocking and starts to be dumb and beyond tasteless. Even more tasteless than stupid machismo games like Gears of War.
This just comes off like Em n eminem's new album where he talks about raping Lindsay Lohan, and murdering people at Mcdonalds. It's a teenager scribbling whatever he views as over the top unacceptable thinking that it makes him cool. I'm not impressed. |
I think that with the game featuring a main character who can be described with "furious", a title called "God of War", a story about revenge, taking place in Greek mythology, that it's not strange to see the game being over the top.
I don't think that the violence looks incredibly real. The graphics in the game haven't crossed the Uncanny Valley IMHO, and so I see animated/fake gore instead of real gore when I look at the game. Plus, by making it so over the top, it's hard to take it as being real.
At the very least, such violence only adds to the theme of the game. It makes it seem more chaotic, raw, and makes you understand how angry Kratos is just by watching a demo. Kratos isn't a very sympathetic character. When he was holding Athena in his arm I didn't feel sympathetic when he said "No" in that tone and facial expression.
The gods as well aren't very sympathetic, and the Titans don't seem trust worthy at all. I hope Kratos, in the end, can either in an optimistic tone, die with the weapons that are literally a part of his body slinking to the floor, and the ashes flaking off, and Kratos being freed from the eternal war he's waged.
Or in respect to the Greek tragedies, show Kratos being consumed by his anger and revenge, that he realizes, after everything has been destroyed, standing on Mount Olympus, that nothing changed.
