PS2 God of War 2: Divine Retribution confirmed

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Source: 1up

 

God of War 2 Becomes Reality

In the sequel, you'll be dealing with Divine Retribution.

by Patrick Klepek, 03/13/2006

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Looks like the rumors proved right; Sony is already deep into development of a full-fledged sequel to God of War, one of last year's most surprisingly awesome action games. Original lead designer David Jaffe has been putting the press off the trail for months, but we're finally hearing the first word on the anticipated follow-up.

 

Game Informer has the scoop on God of War 2: Divine Retribution, which we expect will be officially announced in the coming weeks before a complete blow out at E3 in May. Gamers are already freaking out over the first released screen shots, which admittedly look much like the original -- good thing God of War was visually incredible.

 

Gamers worried about Sony rushing the game out the door shouldn't fret, though; the game's mere existence seems to confirm the previously leaked detail that Kratos won't be tearing at body parts on PlayStation 2 until at least February of next year.

 

 

Here are the scans from GI.

 

Still sticking to that "Spring 2006" for PS3 story, Sony?

 

Regardless, we knew support for PS2 isn't going to dry up anytime soon, but with GoW2's previous rumored January 2007 release, even more doubt is cast on that claim.

 

Of course, Spring 2006 likely is, at the very earliest, the Japan release date, and GoW isn't really intended for that market anyway.

 

On a related note, if you somehow missed the commercials, God of War is now Greatest Hits and is 20 bucks.

[KingPK 0]

And I highly recommend you pick this sucker up. It's only 10 hours to finish, but it's ten hours of pure bloody videogame bliss.

[2GOLD 0]

And I highly recommend you pick this sucker up. It's only 10 hours to finish, but it's ten hours of pure bloody videogame bliss.

 

For some reason the price hasn't reduced around here yet. I guess they are waiting for the "GREATEST HITS" tagged ones before giving us the discount. I'll grab San Andreas and God of War when GOW finally gets the reduction here.

[SpikeFayeJettEdBebop 0]

Hmmm...My ps2 is broken(both of them actually, I bought the 2nd when the first broke) and I just bought a 360. I'm HIGHLY considering buying a new/used ps2 for GOW2, Subsistence and others...

 

Which is fucking bullshit considering I treated both PS2's well especially the second, but after awhile they just stopped working, and I don't think I could even wish to do anything with the second one at this point, makes stupid noises and shit as soon as I turn it on(even without a disk)

[AndrewTS 0]

And I highly recommend you pick this sucker up. It's only 10 hours to finish, but it's ten hours of pure bloody videogame bliss.

 

For some reason the price hasn't reduced around here yet. I guess they are waiting for the "GREATEST HITS" tagged ones before giving us the discount. I'll grab San Andreas and God of War when GOW finally gets the reduction here.

 

Try hitting up a pawn shop. I got my GoW 6 months ago.

 

...and I've yet to finish it, actually.

 

And I highly recommend you pick this sucker up. It's only 10 hours to finish, but it's ten hours of pure bloody videogame bliss.

 

But I can personally only take an hour or so at a time (I've played a little bit about every month, honestly). I thought the original GoW got repetitive very quickly.

[Team Angle Pusher 0]

Woot, GoW was great, I loved it. One of the best PS2 games ever.

[Special K 0]

God of War is incredibly awesome, except for the last boss fight. It's a game that's both challenging and forgiving.

[The Buzz 0]

My favorite part of the game was the opening sea level. I hope there are more sea levels in the sequel.

[AndrewTS 0]

The GI article manages to throw in very little info with tons of packing peanuts of nothingness.

 

Like several paragraphs detail that a sequel should keep what made the original appealing while not changing "too much." and losing things that made the first game good. Yeah, knew that.

 

Jaffe has been promoted so isn't the director anymore.

 

Kratos has been stripped of his throne, and so he's going to take it up with the 3 "Sisters of Fate," the gods' gods.

 

There still will be buckets of gratuitous violence, and they claim they won't shy away from the sexual elements as some people may have feared.

 

Movement on walls is quicker.

 

Subweapons will be integratable into combos and combos will be a bit deeper.

 

Magic will be quicker and more useful overall.

 

Kratos can use the chains to swing around...which they swear will make you think of Bionic Commando (and totally not inspired by any more recent games, oh no.).

 

Kratos will be able to fly/glide with the wings of Icarus, which you'll "acquire" from a boss battle with Icarus himself.

[2GOLD 0]

Hopefully they increase the speed of swimming cause all that pointless slow swimming was really annoying and made some puzzles just a pain in the ass. So many creatures that Poseidon can send after you

 

The fight with Ares was disappointing. You work all that way, expecting this amazing battle with the God of War and it's really just kinda there. The fight with the Guardian of Pandora's Box was more difficult than Ares. Not as difficult as the wall climb in Hades though, god that was a frustrating segment.

