God of War III demo on PSN Store

By Robert Purchese Published 25 February, 2010

Plus: Comics Store, VidZone, Video Store.

There's a mountain of new content on the PlayStation Store today, and the biggest new arrival is a demo for God of War III.

That may have prompted THQ to release a 90-minute demo of Darksiders and it may not. But those who haven't tried the God of War-alike (with tones of Zelda), ought to.

You can also test out and buy FIFA 10 Ultimate Team, the card-collecting add-on that returns for a second year with a raft of improvements and plenty of EA PR noise. Any good? We'll soon tell you.

PSP owners get to try out Eye of Judgement: Legends, too.

Today's new PSN game is Greed Corp., the turn-based strategy game with a green message: don't mine the world for too many resources or it will crumble and disappear. There's an interesting-looking PSP Minis called Age of Zombies, which you can read about on the EU PlayStation blog.

There's plenty of extra PS3 game content to snap up today: Borderlands' Secret Armory of General Knoxx, Valkyria Chronicles' Challenge of the Edy Detachment and Uncharted 1's multiplayer pack to name a few.

Elsewhere, the Comics Store for PSP gains Transformers and Avengers, and VidZone adds some Shakira, whose hips don't lie.

The UK Video Store was updated earlier this week as well, bringing Michael Jackson documentary This Is It to the public - my, what big hands he had.

PS3 Demos

  • FIFA 10 Ultimate Team
  • God of War III
  • Darksiders

PS3 Games

  • Greed Corp. - £7.99/€9.99

PS3 Game Content

  • FIFA 10 Ultimate Team - £3.99/€4.99
  • Dante's Inferno: Animated Feature Dante Costume - £1.59/€1.99
  • MX Vs. ATV: Reflex Track Pack 1 & 2 - £3.19/€3.99 each
  • Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx - £5.49/€6.99
  • Valkyria Chronicles: Challenge of the Edy Detachment - £3.19/€3.99
  • Uncharted: Drake's Fortune: Multiplayer Pack - £3.99/€4.99
  • Ferrari Challenge: Pack of Five Cars and One Track Additional Track (Additional Cars - GTO, Ferrari 365 GTS/4 Spider, Ferrari 430 Spider, Ferrari 512m 94, F50 GT; Additional Track - Riviera Circuit) - £4.79/€5.99 (Cars £1.59/€1.99 each; Track £3.19/€3.99)
  • Rock Band: "Heartkiller", "Just For Tonight", "'Ode To Solitude", "The Dope Show", "The Who Super Bowl S-Mashup", "Walking On The Moon", "Wings Of A Butterfly" (£0.99/€1.49 each)
  • Rock Band: HIM Pack 01 - £2.49/€3.99
  • Guitar Hero 5: Third Eye Blind Track Pack ("Losing A Whole Year", "Never Let You Go", "Can You Take Me") - £4.39/€5.49 (£1.59/€1.99 each)
  • LittleBigPlanet: White Knight Chronicles Costume Kit (Black Knight, Dragon Knight, Leonard, White Knight) - £4.79/€5.99 (£1.59/€1.99 each)
  • EyePet: Fairy Styling Pack - £2.39/€2.99

PS3 Themes

  • World's End - £1.19/€1.49
  • 3D Abstracts - £1.19/€1.49

PSP Demo

  • The Eye of Judgement: Legends

PSP Games

  • Echoshift - £11.99/€16.99
  • Dungeon Explorer Genesis - £8.69/€10.99
  • Pro Cycling 2009 - Tour de France - £23.99/€29.99
  • Valhalla Knights 2 - £15.99
  • Dante's Inferno (from Friday, 26th March) - £31.99/€39.99
  • Desi Adda - £7.99

PSP Minis

  • Age of Zombies - £3.99/€4.99

PSP Game Content

  • Echoshift: Desert Level Pack - Free
  • Buzz!: Comedy Movies Quiz - £3.19/€3.99
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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (21) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • ShinMegami08 #1 2 years ago

    GO PLAYSTATION!!!

  • Skire #2 2 years ago

    Note that the God of War III demo is still the E3 June 09 build.

    It's still an amazing demo, but it's a shame that the latest graphical features and tweaks can't be experienced.

  • sarcasmoidosis #3 2 years ago

    "Uncharted 1's multiplayer pack"

    What?

