The Unchained Olympus

God of War - Chains of Olympus (PSP)

I want to start this with, if you own a PSP you must get this game. Buy it, cheap bastard, dont just dowload it for free on a hacked psp. To complement my previous blog, if you think you are not stealing, answer this then: Many people download games illegally into their hacked system because they think the games are expensive and they rather get them like that instead of paying for it.... so if you need a car, and you dont have the money, you going to steal it? Of course not, even thou the size of the product is different, still is stealing, you are getting something without paying for its actual prize, you are cheating and stealing, so FUCK you. Pieces of fuck like you destroy the video game industry. Try doing something for a living and then find out someone is making illegal copies of it, AND that someone is making more money than you... by stealing your creation.. doesnt feel that good now right shitfart?
Now getting back to the game, the game is good, the game can be finished by ANYONE on easy mode. I know many casual gamers finished the first and second God of War with ease. Because its like... trial and error, you just keep restarting on the area you died, its like... people will eventually do it sooner or later... so in that part, is not really of a challenge after all, because just anyone can do it, even if they dont play video games, and that its my only complaint about the God of War series, is more as a interactive action adventure story telling than a real challenging game. But still, its a great game, the original God of War is on my top ten games of all time, because its a well designed and produced game, its very motivational. Now, this PSP version of God of War, all I can say is... is a more watered down, bite sized version of the previous 2 console God of war games. If the first 2 are easy to play, this one is like a boot camp for those games, like a training ground for the real deal. But, dont get me wrong, this PSP version of God of war has visuals that equal the console version, everything looks amazing, the lighting, the backgrounds, the models its all good. I think ofr myself this is hte most visually impressive game I've seen on the PSP. Also the sound track couldn't been better, orchestral greek period type of music, its just awesome. With the game controllers, having in mind that with a psp you have some limitations, I htink they really pulled it off greatly, still its kind of confusing sometimes becuase you need to press some buttons simultaneously to perform and action, and if not pressed correctly you will eventually execute another action, like the shield button combined with others you can do couple of stuff but still, you can get the hang of it... even thou I was near the end of the game and had some button press confusions... but I blame it on me I guess. Moments ago I was talking to Jolge my friend about the game, he never played the earlier versions of GOW but had an Idea of waht was waiting form him, and yeah he did like the game but hated the combat system, since he got the chance to play other games like Conan were the combat system had more depht. I jsut told him that really GOW specially the psp version is simple, and yes it borrows the same engine as the others, and they didnt really messed up with the combat system.. is good as it is for what it is. The focus of the game even thou you have plenty of combat options like special attacks and combos, the central idea is the epic action adventure story telling and puzzles (in which in this case..arent really puzzles). We both agree that is a good game, but I wont complain much about hte combat system as it is, I played the earlier games and liked it, so yeah its cool, except the fact that you really cant cancel combos leaving you an open target for the gorgons stoning magic..in which a hit means instant death.

On the story department I am glad David Jaffe contributed with it because he created the GOD OF WAR and I htink he should decide the outcome of his character. So about hte story I kind of find it a little rushed like, and that it could've been more complete, for an exmaple you never face MOrpheus, he is one of the main reasons of the conflict and he jsut..dissapears, unless I didnt geti t right.. but still. And the last boss, doenst look that evil at all, I mean its evil but is not impressive, and it osunds more like a cry baby character than having a real reason for the evil unleashed. I dont know... but there is some impressive elements in the story like.. hte Titan Atlas, and it explains the fate he had in GOW 2, it explains a lot... and I thought it was a really great piece of story, it really impressed me. But besides that... I think it could've been better. But overall is good as it is, having in mind that is a portable version of the game and they need to make it the less dependable of the other GOW games. The idea is to expand the audience and have a easy to access version of a GOW game to all those casual gamers that own a PSP, so it makes sense that they did a Prequel instead so the story didnt require to know about the other games. I dont know the total hours I played to finish this game but I know that I got the game like last thursday and finished it like at 3:00 am today tuesday, so its a really short game ocnsidering I only played couple minutes between sittings, but I did enjoy it.To finish this, its a good game if you want to know about GOW for the first time, but if you really want the best impression of God of War play the versions of GOW and GOW 2 for PS2. Good games, very similar to each other but good, lets hope on GOW 3 they keep the same vibe but with newer stuff, like a better combat system and more hardcore puzzles. SO DONT FUCK WITH THE GOD OF WAR!