 

The good thing about this is you have TONS of creatures they never got around to using.

[Sandman9000 0]

The trailer. Enjoy it for however long it's up.

 

[Conspiracy_Victim 0]

Nice. I see they haven't rolled back the impressive bloodletting and over the top kills.

[AndrewTS 0]

(Thread bumped, because my Comments That Didn't Warrant a Thread fit in well here)

 

In fact, the engine itself is the only thing I like about God of War. I hate that game. It's one of the most thoroughly unpleasant games I've ever played, and only its overall quality saves it by being burdened by all the usual "Mature" pitfalls. You've got the ridiculous amounts of gore, blood and guts. You've got strong misogynistic undertones. You've got a "hero" I'd sooner kill than help. You've got the silly plot that's a pretty slim excuse to just kill more and more. I hate the game so much that I've yet to finish it. It's not that it is hard, it's just that after about an hour or two, I get so disgusted with the game I have to abstain from it for about 2 months+. Plus the annoying crate puzzles you have to solve while being attacked by enemies are just ridiculously lazy game design. Actually, rarely anything in this game is little more than "annoyance." Nothing is really "hard." I'm playing on normal difficulty, and I could scarcely imagine how pitiful the challenge would be on Easy.

 

They really wussed out on God of War 2. The only way I would like to play it is if I can hunt down and kill Kratos like you did Aries in the first game. There is hardly a more unlikeable protagonist in gaming. In fact, as soon as I finish GoW1 (at this pace, I'm guessing that'll be 2 days before Twilight Princess), I'm never playing it again.

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I actually think God of War is pretty overrated. First game I bought with my ps2 a month or two ago, and it was insanely fun for the first couple of days, but got so repetative and boring, it's just mindless killing. I maybe play it for a couple of minutes every other week or so just so I dont feel like it's going to waste, but I've generally moved on to other titles.

 

The boss battles are fairly cool actually so far, but its the slogging nonsense you have to play through to get to it. Reminds me of why i dislike hack/slash killing games.

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Minute or so a week...I'm not sure how that stacks up to my hour or so every few months, but your apathy for the game is rather impressive.

 

How far are you? I've just completed the Trial of Atlas in Pandora's Temple. The dead guy there who stacks bodies on the pyre is so far my favorite character in the entire game.

 

"I'm dead and my job sucks, but hey, just want to give you some friendly advice."

 

God of War is a display of mind-numbing tedium wrapped up in absolutely bitchin' presentation. Shame I can't have fun with it.

 

On the other hand, Prince of Persia games I can play hours on end, have fun, and want more, damning the lack of hours in the day and damning the length of the games when finished (okay, I do have my gripes with Warrior, but even that one shines a lot). There are enemies that I have to fight tooth and nail against and get satisfaction from killing, instead of a bunch of monsters you mow down half-a-dozen at a time. However, that's pretty much me, it seems. Of course, in that equation I must of course count my bias for platformers, GoW's pitifully half-ass platforming and sometimes-horrible camera angles.

 

In PoP, the combat is flawed, and is an excuse to keep you fighting before getting to the next brilliant platforming sequence. In GoW, the combat is where it shines, but you get it out the ass. There is platforming and puzzle solving, but the platforming is pedestrian and the puzzle solving is frequently tedious because of circumstances where you can't avoid attacks (rows archers before you get zeus' lightning, for instance).

 

PoP I can look around, explore, wondering, "what the hell am I supposed to do there?" So you scout. Climb a wall. Jump a ledge. There's risk, but easily-countered risk with your powers. Then you figure it out. "Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!" Kind of like Zelda but with jumping. Anyway, then you do it, and you move on. So after you finish the game, go through it again...you can kick ass up and down the place, and have a hell of a lot of fun doing it. Very replay-friendly, in my belief.

 

Although PoP's presentation took a hell of a nosedive after Sand of Time. WW is frequently ugly, the sound-mixing is terrible, menus and such just aren't as pretty as they could/should be. The real-time cinemas are often very poor, mainly with the different volumes of characters/music and the character models themselves. Hopefully Assassin's Creed will fix all of that.

[The Buzz 0]

I like God of War for the same reason I liked Mario as a kid. If you like what you see in the first five minutes of playing it, you get more of the same but with different surroundings and characters. It's just an addicting game that I beat in two days. I rarely play games anymore, so maybe I'm behind on whats good and whats not.

[AndrewTS 0]

Did the part of the first level where you had to push a fragile crate across a ship deck with crappy cover, under heavy archer fire, just so you can use it to get up to the next area and kill all of the archers take place within the first five minutes?

