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God of War 3 8/10
I'm in the minority on this one but I couldn't really get into this one. I admit the game does look good and it is brutal in places. I don't know if it's any better looking than FF13 or Uncharted 2 because there are few environments that are similar. I will say that many of the character models in GOW are pretty weak. Hera for example has very few polygons and Zeus's hair looks retarded. The boobs were perfectly modeled though.
I also didn't really like Kratos this time around. There's just no reason to like him other than his getting screwed over in GOW1 and 2. In GOW3, there's nothing, just bloodlust. Maybe this was intentional and the reason they show some of the death scenes from that person's POV instead of from Kratos'.
I had some issues with the controls too. Double jump was very picky about timing. I died more because Kratos failed to double jump than I did from bosses. Switching directions while quickly climbing was also problematic in that you'd jump vertical a few times then you want to jump sideways to dodge a falling rock and he'd continue to jump vertical into the rock.
That said, Difficulty of the game varied a ton. Bosses were sadly the easiest part of the game. Junk Mobs provide the biggest difficulty in Normal and Hard difficulty. It's not that you can't dodge and parry most of their attacks, It's just that they do so much damage, and they live for SO long that I'd get impatient and do something risky and get killed.
What I did like is the selection of weapons. All of the weapons are really fun to use. I really favored the gauntlets more than anything but all the blade on chains weapons were cool in their own ways.
Puzzles were well done. I like how they integrated mechanics of other games into the puzzles. It's nice to see the mechanics of a simple but fun puzzle game like (spoiler) being integrated into a bigger game with a story.
That's all I have for now.
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