@MistryMan: Settle down....

ghnvt

It wasn't that big a surprise, but it is nice to see *something* exclusive to PS3.

GrandfatherParadox

I HAVE WAITED MY ENTIRE LIFE FOR THIS

MistryMan

Kratos!!!!

GTA4er

@parad0x360:
Well actually Kratos could visit the northern parts of Europe and kick some Asgard-ass or he could turn south against Egypt-gods. There are plenty of them ;)

Garo

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE COLORS ?!!!

gencid

Or, here's a thought..

Maybe they'll bust out some gameplay footage tomorrow.. Like, after Bungie makes their announcement..

You gotta close the show with something big too..

thegreatseal

Nice but we already knew this...

Replica23

Just wondering if anyone else thinks this game will fall into the March release the series has traditionally seen? I know that March 2009 is way too soon/hopeful, but March 2010 seems like a tad long (at least for a series that has generally been pretty good about avoiding excessive delays.

Nightshift Nurse: Mile High Colonic

@ƒox: i don't care, really. it's just a point of discussion.

but, face it. most people only function on a win/lose scale. it's a fact, especially with gamers, so chill out.

jfx316

I also wanted to add that for once in gaming I hope this is the last one. This series is just way too good to turn into a 10 game series. They should, just like some movies, let it rest at this third trilogy closing game. I know that most likely won't happen, but it would have a great legacy to just be a trilogy in gaming.

kylo4

@S3RV0:

You don't subscribe to Netflix do you?

LittleBigPlaneteer

@the_answer:

I'd put money on God of War III coming Holiday 2009

LittleBigPlaneteer

@LobselVith: that's what i thought. the release date on that has got to be insane. i don't care about it going to the 360. it's not like JRPGs have been setting any sales records in it. but, cool for people that like to wait.

at least no one can talk about the PS3 is holding up the release of this game.

@S3RV0: netflix sounds like a cool deal. i don't watch enough movies to warrant signing up for it. my concern would be the space issue. HD movies are huge and with the 360 letting you download to the hard drive, i'd wonder about the drive filling up. but, that's if you watch ALOT of tv...on your game console.

jfx316

EVERYONE...CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?

By the way....Nintendo's presentation sucks.

ARRRGGGHHHH god damn it!!!! couldn't help it.

functioningbadly

well now i need to play god of war 1 and 2

shade-black

Easy on the pre-rendered stuff guys...don't worry, they'll show actual gameplay next E3....if there ever will be one.

functioningbadly

@jfx316: Why does someone have to "win"? Why can't you just objectively pick out what you thought was good from each? That's asking too much, isn't it? -_-

ƒox

@the_answer: March 2010?! What else has Sony Santa Monica been working on? Insomniac has 3 PS3 games under its belt so far... I seriously doubt it's that far off.

LobselVith

@jfx316:

MS is full of win. netflix trumps lame gran turismo tv and FFXIII (lul@tehfanboys)

S3RV0

I would never have guessed Sony was making this game!

All kidding aside I cant wait for it to come out but im trying to keep my hype levels low this time around. The absence of Jaffe and Barlog could hurt this game but only time will tell.

This and MGS4 are my reasons for owning a PS3...well aside from Blu-Ray. So I really REALLY hope it turns out amazing. God of War: COO on PSP was really good so i expect this one to be as well.

I do sorta hope this is Kratos's last outing. They have rewritten just about all of greek mythology at this point, there isnt much more left.

parad0x360

Dammit now I have to buy a ps3 again

trialhero

@fdisk: About a month aftewards to allow PS3 owners to gloat...for about 1 month! :D

trogam

@jfx316:

The announcement of FFXIII for 360 hurled that game so far into the future (201?) I really have no feelings about it. I mean, come see me when you've actually got a new trailer...

LobselVith

YESSSSS God of ***** War 3

Kratos looks more Kevin Garnet Style :O

badass

Captain Fury

I'm sure people might think it lame, but I really hope Kratos is in the final retail copy of SC3 for PS3. That would be so badass to me.

