God of War: Ascention has incredible graphics

futurefields

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I'm watching a let's play on youtube and I really think this might be the best looking ps3 game. What do you guys think?
 

mmntech

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The God of War team does know how to make the hardware sing. All the games have looked fantastic on their respective platforms. It's a shame the games themselves are just meh.
 

cmdrdredd

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The God of War team does know how to make the hardware sing. All the games have looked fantastic on their respective platforms. It's a shame the games themselves are just meh.

As far as action games go I thought they were fantastic.
 

futurefields

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After watching a little bit of a walkthrough, it does look pretty good!

Yeah the modeling, lighting, shadowing and quality of the normal maps looks better than anything I think I saw last gen. Maybe people are right about PS3 exclusives punching a little higher than 360 exclusives. 360 sure did own the multiplats though for the most part.
 

purbeast0

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it's good for sure, but uncharted 3 and probably the last of us are the best looking ps3 games.
 

ImpulsE69

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I did really enjoy 1. I got about 1/3 the way through 2 and lost interest. I need to get back to them.
 

Sulaco

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Yeah, I'm in the minority. When you take out all the blood and testosterone it's a fairly vanilla linear beat-em-up. Not my cup of tea.

That's how I've always felt. I never got the appeal of the God of War games. The actual gameplay was middling at best, and it seemed to rely on its image to carry it through any debate:

"How's God of War?"
"Awesome! Kratos is a BADASS!"
"Ok, but how's the gameplay? Is it good?"
"...THERE ARE BOOBIES!!"


:|
 

purbeast0

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not to try to sell you on the game or anything, but if you were turned off of it early on and didn't play through it, the gameplay gets a bit more "advanced" as you progress and unlock other weapons and combos. you can't just mash the entire time or you gonna get raped, especially if you aren't playing on the easy difficult.

it's not some super deep beat em up or anything, but i wouldn't say it is just a button mashing snoozefest either gameplay wise. the lore and story though are what really drive it imo. i love the setting and music of the games too.
 

razel

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Wholly agree. GOW:Ascension and The Last of Us have the best technical graphics on the PS3, hell even last gen. Uncharted 3 and TLOU use the same basic engine. I think most people choose those over GOW:As-s graphically since it's easier to relate to. Since when was the last time you saw a Titan or a flying bird with titties in real life? :D
 

cmdrdredd

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The character models and facial animations in last of us are the best by far on PS3. Maybe even for that whole generation of consoles but I didn't play a whole lot of 360 exclusives except halo and forza.