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Slaughter: Horror at Sony's depraved promotion stunt with decapitated goat

The Daily Mail reports that Sony's bizarre PR campaigns may of finally crossed the line when the corpse of the decapitated animal was the centrepiece of a party to celebrate the launch of the God Of War II game for the company's PlayStation 2 console.

Sony has said that "It has come to our attention that at the God Of War II launch showcase, an element of the event was of an unsuitable nature. We are conducting an internal inquiry into aspects of the event in order to learn from the occurrence and put into place measures to ensure that this does not happen again."

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Bigmac5736220d ago

Its a fvcking goat. Who cares, go back to eating your meat.

InMyOpinion6220d ago

You, my friend...are a f@cking moron. You must've been born through @ss to write comments like those. A decapitated goat? This really shows how desperate Sony are for some real next gen games.

dantesparda6219d ago

Come on Bigmac, this just wrong. Decapitated goats!? that's just fvcked up. Not good publicity in my opinion

Neutral Gamer6220d ago

Topless girls, live snakes, eating food from decapitated animals.

Don't know about you lot, but that sounds like my idea of a party!

kewlkat0076220d ago (Edited 6220d ago )

when Ken leaves office?.........I gotta say,this has no taste, fanboys or not, aside. If I had kids, that's not the kind of marketing I want, that would make them purchase a game. A little kid might be horrified..come on you don't need this..

The world has becomed more sensitive to animal cruelty, global warmings and such..so if there was a backlash I can see why. When I seen this I wasn't thinking a video game. Just because it's a Mature game still doesn't mean mature people are insensitive to animal cruelty. Well at least in this marketing fashion.

I mean, people eat meat everyday, but who wants to go to a farm and see Cattle get chopped up from the neck down.(ofcourse I'am not a vegetrian, but that doesn't mean every gamer mature or not, is a meat eater.

EZCheez6220d ago

This would scare the hell out of my kids, but I doubt there were any kids at the launch party.

I wonder if PETA has heard about this yet? They would have a field day.

TheExecutive6220d ago

but GOW isnt for the kids anyway. They really shouldnt be playing that game or going to the parties... still kinda crazy i guess

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Blackmoses6220d ago

why would you take your kids to a launch party with scantily dressed women all over in the first place? The goat, yeah it may have been in bad taste but I'm sure that grown ass'd adults were there to see all that could be seen. It would be no place to take a child in the first place. Idiotic comment! If you were going to take them there you might as well take them to the strip joint.
Stop trying to make the situation worse than it really is....

Diselage6219d ago

God of War II is not a kids game and if you were a responsible parent or adult you wouldn't let your kid play this game.

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kingofps36220d ago

This could get real bad as everybody wanna take shots at sony.

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Ranking Every God of War Game From Worst to Best

Cultured Vultures: Let’s delve into Kratos’ long and rampageous history and find out which games are worth the hype and which are better left buried under the weight of Kratos’s might.

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JL2930183d ago

Both requels over 2 and 3? Clowns. Those are two of the most boring games I've ever played.

Snookies12183d ago

GoW 3 was amazing, but I personally hated just one thing. (This is on me alone, because I was dumb, lol.) I hated that you couldn't skip cutscenes on repeat playthroughs. I had to go back through the game a third time because I missed one trophy accidentally on my way to the platinum... The cutscenes were great the first go round, even the second... But the third was pretty agonizing.

Haven't played Ragnarok, but I still think GoW 4 is a wonderful game in its own right. Not sure how I would stack them up against each other honestly.

Monstieur183d ago (Edited 183d ago )

I don't consider the reboot part of the original series. The original series were high-skill games with combos and rewards for mixing things up.

solideagle182d ago

lol square, square and triangle is the only combo you needed. I have played all of them on the hardest difficulties...

Golfcoachh183d ago

Maybe I’m just old school but I just couldn’t get into the last two. Maybe it’s the slower action and more story telling but the original trilogy was by far my favorite.

Crows90183d ago

It's not that youre old school. They're different genres

JL2930182d ago (Edited 182d ago )

Me either, at all. It's just yap yap yap. They try to be a RPG's instead of being action games like they used to be.

Fluke_Skywalker183d ago

I'd put the two psp games over 3 in terms of story any day. But not over 2.

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TheEnigma313183d ago (Edited 183d ago )

My favorite was part 2 and I think Ragnarok is better that 2018.

Shane Kim183d ago

The newer games are better imo.

ravens52183d ago

There is no worst. Except for Ascension, only cause I didn't play it lol. They are all masterpieces. 1,2,3, 2018 and Ragnarok. 1 of, if not the greatest video game franchise...besides MetalGear.

Snookies12183d ago

Oh wow, I actually forgot that Ascension even existed... I never played it either.

