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37 in-game screens from God of War 3 demo

NeoGAF user/Gamersyde staffer TTP has posted 37 "gore"geous direct-feed framegrabs from the demo.

Nelson M5291d ago

And i'm in
I Got a Code
Suck on That Bots
I'm gonna have me some GoW3 then some Drake then back to Gow 3 then back to Drake then some Killzone then some Gow3 again then some more Drake then some Infamous and some more Killzone and then some More Drake and finish of tonight with some more GoW3
What you gonna do BoTs
Play Halo ODST

Haaa Ha

Delta5291d ago (Edited 5291d ago )

Thats it? you don't play many of the AAA titles PS3 has to offer?
LOL you listed all the 360's games that came out this year.

Nelson M5291d ago

I'm Gonna Play Today
And dont Worry i've Got and Play all PS3 Exclusive's
And Today is as Usual a Good Day for Gaming

Delta5291d ago

Nice. The only Game i dont have yet is R&C A Crack In Time.

ZBlacktt5291d ago

From what I'm seeing. More than one player can play using the same code. I had a friend PM 4 other friends his and they got in too.

Belasco5291d ago

you even own a console. Go away.

ultimolu5290d ago

;.;Dammit!

Alas, I must wait. u.u

54percent5290d ago

Xbot comment about GoW3 : "Mooommmyyy!!! the game iz skaryyy!!! it sukz cuz its not on 360 and and haz a bad maaaann"

Aceluffy5290d ago

You don't play Demon's Souls ? Blasphemy ! :)

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Delta5291d ago

Man, Kartos Hates Bots. LOL Spartans cant go against the God of War.

Delta5291d ago

Thos are some nice screenshots. Can't wait for this and GoWC.

ErcsYou5291d ago

D@mn, some of those screen shots look crazy good. Sony Santa Monica did it again.. Not bad for their 1st PS3 game..

villevalorox5291d ago

WOW, just amazing :) i can't wait to see the final build :)

hardmetal5291d ago

Sony, In God's name what are you doing ? This is beyond gaming.

Yousef
CastlevaniaX

Microsoft Xbox 3605291d ago

This game looks amazing. Exactly the style I'm interested in.

ZBlacktt5291d ago (Edited 5291d ago )

OT, love the screen name! Been a Megadeth fan now some, ooohhh 25 years. Metal for life!

Chris3995291d ago (Edited 5291d ago )

Seriously, half of those screens look like art.

I'm not being a fanboy, but MS hasn't given me any reason to touch my 360 in months now. Hopefully next year they pull out something spectacular (I'm not a Halo fan, I bought the system for JRPGs and we all know how THAT turned out - cough, enhanced ports galore). I have a feeling next year will be mostly casual Natal focused stuff with more flowerly speeches and promises from Molyneux and a bunch of HD, arm flailing party games.

Sony really seems to be on a roll atm. And I think that we often forget it's not about sales (though they're finally showing some gumption in that area as well), it's about GAMES.

And the games that their WW studios are pumping out are utterly spectacular.

Perkel5291d ago (Edited 5291d ago )

This speaks all :

calis5291d ago

I got the demo, simply amazing.

Sarcasm5291d ago

Holy balls to the walls covered with mango!!!

I swear some of those shots look like Bullshot quality, but of course I know their real.

Kratos is so F'in detailed it's ridiculous!

Sarcasm5291d ago

"Sony Santa Monica did it again.. Not bad for their 1st PS3 game.. "

Isn't Sony Santa Monica Sony's number one developer in terms of harnessing the power of whatever console they work on? And aren't they the ones who assisted Naughty Dog, Insomniac, and other Sony developers?

Either way, the proof is in the blood. And lots of blood that is.

Xbox Avatars Shoe5291d ago (Edited 5291d ago )

NO WAY DIS IZ REALZ! BULLSHOTZ!!!

/sarcasm

Those are some amazing pics but what's up with the eagle lady with the knee-warmer tits?

Here's an HQ video of the full new demo: http://www.youtube.com/watc...

i want to play so bad! Is there another way to get the demo besides a lucky email?

zeeshan5291d ago

I can bet my ass that people in M$ must be shiiitting in their pants right now! I mean Killzone 2, inFamous, Uncharted 2, Demon's Soul, God of War 3, GoWC, Heavy Rain, Gran Turismo and whole other bunch of games that literally KILL the competition. Sheeshh, I know I'd be scared if I were going agsint quality like THAT.

gamesmaster5291d ago (Edited 5291d ago )

http://i37.tinypic.com/s4xc...

then

http://i38.tinypic.com/a14d...