Sammo21

I already expected this when I bought the PS3 months ago. I didn't even need an announcement, I just figured "September 09". This being one of the reasons I got the PS3, I hope it lives up to it's predecessors.

kylo4

Wow, the teaser was short but awesome. Kratos looks so good!

Naia

no gameplay videos means a March 2010 release date.. the game's too early in the development to show the game engine

the_answer

@BurstBalogna: Cool! :)

I think Patapon is more suited for a short unplanned play, and works better when playing even if there is lots of light making the screen hard to see...

GoW: Chains of Olympus is more like a game you want to sit a bit longer with, and actually see every detail of it...

Once I'm done with those two, I still have Daxter and R&C: Size Matters to beat :)

E-lai-e

@Wolf_Dog:

Think they're saving that for TGS. Like they did with SotC.

LobselVith

If it's not ready to show it's not ready to show. I'd much rather them get it done right and show it when it's ready then rush it and show us a game that's not ready to be seen. But what gets Sony the nod over Nintendo at least is they remembered to at least give us a tease. Not even a tease of a new Metroid/Mario/Zelda/Kid Icarus game = epic fail for Nintendo

bjlive4350

i'm not sure: does MS win for stealing one of the PS3 most sought after titles that isn't even close to coming out and showing almost nothing new that we didn't know about, introducing a new dashboard and movie partnership, and opening up more as a "casual" colsole?

or

does sony win for dropping the price of the PS3, introducing the video store, (tonight!!!) showing the holiday line up on all systems and early next year that most look actually really cool?

thoughts? fanboy/internet memes need not apply.

jfx316

How do you know that trailers as all pre-rendered? his it been confirmed? already??

monstermunch

Keeping my fingers crossed this game features a dance-off.

Nightshift Nurse: Mile High Colonic

Sony continues to show nothing but CGI. Ah, the trend continues.

DigitalVirus

Man, it seems like everybody is trying to downplay this announcement.

PEOPLE SHOULD BE HAPPY!

It's God of War III, christ people. Oh, just because Microsoft will get a MULTIPLATFORM game now everybody has to take a dump on GoWIII. Frankly, that could be horrible news because that could mean another year in development. Just be happy that you all get to play the damn thing.

suya123

@ThisCharmingMan: I agree with you on that completely. I think that's what a lot of people were expecting. Maybe it's what Iwata meant to convey by "The Mario and Zelda teams are hard at work," but that's not how it came across. My reaction to that was "Duh! They had better be!" not "Wow, more cool games!"

antialias02

@7ucky:

Whole heartedly agree no team Ico made me a very sad man :(

Wolf_Dog

@Mike918: [www.gametrailers.com]

baru

Even though it was pre rendered, Kratos HD looked so damn realistic!

venkat55

So when is this coming to Xbox 360? :D

fdisk

Oh boy, more pre-rendered stuff from Sony.

KaneRobot

should've shown some gameplay for GOW3.

the DCUO thing was neat, makes me wonder why they canned the Marvel MMO.

STILL in shock about FF13 going 360.

ruba-dub-dub

@7ucky:

IT will come out in March. ALL GoW games came out in march.

As for Team ICO? No idea what they have been doing. Maybe they are saving that for TGS this year.

mrantimatter

I did not expect to see God of War 3 on the PS3. Thanks Sony for clearing that up...

RealityCheckKH

See, Sony did the right thing by at least TEASING that this project exists. Nintendo really left us high and dry today.

ThisCharmingMan

@thegreatseal: Agreed. It felt like they said late 2009 without, you know, actually saying.

Where's my Team Ico update, Sony?

7ucky

I just have a hard time seeing how MSFT won considering FF13 has already been running videos for PS3 for over a year. It's already coming to PS3. The only thing that was good for 360 that isn't coming to PS3 is Gears 2...after that...nothing interests me. Basically, I just want to play LBP.

superHOOKIE

KRATOS!!

mugenektr

I need to get out of work now so I can go home and utterly cream my pants as I watch the teaser!

acez2087

@Spoony Bard:
Nintendos of course...

