Note: This game was played via PSNow streaming. Overall I have a wired connection felt no impact on responsiveness and overall a testament to how great PSNow was! This game pretty much felt like i was playing local.
🎮 Platform: PS5 - PSNow Streaming
⌚ Time to finish - 10h
🏆Trophy completion - 67%
🤬Difficulty - felt easy. I played on normal.
🌄Graphics – It is ps3 graphics I believe so it wasn't bad but also not amazing. I did not find it to be distracting or much of an issue. Still felt very immersive.
🌦 Atmosphere/Music – Up to par with all the other GOW 1&2 games but I did just come from GOW3, and does not beat GOW3.
📚 Main Story / Characters – I was a little disappointed here. I wanted to learn more about his backstory. I got some glimpses of things I already knew, just in a little more detail.
🤺 Combat – The boss fights were great. However, regulary trash mob combat was repetitive. Considering gow3 wasnt repetetive this was a let down. I felt I was hitting the same 3-4 buttons even though i was trying to switch it up. I also felt the mob+wave composition was not creative or varied enouhg but the basic formula is still here, so it still makes for great combat.
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration – did not do the collection trophies and the hard mode run. The ones I did collect were fun and some of them required skill so I had to try a few times. Pick and choose what you think is fun and go for it.
🚗 Movement/Physics – Fluid, awesome. On par with all other GOW games.
📣 Voice acting – On par with all other GOW games.
🥇 Best thing about the game - Combat and Kratos!
👎 Worst thing about the game - The puzzles. Some them were straight up dumb and found it very hard to figure out without looking it up. Not enough visual clues.
💡Final Thoughts:
If you are a GOW fan there is no reason not to play this. It starts off A+ level and then goes down to an A- level. I felt it needed more boss battles and varied tactics to take down monsters. Of course they fixed all this in GOW3 so they must have learnt from this.
🎮 Platform: PS5 - PSNow Streaming
⌚ Time to finish - 10h
🏆Trophy completion - 67%
🤬Difficulty - felt easy. I played on normal.
🌄Graphics – It is ps3 graphics I believe so it wasn't bad but also not amazing. I did not find it to be distracting or much of an issue. Still felt very immersive.
🌦 Atmosphere/Music – Up to par with all the other GOW 1&2 games but I did just come from GOW3, and does not beat GOW3.
📚 Main Story / Characters – I was a little disappointed here. I wanted to learn more about his backstory. I got some glimpses of things I already knew, just in a little more detail.
🤺 Combat – The boss fights were great. However, regulary trash mob combat was repetitive. Considering gow3 wasnt repetetive this was a let down. I felt I was hitting the same 3-4 buttons even though i was trying to switch it up. I also felt the mob+wave composition was not creative or varied enouhg but the basic formula is still here, so it still makes for great combat.
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration – did not do the collection trophies and the hard mode run. The ones I did collect were fun and some of them required skill so I had to try a few times. Pick and choose what you think is fun and go for it.
🚗 Movement/Physics – Fluid, awesome. On par with all other GOW games.
📣 Voice acting – On par with all other GOW games.
🥇 Best thing about the game - Combat and Kratos!
👎 Worst thing about the game - The puzzles. Some them were straight up dumb and found it very hard to figure out without looking it up. Not enough visual clues.
💡Final Thoughts:
If you are a GOW fan there is no reason not to play this. It starts off A+ level and then goes down to an A- level. I felt it needed more boss battles and varied tactics to take down monsters. Of course they fixed all this in GOW3 so they must have learnt from this.