The people complaining aboot this right now are the same ones who buy Madden and all the other sports titles every year even though it's the same fucking game.

It's the reason EA has become the evil empire and Ubi runs every decent game they make into the ground with crappy follow ups (R6V 2).

AverageJoes

@Amazon_Chris:

I don't see how...

Single player is rarely if ever jeopardized because of online play. MGS4 is prbably the best stealth action and MGO isn't ruining it. GTA4 is the best sandbox game and multiplayer isn't runing that, so why exactly would multiplayer ruin the single player aspect of GOWIII? If anything it adds a ton more replay value.

I like how people just are so pessimistic about something we know jack shit about right now. Way to go guys!

LittleBigPlaneteer

God of War is the best Action series I've played...Multiplayer may ruin it.

Amazon_Chris

@Kayeliminal Antithesis:

How can you say it's pointless when you have no idea what it entails? Your comment is pointless if anything.

LittleBigPlaneteer

I really don't see a point to it myself. Unless your player 2 get to be Kratos' twin brother with blue lines instead for red.

MjrShake

@CancerMan:

Speak for yourself. I still like God of War.

dead_red_eyes

Well people bitch about nearly every game that doesn't have a online mode so why not.

t0yrobo

@CancerMan: Excuse me, I don't understand that. How can some online thing make us lose all the respect we have for GoW? Are you one of those guys angry at Vader in Soul Calibur IV?

Ruglia

SO GoW will have multiplayer? Excuse me while I go wash my underwear. What gets out semen the best?

AverageJoes

@Kj719:

Yeah I caught that after I posted and read it again. But really either could work fine.

Sparx

and thus ending the respect we all have for GOW...

CancerMan

@Sparx: I actually meant playing as the actual god, like team Titan can have players playing as Atlas and Cronos (and Kratos since he joined them) against team Gods like Hades and Zeus.

You could have a VIP type match where team Titans tries to take out Zeus while team Gods trying to take out Kratos.

Kj719

yes.

thefoxtrot

@Luke Plunkett: Why have none of you considered co-op?

Because nobody wants to even consider that online in a GoW game could be done in a way that was actually "good"?

Doshu

@Kj719:

Now that would be an awesome idea. Each player controls a different colored Kratos in representation of a different god or titan. Like yellow clothed for Zeus, green for Atemis, pink for Hera, black for Hades, etc...

Yeah. I love that idea.

Sparx

@Sparx: How does Athena play?

Ruglia

@okenny :): Someone just punched me in the back of the head (I'm bleeding from the nose) to let me know how stupid I am for implying the SMG, being an Nintendo title, was capable of supporting online, I apologies... apparently some things aren't joking matters (JASON!!!)

... Ok, that's corrected :(

okenny :)

On-line might be nice, but its something I could live without. I'd rather have more accomplishments. Not to be a game-whore like most, but to challenge me. I don't know why but Sony has already put out two games that I've managed to unlock everything. Normally I'd just beat the game and be content but I feel great that I'm doing things I normally wouldn't have touched.

Sparx

Hmm...GoW III is a battle between the gods and titans, so I can see them taking that battle online.

It would be cool if players are randomly assigned a god/titan and then they battle it out on a large map against their foes.

Kj719

@Moonshadow101: Definitely a possibility. Though GoW III's at least a year off.

Luke Plunkett

Couldn't this just be some kinda co-op mode to make God of War more casual by Sony? The good player (usually a guy) controls Kratos while the casual player (played by the guy's girlfriend) can control one of the Olympus whore to give him head to restore his heath when he's injured... kinda like collecting stars in SMG... It could work O_o

okenny :)

@ Luke Plunkett: thats the first thing i thought. hence the orgy and monster killing.

j.howlett

Seems more likely to me they're prepping up for their next game. GoW is supposed to be a trilogy, after all.

Moonshadow101

@Luke Plunkett: Because a massive Orgy would be way better!

Shindokie

Maybe God of War 3 will have/support online co-op? Or maybe the team behind the previous games is just working on another project.

Replica23

Why have none of you considered co-op?

Luke Plunkett

@nyaz: Well, Home is already pretty much Second Life, right?

IGoogledMurder

QTE orgies or monster slayings. maybe a combination?

j.howlett

Um, create your own God-Like dude, give him special traits. Arena Battles. Totally.

rexor0717

@IGoogledMurder: Now you too can have sex with wenches... in home?!?

nyaz

This adds a whole new dynamic to the sex minigame.

