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Note: This article is one of a series examining the God Of War game stories in detail:
God of War II and The Sisters Of Fate, Will Kratos Live Happily Ever After?, God Of War: What Were They Thinking?, and God of War III: Empty Gods.

Sony Santa Monica's God of War III is a graphical powerhouse, the combat flows well and feels very satisfying, and it elevates the brutality of the earlier chapters of the game with its high-definition levels of gore and dismemberment, but the story didn't rise up to match everything else the game offered. It's not that it didn't wow us with a rendition of what a fight against the very gods of Olympus would be like, because it did. It's that it forgot the real benefit and strength of setting these games in a world of Greek mythology in the first place.

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Someone at Sony must really have brushed up on their salesmanship or promised something big to Ready At Dawn for them to pick up the blades of chaos yet again to work on God of War: Ghost of Sparta, coming later this year to the PSP. The developer stopped working on the PSP rather publicly almost two years ago after producing the stellar platformer Daxter and the acclaimed God of War: Chains of Olympus. Read more »

This just in: God Of War III will be a big game on the PS3. I know, such a shock, right? I picked up my copy today from Toys R Us to get the $20 Gift Card for Rewards Club members from 10am to 2pm (thanks CAG). I wasn't alone, either. A coworker tagged along after yanking on my chair repeatedly at work and saying "Hurry up they're going to sell out of all of them!"

He was talking about The Princess Frog coming out on Blu-ray and DVD today, though, which he needed to pick up for his 5-year-old girl today.

Check out the new Chaos Trailer from the PlayStation Blog above or, if you're like me, don't click on it to avoid spoiling the story. I read the first page of the Official PlayStation Magazine review on Sunday evening when I was desperate for reading material and wish I hadn't since it stupidly gave away a very early plot twist. It also gave it 5 stars, of course.

Enjoy! Full Sony press release after the jump. Read more »

Note: This article is one of a series examining the God Of War game stories in detail:
God of War II and The Sisters Of Fate, Will Kratos Live Happily Ever After?, God Of War: What Were They Thinking?, and God of War III: Empty Gods.

Late last night I finished my replay of God of War in the God of War Collection for the PS3 and I feel I've calmed down enough from the infuriating experience of clawing Kratos up the spiked poles of Hades to be able to talk about my impressions of the story some years after originally playing through it on the PS2.

The core problem I have with it is that I don't fully understand what the gods of Olympus had in mind. Each of them hands over a magical power to Kratos during his journey, and I can't tell why they do it. Ares is terrorizing Athens, which is Athena's problem, and all she does is urge Kratos on to go after Pandora's Box. Poseidon gives him an area of effect lightning attack. Aphrodite lets him use a gorgon's head as a weapon. Zeus hands over the thunderbolt. Even Hades gives him the souls of the dead to command. Given how strong and determined Kratos was, and how effective he had been so far, what did they think he was going to do with those things?

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