God of War: Chains, bondage whips and handcuffs of Olympus
 

I know few of you must own PSPs but those of us who do will now have more to do on them than browse for pr0n on them or play Lumines. Why? Because SCEA is unleasing everyone's favorite Spartan anti-hero onto the PSP. Set as a prequel to God of War and God of War II, it's a different take on the story of Kratos after he becomes the fabled "Ghost of Sparta".


I gotta say, after watching the game videos and the trailer, the graphics do look pretty fuckin' sweet for being a PSP title. I'm actually looking forward to dusting off my PSP in the very near future to exsanguinate some more mythical creatures in ancient Sparta.

Official Site

Game space @ GameSpot

So yeah... Discuss, bitches!

SLEW, you illiterate hacks. The past tense of slay is slew.

More God of War is good God of War, I say. What's with the PSP getting all these desirable titles all of a sudden? The thing would have sold a hell of a lot better if they'd had more stuff like this, Castlevania Chronicles, and the Star Oceans coming out at the beginning of its life cycle.

MASSIVE UPDATE BUMP~

Awww man... !

March 4th of NEXT YEAR?

Oh well... Better late than never. At least they're releasing a demo of it later on this month if you signed up for it at the game's website.

3 days before birthday next year. It will be a treat!

Can't fucking wait for this one. It's like on the top games I need for my PSP alongside the two Star Ocean remakes and Castlevania one.

Trust me, no need to sign up for anything if you're on custom firmware.

Indeed, hope someone uploads it soon.

Looks like another reason for me to get a PSP at some point in the near future. The graphics seem surprisingly good for a PSP game, and since this one's a prequel we know it'll have a definitive ending, unlike God of War 2. As long as they don't screw up the controls it should turn out to be a solid title.

God of War: Chains of Olympus releases March 4th, 2008I'm not entirely sure, but wasn't this game originally supposed to be ready in time for the holidays? March is a long ways away, but at least we'll have a demo to see how it's progressing later this month :/.

Some new pics and a 2-part interview with AMAZING gameplay footage from Gamespot:

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- Interview Part 1
- Interview Part 2

So, apparently the demo for this sucker is finally being shipped out to people who signed up for one back in April. I've been reading that a bunch of people are finally getting their demos in the mail. Anybody here get one? I signed up for one, but it's shipping to my home address, but not my school one :/. Oh well, I'll pick it up on Friday when I go home or something...

I hear the draw distance as well as the frame rate is flat out amazing for a portable game. Anybody else with any impressions?

Yeah, so my demo never came in the mail. Whatever though, because -

DOWNLOADABLE DEMO.

(Here too, if the first link eventually stops working...)

Fucking. Epic.

I have 3.71 M33-2 firmware, so I'm not sure if custom firmware is required to play these or not...



...god this game rules.

I'm pretty sure that you would. But I'll give it a try anyhow.

Anyone have installation instructions for the demo?

UPDATE
Thank you Google once again. Confirmed that you need custom firmware. Once I get my PSP Slim I WILL hack my current PSP... till then.

It's gorgeous. Looks and feels just like the PS2 games. If the full version is released, it's going to be one hell of a game.

Dodging with the L and R triggers takes a bit to get used to, but apart from this, the controls are amazing. I'm on 3.40 OE-A and the demo works just fine.

Wow! I just played the God of Wars demo and I'm totally blown away! I never saw a psp game look as good as this one!. It look almost exactly like the ps2 game. I didn't even noticed a slow-down in game. Really a pretty solid psp game!

I got the demo yesterday and played it and it's exactly what God of War should be. Nothing completely new here except for some new magic, unless the spell in the demo was used in part II. The only annoying aspect is dodging using the L and R buttons, but I got used to it after a while. I'll definitely pick this up whenever I get a PSP.

All I can say is this is one of the best handheld versions of a game I've ever played. Way to go guys, you just melted my PSP with your game's intensity. lol

Finished the demo, game is too epic for PSP, i mean i wish to play this game as PS3 title in full nextgen glory.
Sony missed the chance.

Psh. My demo finally came in the mail today. Too bad I already downloaded and played the sucker weeks ago.

Anybody who forgot to sign up for the demo or who doesn't have a custom firmware installed or whoever collects or WHATEVER want it?

EDIT:
haha wow. Some people will do anything for a quick buck.

This'll be a great game, but with very little to justify its portability me thinks.

I'll take it, sure. How much?

If you ask for one dime more than what any tosser on eBay is selling one for, I BAN YOU~

How about free. I just posted that eBay link cause I was curious if people were even thinking of selling it, and was kind of surprised that some people were paying around $10 w/ shipping for a 10 min demo.

Just PM me your address or something.

Just a little reminder...

:dovel:GOD OF WAR HAS GONE GOLD:dover:

I played the demo on the flight home from San Fran a couple of times in anticipation. Anybody pumped?

The game comes out March 4th - just a little over two weeks!

Wow...uh triple post?

So this game came out today, and it's supposed to be absolutely awesome. I was certainly expecting at least one other person besides me to be incredibly pumped for this game, but I guess not :/.

I'm definetly checking it out tomorrow after work.

Heh... I'll probably get the bundle Psp+GoW. (Time for me to get my very own psp)

Played the demo... and I cant believe the got all that love in a portable. Seriously, it feels like God of War!, still... I didn't like how they managed to get the evasion on the psp, kinda difficult. (Maybe I just need time to get used to it)

Funny you say that, as some of the reviews I've read have commented on how they feel the dodging works better in this game. I guess they were never fond of moving their thumb to the right analogue stick, or something. I'll try and find the quote...

EDIT: Here we go:

IGN: 9.4
Granted, I'm sure it will take some getting used to, but I guess I can understand what he's saying. I personally am far more used to the older controls, but that can very well change and I won't make any final criticisms/remarks until I've at least gone through the game a bit.

Anyways, looks like another solid PSP title. I need to beat Patapon fast so I can start devoting my time to this.