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God of War 3 Gameplay Unveiled

Posted by Soulskill on from the there-can-be-only-5-or-so dept.

Over the weekend, Sony used Spike's Video Game Awards to release new information and a trailer for God of War 3, the final installment of the God of War series that is planned for sometime in 2009. The press release described a new game engine which brings "significant strides in giving players the realistic feel of actually being on the battlegrounds. With texture resolutions being quadrupled since God of War 2, God of War 3 will feature fluid, life-like characters, as well as dynamic lighting effects, a robust weapon system, and world-changing scenarios that will truly bring unmistakable realism to Kratos' fateful quest. Players will have a chance to join battles on a grand scale with many more enemies on-screen and be able to interact with levels like never before." Gamecyte notes that the news contradicts early rumors that the game might be an MMO.

30 comments

  1. Signup for the paid beta testing! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh... you thought you were going to get paid? No no... You'll be paying us to test our new engine.

    Say... you should buy a new pc too. Your old one is too slow for our new dynamic lighting effects, robust weapon system, and world-changing scenarios.

    You don't mind do you?

    DRM? Oh that... um.. yeah.. we don't call it that around here anymore. DRM is bad. Now we just call it the playability access virus. It won't hurt you. Much.

    1. Re:Signup for the paid beta testing! by am+2k · · Score: 1

      Sorry to disturb your ramblings, but GoW3 appears to be PS3-exclusive.

    2. Re:Signup for the paid beta testing! by elrous0 · · Score: 1

      That's great news too. By the time the game comes out, you'll probably be able to buy a PS3 in a bargain bin right next to a Dreamcast and an Atari Jaguar.

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    3. Re:Signup for the paid beta testing! by tlhIngan · · Score: 1

      Sorry to disturb your ramblings, but GoW3 appears to be PS3-exclusive.

      I wouldn't say appears. After all, it's being created by SCE Studios Santa Monica, with "SCE" meaning "Sony Computer Entertainment". If it wasn't a PS3 exclusive, there's no hope for the PS3 (if Sony's own studio has to port to other platforms in order for a title to succeed...).

      And since GoW isn't ported to PC, it's a likely to stay PS3 only.

      The fun part is that those who bought the cheap $400 PS3s can't play the predecessors on their shiny PS3 because those are PS2 only. (Of course, we can hope that GoW/GoW2 gets re-done for PS3, can't we? Just like Final Fantasy 7...).

    4. Re:Signup for the paid beta testing! by mattack2 · · Score: 1

      You say the "cheap $400 PS3s", but isn't it true that NONE of the currently in production PS3s are downwardly compatible? Even though I have a PS2 that is working, I would actually pay more (yes, probably the $100 that a PS2 goes for) for the backward compatibility when I eventually (likely) get a PS3. But I thought that none of them were downwardly compatible anymore.

    5. Re:Signup for the paid beta testing! by fishizzle · · Score: 1

      No version of the PS3 currently in production provides backwards compatibility with the PS2 (They all, however, can play PSOne games) but it's only been that way since August. You may still be able to find some new old stock that can play PS2 games, but it should be easy to find one on Ebay or Craiglist. From what I've seen, those sellers that know their PS2-compatible PS3s are one of a dying breed are indeed asking for a bit of a premium over an equivalent non-PS2-compatible model.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3#Retail_configurations

  2. Realism? Seriously? by keatonguy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think someone needs to remind Sony's marketing department that God of War is about mythological characters...

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    1. Re:Realism? Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      "Realism" means something that can be implemented with atoms. Otherwise if you ask that you have seen it before, then you run into the problem that tons of weird bugs and deep-sea creatures that live right now but haven't been discovered yet aren't realistic until they are discovered.

    2. Re:Realism? Seriously? by DreamsAreOkToo · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I think someone needs to remind Sony's marketing department that God of War is about mythological characters...

      "Verisimilitude in its literary context is defined as the fact or quality of being verisimilar, the appearance of being true or real; likeness or resemblance of the truth, reality or a factâ(TM)s probability."

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisimilitude

      In layman's terms, it basically means, "It makes realistic sense, within the context of the fantasy." For example, fanfic where Spock beams himself to Middle Earth, and has a meaningful discussion with Aragorn, before shooting his ray gun at Magneto, is not "Realistic."

    3. Re:Realism? Seriously? by Siridar · · Score: 3, Funny

      ...For example, fanfic where Spock beams himself to Middle Earth, and has a meaningful discussion with Aragorn, before shooting his ray gun at Magneto, is not "Realistic."

      Nooooo....but it'd be AWESOME!!!!!!

    4. Re:Realism? Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I think someone needs to remind Sony's marketing department that God of War is about mythological characters...

      Yeah, they should legally be required to do all nonhistorical things in Japanese superdeformed style cell shaded animation to make sure no one ever thinks they are real.

      It would probably help with this series to also along with big eyes, to give Kratos a fluffy tail, just to make sure no one confuses it with real life. There is also the possibility that giving him fairy wings and having rainbows fly out of his arse every time he jumps. Yep, this realism thing needs to be nipped in the bud.

