The World's first official review of God of War III is out!
In the extensive 7 page review by Official PlayStation Magazine, the junior reviewer Nathan Ditum gives the game praise however clumsily criticises Kratos for being violent!
"I have only one serious reservation, and it's one I'm happy to admit makes me sound like a giant baby, sometimes, it feels like Kratos is too mean. I know - that's the point. Lost family, tortured here, etc etc. But he murders people with such deadening inevitability it becomes like the punchline to a repeated joke."
He also criticises the game for not having the emotional depth of Heavy Rain which he admits "Its a brilliant dog, but doesnt it miaow!"
He says of the gameplay
"The game is inches from scoring 10/10 and its only the familiarity of the core gameplay (standing on the shoulders of giants) that makes it feel less thant the very, very best."
9/10
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Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
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The review overall is very, very positive - although I think it's crazy to criticise Kratos for being violent, because that's what he's all about.
I've got this on pre-order. God of War III is gonna be epic.
"Its a brilliant dog, but doesnt it miaow!" He is idiot or what? GoD is not about tendernesses or some other crap like this, its about killing, gore, violence, epic, and one of the best gameplay in genre. 9 out of 10, lol.
and my characters to be "mean", I should add a point to the score? Wow...so GOW3 got a 10. Sweet.