Crows90183d ago

I like ascension. It was different and some interesting combat additions.

darthv72183d ago

If you didnt play it, how could you call it the worst? Its not as bad as the media portrayed it. Honestly the worst are those flash games. they arent even considered true GoW games but in name only. At least Ascension is a real GoW game.

ravens52182d ago

Not saying it's a terrible game. Just mean it's at the bottom of my list. I played a little bit of it. Jus to me, compared to the other main games, it's last.

Fluke_Skywalker183d ago

Ascension is the only GOW game I never finished. Hated it.

Inverno183d ago

Can't agree, older games do so much more than the last two. More weapons, magic abilities, enemies are more varied, level design is also more aesthetically pleasing, and agree with those who say that they shouldn't have removed jumping. Was a time I'd agree, but those old games are so so much better, that they really should've looked into bringing into the reboot/sequels.

Crows90183d ago (Edited 183d ago )

If a game is good then a game is good. Doesn't matter what came before or what comes after.

Inverno183d ago

Of course it matters. If not for what what came before there wouldn't be an after. And if something is great before then you strive to make it just as good if not better, after. I personally don't think there's a fair way to judge the new with the old because the newer games are still essentially a reboot, and went a way different direction. But I still believe the old games did it better. I'm probably bias though since I've been going back to old games and have been finding that they lack all the annoying aspects that devs have shoehorned into new games to fluff out game time.

Crows90182d ago

@Inverno

Im not talking about the passage of time here. Im talking about individual pieces of software. If a game is good then it is good. Thats not a controversial statement. You can compare good with good...sure. But you still end up with good. Now if there is a bad game in the mix and you compare you do end up with some differentials between them...makes sense to compare and see where it went wrong.

But theyre different genres and styles which were individually executed very well.

And no. The new games are not a reboot. Theyre a new direction but simply a continuation.
Tomb raider was a reboot.

Inverno182d ago

The new games are definitely a reboot, and a continuation, it can be both which it is. And a good game might be good, but my point is that if there are things done better before it then there's plenty of room for critiquing and trying to make whatever comes after better rather than just good.

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A Look Through the Absolute Best PS2 Games of All Time

Take it down the memory lane with this ultimate list of the best PlayStation 2 games of all time. Just the best of the best right here.

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isarai213d ago

It's so disappointing that to this day, I have not seen a game match what BLACK offers in an FPS.

ApocalypseShadow213d ago

Shame isn't it. I thought we'd be at a point of destructible backgrounds, objects, pyrotechnics etc in shooters. I sold many a copy in the demo unit when I managed a franchise Game Crazy back then. But I stopped playing shooters because they didn't evolve. Heavy weapon. Shoot a wall or glass. Nothing happens. Lol. Except for Killzone 2. I enjoyed that.

But then I woke and remembered it's EA. EA didn't care really. They just wanted to kill competition from Criterion and Burnout. And own Renderware to profit from as many developers used that engine. Only thing was that developers ran as fast as they could away from EA to Unreal Engine and its pop in and Vaseline graphics. Shame on EA. And then they bought Dice for Frostbite. Evil busters.

Anyway, too many PS2 games to count. Some of my personal faves being DMC, Genji, Bujingai, Blood Will Tell, Onimusha, Way of the Samurai, Japanese Berserk, Japanese Macross game that blew away the US Robotech game, RAD, Castlevania Lament of Innocence.... there's just too many. Let me stop. Lol

Cacabunga213d ago

Code Veronica
Dead or Alive 2 Hardcore
The Getaway
Time Crisis 3
Killzone
Mark of Kri
SSX

are some of my all times favorites missing on that list

shinoff2183212d ago

I've always Saud I'm not a fan of fps much , there's been some I really like and thought were really dope. Black falls into that category.

CoNn3rB213d ago

I would love nothing more than a remaster of the Jak series, including Jak X

Flawlessmic212d ago (Edited 212d ago )

The greatest console of all time !!!!

The last console from when gaming was pure, games didn't take 5 years to release, no online only, no half finished games, no mtx.

Ps2 was just banger after banger after banger.

It will always be my favourite.

sagapo212d ago

No Timesplitters in the list??

FinalFantasyFanatic212d ago

This is a really good list, pretty happy with the choices here.

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20 Best PS2 Games of All Time

Cultured Vultures: We're about to make some of you feel ancient as we reel off the best PS2 games from generations past.

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MadLad528d ago

I don't know about 20, but I know Dragon Quest VIII, FFXII, and Persona 3 are my top 3.

No particular order. Not a huge JRPG guy, but these hit it home for me.

Flawlessmic528d ago

Fairly solid list, would only change a few, I'd put onimusha in there, ico, personally would have vice city.

Then again I'd double up on some series dmc 1, all 3 gtas, both metal gears, all 3 jaks.

Ps2 was just crazily stacked really, every time I think back on it, those were the good days of gaming.

sagapo527d ago

Was thinking the same about Vice City. But yeah, solid list and great era of games!

shinoff2183527d ago

I still think ps1 was better game wise, but im sure thats an age thing depends on what you grew up with to an extent. I feel san andreas is to this day the best gta made. None compare 5 is close imo but just doesnt best it