On my first time around this was my first ever GOW game, and as a game I thought it was good but not great, another game to add to the pile of spectacle fighters with a very shallow system. Now after playing all of the Greek Sega of GOW; I was such a fucking asshole.
Not only is this technically the best GOW in terms of gameplay; where it fixes most problems with the additional weapons along with making it even more fluid, but I've never seen a series have such a fantastic glow-up before. The jump from the PS2 to PS3 really was the last time games really felt like it had a graphical upgrade.
The story is about on par with GOW1; where it's very straightforward; but seeing Kratos go through his rowing rampage of revange is both a fantastic fest of over-the-time gratuitous violence, and making what is possibly the most successful slasher movie/video game ever.
Watching Kratos have this slow descent into madness and losing all of his humanity over the course of 5 games really does give a lot of the moments in this game a lot more weight. I think back to the scenes in GOW Ghost of Sparta where he tries desperately to save his brother who he genuinely cares about, and afterward failing to save Deimos he reflects onto all of the horrors he's caused over the course of GOW Chains of Olympus, GOW1, and Ghost of Sparta, seeing himself as this monster that everyone else sees him as, and now he's killing millions of people just as a way of getting revenge on one individual. Kratos has become a full-blown monster in this game and it's genuinely horrifying watching him kill people the further the game goes, you almost want him to stop at some points.
The only aspect I don't like compared with GOW2 is that this entry is a lot more forced on having these big spectacle scenes so sometimes a lot of the fights feel very easy and don't have as much variety as GOW2 or even GOW1 at some points.
Not only is this technically the best GOW in terms of gameplay; where it fixes most problems with the additional weapons along with making it even more fluid, but I've never seen a series have such a fantastic glow-up before. The jump from the PS2 to PS3 really was the last time games really felt like it had a graphical upgrade.
The story is about on par with GOW1; where it's very straightforward; but seeing Kratos go through his rowing rampage of revange is both a fantastic fest of over-the-time gratuitous violence, and making what is possibly the most successful slasher movie/video game ever.
Watching Kratos have this slow descent into madness and losing all of his humanity over the course of 5 games really does give a lot of the moments in this game a lot more weight. I think back to the scenes in GOW Ghost of Sparta where he tries desperately to save his brother who he genuinely cares about, and afterward failing to save Deimos he reflects onto all of the horrors he's caused over the course of GOW Chains of Olympus, GOW1, and Ghost of Sparta, seeing himself as this monster that everyone else sees him as, and now he's killing millions of people just as a way of getting revenge on one individual. Kratos has become a full-blown monster in this game and it's genuinely horrifying watching him kill people the further the game goes, you almost want him to stop at some points.
The only aspect I don't like compared with GOW2 is that this entry is a lot more forced on having these big spectacle scenes so sometimes a lot of the fights feel very easy and don't have as much variety as GOW2 or even GOW1 at some points.