God of War reviews dropping. IGN gave it a perfect 10!

Never played a God Of War game but looks like I have to play this one. It’s one thing to say a game is great but the reviews for this are insane!!!

Them God of War reviews tho.

That's... what he said.

God of War games are GOAT. I played them all for the first time recently and they hold up well.

I love the GOW series (except Ascension which was decent but not great imo). I'm a little concerned that they completely changed the combat on it from what had worked in the past with removing the jump feature, but I probably will still get it. I don't know if it's a good or bad thing seeing all of these reviews being this good...almost too good lol.

One of my favorite series. Recently played through the entire series again on my ps4 in anticipation of this. Never got tired of the formula before. Imo they always kept what worked but introduced new things with each game to keep it fresh. That said, I'm excited for the new take on one of my favorite characters. Everything I've seen or heard (soundtrack on spotify) has been absolutely gorgeous. First day pick up for me ainec

Is there any chance of a review embargo effect here? There's so many already though that it doesn't seem like there could possibly be many outlets waiting for release day...

I told myself I was going to hold off on buying it. I lasted all of 10 mins on Twitch before ordering it.

God of War is incredible!

Stop the schill posts!!!

Ok, I'm going to buy it at lunch today lol.

Remember to hide spoilers boys and girls.

Can you provide a bit more insight? I have not been a fan of any other GOW games. Does this change anything in any significant way that would help with that?

I'm really looking forward to playing it but I'm so busy and want to start at a time when I can sit down and enjoy it for large sessions. My only issue is that every time I see Kratos all I can think of is Tommaso Ciampa.

This is a pretty good non spoiler summary of why it's doing so well. It really does look amazing:

Yeah I watched Christopher Odd do the first ten minutes and then stopped.

It's achingly beautiful. The type of game that has me convinced we are much closer to full immersion than we really know.

Alright, took the plunge. First $60 purchase in a long time for me. It's nice that (assuming this works) I can have my PS4 downloading it while I'm at work so it's ready to go when I'm home.

I have GoW FOMO. Super busy but maybe can get into it in a week or so. Maybe by some miracle it'll be down to 40 by then

Yeah sure. For reference I didn't play any of the PS2/3 GoW games, but I did get the God of War 3 Remastered on PS4 back when it came out (2015?) and played through most of it. Thought it was OK, was glad to have checked it out but not one of my favourites by any means. I didn't complete it, and this week in preparation for the new one I loaded it up again to maybe finish it off - turns out I had about 11 hours played, and from a youtube walkthrough I'm about 2-3 hours from completion. I played it for maybe 30 minutes and couldn't really be bothered. Watched the "Story of God of War in 7 minutes" by IGN instead for a recap, which while worthwhile considering how short it is isn't required at all - this is a new story in a different setting. It is enough to know Kratos is a demigod, son of Zeus and a human (I think) - and in the previous games was a rage filled monster and brutally killed almost all gods of Greek legend.

So now, some unknown time later he's older. Has a big beard and son, and has moved to Norway or wherever Norse mythology takes place instead of Olympus. Norse mythology - Thor & Mjolnir, Odin etc is awesome!

First off, the presentation - GoW was always visually very impressive, but this is on another level. It's perhaps one of the best looking games ever... add a PS4 Pro and it can almost manage 60fps in 1080p or the normal 30fps in 4K and it looks insane. The animation / performance capture work is superb. Easily up there with Uncharted 4, which is likely the previous high water mark. Every movement just looks so incredibly natural. The sound is also very impressive. Teal'c from Stargate SG1 (Christopher Judge) is the new voice of Kratos, and he's perfect. Great orchestral music. Thunderous bass when appropriate. It's all very impressive.

Then, there's the new combat style. GoW3 remaster was basically a button-masher (sorry if this causes offense to fans). It never felt particularly tactical. Also, a QTE-fest. A product of it's timers, perhaps - and yeah kinda fun, but not exactly popular in 2018. This is not like that. But it sorta does respect the heritage! New style is like an amazing mixture of Dark Souls / Nioh light/heavy/evade/roll/shield/parry + the old formula, with some DOOM 2016 mixed in there also lol. It is visceral, tactical and (if you so choose) hard! A lot is to do with the close camera and the aforementioned amazing animation and sound, but every move feels weighty and full of power. Plus your new weapon is basically Mjolnir in axe form, it's very cool throwing and recalling it as you wish. It's a bit early for me to say but it seems like there will be a lot of depth in the various combat upgrade trees / unlockable moves / gear.

It's a large game - probably of similar size to Horizon Zero Dawn, but it's not quite "open world", much more of a tight narrative. There is plenty of exploration though and supposedly many great storylines / areas are hidden off the main quest path. It's possible some would consider it open world, I haven't got very far but it did just appear to open up quite a lot. At a minimum, the world should be considered "interconnected" kinda like Bloodborne. The hardest difficulty "Give me God of War" is said to be almost a "New Game+" - remixed enemies with new move sets and locations, but not quite since it's starting over rather than continuing with your previous gear / unlocks.

That's probably enough gushing lol.

Sounds awesome - can’t wait until it’s $20 in a couple of years! Maybe then I’ll have cleared 1/4 of my backlog...probably not though.

Interestingly I had almost the exact same GoW experience as you, although I did slog through the end (and what a slog the final sequence was!) I have not been particularly impressed with any of the PS exclusive franchises except HZD was awesome and now this looks really great.

I absolutely love the original GOW games and wasn't someone who felt a reworking was needed. Lol me. Just put in a 7 hr session of this game. Dave basically nailed it. PS4 owners need to buy this immediately. It's early, but so was BOTW, unless something comes out of nowhere we are probably talking GOTY.

Red Dead 2 hopefully but it's Rockstar's first game without The Benz so I'm a little concerned.

That probably wont be out until 2025

Another neat thing - there are absolutely zero loading screens / delays once you're playing.

If you're a cinema buff, you may appreciate the whole thing is "filmed" in one-take - there are no cuts, it blends seamlessly from close action shots to wide sweeping vista to conversational "cut scene" - can add "camera work" to the list of incredible things in this game.

I got sick after about 20 minutes in and then finally stopped at about 45 minutes. Hopefully it was just a glitch since I had playing some souls games and had no issues, so hopefully it was just a freak incident. The attacks seemed a bit slow, but maybe I just need to get used to it. Graphics wise it looks great and a very solid story buildup at the start.