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If you're anything like me, I'm sure you had quite a laugh when the mobile phone game, God of War: Betrayal, was announced by Sony Online Entertainment. The idea of trying to translate the visceral excitement of the series to the mobile platform is somewhat an absurdity as far as I'm concerned. 
 
But I have to admit, this video has me calling my mobile carrier (Sprint) and asking "Hey, when the hell am I going to be able to rip a centaur's legs off with my Blades of Chaos ... and why do you keep screwing up my bill every month?"
 
Early hands-on with the game have been positive, and since I get off on tearing stuff apart with my bare hands, I'm definitely looking forward to tearing stuff apart in my bare hands. Something has to replace my mobile Tetris addiction, and it may as well be oodles of violence.

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fromagex's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/14/2007 22:07
fromagex
that actually does look surprisingly good.
s0lesurviv0r's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/14/2007 23:14
s0lesurviv0r
Did I see Hermes? Looks interesting, but I'd rather someone rip the character animations for gifs more than anything.
tazarthayoot's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2007 01:27
tazarthayoot
The character animation of Kratos is extremely good for a cell phone, I'm pretty impressed.
bleep's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2007 01:36
bleep
This looks like the best NES title EVAARAAAAAARRRRR!

Though this is pretty sw33t!
Reeper's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2007 02:48
Reeper
hmm.
i guess they might not do a shittacular job after all. looks good :D
Tron Knotts's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2007 05:55
Tron Knotts
I prefer 2D fighters to 3D ones, so this looks great to me.

I'd rather they had gone this route for the PSP version, with CPS III quality graphics of course.
galagabug 's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2007 08:17
galagabug
that looks damn good.
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2007 09:37
Tubatic
Great stuff, but I'm still curious what this is running under / on. (J2ME/BREW, MotoV3?)
Kinsella's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2007 10:44
Kinsella
2D God of War = 8 shades of awesome.
Nick Chester's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2007 13:16
Nick Chester
I don't know too much about the mobile platforms, so I can't answer any specific questions. But I do know that I own a Q Smartphone and SOE has said there's a "possibility" of the game being on the platform, although I highly doubt it.
nsolo1717's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2007 13:49
nsolo1717
i would hope this would be compatible with windows mobile 5 , but for some reason i highly doubt it =(
DinnertimeNinja's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2007 16:13
DinnertimeNinja
I'm not buying it. I guess I'm in the minority when I say the game looks like crap, but seriously, phone limitations or not, the game looks and moves like it's at 10-FPS if you're lucky.

These types of games don't belong on cell phones. Because the controls will inevitably suck, the designers can't actually put any SKILL into the game. What fun is a game with no challenge whatsoever?

I'll stick to Tetris and Yahtzee and Bowling on my phone, thank you.
DinnertimeNinja's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/15/2007 16:15
DinnertimeNinja
Actually, you know what I just thought? A tactics style game could posibly be done well on a cellphone.

They don't need precise controls and have a lot of just up, down, left, right, menu selection.
Blunderpuss's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/27/2007 19:30
Blunderpuss
God of War: Betrayel is something of a ground-breker for the mobile platform. Most people don't even realize that cell-phones are even capable of playing games. Although I wonder why, as they play music and video.
Anyway, for those who put down the concept of cell-phone games, let me remind you that the state of the art on these is certainly back in the 16 bit era of console platforms. Does anyone remember the original Nintendo platform? One thing to be aware of. GoW:B looks best on a cell-phone that is capable of showing the true excellence (for the platform it runs on) of the graphics. Some are not. That said, I KNOW that GoW:B is being ported to about 1200 different phones.
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