 

I think it was much further, but I liked the first 5 minutes and still think that sucked ass. Also, I wonder how the hell archers managed to shoot me through 5 feet of a stone block. Yet, I'm pushing it through an area and still do. Not even arches on the extreme left/right that could plausably hit me. No no, but right through the stone block.

 

Renegade and I both liked the first level, but after that it's a drudge through the rest of the game.

[The Buzz 0]

On a further note, I've never played a Prince of Persia game. Is the newest one I've seen advertised worth picking up for a rent if I've never played?

[AndrewTS 0]

Definitely. While the game's creative direction is both an apology for Warrior Within and a an attempt to recapture the magic of Sands of Time, it has the best combat system out of the three, and some of the most varied and well designed platforming sections.

 

If you like it, I'd definitely pick up the dirt-cheap Sands of Time (be aware that the combat will be much rougher). Warrior Within is a harder game than either one of them, because while your objectives follow a linear pattern, the game environment is non-linear. If you don't know exactly where you need to go, you could end up having to re-do an area to make it back to the central hall hub. Plus there's a nasty glitch that could erase your game if you go back through the same time warp you just came out of. I had unwittingly done this on PS2 before I knew about it, and didn't run into the glitch, but don't tempt fate and try it. WW has a lot to like, but a lot to hate as well.

 

Although 2 Thrones is best to play after the other games, because there's spoilers a-plenty and references to the old games throughout the game.

[Hawkius Maximus 0]

God of War is fun until you hit a push or pull puzzle, or a ledge. Ledge's fucking suck in that game.

 

It's probably because I R teh st00pid, but I've gotten stuck on damn near every push and pull puzzle, or moment in the damn game that I've come across, and if you don't figure it out (Hello me four hours later), you can't advance, and if the monsters respawn, you end up killing the same type of monster for ages. Apparently I don't read between the lines well, because I can never figure out what the bloody shit I'm supposed to do.

 

The ledges are even worse to me. Their a BITCH. Hate them.

 

Combat is fairly fun though.

[Conspiracy_Victim 0]

The only part of GoW I really didn't like was climbing the pillars in Hades. What a pain in the ass. Based upon an interview I saw with the director of GoW2 they heard about it too.

 

Ares was also a bitch to fight. Cheap ass hits and the computer magically goes into "I block everything then get a 5 shot combo" mode. I liked every other boss fight except that one.

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The only part of GoW I really didn't like was climbing the pillars in Hades. What a pain in the ass. Based upon an interview I saw with the director of GoW2 they heard about it too.

 

Ares was also a bitch to fight. Cheap ass hits and the computer magically goes into "I block everything then get a 5 shot combo" mode. I liked every other boss fight except that one.

 

To be fair, he IS the God of War and should be an absolute master of battle and total pain in the ass. I think that was the battle I liked most because of how much of a pain he was.

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

I agree with metro that GoW was a little overrated. I mean, it was fun and had primo presentation, but it's just not the kind of game that had any kind of staying power for me.

[AndrewTS 0]

I finally finished the overrated piece of crap original game. Nice ending. Too bad they puss out and came up with such a lame way to do a sequel. It's not like they were caught by surprise either. They KNEW they were going to probably do a sequel.

 

"Kratos will return"

 

...in THUNDERBALL!!!

 

I have a laundry list of gripes about a mile long for the first game I'd like to submit to the team for GoW2. Where can I do that?

 

I honestly am amazed at that elevator/sandstorm level David Jaffe proposed, thinking it was such a cool, fun, original idea and seeming so disappointed he didn't get it into the final game. And you know what? It probably will be in GoW2, just because he seems so in love with putting such incredibly shitty, annoying platforming cliches in his game. Although since he's no longer the director, I really hope I'm wrong.

[AndrewTS 0]

New preview: http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3153516

 

In this demo build it appears GoW2 is now ripping off Neo-Prince of Persia with its own version of a time manipulation gimmick, although it's more limited.

 

I wholeheartedly approve, but kind of wish it was more of a ripoff.

[AndrewTS 0]

1up has a new preview of the game and lots of new tidbits.

 

http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3155700

 

Wow, I actually have hope for this game now. The new director seems really cool and committed, he's taking blatant digs at Jaffe, and the revelation that he was going to originally put wall-running in (convincing me all the more than he is/was a POP fan) seems encouraging.

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The game's hit beta.

 

Link to Barlog's blog:

http://corybarlog.blogspot.com/

[AndrewTS 0]

According to a few Gamestop pimples, the God of War 2 demo will be available next week, free with a preorder.

[AndrewTS 0]

http://www.destructoid.com/god-of-wardrobe-29247.phtml

 

http://kotaku.com/gaming/god-of-war-2/clip...ideo-228623.php

 

http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=34218

[Matt Young 0]

So, IGN gave it a 9.7. Not that IGN matter much in the way of reviews.