I think most people would expect this game to not be some 5/5 masterclass game. In some ways, they'd definitely be right. If you compare this to most other hack and slash games, it's just okay. It doesn't have the depth a DMC has, the fun a Bayonetta has, or the deep story of any brawling game from Yakuza to Xenoblade.
Yet still, I'm drawn to God of War III like a fly to shit. And I don't even care.
God of War III just holds so many top spots for me: in essence, it's the perfect ending to the Greek series. Everything is resolved at the end, and nothing's much for interpretation. However, I still love how action-packed and sweet this game is all the way through.
For the gameplay, yeah, it's about as good as GOW2 with again, more tweaks to make it great. Kratos learns even more powerful skills as he romps through the underworld to Mount Olympus, and it's fun all the way through. I specifically love 3 thanks to its Metroidvania qualities of returning to the underworld area as you're exposed to more of the story, and you replay certain areas with better weapons, upgrades, and gear. All weapons are earned in the most badass ways, too. Slaying the Gods and taking their weapons at peak power in Kratos's hands is pure euphoria, and you feel what it's like to be the scariest motherfucker in Greek mythology. You are actually the God of War.
I think most people would find the story for this game weak, as it sort of works like a boss-rush game, with small level chunks to pacify you as you move onto the next big bad, but by God, I love how this game handles GOW2. You've witnessed in GOW2 at this point how Kratos basically does not give a shit anymore about humanity through his time reversing shenanigans at the end of the game, he just wants to bring his wife and kid back, fate be damned.
Well, humanity be damned also, because Kratos basically kills everyone on the Earth within the first hour of the game. As you get this insane POV shot of Kratos mauling Posideon's face to pulp, the water around the world is just flooding hundreds of feet up every goddamn second. People still exist in the world, and yet, Kratos indirectly kills all of them within the first hour because he wants what he wants that bad. Later, killing Hermes unleashes a plague upon the world, as killing most other gods make the world considerably worse. Kratos doesn't care as long as he gets back at Zeus for what he did to Athena.
I honestly just love this game as a guilty pleasure and as a great game. Whereas 2018's GOW tries to make Kratos this somber, tired man who is more diplomatic than angry, GOW3 just puts it all out there and succeeds by having this be the conclusion to the madness-driven man that we've watched develop over the past two mainline games, even more counting the PSP/Vita games, and watching him get his vengeance cannot be topped with another game's feeling.
And as you watch the last cutscene, and the choices Kratos makes, you realize what good revenge does when the world has nothing left to give you.
If that isn't deep enough for a series that critics love to piss on and act like 2018 is the first time anything introspective has ever been said about God of War, I don't know what is. Sure, 2018 is great, but this is the top dog. The ultimate ending to a legendary franchise.
Yet still, I'm drawn to God of War III like a fly to shit. And I don't even care.
God of War III just holds so many top spots for me: in essence, it's the perfect ending to the Greek series. Everything is resolved at the end, and nothing's much for interpretation. However, I still love how action-packed and sweet this game is all the way through.
For the gameplay, yeah, it's about as good as GOW2 with again, more tweaks to make it great. Kratos learns even more powerful skills as he romps through the underworld to Mount Olympus, and it's fun all the way through. I specifically love 3 thanks to its Metroidvania qualities of returning to the underworld area as you're exposed to more of the story, and you replay certain areas with better weapons, upgrades, and gear. All weapons are earned in the most badass ways, too. Slaying the Gods and taking their weapons at peak power in Kratos's hands is pure euphoria, and you feel what it's like to be the scariest motherfucker in Greek mythology. You are actually the God of War.
I think most people would find the story for this game weak, as it sort of works like a boss-rush game, with small level chunks to pacify you as you move onto the next big bad, but by God, I love how this game handles GOW2. You've witnessed in GOW2 at this point how Kratos basically does not give a shit anymore about humanity through his time reversing shenanigans at the end of the game, he just wants to bring his wife and kid back, fate be damned.
Well, humanity be damned also, because Kratos basically kills everyone on the Earth within the first hour of the game. As you get this insane POV shot of Kratos mauling Posideon's face to pulp, the water around the world is just flooding hundreds of feet up every goddamn second. People still exist in the world, and yet, Kratos indirectly kills all of them within the first hour because he wants what he wants that bad. Later, killing Hermes unleashes a plague upon the world, as killing most other gods make the world considerably worse. Kratos doesn't care as long as he gets back at Zeus for what he did to Athena.
I honestly just love this game as a guilty pleasure and as a great game. Whereas 2018's GOW tries to make Kratos this somber, tired man who is more diplomatic than angry, GOW3 just puts it all out there and succeeds by having this be the conclusion to the madness-driven man that we've watched develop over the past two mainline games, even more counting the PSP/Vita games, and watching him get his vengeance cannot be topped with another game's feeling.
And as you watch the last cutscene, and the choices Kratos makes, you realize what good revenge does when the world has nothing left to give you.
If that isn't deep enough for a series that critics love to piss on and act like 2018 is the first time anything introspective has ever been said about God of War, I don't know what is. Sure, 2018 is great, but this is the top dog. The ultimate ending to a legendary franchise.