I've been wanting to pick this up for some time now but the horrible traffic and parking situation in the Greenhills area scared me off. After facing my fears and braving the horrors of GSC in mid-December, I came home with my copy of GoW Collection, with my car drained of a quarter tank of gas, and my mind bearing horrible, traumatic scars that will take some time to heal.
I picked up the R3 version because it came with a voucher for the GoW 3 demo, which sad to say I hadn't played yet before now. After queueing the DL for that up (at an expectedly monstrous 2.6 gigs), I got started on God of War 1, which, as I previously stated, I never finished all the way through on the PS2 due to my buying a dud copy. Amazingly, the graphics still hold up pretty well even after all these years, primarily because of the HD facelift (and the consistent framerate of 60fps). Things get a bit hairy when you do an extreme closeup (as the character models, which were left unchanged, are pretty blocky) but when I was actually playing the game it didn't really bother me that much. The only beef I have with the presentation is the video - as many reviews have stated, it's jarringly poor-quality, and when you're playing on an HDTV (which, really, is the only reason anybody would have to pick this game up) the shift to low-res video then back to the high-res game engine really takes you out of the experience.
Still, the fantastic direction, great gameplay and pinpoint perfect control are all present and accounted for, and in the end that's what counts. Having never played God of War II in my life (and hearing such universally glowing praise - by most accounts, the sequel was a far superior game to the first, which is rare), I'm really excited about polishing off the first game and getting started on GoW2. I just hope all this relentless God-of-War-ing I'm doing doesn't burn me out for the third game. March na lalabas yun!.... kasabay ng Yakuza 3 and Final Fantasy XIII. Ouch, tatlo. Yari na naman wallet ko. :-(
Oh, and speaking of GoW3, I know I'm way late to the party on this but that demo kicked major, major ass. That was fucking incredible! :-)
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