quote LPF

I have been a huge fan of the God Of War series since I first popped in the demo disc of God Of War 1 on my PS2. After I was done, I headed down to target and the clerk was nice enough to let someone under the age of 18 buy the game.

God Of War is famous for many reason, one in particular is its pure violence. Kratos has a blood lust, and in every game it gets more and more violent. I never had a problem with it, and am in not a sick freak who gets off at that. But I do enjoy a violent game every once in a while as well as a peaceful game such as Flower.

Now that Kratos has made the jump to next-gen, fans rejoiced, as did I. I waited patiently for E3 so I can finally see Kratos beat the living hell out of Greek creatures and gods. As I watched the E3 demo, I realised that the game, like the previous was much more violent. Then it got to the part were Kratos rips off the head of Helios (you can watch it below) and realized "wow, they really went all out with the violence". Showing off in full detail Helios and Kratos facial emotions as well as the blood dripping and veins dangling from his neck. Quite gruesome.

So I ask you Greppers and Neomembers, do you think that Santa Monica took it to far with this? Or do you think that it wouldn't be God Of War without all blood and gore and that the Ps3 lets the Dev's achieve there goal? Will the media go berserk over this, much like when any 'too violent' game comes out?

I do expect a lot more violence in the retail version and while I do think that part alone was a tad bit to over board, I still plan on buying this day one.