Using light and heavy attacks, you hack away at a gorgon before flinging her into the air once she is close to death, a prompt appears, and you perform a series of button presses while Kratos yanks her body towards him with his blades, pulls her head back, and decapitates her. Kratos is responsive to every input, swinging the blades of Olympus and the claws of Hades with a slickness and strength befitting a protagonist whose muscles have muscles. Taken on its own merits, however, God of War III maintains the high bar its predecessors set for combat.
Character skins and arenas released as downloadable content make appearances, as does a new photo mode that allows you to capture sumptuous moments and share them with friends, enemies, and mythical beasts, but where remasters are concerned, this one belongs in the "barebones" column. At a $40 retail price, however, it doesn't make a strong enough argument for buying a game you've already bought, particularly when the lower-resolution pre-rendered cutscenes stand out all the more next to the in-game visuals. Gaia casts a long shadow over the hours that follow, and even a similar battle upon Cronos' massive body can't escape it, though it, too, remains a technical marvel in this remastered edition.Ħ0 frames per second and 1080p resolution aren't game-changers for Kratos' adventure, though they are certainly nice attributes to have God of War III Remastered is simply another chance to admire a game that we admired five years ago. That's not to say that the game isn't terrific fun, only that its unimaginative final encounter has nothing on the phenomenal opener. The question, then, is this: How could God of War III hope to top this sensational introduction? It doesn't, though it certainly tries, and allows God of War II to retain its position at the peak of this beloved series in the process. You are no longer conquering the Greek gods as an enraged antihero, but as a full-on villain. It's a striking and vicious design choice that sets the tone for the game to follow. When Kratos strikes his final blow, you see it not from his perspective, but from his victim's point of view, in the first person. It is all sound and fury, almost unparalleled in its sense of scale and its translation of a protagonist's anger into bloody, brutal interactions. Gaia herself is one of Kratos' few remaining allies her cries of pain pierce the air as you swing your chained blades, launching ghoulish soldiers into the air and slicing away at Poseidon and his many-legged steed. As warrior-turned-deity-killer Kratos, you climb the Titan Gaia, who functions as a colossal, moving level upon which you battle Poseidon, the god of the sea. It's one of the most thrilling openings in all of video games.
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