Mashing Buttons

After my initial return to the world of Kratos I’ve pretty much dropped everything else to stat playing this in the three or four minutes I have spare each day.  Whilst fleeting those minutes are full of bloody awesomeness and innovative use of the PS3 controller to kill people.

The story goes like this, the Titans are mounting an assault on Olympus and are all climbing up the sheer cliffs of the mountain.  In HD it looks fantastic and the rumble in the controller adds to the overall effect of the sequences.  You as Kratos are climbing up the back of Gaia helping her shake off the weird crab horse water thingies that keep impaling her.

The graphics are a huge improvement over the PS2

Eventually you come face to face with Poseidon himself which is exactly like meeting Raiden from Mortal Kombat in real life, quite awesome yet a little intimidating, I mean he is a god and all.  But you have the shits with him so it’s time to kill (I’m talking about Poseidon again, don’t try and kill Raiden in real life just cause you’ve got the shits unless you are Johnny Cage in real life).

The fight itself is what you would pretty much expect from God of War, a lot of hacking, slashing and mashing.  Some running but generally not that much required in the area of strategy (not a complaint) but it’s when you’ve got him on the ropes and you’ve kicked his mortal looking butt out of his giant battle mode that things take a turn for the innovative at least for me anyway.

Most of the ensuing fight sequence is from the point of view of Poseidon, so when you are hitting the right sequence of buttons you are seeing it from Poseidon’s point of view whilst Kratos kicks nine colours of shit out of him.  That was kind of unsettling but very awesome but then at the very end of the fight you have to put his eyes out with your thumbs and to do so you simulate it on the controller with the R3 and L3 buttons – just like if you were really jamming your thumbs in there!

That’s brilliant!!

I actually hollered.  It was a very dignified affair.

Then of course you go after Zeus who I’m kind of confused as I thought I crippled his ass in the last one, but apparently I didn’t (I get the idea that someone took his beating on his behalf).  Zeus is the boss for a reason and he smacks Gaia and Kratos and they fall.

Now you spent a lot of time helping keep the horse spider things off of Gaia’s back you would think the least she could do is help a Spartan out.  Nope she leaves Kratos for dead and so begins the next stage where we head on down to hell.

Excellent.