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Oh, Hey, There's Totally a Leaked God of War: Ascension Trailer [UPDATED]

Hey, thanks Amazon! We might have had to actually wait for Sony to announce this thing if you hadn't leaked this stuff!

UPDATE: Sony went ahead and confirmed the existence of God of War: Ascension this morning via the PlayStation blog. So yes, the game officially exists, and yes, it is a prequel of some fashion. How far back that prequel story will go is yet unknown, though it's safe to assume it'll be some chapter of the story that includes as-yet-unseen vengeance and violent, visceral death. Unless, of course, Sony has really jumped the shark and gone the Star Wars prequel route, with the intent to show Kratos as a really angry little kid. While I will admit I would derive a bit of weird amusement out of seeing Kratos as a stab-happy toddler, that would probably get old pretty quick.

We'll know more come April 30, as the PS Blog entry says more details are expected to be released then. I'm guessing they won't be giving those details to Amazon early again, so odds are you'll actually have to wait this time. Sorry about that.

What you see above is a trailer for God of War: Ascension. "But Alex," you ask, "Sony hasn't announced a game called God of War: Ascension yet!" Oops?

Art may not be final, but art is nonetheless radical.
Art may not be final, but art is nonetheless radical.

Blame Amazon for the early leak. They evidently posted up this teaser, alongside some placeholder box art for the game this evening. Considering we've been hearing no shortage of rumors regarding a forthcoming God of War IV (or, in this case, God of War: Ascension) announcement, one can imagine that Sony was prepping some kind of big reveal for the title...at least it was. Until now. I bet it was going to be really cool, too.

Instead, here is your teaser trailer and box art, ingloriously shoved out the door into the harsh reality of the Internet before its time, forced to fend for itself with no major marketing event nor official press release to properly help usher it into a world it never made. Really tragic, that.

On the other hand, there's a new God of War game coming, which is actually rather awesome. Though I am going to have to replay God of War III at some point. I can barely even remember what happened in that game. What about you guys? Anyone else good and ready for some more heavy metal Greek God slaying?

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i have had a PS3 for a while and never played any of the series. Always just saw it as a hack and slash with some puzzles. Is it that good

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@Abyssfull said:

@mordukai said:

@Abyssfull: The comments on this thread begs the differ. Also, shitting all over a popular game is very much the hip thing to do. you got a problem with the GOW game don't buy them. I know anything out of the Santa Monica guys will be awesome and will sell millions of copies and no matter how you and anyone else will bitch about is going to change that.

...That's my response? You basically retreading exactly what you said in the first place... Tsch. I guess that should a game make millions, we are hereby exempt from any sort of discussion, so says Mr Mordukai. Oh, well!

Discussion, RIIIIIIGHT!

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I love how people(mosly 360 fans with green names) are complaining about beating a dead horse yet they buy every Halo that comes out with the same basic story and repeat/remodeled levels.

or every assassins creed with same crap every time.

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@Mjdemon: Yes, they are quite spectacular. You have to at least play # 3. The Intensity level is through the roof.

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The first five were a fun bunch but at this point I feel I've had enough of the God of War franchise. I'm sure it will still be excellent, I would have rather seen a new IP from them instead though.

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@mordukai said:

@Abyssfull said:

@mordukai said:

@Abyssfull: The comments on this thread begs the differ. Also, shitting all over a popular game is very much the hip thing to do. you got a problem with the GOW game don't buy them. I know anything out of the Santa Monica guys will be awesome and will sell millions of copies and no matter how you and anyone else will bitch about is going to change that.

...That's my response? You basically retreading exactly what you said in the first place... Tsch. I guess that should a game make millions, we are hereby exempt from any sort of discussion, so says Mr Mordukai. Oh, well!

Discussion, RIIIIIIGHT!

Yeah, I guess it's down to my own folly that anything constructive could of been built on what began as ''people hate popular things to be hip, THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS NEIN NEIN NEIN'' and ''fuck em''.

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@Abyssfull: Sure thing Tex. Now I see you have some anger issues to go through and you're pretty much stuck on the whole "hip" issue so lets agree to disagree and leave it at that before this gets personal. Play the game, don't play the game, I really don't care. but you know what?! I am in a good mood so I'll give you this one.

You're right, I'm wrong,

Happy now? Will this make you get off my ass?

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I don't know how I feel about this. I loved GoW 1 and 2, as well Chains of Olympus, but by the end of 3 I was ready to be done with Kratos. Hell, I still have to play Ghost of Sparta which I bought near launch and still haven't played. I guess I'll wait and see how or if they change it up this time.

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@mordukai said:

@Abyssfull: Sure thing Tex. Now I see you have some anger issues to go through and you're pretty much stuck on the whole "hip" issue so lets agree to disagree and leave it at that before this gets personal. Play the game, don't play the game, I really don't care. but you know what?! I am in a good mood so I'll give you this one.

You're right, I'm wrong,

Happy now? Will this make you get off my ass?

Nice, play the condescending card to make it appear like you're apparently above all this or something. I'm not angry, though I am frustrated at how bone idle you are; I levy valid criticisms against a franchise you're in bed with, and well... fuck em! It's not like I was pressing you, demanding that my views are somehow 'fact' or whatever, making the little sarcastic ''you're right, I'm wrong'' shtick entirely random... so again, you're plucking at straws and trying to make it appear as if I'm the petty one here. Naive, sure, considering I had hoped you'd give any sort of mature response.

I mean really, what are we ''agreeing to disagree'' here anyway? This all started because you said that people only hate on GoW because they're ''hip''... I merely called you out on your delusional fanboyism and explained in detail why the GoW franchise should be looked down upon in some respects. And then it lead to you doing... whatever the Hell this is.

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I really wish that I had a PS3 now i may go and buy one soon just so i can play all of the God of War games they just look so good.

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@Sackmanjones: Yeah but this is a prequel so he has sex with men.

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God I'm tired of this sequel driven industry.

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I'm super excited for this!

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I'm not a HUGE god of war fan, but that being said i think God of War 3 was one of the 20 best games I played on the PS3 so far. (i havent really played the others and didnt like GoW #1)

That being said, I found it really weird when on one of the podcasts Jeff especially, but the rest of the guys as well, poo-pooed the idea of the new game. Like "been there done that to death". They sighed and were like "yeah mumble mumble, didn't they already do all the plots already?" But for me, I didn't really play the first 2, and they were last gen (even if released in a collection on PS3), and the other 2 were PSP games which also do not count as "this gen" games. So really there is only 1 real PS3 god of war, I may try the others in the collections, but Im sure many did of us not play the PSP versions. And yet those guys seem fine that there are way more Halo games (like 5 of the just on the 360 alone), and 3 Gears of War with maybe more on the way on just the one system. At least GoW is spread out over 3 systems. Why can't Sony do 2 GoW games on the PS3? i really don't see that as overkill, even if they did make 2 back on the ps2, heck Ratchet and Clank is still worse than that if they want to complain about "over saturation". Even if they just made the old games with modern graphics i'd probably be more tempted to go back and play em (and again you guys didn't complain when Halo did it). Just weird for game guys to be so cynical about an alright franchise, its not hurting them to have another one come out, and none of the games have been bad.