    /goes to download GoW III

  • TitusCrow #4 2 years ago

    @ Skire indeed! I have had the demo for ages ( since early dec ) and I was looking forward to seeing how much the build had progressed but Alas when I DL it it said you have the same material on your hard drive do you wish to install. Shoddy stuff that! I look forward to seeing the new build when I get the original it seems :)

  • FenderMaster #5 2 years ago

    GoW demo was great, but I feel that the E3 videos spoiled the surprise of ripping a cyclops eye out, stabbing a chimaera through the head with its own horn, and ripping a mans head off with kratos bear hands :( thats the kind of thing you don't want spoiled

    Darksiders demo was good, very long too, the boss was pretty tough, as were 2 puzzles. Very accomplished game, but not special or particularly memorable in any regard, still might get it at a reduced price, it's by no means bad, it's pleasant and it's very playable

    got the Valkyria DLC, only just started the first mission, it's not a new map, seemed okay, not as unique as the last batch, but whatever, 6 new skirmishes for 4 euro is more than enough value, VC fans will like it, if not love it

    the US store got Grandia today, so I'm kind of jealous, i'd buy it on my US account, but then i couldn't play it on my PSP :(, i'll wait for the pal release

    excellent update anywy you slice it, now i'm prepared for another month of lbp costumes, rock band tracks and themes

  • Beano #6 2 years ago

    "GoW demo was great, but I feel that the E3 videos spoiled the surprise of ripping a cyclops eye out, stabbing a chimaera through the head with its own horn, and ripping a mans head off with kratos bear hands :( thats the kind of thing you don't want spoiled "

    Good thing you didn't spoil anything then.. oh wait... :)

  • 3william56 #7 2 years ago

    Ar$e - know I should have checked the 'Store this morning and set it DL'ing through the day. Now it'll be a few hours until ol' red and grumpy gets to rip someone a new neck cavity.

  • Wyrm #8 2 years ago

    By giving us the same demo we have already seen they have actually avoided spoiling a load for the games actual release, yes?

  • Darren #9 2 years ago

    Nice to see the excellent if old GoWIII demo available for everyone to try.

    The Darksiders demo unfortunately suffers a little in the quality stakes compared even with that 8 month old GoWIII build though and I thought it was a little bland personally, both the gameplay and visuals, but, nevertheless, it's very generous in terms of length. At least you'll know by the end of it whether you like the game or not.

  • Darknight #10 2 years ago

    Gotta point out that the new episode of Blue Toad came out yesterday, and was highly enjoyable!

  • scowat #11 2 years ago

    Post deleted at 16:41:01 08-02-2012

  • patchbox360 #12 2 years ago

    [link url=http://www.gametrailers.com/episode/gametrailers -tv/85?ch=1&sd=1
    ]http://ww w.gametrailers.com/episode/game...[/link]

    GOTY so early

  • chessboxer #13 2 years ago

    @ Skire

    If there aren't any major techincal issues with the GOWIII demo then it's probably best that Santa Monica Studios invested their time into finishing and polishing the game rather than splitting its resources just to make another demo.

    Anyway, the game is out in less than a month and I cannot wait!!!

  • mr_bez #14 2 years ago

    Come on Rob. Wakey wakey. It's an Uncharted 1 themed map pack for Uncharted 2. Two new multiplayer maps and 6 multiplayer skins based on locations and characters from Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

  • Robm612 #15 2 years ago

    Ok i have a problem i NEED HELP
    I have never played a GOW game before but this one looks epic so im desperate to try this one.

    However i have 5000Mb free on my playstation 3, the GOW 3 demo is 2900Mb but when i click download it tells me that i dont have enough space on my hard disk.....any ideas why this is.....?

  • scowat #16 2 years ago

    Post deleted at 16:41:01 08-02-2012

  • ianegg #17 2 years ago

    thats the kind of thing you don't want spoiled
    thanks for using spoiler tags!

  • chessboxer #18 2 years ago

    @ Robm612

    I think it's because the PS3 installs the data it has downloaded, you need twice the available space (the demo is 2671MB so you need at least 5342MB free).

  • rare_uk #19 2 years ago

    S..................L..............O.............W........... .......!

  • alcides #20 2 years ago

    An E3 09 demo at this point in time is very cheap of Santa Monica Studio. I wonder if it really shows the game as it is.

  • TRUTH #21 2 years ago

    I was actually a bit disappointed with this demo - seemed a bit clunky esp during combos, fighting felt to much button mashing (I cleared most by simply mashing buttons)QTE happened a bit ti often for my liking, the fluidity just didn't seem as sublime as Bayonetta's...Also it just seemed as I've seen it all before, probably because of GoW I & II collection...While the graphics were good, I was hoping to be much more - it's nothing above Uncharted 2 . I know this a demo,but I think to much hype has dampened the game...Also with Bayonetta fighting & skill has now placed a new standard that GoW will be judged.