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Is God Of War Facing Stiff Competition?

Does Sony have anything to worry about with God of War III possibly being overshadowed?

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GWAVE5262d ago (Edited 5262d ago )

Can't say I'm surprised to see the media do this. They don't have any 360 exclusives to tout over the upcoming PS3 exclusives, so they have to drag down PS3 exclusives any way they can (in this case, using multiplats). They're also comparing GoW3 to Bayonetta.

They did the same thing with inFamous ("Can inFamous compete with Prototype?"), Killzone 2 ("is it finally the Halo killer?"), MGS4 ("what's it like compared to Gears?"), Uncharted 1 ("what's it like compared to Gears?"), etc. etc. ad nauseum.

And yet, have they given any 360 exclusives the same treatment? Where is the flood of "can Alan Wake compete with Heavy Rain?" articles? Where are the "is Halo: Reach facing stiff competition?" blogs? Where is the flood of "will Natal face stiff competition?" articles?

Darkeyes5262d ago

Well lol it's Dantes Inferno and Beyonetta which are facing stiff competition as they directly compete with GOW for a pie of the H & S genre. I am pretty much sure in terms of sales, GOW3 will be only trumped by GT5 in the first half.

The possibility of DI being better than GOW3 are really really really rare, since it's nothing but a blatant rip off of GOW. One thing I am dead sure GOW3 will be better than any other game is in the field of Story... 1 & 2 were EPIC and after how 2 ended, only a fool would question the story of 3... Then another department is the Graphics.... Seriously this department as well will get owned by GOW3.

In terms of reviews, I am pretty sure Dante's Inferno will get raped in a few for being GOW clone. I can even see Edge and Eurogamer giving GOW3 7s cause it beings nothing new.

It's relatively quiet now, but just let the next year start and there are going to be huge war here. Same old Prototype vs Infamous crap. Beyonetta... Well if it's anything close to the demo, then it's crap to say the least. Best part for a PS3 owner is that he can experience all 3 :)

raztad5262d ago (Edited 5262d ago )

How can you overshadow the God of War? Bayonetta will be hyped to death by xboxers an related media, trying to convince themselves they are not missing anything out if they dont play GoW3, because for them GoW3 is GoW2 in HD. Like GoW2 was a bad game to begin with. LOL.

I see the fear and hatred against GoW3 climbing up as release date approaches. It's funny to read DI listed in someone's MAJOR GAMES TO IMPACT 2010 list, while GoW3 was nowhere to be seen. Thats is somewhat hilarious because DI is a copycat, blatant ripoff of GoW2 gameplay, DI=Gow2 in HD for instance.

When GoW3 lands will be only chaos.

@GWAVE

Buble for you dude. I dont know how people comes here to say that ps3 fanboys have the more bubbles but I always see you struggling with one, two or three max.

Chubear5262d ago

They started earlier then usual I see.

PrimordialSoupBase5262d ago

That God of War's formula is based on something half a decade old makes it easy for others to replicate it. All will be roughly as good as a game that might as well have been made five years ago.

RedPawn5262d ago (Edited 5262d ago )

I'm just glad people are trying to put out action games, instead of the next gayass FPS, or lame sandbox game.'

StanLee5262d ago

With Darksiders, Bayonetta and Dante's Inferno all being released in the months prior to God of War III's release, I think the action adventure genre is seeing a resurgence. But those games are all new IPs while God of War is a proven, quality franchise. I don't see how any of those releases can overshadow God of War III. If anything, they overshadow each other. I think it will be hard for all 3 to find a place with consumers. Bayonetta may be the breakout star with Darksiders and Dante's Inferno finding a lukewarm reception.

Noob5262d ago (Edited 5262d ago )

GOW is a proven series. People will feel more confident buying it because they know what to expect. Why would PS3 owners purchase an imitation when they can spend the same amount of money and buy the real game? And for Bayonetta, I expect piss poor sales, even with all the hype generated from all these articles. It would make more sense for people to compare Dante's Inferno to Bayonetta since they're two multiplat games, clones of two proven series, and are new IPs.

deadreckoning6665262d ago (Edited 5262d ago )

Two games can overshadow God of War 3 in March:

Bad Company 2
GT5

But who cares? Is competition gunna stop anyone from buying God of War 3? Not me.