This image speaks for itself, look at how kratos gets covered with blood the more he tears this thing apart, the detail is impeccable. Im speechless...

sikbeta5291d ago (Edited 5291d ago )

My God, Can Kratos be more Badass?

This Pictures Say it All:

http://i33.tinypic.com/24nr...
http://i35.tinypic.com/2dux...

Redempteur5291d ago

OK guys i'm angry ... I got this feeling when the demo ended ...this feeling of rage ....

Well there is plenty of work done and since it's a E3 bluid ... i've got no worries there ...

hay5291d ago

Got the demo yesterday while hanging with friends at my place. Everyone wanted to play it. The demo was ran several times so that everyone could enjoy it and pretty much everyone loved it.
And how the demo ended, everyone screamed "Argh!".

This game will be insane.

Bits-N-Kibbles5291d ago

I was expecting this game to look good, but not this good. This is probably my favorite series in video games.

Seriously, some of the shots look like concept art... holy crap!

I'm blown away. GoW3 is going to be epic.

Arnon5291d ago

It's pretty much what I've been saying for a good 4-5 months now. God of War 3's graphical prowess comes from it's character models, but I've seen much better environmental detail in other PS3 exclusives like Uncharted 2 and Heavy Rain.

kalebgray925291d ago

when i realized they actually gave him gums... freaking gums not just teeth omg

sikbeta5291d ago

I don't get the disagrees... was for the pictures, you know for me Kratos doesn't need to rip someone's head off to be an Awesome Super Powerful God of War, but if you really need IT:

bnaked5291d ago

David Jeffe was right. It looks like a f*cking painting.. Incredible..

pixelsword5290d ago

"set as desktop background"

"center"

"ok"

beavis4play5290d ago (Edited 5290d ago )

and those screens don't do the game justice. i'm speechless........the violence is like nothing in any other game........ever. and beautiful doesn't begin to describe it.

and this demo is the old one from E3.......i don't dare imagine what the retail version will be like.......my head would explode.
MS could launch SC, AW, and ME2 all at the same time and i'd still rather play GOW3 than all of those games combined. i wouldn't have said that before the demo, but i'm saying it now!

people: do what you have to do in order to play the demo.....you won't be disappointed.

Sarcasm5290d ago

"MS could launch SC, AW, and ME2 all at the same time"

Alan Wake is Meh. SC and ME2 will definitely take a back seat to GoWIII though.

The only thing that could probably pry me away from GoWIII will be GT5.

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Perjoss5291d ago

he always looks so angry, I think he should sit down with a good book and a nice cup of camomile and unwind for a bit.

bnaked5290d ago (Edited 5290d ago )

Yes, it seems that Kratos needs a woman ^^

Lykon5290d ago

or a man , ohhh my legs would so be over my shoulders for kratos

Sarcasm5290d ago

"I think he should sit down with a good book and a nice cup of camomile and unwind for a bit."

Humans sit down for a nice cup of camomile to wind down.

Gods rip off heads of other gods to wind down.

Pretty much the same thing.

:)

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Baba19065291d ago

i just got my mail with the code. its so cool =D cant wait to try it. i love u sony.

Chris3995291d ago

I was trying to figure out how to apply.

calis5291d ago

It looks like it is for EU and AU only, I got one as well and I was just a member of PSN, didn't sign up for anything.

Chris3995291d ago

They'll probably have an NA release towards the end of the year anyhow.

And you guys usually get the shaft on releases (though it seems like SCEE is getting their $hit together with that recently), so it's for the best.

Oh, I came across a WKC 2 trailer (official feed) this morning.

Check it out! (And gimmie the first one already!)

http://www.jp.playstation.c...

If Sony plays their cards right, this could be the next FF. They own the IP, Japan loves the series, and it's production values look to have easily doubled since the last installment.

monkey nuts5291d ago

The thing thats funny about these pics is even though they look great the demo looks far better on my HD tv. You can't see all of the texture detail in the pics for some reason. Also that flying part where your going up through rafters and flaming boulders is a b!tch to get through. Excellent game though, Sony's titles this gen have become known for their epic quality imo.

dead_eye5291d ago

i agree with monkey nuts. miles better on a hdtv. i loved the flying bit wasn't expecting it.

hay5291d ago

@monkey nuts: True. It looked better on my TV also.

