Remember a few weeks back when David Jaffe told us
how amazing Sony’s God of War III looked? Jaffe’s description of his private viewing in Santa Monica was simple, but robust at the same time:
HOLY HOLY HOLY F---ING HELL!!!
At the Spike TV Videogame Awards show,
new footage of God of War III was shown to the masses. While impressive, the teaser wasn’t making us fall out of our chairs and write curse-laden blog posts. Recently, Jaffe cleared up the matter
on his blog by saying that what he saw in Santa Monica wasn’t exactly what the viewers glimpsed during the Awards. Sure, that footage was there, but it wasn’t what blew his mind:
What I was raving about has not been shown outside of internal Sony meetings. I imagine it will be shown soon, but I have no idea. I also assume that the Spike stuff was turned in earlier than the stuff I saw (that I raved about) as the stuff I saw was for a meeting and didn’t need to be edited, reviewed by Spike, Sony, marketing, etc..
He went on to write that the stuff he was going crazy about “was probably finished 1-2 days before I got to the studios. The Spike stuff I saw had [already] been turned into Spike, so it was 100% older.” He added that the “new stuff I saw looked further along, for sure.” Jaffe ended by saying that he had nothing to gain if the game succeeded, which leads us to infer that his gushy comments are completely objective.
[via Kotaku]
Contest:
9:30 AM on 12.16.2008
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God of War is one of the only games i would like to play doesnt need to be hyped up!! Just means it will fail more if it suxs!
As it is, I personally think it looks very, very good, and I imagine based on what I've seen and read the past two days that we in the end be impressed by what they give us.
Also, for what it's worth, it does look better in HD if you get it on PSN, and if you come across some of the bigger screenshots, it looks very good. The environments in particular are actually quite impressive, in terms of lighting and atmosphere.
I'm still very excited.
GOW3 did look like a res bumped-up version of GOW2. HOWEVER, that isn't to say that the game did look GOOD (and it did) but if I'm playing a next gen game, i shouldn't have to "pause" a damn thing for it to show me it's next gen. I like my games animated , spank you very much.
Now, if you look at screenshots and analyze the video closely like I have (I'm a fanboy for GoW), you'll notice the game features some incredible lighting and some nice environments.
Either way, the game will look great, perhaps not amazing, but great, and the gameplay will of course back it up. Not to mention the epic story and cinematic presentation.
Oh, and the tits. Can't forget the tits.
In HD.
But personally, I just want it to play well, with plenty of blood spraying everywhere (and splashing onto Kratos this time).
Jus kidding. I believe Jaffe.