Totalplaystation: It’s Good to be A God – God of War 3 Preview

Totalplaystation: God of War III is coming, and we got to see it. Got see how it plays, got to see what’s new and, yes, we finally got to see what it looks like. Want to know what we know? Step inside, let’s chat, shall we?

"We’re not going to be announcing the release date…" SCEA PR honcho Ron Eagle delivered semi-bummer number one before the first frame of footage of God of War III was shown. We say "semi-bummer" only because, well, we were still going to see the game and finally get a peek at Kratos running around in the PlayStation 3’s hardware.

Semi-bummer number two: God of War III looks… well, it looks like God of War II. A lot like God of War II. I know it probably amounts to sacrilege in light of recent comments from original God of War director David Jaffe after he saw the game, but if what he saw and what we saw were the same thing, then it may come down to the video being blown up on a massive theatre screen. Part of it comes down to the fact that Sony’s Santa Monica studio pumped such seemingly impossible this-shouldn’t-be-running-on-the-PS2-hardware visuals out of the first two games that the leap from the PS2 to the PS3 just wasn’t nearly as pronounced as we thought it might be.