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JL2930170d ago

Both requels over 2 and 3? Clowns. Those are two of the most boring games I've ever played.

Snookies12170d ago

GoW 3 was amazing, but I personally hated just one thing. (This is on me alone, because I was dumb, lol.) I hated that you couldn't skip cutscenes on repeat playthroughs. I had to go back through the game a third time because I missed one trophy accidentally on my way to the platinum... The cutscenes were great the first go round, even the second... But the third was pretty agonizing.

Haven't played Ragnarok, but I still think GoW 4 is a wonderful game in its own right. Not sure how I would stack them up against each other honestly.

Monstieur170d ago (Edited 170d ago )

I don't consider the reboot part of the original series. The original series were high-skill games with combos and rewards for mixing things up.

solideagle170d ago

lol square, square and triangle is the only combo you needed. I have played all of them on the hardest difficulties...

Golfcoachh170d ago

Maybe I’m just old school but I just couldn’t get into the last two. Maybe it’s the slower action and more story telling but the original trilogy was by far my favorite.

Crows90170d ago

It's not that youre old school. They're different genres

JL2930169d ago (Edited 169d ago )

Me either, at all. It's just yap yap yap. They try to be a RPG's instead of being action games like they used to be.

Fluke_Skywalker170d ago

I'd put the two psp games over 3 in terms of story any day. But not over 2.

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TheEnigma313170d ago (Edited 170d ago )

My favorite was part 2 and I think Ragnarok is better that 2018.

Shane Kim170d ago

The newer games are better imo.

ravens52170d ago

There is no worst. Except for Ascension, only cause I didn't play it lol. They are all masterpieces. 1,2,3, 2018 and Ragnarok. 1 of, if not the greatest video game franchise...besides MetalGear.

Snookies12170d ago

Oh wow, I actually forgot that Ascension even existed... I never played it either.

Crows90170d ago

I like ascension. It was different and some interesting combat additions.

darthv72170d ago

If you didnt play it, how could you call it the worst? Its not as bad as the media portrayed it. Honestly the worst are those flash games. they arent even considered true GoW games but in name only. At least Ascension is a real GoW game.

ravens52170d ago

Not saying it's a terrible game. Just mean it's at the bottom of my list. I played a little bit of it. Jus to me, compared to the other main games, it's last.

Fluke_Skywalker170d ago

Ascension is the only GOW game I never finished. Hated it.

Inverno170d ago

Can't agree, older games do so much more than the last two. More weapons, magic abilities, enemies are more varied, level design is also more aesthetically pleasing, and agree with those who say that they shouldn't have removed jumping. Was a time I'd agree, but those old games are so so much better, that they really should've looked into bringing into the reboot/sequels.

Crows90170d ago (Edited 170d ago )

If a game is good then a game is good. Doesn't matter what came before or what comes after.

Inverno170d ago

Of course it matters. If not for what what came before there wouldn't be an after. And if something is great before then you strive to make it just as good if not better, after. I personally don't think there's a fair way to judge the new with the old because the newer games are still essentially a reboot, and went a way different direction. But I still believe the old games did it better. I'm probably bias though since I've been going back to old games and have been finding that they lack all the annoying aspects that devs have shoehorned into new games to fluff out game time.

Crows90169d ago

@Inverno

Im not talking about the passage of time here. Im talking about individual pieces of software. If a game is good then it is good. Thats not a controversial statement. You can compare good with good...sure. But you still end up with good. Now if there is a bad game in the mix and you compare you do end up with some differentials between them...makes sense to compare and see where it went wrong.

But theyre different genres and styles which were individually executed very well.

And no. The new games are not a reboot. Theyre a new direction but simply a continuation.
Tomb raider was a reboot.

Inverno169d ago

The new games are definitely a reboot, and a continuation, it can be both which it is. And a good game might be good, but my point is that if there are things done better before it then there's plenty of room for critiquing and trying to make whatever comes after better rather than just good.

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purple101332d ago

Haha I still remember my brother playing the opening scene on ps3!!!

