God of War: Chains of Olympus is the most anticipated videogame since the start of its development 18 years ago. Does it live up to the hype? NO. This game is terrible. Being that I am a fan of previous God of War installments, I have to say the new gameplay formula is completely horrible. The levels are also HORRIBLY dark. However, the game opens with an amazing set piece that gets things moving right away. You play as Kratos Estacado, a New York-based mob hit man on his 21st birthday, and you've just woken up in the back of a speeding convertible. A money-collection deal has gone wrong, your two buddies are attempting to get away from crooked cops, and you apparently got knocked out somewhere along the way. As you're speeding along to a construction site to take out the foreman, you're tossed a chain with 2 useless blades on it to help defend the car from incoming fire. Some douchebag named Ares comes and like pees all over you and then the car crashes. After the car crashes, you exit the New York Subway and go upstairs. You are in Greece, and you must do some dumb temple stuff to see your bff jill who was killed because of your powers. She is dead, so Kratos realizes he will never see her. Kratos casts himself off the nearest cliff and thus the start of God of War I. The story is fine, but the graphics is where the game sucks. Much better graphics can be seen in games like Crysis, so why play GOW? The games graphics are comparable to pong. The gameplay is not as good as the previous GOW formula and the game is essentially just another Space Invaders clone. The sound is the only good part of the game, although the only song in it is Breakaway by Kelly Clarkson. And the replay value...ugh...the game is 15 minutes long and deactivates after you beat it. Overall I would not recommend this game to anybody who enjoys amazing games like E.T. for Atari 2600. I expected much more from this game, but I didn't get it.

Total Score: 2/10*

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*Score is calculated by using a special advanced method. This is the formula we used to calculate the score for this game:
[(Score the game deserves) - (Score the game deserves)] + (Random number from 1 to 10 generated by the random number function on my TI-83) = Total Score

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Categories: Author: gotsmartz