God of War: Ascension Preview: Introducing the Gods of War
It’s a brilliantly executed reveal. The first live demo to the press, I mean. Not the one that happened the previous week when, faced with more holes in its hull than it had PR fingers to poke in them, Sony gave up trying and rush-announced God of War: Ascension to stem the swelling tide of tittle-tattle. The bit that was always supposed to be the actual reveal, though, taking place in a private theatre in Hollywood – “Welcome to one of the worst kept secrets in the industry!” chortles game director Todd Papy – opens with a superbly crafted piece of drama. A brooding warrior, whom we are supposed to think is Kratos, is revealed by a retreating camera to be another muscular, Mardi Gras-attired brute entirely. Soon he’s scrapping with a bulging, barmy cyclops and we’re in familiar territory: classical hack-and-slash action of murderous beauty. Read more…
