Review copy was provided by the publisher. Pick it up if you want to see Kratos at his greatest. This still remains the best entry in the series to date.
If you’ve never played a God of War game before, and you either don’t have a PS3 or don’t want to play the previous games, you won’t really know what’s going on as it picks up towards the end of the anthology, but the story plays a secondary role to the gory action anyway. Thankfully, God of War III Remastered is only $40, and that price point is quite a bit easier to swallow.
With no real major upgrades to what was already a great game when originally released, this would be a tough sell at full price. You can zoom and pan (but still not rotate) the camera, pick a border, apply one of several color filters, choose that filter’s intensity, and finally hide the UI so you can use the DualShock 4’s Share button to snap a pic. There is now a new photo mode, which allows the player to not only freeze the action at a moment’s notice, but also get the perfect shot to share their finest moments while playing God of War III. Whether on headphones or a home theater setup, you’re sure to feel every hit that Kratos dishes out. Every sound effect, from the groan of a lost soul in Hades to the moans of pleasure of Aphrodite as you…entertain her are crisp and of the highest quality. I’m not sure there was any room to improve on the original God of War III’s audio work, as most of it was loss-less or nearly so, and in 7.1 surround sound no less. Kratos is rage incarnate, and you learn to appreciate just how much vitriol he has towards the Gods in a short amount of time.Īudibly, the same score and sound effects are here in full force. This is not a game you play in front of children. Other games still feel tame compared to God of War III. The beginning sequence, which sees you killing Poseidon in a gruesome, first-person view, sets the tone and reminds you that when it comes to brutal violence, none can top Kratos. God of War III is still like no other game that has come before or after it. It shows just how simple the control scheme of God of War III is, and yet the game retains its characteristic difficulty level - expect to die several times on Normal mode, and at almost every boss encounter on Hard or higher modes.
I found myself very quickly pulling in enemy after enemy, with a combo count in the hundreds, as if I had been playing the game on a regular basis in the meantime. Since the game is the same as when it first released, there are no real surprises to be found anymore, unless you haven’t played the game in a long time and have forgotten most of it. If you had previously played God of War III, then you’ll fall into your old gameplay tactics here in no time.