[PSP] God of War: Chains, bondage whips and handcuffs of Olympus

God of War: Chains of Olympus releases March 4th, 2008

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Though it's unclear when God of War 3 will skewer the PlayStation 3, the series' debut on the PlayStation Portable now has a firm date. Today, during a visit to Ready at Dawn, GameSpot was told by the developer that God of War: Chains of Olympus will go on sale March 4, 2008.

I'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 :/.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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?

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

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

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.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Just a little reminder...

GOD OF WAR HAS GONE GOLD

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!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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.

FELIPE NO

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

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Though the PSP is missing the L2 and R2 buttons and the right analog stick of the Dual Shock 2, I dare say that the control scheme here works better than on the PS2. Instead of having to use the D-Pad to change between magic types, you now hold R and press a corresponding face button. This means you won't accidentally trigger something you didn't mean to a waste precious magic, and it also means you can switch between them much more easily. Since there isn't a second analog stick, dodging works by pressing L and R at the same time, which again works even better than on the PS2 pad since you don't have to move your thumb off the face buttons. Each of the control changes has been implemented fantastically and you won't miss any of the missing buttons.

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.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

So I thought I'd be all 'hard' and shit and go through my first run on...Hard. I got to the final Basilisk fight no problem, but all of a sudden I can't even come close to killing this thing. What the fuck.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Just beat the game, and holy shit was that last boss tough on Hard mode. I don't know what was more annoying - the fact that she could kill you in 3 hits, or the fact that you had to sit through that cutscene EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU DIED. Anyways, some questions for anyone else who has beaten it -

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I am kind of confused on what Persephone was doing. I understand her intentions behind everything, but I was a little lost when she was explaining the whole scheme with the titan Atlas to destroy the world. If the tower that Atlas was trying to destroy were to ever fall, would it just absolutely annihilate everything?

Also, why is Atlas ‘doomed’ to hold the world on his shoulders after Kratos stopped and chained him? Couldn’t he just drop it and end everything, like he was initially trying to do?

And I didn’t completely understand the whole ‘why Kratos can never be with his daughter’ bit at the end. I mean, he was finally with her 'spirit' (or some shit) in the underworld, but couldn’t be with her because Persephone was going to destroy everything and his daughter would die…again? What?

I never got a chance to get all of the way through God of War 2 all the way through (as my PS2 broke half way through it). Who were the two gods at the end? Athena and Zeus? Does this tie into the second game somehow, or does this hint at something to do with the third?

I thought that whole mini game sequence where you have to push your daughter away was very awesome. I totally thought for a second that Kratos was going to turn around and stab the shit out of Calliope or something, just to ensure that he didn’t go to her. What an epic game.

There's nowhere I can't reach.