Garo

@Spoony Bard:

I thought Sony had the flashiest presentation, but I was overwhelmed by how many videos they showed (I watched it on gamespot while reading here). But in terms of WHAT was announced, I think Microsoft clearly wins for FFXIII alone.

Sony had more content to show but that's simply because they have two more platforms than Microsoft. Aside from FFXIII, there wasn't a lot of "new" exclusive announcements for Microsoft. Sony seems to have more new exclusives games show in their press, while Microsoft relied on multiplat games like Fallout 3 and Rockband 2

As for Nintendo. They're Nintendo. They still failed to satisfy the hardcore market and their new games don't exactly excite me.

LittleBigPlaneteer

It's going to make me sad that, since we've been seeing trailers of it forever, God of War 3 will probably drop before FF XIII. Can't wait for either one though.

FLYmeatwad

@E-lai-e: Wow. I'm switching off between those same two games as well, both at the same time. Eerie.

While nothing was really shown off, the announcement is making me consider a PS3 even more, and also knowing that they MAY potentially have multi player is making me giddy inside :)

BurstBalogna

What a shocker! :P

Seriously though, I was expecting gameplay..
I'm filing this as late 2009.

thegreatseal

chains of olympus booklet said it was coming soon, and they've been talking about it since the GOW2 launch party. Man, I was really hoping for a '08 release

JSKeyser

@LittleBigPlaneteer: I wonder whose presentation you thought was best.

Spoony Bard

I haven't played 1,2 or PSP =(

djricekcn

@LittleBigPlaneteer: I am sure people get teasers at strip clubs too, but they don't last a practical 30-45 seconds!

Dennen

Judging by how the trailer was really short and CG I wouldn't expect it till 2010.

Quicksilver4648

@Dennen:

It's a Teaser. FFS

LittleBigPlaneteer

Hell yeah! but still where is the trailer?! someone please upload that!

Mike918

Kratos looks good in high def.

LeLoi

I must admit I only played God of War: Chains of Olympus, well I'm still not done with it, taking turns with Patapon... But I really look forward to GoW III.

If they can squeeze so much awesomeness on a PSP, imagine what they can do on a PS3!

E-lai-e

I just wonder why it was so short.

Dennen

I tihnk that i need to start saving my pennies for all the new games coming out.

III ftw!

baconfrenzy

FUCKING AWESOME. I got chills. I know it was pre-rendered but I haven't had my Kratos fix in a while.

bdawg923

@CitizenInsane27: Disappointed by a company at E3?

Join the club.

Zerbrecher

I love Kratos and the PS3, but Sony dropped the fucking ball. No release window for GOWIII? No release window for Home? No *real* new games besides the ones we've been hearing about for months, even some for YEARS now, that still haven't made it out the fucking door? What is this? A dick showing competition in which you stuff your pants? I am a hardcore PlayStation guy, and I was sorely pissed off at the lackluster showing made by Sony today. The most exciting things they showed off were things that are only exciting in theory. Like the video store? I've been using iTunes for a while now, and frankly, Sony's shitty servers will not be able to handle a mature service like that for another couple of years. Even MS had a few years of experience in running digital distribution before they pulled that. Sony's slow PSN download speeds will only end in them being slagged on by the media, and a pulling of studios who think that Sony wasn't ready for it, and will stick to BD for the time being. That and this MAG game. This "concept", and I call it that well knowing that as things stand, that shit just isn't fucking possible like they want, leaving it a bright idea that people will forget about pretty quickly, especially with a placeholder name like MAG. That concept will probably never bloom to fruition like they think, and will end up vaporware, or the single worst title for the platform.