    5. Re:Realism? Seriously? by NewbieProgrammerMan · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...For example, fanfic where Spock beams himself to Middle Earth, and has a meaningful discussion with Aragorn, before shooting his ray gun at Magneto, is not "Realistic."

      Nooooo....but it'd be AWESOME!!!!!!

      You aren't allowed to think that's awesome.

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    6. Re:Realism? Seriously? by chromatic · · Score: 1

      For example, fanfic where Spock beams himself to Middle Earth, and has a meaningful discussion with Aragorn, before shooting his ray gun at Magneto, is not "Realistic."

      No, but it is ubiquitous.

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    7. Re:Realism? Seriously? by MikeBabcock · · Score: 1

      Realism doesn't mean what you think it means.

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    8. Re:Realism? Seriously? by Siridar · · Score: 1

      But it explains EVERYTHING!

  3. A real war? by KDR_11k · · Score: 1

    Yeah, one where you're playing a godlike character who can kill dozens in one attack...

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  4. "Gameplay unveiled?" by zombietangelo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What gets passed as "gameplay footage" these days is saddening at best. The clip shows assumingly in-game animations, yes, but there is no actual playing going on. To save those who can't watch this the trouble, the video just shows off shiny new shaders and high res texturing detail (which is, admittedly, mildly alluring). Kratos is doing the typical moves found in God of War, God of War II, God of War: Chains of Olympus, ...

    I'm excited for the game, most definitely, but this trailer completely misses anything interesting a prospective player or long-time fan might want to see, like the mythological beasts and characters and engaging story that the game series has brought to us in the past.

    Trailer rating: "You missed the point. Come back after class to try again."

    1. Re:"Gameplay unveiled?" by penguinchris · · Score: 1

      I guess from your post I was expecting more of a tech demo or something, but I thought it was OK at showing some of the game. However, it's certainly not a trailer, it's more of a teaser.

      I never played the earlier games so perhaps it really is missing the point, as you say, and there's a lot more to the series than appears in this teaser. It did show some mythological beasts, though.

      It is true that it didn't include anything I, a prospective player with a PS3, might want to see, but I don't think that was the point. As I said, it's a teaser, designed to start people talking about the game. Just the beginning of a huge cycle of hype, I'm sure (which isn't a bad thing if the game is genuinely good - I don't pay attention and usually don't know about games until they come out, anyway.)

      All that said, is this really front-page material for Slashdot? I imagine those dying to find out about this game also read game websites. I think game discussion on slashdot is great, but not for stuff that isn't that important, like this.

    2. Re:"Gameplay unveiled?" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You should check out the footage of Uncharted 2. It was in-game rendering, they don't use FMVs and it was beautiful and just as witty as the first one, if you played it.

      The highlight of the night was Uncharted 2, which I think has much more potential than God of War 3. GoW3 will be awesome no doubt, but they haven't really changed anything in 3 titles. Even Mario Bros went through some pretty fundamental changes by the 3rd game.

    3. Re:"Gameplay unveiled?" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      It sounds to me like you have never played previous games in the God of War series. The first scene can very well come from a typical combat sequence in game. The following ones looks exactly like the timed button sequences in previous games.

    4. Re:"Gameplay unveiled?" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, seemed more of a teaser to me too.

    5. Re:"Gameplay unveiled?" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Actually I have, i never said anything bad about the God of War trailer. It looks exactly like one of the timed button sequences. I was simply stating that while it looks good and will be tons of fun, it looks almost exactly the same so far (from what 1 minute of footage?) as the other games. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but the game can get repetitive, especially if the 4th outing is just the same, with pretty graphics. They need to start spicing it up is all I am saying

    6. Re:"Gameplay unveiled?" by Reapy · · Score: 1

      Actually I felt this was one of the better teaser trailers for a games...simply due to the fact that it DOES show gameplay. As was mentioned by one of the replys here, the opening sequence with the wall jump looks very much like a quick time sequence.

      The main thing here was that they showed the actual in game engine in action, and not all CGI sequences. With the game so far off, I couldn't expect them to have the actual gameplay ironed out enough to justify a full gameplay video.

      Anyway, despite its short length, it is an honest teaser trailer.

  5. Mirror link by kitzkar · · Score: 1

    Here's the gametrailers link, if anyone has trouble seeing the kotaku one. I like how the cinematics look, but I'm more interested in seeing how the in-game footage is.

  6. Non-sensical by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is a console game.

  7. This Is Not the Footage You're Looking For by Justin+Hopewell · · Score: 1

    David Jaffe made some comments about the game looking mind-blowing a few months ago. He updated his comment recently to say that what we saw on the VGA's was not what he was talking about and that he still stands by his statement. So... we'll see.

  8. that's it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    that's it? Seriously? Sure it's pretty for the 10 seconds you actually get to see anything.

    Call it a teaser trailer, not a damn gameplay video...sheesh

  9. Buffalo Shots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If the buffalo shots in the trailer are any indication of the final game, I think we're going to have a whole new generation of fans who like gladiator movies.

    1. Re:Buffalo Shots by Mozk · · Score: 1

      Well, does Joey like movies about gladiators?

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