God of War: Chains of Olympus Comments by Kristan Reed

Strange, the fact its half the length of the PS2 games with cuts from the puzzles is a win-win for me. With so many games to play 6 - 7 hours these days is ideal, even more so from a portable game.

@krudster

"It's quite short and the game is more repetitive/combat-centric than the original. You think that it deserves a 9 in spite of that? Go for it.!

I think you should treat the PSP more like a small island instead of a large conservatory is all.

It's been a while since I was so engrossed in a review thread. I haven't even touched a PSP in my life and I almost flipped out! The 8 sounds deserved though.

Bohnsen, I'm glad someone gets the point.

This game should be marked down because is a direct clone of the ps2 ones.

With the exception of the fist of Zeus that have been lifted from DMC (it shares exactly the same moveset than beowulf from DMC3), every other power up is an old power up from GoW 1 or 2, the shield is the golden fleece, the efreet is poseidon rage and primordial fire is zeus bolts.
This game add nothing to anyone who played the ps2 ones and it only selling point is offering more of the same cause ps2 ones are as short as this one.

This game seems shorter but it about the same length, the difference is that this game lacks of those awfully designed jumping areas and is straight forward lacking artificial length.

As long as this game really is 1 point less good than Daxter, which I'm ready to believe, by the way, then I think the score is justified.

its not a persian city!its a greek!and yes the game rocks!!!

Review scores are useless... As are discussions about them. But at least they can be entertaining... ;)

psp > ds!

Umm, no GoW doesn't qualify the PSP as being 'larger than' the DS. I'll have to play this and Ninja Gaiden DS side by side to decide which one is better.

EG normally likes to rate a "critically acclaimed game" lower then most sites, they must think that by that they get more respect or credibilty... so, consider it a 9/10.

By the way God of War 1 & 2 are the best action games ever created and look at they'r score in these site, both of them received 9/10... yet stragely games like Halo that don't bring anything new or revolutionilze anything in the genre get the "perfect score 10/10" what a joke, even COD4 a great great game, much better then Halo in every department got a 9/10... EG, what a joke.

Will this thing run on my old school fat boy US import psp?

Of course....

in a thread about a PSP game some tard brings up Halo3?

DAN:SOLO

you are the tard here... i was questioning EG scores and gave Halo as an example, so there is a conection between what i wrote and the God of War revew (i need to explain these meticulously given your retardation).

You people are full of it.

First: There's no such thing as "reviewing it as a PSP game". I like games. I couldn't give a rat's ass about what platform they're on, what I want from EG is an in-context evaluation. Handheld games need to be just has good as stationary console game to deserve my attention.

Second: If anything, EG tends to go lighter on bad games than I'd prefer, with some exceptions. Don't think for a second that the moronic standards of IGN tell us anything about how EG should do it.

Third: The game, eh? Sounds nice. I like short games.

Great game by the sound of the review - great score - being an 8. It possibly deserves a 9, but I've not played it to be able to tell.

My copy will arrive on launch day hopefully, and as I have no train journeys coming up at all and I've just cheated through a 1 year abandoned difficulty spike on GTA: LCS, I may well be playing this one for the rest of the year, in between 360 and PS2 games.

Quality.

@Apologie

Yeah ive read your posts anti 360 bullshit of the highest order!

you must be proud.

When is this out in Europe? Just wondering.

Considering the way this site is going, it might be interesting to include the following at the start of the review:

- Platform used to review game (in case of a multi-platform game such as, say Resident Evil 5)
- Version of review copy [ JAP, US, EUR (= UK or BEL or GER, etc) ]
- If review-copy is non-EUR and game is not out in EUR shops, include EUR expected release date
- Retail price in $, £ and €

And stuff. You know, things which lessen confusion and promote the impression that this site is aimed at the European gaming crowd. Or something.

@Apologie

would please start your posts by saying 'in my opinion'.

I am actually liking the fact this game is shorter than the ps2 versions and agree with darc. GowII ran out of ideas long before the end and became something of a slog. I do not want to play a 30+ hour game if I am just doing the same things over and over again. Mix it up and give me some variety in that case.

I also agree 100% with the comments of VMerken. This site is called Eurogamers. How about more reviews for the European versions of games as opposed to the US version. Otherwise in my opinion you should call this site InternationalGamer. And how about updating your games lists and getting me a free European copy of Raw Danger?

@Apologie

God of war 1&2 are way far from being the best action games ever. In first place, the gameplay is a copy-paste of capcom games like onimusha and devil may cry, there is nothing original and only repeat things that works. And specially, those games aren't fun, they are gorgeous and fast placed but are games where only three moves are useful at hard difficult and so the game becomes a repetition of the same three moves over and over for the whole game, you also fight only about ten types of enemies that require three or four strategies in total, so the game grows boring and uninteresting at the few hours and is the reason of why GoW are the best rent games out here, they are worth one gameplay and no more.

Of course, the production values of the game are awesome, but that don't makes them "the best action games ever".

Its a shame if the exploration has been cut down a bit. Some of the best moments from GOW1 were in the Pandora's Temple place... walking around a huge puzzle with the epic music blaring out.

Fantastic.

BUT its good that devs are starting to go away from this "we're tailoring the game to the platform" idea. Liberty City had 'portable friendly' early missions, but christ they were boring. They were the stuff you slog through to get to the good bits.

And I have to say, I BARELY save game on my PSP. If I have to stop playing, Pause + Sleep... its not so hard. I get near a charger at least once a day so no danger there.

Funny old world. Not so long ago EG game Tomb Raider Anniversary 6/10 because the PSP doesn't have a second analogue stck.

Which is a pity. because it really didn't need one (there free look was in there, but omitted from the manual as far as I remember).

Anyway... GOW:COE is awesome. I'd give it a 9 or even a 10. I do think EG are a bit guilty of making too many comparisons here. As with the TR:A roundup (not even a review, just a few dismissive comments), they are apparently down on the PSP for what it is (or in this case, isn't). I don't know what they don't like about it as a platform, I've never had any trouble enjoying mine.