On the professional website of "God of War" concept artist Cecil Kim, he's posted an image of the "Fire Titan" from "God of War III." From what we can tell, he's a large and fiery creature with lava spewing from various orifices. The description merely says, "Fire Titan battles against Zeus and his allies." Think this is an epic boss we can look forward to?
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The last comparison I expected to draw from this week's "Monsters vs. Aliens" demo was "God of War," but that's exactly what part of Activision's adaptation of DreamWorks' animated film felt like -- including ripping out a cyclops' (well…robot's) eye! Read more...
The 2009 PlayStation 3 lineup Sony recently announced caused some to raise eyebrows, but today's PSP news delivered clarification about when we'll be playing "God of War III," "Heavy Rain," and others: their release window extends into March 2010. Read more...
Sony's already confident in what they'll be delivering to PlayStation 3 owners this year, releasing a press release confirming "God of War III," "MAG," "Heavy Rain" and others are all coming this year. Read more...
There was something wrong with the first "God of War III" trailer. This new one fixes that. Also: new screens of "God of War III" in action. Read more...
How many undead warriors do you see?
Sony's press release today trumpeting last night's debut "God of War III" gameplay trailer boasted of some major graphical improvements. The upcoming PS3 game will have "groundbreaking depth of scale that is four times larger" than that of "God of War II." It will have "quadrupled" texture resolutions. And the game will depict "many more enemies on-screen ."
Impressive! So impressive that we had to start counting.
See below for a large screen capture from the trailer full of enemies piling onto our anti-hero Kratos. How many undead warriors do you see joining the fray?
We count 31. Read more...
I heard there were going to be major announcements and surprises at Spike's Video Game Awards on December 14th. I was told there'd be major appearances -- even after I told the organizers that I, a VGA judge, would not be able to attend.
So we're getting... Jack Black as a host. World premiere gameplay footage from Black's "Brutal Legend" game. "God of War III" gameplay footage of some sort. And more. On Spike on December 14th.
Plus the winners of Awards I voted in. Not bad!
More details and game debuts announced in the press release below: Read more...
Potential "God of War" movie maker Brett Ratner would really like to make a "Guitar Hero" movie.
But the "X-Men" and "Rush Hour" director doesn't think Activision would want him to.
Ratner spoke to my MTV News colleague Jocelyn Vena yesterday for an interview primarily about his "Best Director" Video Music Awards nomination for his work on Miley Cyrus' "7 Things" music video. Since Ratner has done a lot with "Guitar Hero" lately -- he had Miley pretending to smash "Guitar Hero" instruments on the set of "7 Things," had "GH" in his Mariah Carey video and got it on American Idol -- we needed to ask him what else he has in store for the game.
This was his unexpected response:
"I love 'Guitar Hero' and I think it's a part of pop culture. I would love to do a 'Guitar Hero' movie, if Activision would ever let me. I'm trying to convince them, but why would you have a movie screw up such a huge franchise? Not that I would make a bad movie. So that would be cool, to do a 'Guitar Hero' movie. "
And here is his idea for the plot: Read more...
Should game developers and designers have their names on the boxes of the games they make?
We posed this question recently to EA CEO John Riccitiello, who explained why Steven Spielberg's name should be on a game box and why Will Wright's shouldn't.
We've read discussions from gamers arguing for and against the idea. Those against say there's too many people to name, that manuals and the end credits are enough and that's it not fair to single certain people out. Those for having names on boxes, including one David Jaffe, say that games should give credit like movies do because the creative and technical folks behind the project really make the game, and the name recognition allows game makers to have the credibility and leverage while making their way through this booming industry.
You can expand the "Boom Blox" images above to test our first example.
Now let's see what what the boxes of "Super Mario Galaxy," "God of War," "Halo 3" and "Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution" would look like if their creators were given credit... Read more...
On Wednesday I...
- Started "Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core" and had a very poor initial impression, which I will detail more tomorrow. (OK. One thing can't be held back: Is there a "Final Fantasy" that has a lead character who doesn't whine? Have they made that yet?)
- Finished "God of War: Chains Of Olympus" after experiencing...
The Official Stages Of Tough "God Of War" Boss-Battling:
1) eager first attempt
2) pathetic second, third, fourth attempt
3) doubt that I can ever get past the boss
4) anger at the developers for making it so hard to pass the finish line after all the progress I had made in the game
5) hope that like other "God of War" games it would offer me the chance to drop down in difficulty
6) disappointment/cheer that it didn't do that
7) blinding rage that the pre-boss-battle cut-scene is unskippable EVERY TIME
8 ) finally a breakthrough in recognizing the boss's pattern
9) victory.
- Got most of my goblin army burned to death in "Overlord."
- Played several EA Casual games at a press event, including the mobile versions of "Scrabble," "Merv Griffin's Crosswords," and "Boom Blox." Also played the Wii version of a multi-platform game that I can't talk about until next week. While playing the mobile "Scrabble" game I learned that "MALER" is not a word. You know, as in "more male than you" -- doesn't count. Really.
Next: I hopefully find my PS3 power cord so I can play that system again. And I will try to play "Crisis Core" and like it at the same time.
