God of War: Ascension Superbowl advert is a tearjerker
In other news, Sony Santa Monica released a commercial during the Superbowl for God of War: Ascension, which may tug on the heart strings a bit. You will appreciate the commercial even more If you are familiar with Kratos’s backstory around how his wife and daughter died.
God of War: Ascension tells Kratos’s backstory before he donned the Blades of Chaos. You will see a much more visceral Kratos filled with rage that will pummel his enemies more viciously than seen in any of the previous games.
Ascension mixes up the formula a bit for the better as Sony Santa Monica has replaced the quick time events with mini-games involving some tact and skill. For example, instead of a QTE move you can hook your weapon into an enemy, at which point it switches to a third person view. From here you must dodge the enemy’s blows while dangling by the weapon. A series of successful doges and counter attacks will result in Kratos ripping the creature to shreds.
The single player story and gameplay looks really good from what I have seen so far. Ascension also manages to mix up interesting gameplay mechanics such as time manipulation to stop a crumbling building and reverse the event to create a series of steps to climb up.
The game’s subheading writes – “Before he was a god, he was a man.” In the later iterations of the franchise, you take Kratos on his journey to taking the throne from Aries, becoming the new God of War. However, Ascension starts out with Kratos betrayed by Aries despite his previous allegiance to him. Enraged at Aries, Kratos breaks ties from the God of War. However, as the game explains, oaths to Olympus cannot be easily broken by mortals as Kratos is cast into chains for eternity.
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February 5th, 2013
PlayStation Longevity.
February 5th, 2013
I don’t usually like Advertisements that don’t show gameplay, but some of these latest ones have been pretty good. Halo 4, and this one to name two that I’ve liked.
February 5th, 2013
@mike
Not to be the grammar police but I do believe the god of war was Ares.
February 5th, 2013
Awesome trailer. Cannot wait for this game.
February 5th, 2013
Amazon has a $10 credit when you preorder. It also gets you the Last of Us Demo…
February 6th, 2013
That trailer was literally an exact copy of a screen from 300. Except instead of having a son, it was a daughter.
And it wasnt a tearjerker.
But It was a good trailer though.
February 6th, 2013
I guess I was right about Dead Space 3.
February 6th, 2013
Godless is going to love this
http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/6/3958672/new-xbox-always-online-game-activation-codes-rumor
February 6th, 2013
http://theverge.com/2013/2/6/3958162/valve-steam-box-cake
February 6th, 2013
Looks like Sony may have fixed at least one of the errors it made this gen…
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/07/japanese-newspaper-claims-playstation-4-will-cost-about-400
February 7th, 2013
Roca
I don’t think there will be an Always on requirement for the xbox. This could reduce the userbase too much.
I can’t remember the numbers but I think there are something like 20 million xboxes sold that have never been connected to the internet.
While it is possible that MS thinks these are the consoles that are hacked & crack and is happy to eliminate them, it is also possible that many legitimate users just don’t yet have broadband.
I was trying to think of some way in which games could be remotely verified without internet, but I’m not sure it could be done. Like the way modern TVs can download there firmware over the broadcast radio signal. May be they have something cleaver up their sleeve, using a phone or TV signal type connection. Something the user can’t switch off, as it’s integral to the hardware and operation of the machine.
For now it’s all rumours at this stage, though I do think there is something behind a lock-down on the second hand games market. I personally think MS & Sony will be implementing this, and that it will have the full support of the game publishers, who stand to gain the most from the death of the second hand games market.
February 7th, 2013
*Any replies to an always on Nextbox will be on that posted topic, but I may steal some quotes from here.
February 7th, 2013
“I guess I was right about Dead Space 3.”
You were right about what?
Less Scary? Co op ruins it? Kotaku said it’s less scary, but the Co op is the reason to buy the game.
I think when you take it in this direction you’re going to have many polarizing viewpoints.
February 7th, 2013
Dead Space 3 is brilliant. Beasting it atm and have no complaints.
February 8th, 2013
I played the demo. Liked it until the big baddie, which I found irritating, and lacked imagination as to the killing /regeneration process
Still looks good, though I’m not 100% sold on the weapons building thing. I liked the old system of powering them up. What do you make of the new system Oldie?
February 8th, 2013
It’s good dude. Seemed a bit jarring at first but it does add more.