Hopefully it's an MMO.

God of Warcraft, anyone?

ectogamut

This would be absolutely terrible. My money's on some kind of GoW-related Home development.

IGoogledMurder

@kylenalepa:
Considering the fact that they are hiring new people to help with multiplayer i doubt they're shifting much resources from single player to online.

Pata-pwn(TM?)

I could do with some god on god action.

Sparx

As long as the single-player experience doesn't suffer as a result of resources being shifted to work on the multi-player, then I'm fine with it.

kylenalepa

DO WANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jechticknight

God of War MMORPG FTW!!!

dadeisvenm

Not surprising. The director said a long time ago that they'd add in multiplayer if they could do something unique with it.

Kingofblades2278

@Kayeliminal Antithesis: You're right. No way would that sell on any Playstation console.

JustEaton

Ummm, this reminds me of the insane battles that happened in Jedi outcast on xbox live, flashy swords flailing about this way and that.

Timsobuff74

That'd be pointless.

Kayeliminal Antithesis

@Shteve: What? The association that people don't want anything new to happen to "their" beloved games? That they want the same exact product again and again?

Or that EA and Ubi have figured out they they can just keep shelling out the same shit over and over and the uninformed/unintelligent masses will pay them full price for it?

What pressure? Bioshock has no online component.

I don't see why having online will suck and automatically make the single player suck.

It's sky is falling group-think at its worst.

Maybe if we get enough people riled up, we can invade the Santa Monica offices on the pretense of "liberating" the staffers and the game? We'll be greeted as liberators and heroes and they'll throw rose petals in front of us as we march in.

Then we'll hold elections to restaff and then leave and the place will run itself and give us the game for cheaper. It shouldn't take more than 6 months. A year, tops.

AverageJoes

I know that a bunch a gamers make pressure to have online play in every damn way. But, did GoW makers had to fall for that pressure ?

Maybe they'll come up with something good, but I prefer to keep my doubts.

@AverageJoes: The association your making is probably one of the worst I've ever seen !

Shteve

Co-Op, but I wouldn't want to see some expansive God of War MMO. It would be to hectic and I don't like good game franchises becoming a social phenomenon (Warcraft 4 plz... no more WoW) Online Co-Op... *waits*

ph15h needs followers

@dadeisvenm: Yeah throw a few different classes in the god of war universe, and they don't even have to go the WoW route. Just do a Gaunltet 3D style game where everything at the end is an epic raid boss. Lord knows they know how to do boss battles.

Pornosaur

TIMES ARE CHANGING PEOPLE!!!

I wish I could say this nicely, but without online in this day and age means seath for a videogame.

If online for GOW happens, then I think they're smart. No disrepect, but GOW was fun after 1 or 2 playthroughs, but sometimes you wish for a little more considering how expensive games are.
On another note, Naughty Dog better get some online for Drake's Fortune 2 or something to up the replay value.

goldwings

@Pata-pwn(TM?): Adding multi player aspects takes space on the disk, as well as it forces compromises in the code to be made.

The story would have to be shorter to accommodate the multi player portion of the game.

Now, if the multiplayer can somehow be a downloadable add on, then I'm all for it.

TheAngryHeretic

@Interstella5555: Sorry, that should have been "GoW III"

Interstella5555

GoW II is totally going to make me get a PS3, but I can't imagine what an online component would look like. Best case would be co-op (could actually be good), worst would be some type of terrible death..match..thing?

Interstella5555

@AverageJoes: Love how you act like you doesn't seem to know what I'm refering to. I don't know, maybe about the association you made between pessimist people about online play in GoW and people who buy sports games, 4 comments before mine.

Yeah, that's what I was refering to.

"I hate pessimist people about online play in GoW and I hate people who buy sports games like Madden every year too. So if I hate both, it probably meens they're the same people ! DAHHHHHH !"

Great reasoning !

Shteve

There are games that need MP, and there are games that don't. GOW is one that doesn't need it.

Amazon_Chris

@Shteve: I'm not acting like I don't know what you're talking about. I'm recommending you and those of your ilk go play all the glorious rehashes you love so much.

If it were up to you, there wouldn't be innovation. We'd play the same shit over and over.

