Last month the second God of War game was published. The game, albeit within my reach, is so bloody expensive that I have to wait for the Platinum version of it to be published god knows when! I mean, sixty euros for a game? That's just outrageous! For the past days I've been reading through all possible reviews written of the sequel, at least in languages I can read and understand. Sounds like it'll just blow my circuits once I get hold of it and slip it inside that black machine of mine and begin my far too long and, without a doubt, far too enthusiastic battle against all the monsters past and present in order to get the fierce Kratos to the Sisters of Fate.
Well, I guess I'll just have to relieve this Kratos fever by spending too much time playing through the original. I'm slightly nervous, though, because I fear the designers may have changed some things I loved in the first one (the score, the sound effects [what gives you the idea that I could possibly be thinking of the group sex sequence?] and the slow-motion sequences in the middle of great fights [the one that still sets shivers run down my spine is the Minotaur of the Temple]). But as far as we can trust those who have had the fortune to play it, they have actually managed to top themselves; I just cannot think of how that's even possible because the original alone was so spectacular.
And since I cannot sleep, I could start playing the original through right now. The still-picture below is from the first one, the first Boss fight against Hydra. This was the very one to first make me jump on my feet and shout at the screen (or the Hydra, I'm not quite sure which one) "DIE! DIE!!". I admit, I tend to take it too seriously. But I appeal to the mitigating fact; the graphic is so damn good you become absorbed into that world and you can't help but think of it as "real".
