It makes a lot of so-called next-generation games seem small. If the first game was Jaffe’s Fellowship of the Ring – a signal that a previously middleweight talent has suddenly shifted into creative overdrive – this is his Return of the King: a fully-realised feast of imagination combined with sheer technical muscle. God of War 2 makes it look like Jaffe was only half-trying. God of War was, without doubt, one of the most phenomenal video games of the last five years. As one man fought his way through hordes of foes and battled monstrous beasts, then scaled vast buildings sat atop a Titan’s back, you could practically hear jaws dropping around the world.
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At a time when Microsoft’s Xbox was making the PS2 look old and tired, and with the next-generation of hardware waiting in the wings, God of War proved that the little black console still had the power to amaze. His 2005 Greek myth epic seemed purposefully designed to confound your expectations, not just of what you could do and show in an action game, but of what you could do and show with the ageing PS2 hardware. Still, it is nice to play a game that is not tailored to the online crowd and I am hoping that God of War III is also just a very grand single player adventure.To say that God of War’s creator, David Jaffe, thinks big might be the understatement of the year. The game is not perfect though, there are one to many timing puzzles that drove me crazy, and the game is once again on the short side.
Though there are a couple of really nice spells in this one as the earthquake spell really did some damage. All the other weapons just tend to lag while with the default ones, combat is so much smoother. Though as with the first game they give you extra weapons, but the default blades are still the best.
The fighting is pretty much the same as the first game, but then if it is not broke do not fix it. At one point when I was fighting the Kraken I just could not figure out why it was not dying, then I figured out the trick necessary to kill him. There are a couple of good boss fights in this one, most you have to figure some trick to defeat them. Then you get to see other characters from Greek mythology and you normally get to see Kratos rip them apart in very unpleasant ways. You get to go through more levels this time as there is less backtracking than there normally is in a game like this. However, this is only the beginning, with the aid of Gaia one of the titans Kratos begins a search for the sisters of fate in a quest to undo the betrayal by Zeus and to kill Zeus. Well this turns out to be a trick by the king of the gods himself, Zeus and Kratos is killed. It really is not all that long before he is stripped of his godly powers so that he can defeat this giant statue with this really powerful sword.
At least for a couple of minutes into the game he is. Yes, Kratos is back and he is the God of War.
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