I bet you were up in arms about GTAIV having multiplayer. THAT obviously killed that game's single player AND the multiplayer blows too. Right? RIIIIIIGHT?!?! That's your whole argument.

Just because YOU don't have a great imagination and can't see it being good doesn't mean THEY (Sony Santa Monica) doesn't either.

In short, have a coke and a smile and shut the fuck up. If it blows, you can scream all day to the heavens that you were right. But your "reasons" are stupid at best.

AverageJoes

Oh no... makes me think Diablo 2 Barbarian vs Barbarian without any prebuffs or warcries...

Ultrasinc

The multiplayer component cannot possibly be a detriment to the single player component, as the one player will be exactly the same as the 3 games already out with the same repetitive combat, mind numbingly easy puzzles and *shutter* quicktime events (PRESS X NOT TO DIE) as the previous games, and Sony would NEVER jeopardize the shiny coat of paint they use to make them feel "next gen." So in essence, the single player is already done.

Hey, maybe the multiplayer will boil down to who can PRESS X NOT TO DIE the fastest.

usfslacker

@TheAngryHeretic: PS3 = Blu-Ray = more than enough disc space for anything. Too much even if you ask 360 owners.

P.P.Bohner

Sounds like co-op to me. Multiplayer doesn't really fit a combo game like God of war.

Then again, they could pull a GTA4 and make a good multiplayer experience out of it.

Tiberian

@kylo4: Let's use the magic of "waiting and seeing". I agree that the "traditonal" god of war is a single player game, hell it's pretty much a "rail" button masher. Just because you can't picture the game with an online component doesn't mean it's going to be a bad game. I really don't think their was a ton of innovation of doing press these buttons now, for the cinematic parts. I also want to know when the phrase "jumped the shark" will have jumped the shark.

Pornosaur

@AverageJoes: Maybe because the concept of "Online" and God of War doesn't fit well together. I simply can't picture this game online. It isn't Halo or Strangehold or Call of Duty. It's God of War, an amazing single player experience that is an epic adventure. How the hell do you make that online without making the series jump the shark?

kylo4

Co-op story-mode multiple Kratoses. Hmmm. Well, since he (SPOILER) now has time-travel powers, (END SPOILER), he could easily just go back in time a ton of times and grab a whole army of progressively-younger Kratoses.

Or he could just, y'know, go back in time and prevent himself from killing his own family. But that wouldn't be vengeful and stuff.

MrPerson

The reference to GOW in the ad is only made to let potentials know who the developer is and what they have done in the past.
But hey, its always nice to speculate about multiplayer slashing awesomeness...

sander_dutch

Maybe GOW 3 will be MMORPG LOL

KroKan

Probably for co-op. Deathmatches wouldn't really work with God of War.

KM91

co-op sounds about right with a new character to help along the way.Should be interesting to see what they are going to do.That title will sell regardless.

enewtabie

just had a crazy idea. what if kratos meets up with the goddess of war nariko to fight their way out of the after life. it would be a co-op blade swinging blood fest. and heavenly sword critics who'd rather walk around praying and eavsdropping or shooting their way through and excellent but short campaign then go online just to shoot some more can extend their play.
i just fear the fan fiction that is sure to follow

j.howlett

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not ruin this series by trying to tack-on a worthless Multiplayer mode.

Online Co-op great.....other modes?

GoW really is about the story and the character....not about online multiplayer.

dirtypanda

I wouldn't jump to conclusions. The job is joining the team "behind [GOW I / II]. It says nothing about working on a GOW game, or even a specific game, for that matter. It's a good selling point for a potential interviewee (the strength of the team), and for all we know they're working on the online component of SCEA Santa Monica Table Tennis (tm).

Sustenance

It could be a position to set up feature involved with the Playstation Network, like Home or their achievement system. Which isn't to say that GoW3 won't have an online game mode, but this doesn't really validate anything.

arepeegee

You know we're going to be treated to a trailer at E3.

sascha23

The only element of online gameplay I enjoy is co-op. Once you take away the story and progession elements, I'm bored to tears.

In other words, I hope they put some co-op in there.

sascha23

@AverageJoes: Come on, get over it ! My point was that you made a dumb analogy between two things that aren't linked together at all. Bring your agressiveness at little lower and stop avoiding what I was referring to !

Shteve