God of War III

Overview

Kratos seething with anger!

Story

Gameplay

Kratos wearing the Cestus.

You will die!

Chronology

1. God of War: Chains of Olympus
2. God of War
3. God of War II
4. God of War III

Pre-Release Information

Known Information

• Unlike the first two iterations in the series where there were only 15 enemies on screen, there will now be around 50 this time.
• Enemies can also jump on Kratos, eventually weighing him down and smothering him. This can be broken by wiggling the analogue stick.

• You can ride monsters like the Cyclops and “control” them.

• Kratos on the Playstation 2 used 5,000 polygons, where as now he uses 20,000.

• They made the weapons “better” so it adds more variety. Like with a different weapon, you don’t get just a couple different attacks, but a whole different play style.

•  "This time, all the game’s weapons would have the same level of depth, complexity and familiarity as Kratos's blades, with button combos for one weapon usable for all the others."
• There are field commanders such as Centaurs that will make the enemies fight more aggressively and attempt to flank Kratos.
  

• The lion gauntlets are called Cestus, these spout spiked balls on chains from their decorative animal mouths, causing shock waves that throw enemies back on each hit. Kratos uses them like giant steel boxing gloves, although they can extend on chains during combos for medium-distance clubbing.
• So far both Hades and Helios have been confirmed as boss fights.

• Enemy AI’s are a lot smarter. Some of the enemies will be “commanders” and control the other grunts and create formations.

• Enemies will look different, even if they’re the same type.
• Enemies will have shields that they use against Kratos via formations, once a leader unit is dead, the enemies become dumber and are easier to kill.

• More boss  fights than God of War I, but less than God of War II.

• No multiplayer, but downloadable content was hinted as a possibility. 
  

• The Golden Fleece and the Icarus Wings, a holdover from God of War II that now enable him to ascend rapidly through vents of hot air, and his fire arrows, which now feature realistic flame effects that will spread from enemy to enemy, make a return in God of War III.

• There will be no load times in the game, however a small install may be required. Otherwise it will be streaming everything in the game off the disc at 1080P resolution without a drop in frame rate.
• All loading will occur during the cinematic's.
• The first three minute trailer that was released was rendered all withing the game engine, however the trailer itself was censored for the ESRB. For example the scene where Kratos stabs the commanding centaur after pouncing off the wall was censored so that he only expelled blood, whereas in the final game, he will excrete his innards such as his intestines and the like.
• The cinematic trailer also censored the Harpies breasts. They will be visible in the final game.
  
• The scale of the game is so large that the entire Medusa level from the first God of War game can easily fit in the palm of the Titans hands. They said they wanted to “take D-Day, combine it with the movie Cloverfield and put Kratos right in the middle.”

•  A brand new supernatural magic-type has been introduced, as relying on god-powers of the past would be thematically daft; the Gods are no longer friends of Kratos and are unlikely to grant him any more power, so his magic will come from somewhere intrinsic, somewhere else.
• Now touting their new zipper system, which realistically depicts the slicing of animated skin, the deaths of Kratos's enemies are definitely getting a graphical overhaul in the next installment of the God of War franchise.
• A new creature introduced is the Chimera, a mythical creatures that is part goat and part lion and has a snake for a tail. You will fight it in 3 different stages, once on four legs, where it attacks you with his snake tail, once that is severed it transforms into it's lion like form and when that is done it charges at you with it's goat form where you will have to cut off it's horns and stab it with them.

• As far as story is concerned, God of War III will bring the trilogy to a close, but the franchise will live on, although it's been stated that they won't be "run into the ground". The game begins with a bang with the invasion of Mount Olympus and the story also ends with a bang that will be a huge revelation for Kratos. Also, events that were significant in the first two games will be "profound" in God of War 3.

•  The idea of the sex mini game, which have become staples in the God of War series is being explored and might be added, if they can add a new twist to it and have it make sense in the context of the game.
• Some developers from Insomniac and Naughty Dog, creators of the Resistance and Uncharted franchises, are helping with the development of God of War 3. They are teaching them tips that they learned while developing for the Playstation 3 hardware.