@GWAVE-PS3 exclusives are always being questioned because 360 exclusives have been doing exponentially better than PS3 exclusives for the past 4 years. Look at Gears 2, Halo 3, LFD2, and ODST sales. 360 exclusives have ALREADY proven themselves to the media and the mainstream. All the media sees is SALES, which is why they continue to question PS3 exclusives.

When a PS3 exclusive does 2 million in ONE week or ONE day, then these articles will stop. GWAVE u have a long wait ahead of you :)

I suggest you just enjoy ur PS3 exclusives and if what the media think is SOOO important to you then I suggest you try an encourage other PS3 owners to ACTUALLY buy PS3 exclusives instead of just talking about them.

bacon135262d ago

The GOW franchise is simply one of the, if not the best, franchises ever made in games. After moving from my PS2 to an Xbox360, I can honestly say there is no game on the 360 that could compare to what it seems GOW 3 has to offer. While the PS3 and Xbox360 each have thier fare share of awesome content, the GOW games are epic in every sense of the word. I know I will be buying a PS3 just so I can play the crap out of that amazing game in a few months.

On a side note. Enough already with the fanboy wars. Each system has its own pros and cons along with great games. It's the exclusives that get people all bent out of shape. If PS3 had Gears and Xbox360 had God of War 3 it wouldn't matter. Pick your system, game on and shut up already.

sikbeta5262d ago

Hello kid, seems like you are not understanding something:

Is The F*cking GOD OF WAR!!!!!...got it clear?

Now, go ask your mom to buy it for you, Is rated MATURE.....

Roper3165262d ago

@1.10

The games sell so well on the 360 because it is so long in between quality games that everyone runs out and buys them when a big name game releases. So how did Darkest of Days sell as an exclusive on the 360? Or how about Infernal Hell Vengeance? EXACTLY!!!! So while PS3 owners get great quality exclusives throughout the whole year, 360 gamers have to sift through the garbage like DOD & IHV so when a big name game releases it sells a ton because there was nothing else to buy before it.

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beardpapa5262d ago

a look into the next couple months of next year and my wallet appears dryer than ever.

Mass Effect 2, Splinter Cell Conviction, Heavy Rain, GT5, GoW3, FF13.

Anything else coming out January - March?

colonel1795262d ago

why does the media always want to downplay PS3 exclusives in every way they can?

LAIR- Sixaxis don't work!
Heavenly Sword - Too Short!
Warhawk - where's single player?
Killzone 2 - Halo Killer? Not! it didn't sell 4 million day one.. FAIL! COD4 controllers are better!
inFamous - But will it be better than Prototype?
Uncharted - Been there, done that.. Tomb Raider rip-off
LittleBigPlanet - Racist song! DOOM! we are going to hell!
Resistance - Gears of War is better! (not a FPS but who cares!, need to pick on something!
Resistance 2 - Fable III box art rip off!! OMG!!
Ratchet and Clank Future - Too much variety..FAIL!!
Metal Gear Sold 4 - it's a movie not a game! CRY!! CRY!! (crying wolf yelling it)
Uncharted 2 - It's not original.... but yeah COD MW2 is the most ori...wait for it..wait for it.. ginal
Modnation Racers - Mario Kart Rip Off
God of War 3 - Dante's Inferno's Rip Off!!!!..... dude! God of War came out 5 years before...ok, I'll give you that, but will it be better than Dante's?.. dude! Dante's Inferno is a cynical rip-off of God of War!... but will it sell better?

maniacmayhem5262d ago

You are the biggest PS3 conspiracy nut job on this site. Seriously,

"They don't have any 360 exclusives to tout over the upcoming PS3 exclusives..."

Who is "they"? I read the article and he doesn't even mention anything about the 360. He's comparing a game (Dante's Inferno) that is a blatant copy of GoW III. I've played DI at PAX and it definitely is.

And the reason everything is compared to Halo is because as much as you don't want to admit it, Halo has set the standard of how FPS console games should be done, the same goes for Gears of War.

InFamous and Prototype where compared because they were damn near identical games.

