When Sony revealed God of War: Collection, I almost sh*t my pelvis out with delight. Having the first two games in the wonderful series conveniently stored on a Blu-ray disc is great, and I can't wait to get hold of it. In the meantime, Sony has been explaining what changes will be made to the games before they hit the PS3.
We already know that God of War 1 & 2 will be "remastered" for the Blu-ray release. Anti-aliasing, 720p HD and Trophy support are all present. The games otherwise will be largely untouched, but there may be some tweaks and upgrades coming to keep things looking fantastic.
"So, we're still kind of evaluating," explains Sony's John Hight. "but we were prepared to upgrade the textures, at least on Kratos on both games, but honestly it's looking so good that we're thinking, you know what? It's probably better to keep it in its pure form.
"It looked great back on the PS2 on a regular TV, or even an HDTV, but once you get into an HDTV running at 720p, some of the text gets a little weedy, so we are going to swap that out."
The changes made won't be overbearing or affect gameplay, however, due to fears that development will then snowball into a full remake: "If we open up that can of worms, we would probably spend another year trying to right any wrongs we may have had, or areas that were perhaps a little more difficult in retrospect than we had hoped they would be. Instead, we kind of took the stance that we want it to be the pure experience, what people would have played when they played God of War originally."
The God of War series has been consistently excellent, so I doubt many gameplay tweaks are even needed. Now I'll resume patiently tapping my feet until this collection gets into my hands.
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10:00 AM on 09.02.2009
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Whilst this could be one of the best purchases on the PS3, I've only just completed God of War I... and I hated those god-damned balance beam parts.
Now do I get GoWII for PS2, or this, and replay both in a superior resolution and silky smooth animation?
Bah!
I'm particularly excited about this since the god of war series has renewed my love for the beat'em all genre.
I loved the music on both but I couldn't say anything about the sound quality since back in the ps2 days I only had a SD tv with no fancy sound system.
Just make it really pretty and they just made my $50.
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Word. The God of War games are probably my favorite new series of last generation. It's good something like this can expand its base so much.
Also, @ R3Y
If it's in your butt, how are you supposed to play it? Sounds like a logistical nightmare.
@michealb99
It's like they're crying.
@R3Y GUTI3RR3Z
Redtube. That's all I'm saying.
He's kidding. Golden is saying that Ares looks like a giant Gannondorf.
@Golden
That's QUITE early in the game. It really picks up after that.
I'm glad that didn't go over everyone's heads but yeah it probably does get better so I might try it again. The begining either makes it or breaks it for me making me quit God of War, The Elder Scrolls and Mirior's Edge simply because of their damn boring beginings. I guess if I don't feel like I'm getting anywhere I just stop playing. It happens with most games but I get over it sometimes.
Try playing the old ones now and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how well they hold up.
With the awesome art direction and the PS2 limitations being pushed to the max these games honestly look better than just about anything on the Wii (a few games like SMG excluded) and almost stack up to the lower end current gen games.
After that "no PS2 games on PS3, so it's impossible" announcement my smile turned upside down.
Now I'm bouncing on my chair from glee and want.
My PS2 recently broke down, and I sold my PS2 games bacause of this, because I finished them all and don't really care to play them again, exept for the GOWs.
And now, with this collection, I can finaly do that GOW marathon I always dreamed off :D
Also, trophies. =]
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