Earning the "Spartans Stand Tall" Platinum Trophy in God of War III will get you a link to this Web site. There's a compass and lots of rain, but not much else is going on. VG247 wagers it's a teaser for some God of War III DLC but I have a JOURNALISTIC hunch that this is something far more sinister.
Would you say the rain on the "Spartans Stand Tall" Web page is quite ... HEAVY?! Could we be seeing some kind of Heavy Rain meets God of War III collaboration?! This could quite possibly be the ultimate crossover, my friends. The combined power of a Spartan and some dude that wears glasses that sends him to Mars or whatever the f*ck that sh*t is all about will finally eradicate the Xbox 360 and Wii from the world!
No, that's not what this is about at all, you idiot. It's just probably DLC.
Secret God of War website pops up – what’s it for? [VG247]
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Wait I've got it Kratos will be a playable character in the Heavy Rain DLC.
Success is mine!!!
Here are my two guesses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sphacteria
The Spartans, under their commander Epitadas, attempted to come to grips with the Athenian hoplites and push their enemies back into the sea, but Demosthenes detailed his lightly armed troops, in companies of about 200 men, to occupy high points and harass the enemy with missile fire whenever they approached. When the Spartans rushed at their tormentors, the light troops, unencumbered by heavy hoplite armor, were easily able to run to safety; dust and ash from the recent fire, stirred up by the commotion, further contributed to the Spartans' predicament by obscuring their attackers from their sight. Unable to make any headway, the Spartans withdrew in some confusion to the northern end of the island, where they dug in behind their fortifications and hoped to hold out. A stalemate took hold for some time, with the Athenians trying unsuccessfully to dislodge the Spartans from their strong positions. At this point, the commander of the Messenian detachment in the Athenian force, Comon, approached Demosthenes and asked that he be given troops with which to move through the seemingly impassable terrain along the island's shore. His request was granted, and Comon led his men into the Spartan rear through a route that had been left unguarded on account of its roughness. When he emerged with his force, the Spartans, in disbelief, abandoned their defenses; the Athenians seized the approaches to the fort, and the Spartan force stood on the brink of annihilation.
OR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arginusae
The naval Battle of Arginusae took place in 406 BC during the Peloponnesian War just east of the island of Lesbos. In the battle, an Athenian fleet commanded by eight strategoi defeated a Spartan fleet under Callicratidas. The battle was precipitated by a Spartan victory which led to the Athenian fleet under Conon being blockaded at Mytilene; to relieve Conon, the Athenians assembled a scratch force composed largely of newly constructed ships manned by inexperienced crews. This inexperienced fleet was thus tactically inferior to the Spartans, but its commanders were able to circumvent this problem by employing new and unorthodox tactics, which allowed the Athenians to secure a dramatic and unexpected victory.
The news of the victory itself was met with jubilation at Athens, and the grateful Athenian public voted to bestow citizenship on the slaves and metics who had fought in the battle. Their joy was tempered, however, by the aftermath of the battle, in which a storm prevented the ships assigned to rescue the survivors of the 25 disabled or sunken Athenian triremes from performing their duties, and a great number of sailors drowned. A fury erupted at Athens when the public learned of this, and after a bitter struggle in the assembly six of the eight generals who had commanded the fleet were tried as a group and executed.
At Sparta, meanwhile, traditionalists who had supported Callicratidas pressed for peace with Athens, knowing that a continuation of the war would lead to the re-ascendence of their opponent Lysander. This party initially prevailed, and a delegation was dispatched to Athens to make an offer of peace; the Athenians, however, rejected this offer, and Lysander departed to the Aegean to take command of the fleet for the remainder of the war, which would be decided less than a year later by his total victory at Aegospotami.
*SPOILERS*
The problem is one of the characters you play as, you get to hear his thoughts (and engage in the bludgeoning he preforms) so it's not hard to decipher who the Olympus-Killer is.
*End SPOILERS*
Though preform would be one interesting game mechanic.
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Kratos is traveling to the island to merge the timelines, violently destroy resurrected Locke, and ravish Sun, Claire and Kate. enemies will include polar bears, a drunken Sawyer, sharks mysteriously branded with the Dharma logo, Jack's depression beard, Jughead, a somehow sentient Black Rock, and the resurrected Mikhail.
And that code posted earlier is nothing. It just says "here's where to find a .swf file" and "put this shit in English".
If I am seeing that right, I'd bet it means Zeus isn't truly dead (chee, was that a spoiler to events in GoW, seeing as it's what the entire trilogy has led to?) and returns in some DLC.
Remember, he WAS in the form of a storm in parts of the game, all water and lightning.
Interesting objects:
DustStreakz01.mov
RF321H.mov
YOUNG KRATOS copy 4
YOUNG KRATOS copy 3
DustBlowing02.mov
MA122.mov
DustBlowing03.mov
DustWake02.mov
DustWake01.mov
That's the best I can think of.
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