God of War (PS2)

Game Diary / July 27, 2005 / John

Muhh – challenge of Atlas and Cliffs of Atlas pwn0red. <b>And</b> I yanked the head off some poor dead guy to use his skull as a key. No, really! And then I jumped onto a big rolly spiky thing and barrel-ran along it and jumped onto a ladder. Or was that before the head-pulling bit? Anyway, I’m still struggling through Pandora’s temple. I have one nymph key, and I suspect there are another two still to find.

It’s getting tough, though – enemies seem to be appearing in ridiculous numbers.

John

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Game Diary / July 25, 2005 / John

Well, I had a wee 45 minute session at this tonight. Just hacked and slashed my way through the Challenge of Atlas, which was…..interesting. It’s getting pretty important to get power ups, though – the enemies are getting pretty tough (and I just HATE gorgons). The game remains stunning, visually, and although it’s essentially Gauntlet in pseudo-3D, it’s still managing to keep me interested.

Save points are becoming a welcome site – early on in the game, I thought they were scattered around a little liberally, but they’re now far enough apart to be challenging. Another bonus is that the checkpoints seem to be fairly well placed as well – one a hard bit has been successfully completed, it’s pretty much certain that a checkpoint will be triggered. All to the good.

Not had a boss fight in a while, though. Just loads and loads of bad guys 😉

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Game Diary / July 10, 2005 / John

He’s really not a very nice man. In fact, one particularly girly jumped off the top of a building trying to get away from him. It’s also a little suspect that murdering innocent bystanders is a handy way to get health quickly :-/

Anyhoo, I’m on the road to Athens. In the background there’s a very tall man, beating the hell out of the city – presumably this is Ares. The place seems to be full of big club wielding thingies, Minotaurs and Gorgons. The gorgons are particularly nasty as you can easily get yourself into an instant death situation if, for example, you’re in mad jump when they petrify you. If you’re shattered by an enemy or by hitting the ground as stone, it’s instant game over.

So, tricky, but not frustratingly so. I’m only a couple of hours in, but I’ve got past the button mashing monotony. There’s one particular enemy which you must use a combo on – at which point I discovered that pulling off combos is actually easier than button mashing. Fab.

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Game Diary / July 9, 2005 / John

Got this on a loaner – a friend of mine reckoned my boy would like it, given he’s really into greek mythology. Having seen it, however, there’s no chance in hell he’s playing it just yet – for a couple of reasons:

Firstly, it really isn’t suitable for kids. It has an eighteen certificate on it which I don’t think is justified. Sure, it’s very gory with the occasional bit of gratuitous nudity, but it doesn’t deserve an 18. Fifteen, or possibly even 12, maybe. The violence is neither here nor there – sure, there are exploding heads a plenty, but most of the enemies are mythical creatures, so it’s all pretty abstract.

Second reason he’s not playing it – cos I am. It’s ACEBEST. It’s certainly one of the best looking PS2 games I’ve seen. This game and Ico make the PS2 worth owning. The controls are fluid, it’s very easy to pull off massive, beautifully animated, combos, and the puzzle elements are very reminiscent of the first Tomb Raider game.

So, I’ve romped my way over a ship, killing the biggest Hydra I’ve ever seen and slicing and dicing my way through hordes of nasties, only to arrive in Athens and discover that the God Ares is laying seige to the cities with an army of minotaurs and other assorted nasties.

Fortunately, Aphrodite has just given me the ability to use Gorgon powers to turn enemies to stone – a new definition of “Hard Stare”. Actually killing Medusa to get the power was proving a little tricky (in fact, the game actually asked me if I wanted to switch to easy mode after my nth death, cheeky blighter) until I remembered the nifty “god mode” power up I’d acquired a short period earlier. Chop chop, medusa soup.

So, I can now turn people to stone at will and then crunch them into little bits. Fab.

John

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