Stop fooling yourself and get off your "Sony/PS3 is always the victim" box crate.

God of War III will be a great game regardless of how many clones that come out. (Dante's Inferno, Darkriders)

sparta765262d ago

L4d2 come out for pc so is not an exculSive...
Sold 2 mill 360/pc
what exculsive sells more then five million on the 360????
Halo and gears that's it...
Why u trying to make it sound like every game on the 360 sell 2 million in one day?
Mgs4 sold over 5 mill
gtp a f@cking demo sold over 4 million...
GowIII don't know how much is going to sell, but I know I'm getting it day one!!!

Dark General5262d ago

Saying it has better and more original Boss battles than GoW3 seems like QUITE a bit of praise. Specially considering GoW's boss battles are considered by many to be the creme del la creme of boss battles.

Also Assassins Creed 2 is made by Ubisoft not EA (referring to the article it said AssCreed2 was made by EA).

kws10655262d ago (Edited 5262d ago )

There is GT who will say "There is nothing new blah blah"
There is also Gamespy who will say "Single play is too short (even if it is longer than any other action game)"
There is also Edge who will say "There is no MP"

So don't worry. They will not disappoint you guys lol

bnaked5262d ago (Edited 5262d ago )

God of War is epic! It's so damn epic, there is no competition..

We know it..

Perkel5262d ago

i lol every time i hear about competition for god of war :)

beyonetta vs dante inferno vs ninja gaiden ? Sure why not

gow is all about kratos and this urge to destroy. None other game feel like gow and none other game nails qte like gow. Sure it's rather easy to do combo but everytime you swing your chains you get this feeel ...

coolfool5261d ago

will probably buy every game from that genre rather than just one.

ll_UNDERSCORE_ll5261d ago

The only competition any of the PS3 releases has its it's own PS3 library. Sony has been putting out so many titles/ content many hardcore gamers can't even keep up. 2mil sold here , 3mil sold there is not a let down in sales but overall a success. sad too say I have even rented a few titles cause the influx of great titles that has passed through the PS3 .
Anyone comparing bayonetta with GoW , don't bother. GoW is in a whole different league of its own. Am I the only one here who couldn't careless about bayonetta!

vhero5261d ago

The real questions here should be

1) will Dantes Inferno be as good as GOW an already established franchise? I say probably not.

2) will 360 fanboys say its good or even better even though its multiplatform as they have nothing exclusive that matches it? Of course they will!

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Silly gameAr5262d ago

Yeah. I think GOW3 will be fine. Dante's Inferno looks pretty cool, and it's multiplatform so more people will be able to play it,but Dante will have to cast a pretty big shadow if he want's to hang with Kratos.

ultimolu5262d ago

...*blinks*

I highly doubt that. We don't even know if the two games competing will be any good. Can we please wait until they're out? We haven't even reached 2010 yet.

sikbeta5262d ago

The name says it all...

This Game is HUGE as the TITANS are

bacon135262d ago

After playing the demo, its obvious that GOW 3 is going to be anything but amazing. The only thing it needs is a decent length. If it's shorter than the other 2 (which weren't that long) it might get some bad feed back

silvacrest5262d ago

what? short?? neither god of wars were short

when the series cant even reach a 6 hour campaign then we can talk

bacon135262d ago

Agree to disagree. A 6-8 hour campaign to me is short. While I see the GOW games as short it doesn't take away much from the presentation of either game. Both are masterpieces in thier own right.

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Milky5262d ago

GOW 3 is the third game in the series (4th if you count chains of olympus). I don't see how a huge series can be overshadowed by 2 new IPs; one of which is a blatant rip-off. Its like saying Ninja Blade overshadowed Ninja Gaiden 2.

beardpapa5262d ago

they should've port Chains of Olympus into that GoW collection. It would've been the definitive collection.

koehler835262d ago

Established franchises rarely need to worry about new IP.

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Ranking Every God of War Game From Worst to Best

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JL2930174d ago

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

Snookies12173d 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.

Monstieur173d ago (Edited 173d 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.

solideagle173d ago

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

Golfcoachh173d 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.