In essence, Sony has laid their hand for this generation, and that hand has way too much of this well talked about long-term goal shit in it. Home is starting to get vaporware talk as well, because Sony doesn't properly resource their development teams on their overly-ambitious products like that, and lead to it being myths and bullshit. I want to say I still have faith in Home, but really? No time-frame yet for release? This thing better be completely ridiculously unfinished, like just huge gaping texture glitches and tearing EVERYWHERE. Because otherwise there should be nothing stopping them from saying "By October, Home will have public release."

This long term goal thing for Sony has blinded them as a company. They are so caught up in their Sonytopion vision of the future that the current is leaping ahead of them. MS had a lot of interesting developments announced about their system and where they are going with it, and when. Sony doesn't know what the fuck is going on outside of "the video store and it's ridiculously bad download times are launching tonight!" to mediocre applause. They played it off that they are done focusing on hardware appraisal and are moving to software, but they said that bullshit LAST YEAR TOO! Ugh.

I'm just getting a bit tired of telling my friends they should get a PS3 for *this* game or *that* game, when I can't even tell them when it's coming, or if it's exclusivity is worth the price, because at this point, I wouldn't be fucking surprised if Sony has to outsource God of War III to Xbox 360 just to make their software division fucking profitable. It's just all getting way too redundant.

CitizenInsane27

@GrandfatherParadox: But it's made by Sony, of course it is exclusive to them. That's like saying, "it's great to see Animal Crossing and Wii Sports Resort exclusive to the Wii!"

Everyone KNOWS those games are going to be exclusives.

smcallah

I guess it was sort of inevitable.
Still, as a recent Chains of Olympus convert I have to say OH MY GOD!! CoO was (ok, is, I'm not done) incredible.

The games are beautiful on a mere PS2 too... I've got to go catch up so I don't get HD spoiled!

fuchikoma

NOW WE'RE TALKING!

CAN'T WAIT! CAN'T YOU TELL BY THE CAPS?

maniacmayhem

@Captain Fury: TOTALLY looks like Kevin Garnett. I was trying to put my finger on it since God of War I.

ibelli

@Import98: Exactly my point. Who the fuck knows at this point.

CitizenInsane27

Hope for Sony this one stays exclusive.

Yes, I'm aware it is 1st party.

Import98

As for this announcement, is basically an empty one, because, really, we all knew it was coming, and there's no gameplay/release date.

Who couldn't have called this one?

Zerbrecher

this will go nicely with a $400 80gb PS3..ah yes. the wait was worth it. chaos and massive gigawatts

maverickudo

I am still disappointed about not enough (j)rpgs for the system, especially from Square-Enix. Plus why did they not say more about Bioshock coming to ps3...

zorkan555

SURPRISE!

Talleh

i don't really care that much for this game, it won't be as good as Gears 2 or Fable 2 or FFXIII (on xbox 360 of course)

Foreign-Contaminant

@jfx316: frankly my wallet is more open to Sony. Considering we are getting more game sthat are exclusive to PS3 and good games that aren't rip offs from PS2 and Wii. Lips and You're in the movies and Scene it and the like of games are just not making me excited. Resistance, killzone,m.a.g., new PSP titles have got me way more excited.

I haven't seen the Nintendo presser but it seems like they didn't have much to show. WTF Nintendo. Maybe it's time to join the big boys again and produce awesome content the way you did when you had the SNES.

Netnavi

WOW!!1! What a complete surprise!
:/
[kotaku.com]

phextin

Without David Jaffe, I don't know how they'll pull this of especially since they are going for full camera movement instead of fixed camera angles...right?

surft

I guess KG really did lose his shit after taking Kobe to school in Game 6...

Rainbow Bright

Can....not....wait..... FINALLY a reason to be happy I bought my PS3. Metal Gear has been pretty fun, but this game will make my PS3 purchase worth it!!!! Zeus is going down. Down, down, down, down!!!

Level9Unicorn

More than any other game series I think I have played, I feel I inhabit the soul and shoes of Kratos when I play God Of War. This is why I love this series. It takes the terms "epic," "pathos," and "tragic drama" to a whole new level. Can't wait to see what they do with the PS3 architecture, the PS2 art design and graphics were phenomenal.

Mohican