Yeh he had to put the controller down his heart was beating too fast trying to get past first 10 minutes. He said "it's too much". Best thing I've ever seen in gaming. Haha

robtion331d ago

A great game from an era before things went politically correct and gaming turned serious/'mature'.

It certainly wasn't concerned about upsetting or offending anyone and was more fun because of it.

The boss battles and set pieces still top most games released today.

SullysCigar332d ago

This game was absurdly good for it's time. The very definition of 'epic'.

robtion331d ago

Yes. The graphics were just ridiculous compared to most other games on the market at the time.

masterfox332d ago

I wished Ascension had the same treatment.

Heavenly King331d ago

Ascension SP had some things better than GOW3, and also some things worst than GOW3. But in general it was a really good game, for me it also deserves a REMASTER. The problem per se with the game is that most people were satisfied on how GOWIII ended, so Kratos got his revenge, so in order to rise the interest in the game how have to make it MORE EPIC is that the game did not had the epicness of fighting huge bosses (I guess due to technical difficulties,the game had actually a lot more colors (because the world is not dying like in GOWIII) so it is graphically more demanding that is my guess), but it compensated with having in general a more complex combat system, and an amazing soundtrack. but in general the game needed to be more epic than GOWIII somehow, and that did not happened, after GOWIII people had expectations through the roof. They should have waited and release it for PS4 so the vision of the game is not compromised.

My list of good and bad compared to GOWIII

GOOD: THE COMBAT
The combat was more elaborated, which allows you to be more immersed in the fights. Also every enemy was more resistant, even those that you could usually kill in 2-3 attacks in previous games. THE LAST BOSS is so damn epic!!!, but there is only one moment like this in the whole game.

GOOD: LESS QTEs
I love the fact that "cicle" in the new enemies (killing animations) are not QTEs, in Ascension they are mini-games on their own, depending on the enemy, making it more engaging. You had to dodge and hit when the window was open in order to eventually do the killing blow.

GOOD: The Soundtrack
it has the orginal trilogy musics, but with a new perspective since the game had a new composer. The ST was amazing also the new music written specifically for this game were badass

GOOD: The puzzles actually require you to think.

BAD: There are bad camera angles during the game, like zooming way too out of vista, and then swarming you with "light units" that like I said before had better AI and did not die of 2 attacks. those parts a few, but are a mess.

BAD: EMPTY ARENAS
Other thing that really annoyed me is that when you fight a sub-boss/heavy unit in a big arena; that ARENA WAS EMPTY, it was just you and against the medusa, or against the manticore. They should have zoom in into the action to avoid noticing the void scenario. I guess emptiness was because of the game having a lot more colors (because the world is not dying like in GOWIII) so it is graphically more demanding. My guess is that it was not possible technically, since in most of those cases you had huge vistas or intricate scenarios that needed to be rendered. The fact that the cerberus is smaller in this game disappointed me.

BAD: Only one BADASS EPIC moment, the others moments of the game were great but, they needed to set the bar even higher than GOWIII and they failed miserably.

BAD: The graphics did not improved much. I was GOWIII with more colors, and that's it.

So 4 good things against 4 bad ones. The problem is those 2 last BAD aspects are actually why the game was received so poorly. Everyone expects the next game to have a really BIG improvement in all aspects in contrast to the previous one, and that was not the case in ascension. And also GOW is the definition of EPIC, and that was not there neither. The jump on every aspect from GOWI to GOWII was huge being on the same console, and the jump from GOWII to GOWIII was humongous (obviously because a more powerful console). While the jump from GOWIII to Ascension is too little, and people expected more.

On it's own is a good game; but is not sufficient when GOWIII was released before it.

CrimsonWing69332d ago

I know this is unpopular opinion, but I prefer these over the new ones. I’m not saying the new ones are bad or anything, but they sort of get boring to me, whereas the older games were like non-stop roller coaster rides.

ChiefofLoliPolice331d ago

I love the new ones but I understand what you mean. The older ones had more action and was more arcady like.

MIDGETonSTILTS17331d ago

Ragnarok was not BIG at all… GoW1 had larger set pieces, and it was on ps2.

GoW 2018 had big moments in its own way…. Ragnarok abandoned these aspects though

robtion331d ago

I agree. It was just less serious and more fun.

victorMaje332d ago

One of my all time favourites.

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