Linearity while present in God of War is definitely not a downside, God of War just isn't one of those games you need to do that much exploring in, sure there are things hidden here and there that you have to look around for but in terms of gameplay God of War always has and will be a linear game.
Now when a game like Final Fantasy tries to pull that kinda $hit it IS a problem because one of the major points of every Final Fantasy game was to be able to explore a huge world.
No fuuck that, I'm just not going to rate it specially. I'm almost damn certain it will be getting a 10/10 based on what I have played/seen so far but I'm not just going to handout the score.
Also @Doc Sony
You're aware most of the time websites like IGN are bribed to give out sugar coated reviews
This man speaks the truth
Yes
I can tell you I won't just be throwing a 10/10 towards the game. It is going to be judged very harshly simply because of what the game is boasting. I'm sure everyone can agree God of War needs no special treatment.
God of War III has really taken my expectations and pretty much slaughtered my scale for rating games, obviously now any game I play has to be compared to the greatest game I will play. I'm so pumped for this title I don't think I'll sleep much!
God of War III :-/
Nice screens
This is exactly what Darksiders needed, anything short of the complete first chapter wouldn't have given players a fair look at the game. I'm sure by the end of the demo you will have decided whether you want to continue the game or not.
They could have said hacks a few more times in the article I don't think everyone got it.
I'm basically saying if you didn't know about it before you probably won't be too interested in it
It shames me that this article is from my hometown
So much shame ;'(
FFX sucked
there are SO many things that have to be put into consideration that make this little article very inaccurate
considering this is regarding japans sales you would have to think about market saturation, the economic stability, wether or not the people who own PS3's actually have money to buy games
you would have to break down the ps3 owners into classes similar to that of social statuses
so you have your ps3 owners with no money to spend every month on ga...
@Saaking
Excellent point, I was going to say the same thing. The current PS3 audience in Japan IS a lot smaller than the PS2 audience at the time of X2's release. So this information can't be looked at straight up.
You would have to put sales:console ratios in to consideration.
This murders XBOX Live in so many ways, had me at free games
You're all aware toning down how good the games CGI looks to a level where real time rendered graphics can match makes it the same right?
You don't HAVE to offer the best graphics possible...
and the penny pinching continues
Legend of Dragoon anyone?
1 bubble for you kind sir