Crows90173d ago

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

JL2930172d ago (Edited 172d 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_Skywalker173d ago

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

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TheEnigma313174d ago (Edited 174d ago )

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

Shane Kim174d ago

The newer games are better imo.

ravens52174d 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.

Snookies12173d ago

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

Crows90173d ago

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

darthv72173d 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.

ravens52173d 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_Skywalker173d ago

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

Inverno173d 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.

Crows90173d ago (Edited 173d ago )

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

Inverno173d 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.

Crows90172d 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.

Inverno172d 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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5 Of the Most Unlikeable Video Game Protagonists

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GhostScholar211d ago (Edited 211d ago )

I disagree that max is unlikable. Chloe is infinitely more unlikable in my opinion.

gold_drake211d ago

omg chloe was awful. i really hated her at the end haha

Cacabunga211d ago

Abby was absolute trash protagonist in every way..
Tidus was so meh to me..
On villain side, the one i didn’t like wa Micah, because they wanted him to be that way and it was brilliant👍🏽

Rancegamerx211d ago

I agree, I liked Max, Chloe was a horrible friend and a bad influence.

Cacabunga211d ago

Everyone agrees on chloe, I’m sure even ND do.

H9211d ago

Both are horrible, granted Chloe is infinitely worse, it feels like Chloe is just fanservice for people who too over the edge and wasn't written to be a character that makes sense

GooGobbler211d ago

What about that Forspoken Tw*t

MrChow666211d ago

exactly I was expecting it to be a the top of the list

ravens52211d ago

Ye I was expecting her too. Guess they actually played the game. Unlike you and whoever agrees.

gpimlott210d ago

I played through the whole game and think she is one of the worst character Ive ever played as

ravens52210d ago (Edited 210d ago )

gpimlott. How?

Stanjara200d ago

Why would I payed and played the game if the whole internet is making fun of a character?

-Im here to kill Chaos...are you Chaos?

Yeah, I didn't play that game either.

Christopher211d ago (Edited 211d ago )

She's actually not bad. It's the writing itself that is bad overall, but she's fine overall. She's no worse than Miles Morales IMHO. Both thrust into a spotlight and receiving both praise and blame and dealing with it.

Forspoken is a bland game because it's 75% bland, boring, repetitive going through the motions and diversions that add nothing of the value with purposefully gated memory moments that don't feel organic or like you're discovering things but waiting for others to reveal things.

ravens52211d ago

Exactly Chris. Even though I liked the game. I kno u played it. People who actually played it and went thru her dream saw she was a good likeable person who really just acted out due to being alone and unloved. I think your problem is it was open world, I think if it was more linear you may have liked it better.

savedsynner211d ago

Oh no she's bad. Very unlikable even before you add on the bad dialogue. The game could have been quite good with a good protagonist

ravens52210d ago

For all the people like synner. Shes actually half white lol. Inferior complexity is a hell of a thing. You'll be ok.

Nerdmaster211d ago

Most of these aren't even that bad. Especially comparing to others like Squall "Whatever" Leonhart, Forspoken's Frey, and the guy from Atomic Heart.

-Foxtrot211d ago

Squall is one of the best developed main FF characters so...

People talk about his "whatever" thing thats at the start of the game, not the character he eventually becomes in the end.

Nerdmaster210d ago

No amount of "character development", (especially the ones that for me feels sudden and undeserved like Squall's), will justify him being a d**k to my girl Quistis. Even if he found the cure for cancer, from that moment on, I would never like him.
The article is about being unlikeable, and he was indeed unlikeable for at least half of the game.

BrainSyphoned211d ago

Squall is the best protagonists in FF so you can go whatever yourself.

H9211d ago

My good sir, I need to steal that "you can go whatever yourself" because it's gold

BlaqMagiq1211d ago

Except Squall has actual character development.

gold_drake211d ago (Edited 211d ago )

the "watever" is only present in the english localisation.
so your argument doesnt rly ... stand imo.

Nerdmaster210d ago

Good for you that you could enjoy the japanese version. That's not the case for me and the majority of people here, though.

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gold_drake211d ago (Edited 211d ago )

i had to stop reading after the "blatant misogyny" in the Dantes inferno section.

i actually liked Max haha.

the forspoken chick is missing tho

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