Hasn’t the man been through enough? However, when a stoic, bearded, and regretful Kratos stepped out into the Nordic landscape, many dropped those doubts. Some fans rolled their eyes that there is more to the Kratos story. RELATED: God Of War: 15 Gods Kratos Took Down & How He Did It There goes the saying, if at first you don’t succeed, try again.
Not only did players find out he got another game, but he got another family. That after-credit hint that Kratos survived his wounds was no bluff. The Spartan God’s journey was apparently far from over. Many even entertained the idea that Kratos perished from his wounds. Floods, disease, storms, spirits, and all kinds of disasters rained down on Greece. Instead, because the game is so dominated by triumphant thrills, regardless of their cost, it just shrugs and says “well, the gods were evil anyway, so you were really HELPING.” Kratos never learns anything, which is a big miss for a game promising the mother of all endings.Many God of War fans thought the third game was the end of the franchise, and why wouldn’t they? From all that Kratos wrought, it seemed the entire world was destroyed. It would be a resonant and tragic arc if God of War 3 had the conviction to carry it through properly - to force Kratos into learning, changing or even regretting anything. The world beneath Olympus, a wonderfully crafted land of snarling dangers and obscenely large statues, suffers because no-one is in control of the sun, the ocean or the weather by the time Kratos is done. Kratos ruining his own game is a poetic outcome in a sense, given that God of War 3 often tries to connect his wholesale slaughter of larger-than-life gods to the literal end of the world.
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And his interaction with the ladies, is, well, let’s just say the portrayal of women in God of War 3 has aged about a hundred times faster than the rest of the game - it now comes in at a full 1080p if the ‘p’ is for “please don’t let anybody walk in during this cutscene.” What interesting mechanical puzzles and incidental characters there are don’t really have time to be thoughtful, because revenge revenge revenge. It makes sense, then, for the combat to be meaty and beautifully animated, but also sloppy and indiscriminate, destined to end in repetitive executions. Kratos, for example, is preoccupied with guttural roaring and unhinged savagery directed in 360 degrees. Maybe it’s more akin to Ray Harryhausen having a vivid nightmare.Īnd it doesn’t happen because of careless design - it’s really a product of the game’s shape being in service of its lead character (which you usually want). If you squint, God of War 3 Remastered almost has the hand-made physicality and screen presence of Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion effects, minus the telltale jitter. Bumped to a razor-sharp resolution of 1080p and an unwavering 60 frames per second, the environments, muscular characters and screen-shaking animations come to an unreal life. Think of the work in Remastered as a to-do checklist, every bit as fatal to a formerly compromised presentation as Kratos’ vengeance is to the average god.
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The PlayStation 4 upgrade really makes it a marvel all over again, even if the clean-up work is just visual. This is God of War at its heftiest, performing a kind of gameplay cinematography that puts absurd violence, story progression and glimpses of a meticulously realized world into one coherent motion.
As the battle goes on, the camera flows over and under its subjects to keep up with incoming challenges to the player: there’s climbing underneath the palm of a giant hand, chain-swinging between massive shoulders, frantic fighting on a gnarled wrist and a multi-stage showdown against Poseidon, the massive oceanic god that just manages to fit into an already crowded frame. God of War 3 starts with one of the most well-assembled spectacles in modern games, and though its impact dissipates over the course of your rampage it remains the crystallized form of God of War’s aspirations as a series.
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