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Sony Denies God of War 2

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the go-away-or-i-shall-taunt-you-a-second-time dept.

Gamasutra reports on Sony's flat denial of a second God of War title. Likewise, they say a Gran Turismo 4 Online Edition is not likely. Indeed. From the article: "...Sony spokesperson Ryan Bowling has confirmed to Gamasutra that the reports, which place God Of War 2 on the PlayStation 2 in February 2006, and Gran Turismo 4 Online Edition in the second quarter of this year, including six-player online gameplay, are definitively not true. He did, however, note that Eurogamer's news mentioning the PSP incarnation of Killzone, Sony's first-person shooter franchise, was correct in as much as this title had been officially announced by the company."

28 comments

  1. In other news.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The PS3 has been replaces by the PS4, which is expected to launch by 2012.

  2. PS2? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    PS2? They still make games for that? You'd think the Pentium 133, 2MB Trident 3D like graphics would fall out of style, but I guess there are still some diehards out there who still think it's the best thing evAr.

    On a more serious note, isn't the PS3 coming any time soon? You'd think they would have started working on that almost right after the 2 was released. Believe it or not, I'm glad Microsoft came around because otherwise Sony would be sitting on their asses thinking of the next best DRM to shove down our collective throats. At least they've got someone to stay caught up to now. Sad to seem them fall behind in the race, however.

    1. Re:PS2? by apoc06 · · Score: 1

      ever notice how the trolls are starting to bubble up to the top?

  3. Wrong summary conclusion by samuraiknight · · Score: 1

    The conclusion of the summary is incomplete. What Sony did is deny reports that God of War 2 is coming out February 2006 and that Gran Turismo 4 Online in Q2 2006. They may well be coming out, just not in the timeframes the now-false reports claim.

  4. I just got God of War by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 1

    I just got through the first level and killed the 3-headed Hydra. I haven't had much fun so far.

    The animations are neat, but the 4th or 5th time you've ripped apart the same enemy it gets pretty boring. The average level-grind monsters are too weak to be interesting and too strong to be fun (so GoW is neither Serious Sam or Half Life). The boss-hydra required some thought to defeat, but the button-mashing was boring.

    Also, the nudity is poorly done in the game. It's not exciting. The sex mini-game was silly. Here you are, a bad-ass Spartan killing machine, as willing to kill friends as enemies, and you're the one pushing the buttons to make them giggle? I don't think so. Foreplay is for us normal mortals.

    1. Re:I just got God of War by Strell · · Score: 1

      Hey now, don't you start agreeing with my girlfriend too. That only delays my gratification!

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    2. Re:I just got God of War by infinite9 · · Score: 2, Informative

      I just got through the first level and killed the 3-headed Hydra. I haven't had much fun so far.

      Stay with it. After the hydras is the miserable crate escort mission. After that, the game really picks up. Without giving the game away too much, I particularly like the desert sandstorm when you try to kill the sirens (you have 5.1 right?), also the first time you kill medusa. That was a hard fight. The puzzle in pandora's temple is awesome. Beyond that, the only annoying things to me were a couple timed obstacle courses and an underwater race against a spike-encrusted wall. It's one of the rare games where I went back and played it again on hard.

      I liked the sex minigame. I think it's real purpose is to get you used to the button-appearing-over-their-head minigame style they use througout the game. It's a sort of practice mission. And I thought the nudity was nicely done in most cases.

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    3. Re:I just got God of War by hkmwbz · · Score: 1

      ("Spoiler" warning. Not story related.)

      Keep playing. I really loved the game, as a package. Great graphics, great sound, great gameplay. It was really satisfying to do combat.

      But I am kind of pissed off at the game. I played on Normal difficulty or whatever, but it turns out that to unlock the juicy extras you will have to play through the game in God mode!

      Yeah, it's a great game, but when I'm done I'm done! I couldn't even find any codes or cheats to unlock the God mode extras. I did start out doing it in God mode, but man, I've been through all this already, and all God mode does is to make everything take longer to do.

      Sigh.

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    4. Re:I just got God of War by samuraiknight · · Score: 1

      Not necessarily; beating the game on God mode only unlocks the secret message by David Jaffe. (AFAIK, since I'm only halfway through the game on God mode)

      Beating the Challenge of the Gods minigame yields the awesome and amusing alternate costumes (Dairy Bastard!!!).

    5. Re:I just got God of War by sqlrob · · Score: 1

      Beyond that, the only annoying things to me were a couple timed obstacle courses and an underwater race against a spike-encrusted wall

      Wow, you don't classify those turning spiked columns in the "annoying" bit? Those are what I hated the most.

    6. Re:I just got God of War by Apocros · · Score: 1

      holy crap, yes! the underwater wall bit was pretty frustrating, but the spiked columns were 100 times worse.

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    7. Re:I just got God of War by hkmwbz · · Score: 1

      Hmm, interesting! Did I miss something, then? I could have sworn that there were several things that were unlocked by playing through God mode. When do all those other things unlock then?

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    8. Re:I just got God of War by AbRASiON · · Score: 1

      You are barely anywhere, give it at least another hour or two.

      I found the Hydra section the start of where it gets good.

