If you have played the first two installments on your Sony PlayStation console, you will definitely breeze through God of War 3 since you are definitely already familiar with how the game is played and what the story is about. Get the latest god-of-war-3 info from our tech-obsessed editors with breaking news, in-depth reviews, hands-on videos, and our insights on future products. But until then, please don't waste your time with this collection.
Why? It wasn't Bluepoint's fault, it's because they were given the botched PS2 code instead of the original one. God of War: Ascension is the seventh release in the series and is a prequel to the original trilogy that will tell Kratos origin story by revealing Kratos initial betrayal by Ares while human. God of War is back, and once again is the leader of trends with the first ever jump from PSP to PS3 in the form of the God of War: Origins Collection. The later botched PS2 version would permanently run like sh*t after a certain music track starts playing, but the PS3 port doesn't really have this slowdown. The remastered version still inherited one crippling flaw, and one new substantial flaw. God of War III Remastered (39.99) is Kratoss first appearance on the PlayStation 4 (14.
The substantial flaw is that the game's widescreen mode is exactly the same as the PS2's, meaning that it just crops a big part of the 4:3 display on the top and bottom to present it in 16:9 widescreen.
The crippling flaw is this: The port of God of War II is completely fine other than the CGI cinematics also being cropped to fake 16:9 widescreen in the same fashion as all of GoW 1's gameplay and cutscenes. Chances are pretty good that you owned a Playstation 2 at some point. Oh, and the fact that it's God of War II. It is, after all, the best selling console in the history of the entire universe, having punted out well over 140 million units as of winter 2009.