God of War III [PS3] - Page 3

Dammit, I missed the Helios pickup item.

Just finished it now, and wow what an ending. It makes sense for Kratos to die since I believe it's a good end for his journey. Even if he gets his vengeance, there isn't much for him left in the world, or what's left since the world is in chaos. Throughout playing the GoW series, I never trusted Athena since she contradicted herself before. Not surprised that she wanted the power of hope for herself in order to rule, but instead Kratos unleashed it on the world, which is a fitting end. Also, at the end of the credits, there is a scene of trail of blood leading to the cliffs, so I guess Kratos might be alive.

I always felt like God of War could only end well if after killing Zeus Kratos would kill himself, and not surprisingly they made it happen. I just kinda sat there and nodded my head because I completely understood why he did it. Overall I thought the game was awesome, it fully met my expectations and then some. I knew I was going to be fighting gods the entire game, but actually playing the game it was much better than I ever pictured it to be. And the Hercules fight was a very nice bonus (lol at Kevin Sorbo voicing him, I noticed that right away and laughed so hard while I was owning him).

Sadly there were a couple things that disappointed me in GOW3.

First and the biggest gripe I have about the game is the reintroduction of Athena as your guiding character. Pandora fit the role just fine, in fact she fit it so well I thought the Athena thing was a joke for a while. But no, sadly Athena wasn't a trick or anything at all. But I found her entire presence in the game completely superfluous and very distasteful. Especially the end where she tries to gain power by take it back from Kratos. I implore anyone reading this, picture God of War 3 without her presences. Doesn't it seem like a much better game now?

Secondly, and I think everyone will agree with me on this one, the weapon variety was balls. You get 3 blades of whatever-they-called-them-this-game and the Cestus. Really once you get the Cestus there is little need for weapon switching. Here's a quick list of possible weapons to introduce that would have livened up the variety of weapons in the game: Sword of Olympus (cool its main part of the rage bar, but its also a good weapon), Poseidon's Trident (I know I know, you already have it and it lets you breathe under water, but it can also be used as a weapon, Chronos' Sickle (its already part of greek mythology, and you fight him in the game to get your final weapon anyway), any mythological sword other than Sword of Olympus in combination with the Aegis, a huge axe (axe finishers are awesome). I would mention scythe but I actually think that would be a pretty lame weapon for Kratos to use, and Hades was already shown using his claw weapon in the previous god of war so they had to add those ... they didn't have to make them attack like the blades though.

Oh well, great game. 10/10, but thats a given.

Are you kidding me? I thought the weapon selection in this game was great. The only weapon that I never used a whole lot was the lighting weapon. I actually WANTED to use the weapons they gave me in this game compared to the previous two. And the gauntlets were so unbelievably badass lol. I don't think many people will agree with you on that one pal

You're agreeing with me right now when you say the gauntlets are badass. Thats pretty much all I used after I got them.