      There is literally 4 annoying sections in the entire game, the start (or 10 minutes in) with those bloody boxes is one of them - trust me the epic music, interesting story, amazing graphics and surprisingly good gameplay for a standard slash fest really is awesome.

      It does take a while but just keep at it, because in an hour or two you will be loving it.

    9. Re:I just got God of War by lowmagnet · · Score: 1

      There are more frustrating places in the game. The room full of hash-marked saw blades with two gate switches that must be pulled and you must run to the door. The jumping puzzle (ACK) to get to the architect's office. The spinning blade bars you have to traverse. The Tower of spinning knives you have to climb (where I'm currently stuck)

      If this game had less of these (and the BOX ESCORT QUEST AARGH) types of umm mild fucking frustrations, I might consider re-playing the game. But after getting through them (most of which you should NEVER put in a 3D game) I don't want to go through them again.

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    10. Re:I just got God of War by infinite9 · · Score: 1

      The first time I hit the spiked columns, I really hated them. But I sort of got into a groove and was able to do them fairly easily. There was another spot that gave me fits though. I played about 1/4 of the way though the game before I discovered that you could jump again while you were in the air. The problem is that you need this in the ruined city to jump from a vine-covered column to a platform. I fell probably a hundred times before I thought of trying to hit the jump button again.

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    11. Re:I just got God of War by apoc06 · · Score: 1

      in a way, thats what makes the game work. its frustrating to a level where you feel how difficult the quest is, but still fun and intriguing enough to make you want to stay with the game.

      the whole platform jumping crap to get to the architects office was probably the most annoying to me next to the underwater levels, but what kept me going through to the end was the fact that as hard as it is, its only an action game on the outside. its center is a puzzle game. outside of the fighting, most of the obstacles are gotten past using a well thought out plan of attack rather than thumb reflexes like we are accustomed to, and undoubtedly attempt to rely on.

  5. February? And they believed it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The original Gamasutra article about God of War 2 was only posted on Feb 22. Why did they ever believe that the game would come out this month when no news has appeared at all? (Especially with less than a week left in the month. That's ridiculous.)

  6. Anything can happen by HalAtWork · · Score: 1
    It's all just speculation and hype or anti-hype or some form of marketing until something concrete is actually released. Today the games industry is much more than a market for electronics hobbyists and inspired creative people. It is a business. If it makes business sense for God of War 2 to be released, Sony will release it. If it makes sense for Killzone on PSP to be scrapped, Sony will scrap it. It's not about the games anymore, it's about the business. It's the games business, part of the entertainment industry, it's not just a passtime anymore.

    Anything before an actual release of a product is just an idea or hearsay. A company could just make an announcement, gauge the response, then actually respond accordingly. It's contrived. Just saying don't pay attention to press releases, just actual releases.

    This goes for the PC industry too, responsible for the majority of buzzwords these days, look at how many companies announce "platforms" just to negate the effect of a competitor gaining traction, etc. These are extremely calculated business decisions.

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  7. Sony can't afford too many more problems... by dauthur · · Score: 1

    It only figures that Sony would bar something like God of War 2, when they let something like WWE Smackdown get by with its beyond ridiculous load times. Sony's making some huge mistakes. DRM, PS3 idiocy, not handling their discontent fans correctly... They're the next big hated company.

    Or are they already?

    1. Re:Sony can't afford too many more problems... by xero314 · · Score: 1

      [Sony is] the next big hated company.

      So you mean they are going to have complete industry dominance and more publicity than they can handle? Oh wait, they already do (sorry XBox and Nintendo fans).

      Seems to me, in this day and age, being the most hated company is worth billions. If I had a plan to start up a totally loathed company I would go for it.

    2. Re:Sony can't afford too many more problems... by hkmwbz · · Score: 1
      Um, isn't Sony actually losing money?

      They aren't making money because they are evil anyway. Turning evil just happens to people every now and then, and it seems that the managers in this company think they can do whatever they want to. Sony wasn't even hated a lot before they started doing evil things like installing spyware and rootkits on their customers' PCs.

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    3. Re:Sony can't afford too many more problems... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      for a game with such "horrendous load times" why do you think it recieved such high scores?

      perhaps thats because you are watching a video that was deliberately created to seem longer than it really was. that video was taken using career mode, none of the intro scenes were skipped, and he takes his sweet time with cycling through the menus at that. the psp load times are comparable to the ps2 load times, but i dont recall anyone complaining about those.

      the normal mode game has much more brief load times.

      for every game that has load times above 30 seconds, there are three that have load times that are a second or less. do you own a psp yourself?

    4. Re:Sony can't afford too many more problems... by apoc06 · · Score: 1

      overall sony is losing cash from the electronics divisions [walkmen, and other consumer electronics], but the games division has been posting profits IIRC

  8. This is what I got out of it by Mupp252 · · Score: 1

    No, we're not coming out with our two flagship games anytime soon. But wait. We are gonna give you a game with crappy controlling that was meant to blow Halo out of the water!

  9. What? by cubicledrone · · Score: 1

    No sequel?

    No wait, really?

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  10. Everybody, calm down... by MunchMunch · · Score: 1

    ...Killzone is safe.

  11. Codename by telstar · · Score: 1

    What they didn't tell us is that "God of War 2" is the codename for the PS3 ... and they maintain their denial.

  12. Denies War. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Denies war, but welcomes jollity.