Review God of War: Ascension (God of War: Ascension)

Exterminate almost all the Olympic pantheon creators God of War digging deeper Greek mythology, offering new victims for mad Spartan.

God of War: Ascension back to the origins of the series, offering an unexpected view of the motivation of the hero in his battle with the god of war.According to the mythology of the game long before Zeus and the beautiful Aphrodite existed forerunner of the gods - the Furies.Sisters, whose main purpose was to keep order in the divine hierarchy and to punish perjurers.After Kratos broke his promise to the god of war Ares, the Furies have gained control over the fate of the legendary Spartan, tormenting and torturing his soul until, until he finally lost himself inhis madness. But as fate, Kratos finds a way out of the treacherous labyrinth, going in search of the lost mind.

After dark, but Simplified God of War 3The game returns to the puzzle and research.Recycling the game mechanics, the creators have raised the degree of violence to an unprecedented height, and adventure and puzzles in the game paid no less attention than the fight with different creatures.Moreover, it is easy to drag and drop the cubes from side to side, namely the combination of special abilities, including the destruction of the illusion of the Furies, the ability to create your own copy and aawesome power of destruction and creation.For example, in one of the chapters of the game you will have to re-create, and then destroy the giant chain to raise the ancient mechanism to the desired height while holding the lever you just createddoppelganger. Elsewhere in handy ability to dissipate the illusion furies that will reveal previously invisible objects.In addition to the peaceful applications of all abilities can be used directly in combat, dipping opponents in a temporary stasis, calling for combined twin shocks or dropping enemies at a safe distance.

The combat system has also undergone significant changes. Kratos have only one kind of primary weapons - Blades of Chaos. Blades are forged in Tartarus can use one of the four kinds of divine magic, including Ares fire, ice, Poseidon, Zeus lightning and black magic spirits of the underworld Hades.Magic can be pumped, opening up new tricks and combinations, as well as heavy-duty magic attacks.In addition to basic weapons Kratos can select scattered here and there swords, spears, clubs and shields.Each of these weapons can be used repeatedly, causing light damage, or hold a special attack that destroys an enemy and the weapons. The new system with backlighting climbing ledges and adhesion came to us straight from the world Uncharted.

In the R1 button is now suspended from the chain, with which you can capture the common enemies, move quickly, pull and pull and carry objects bloody finishing.

The chains have established a new benchmark of violence in video games.It is unlikely that you have somewhere to see how the main character stabbed the Cyclops from which anatomical details spilling a few meters intestine, or it looks like a giant brain chippedelephant. Kratos himself is dancing the dance of death with incredible grace, bathed in rivers of blood, and combining special attacks, seizures, abilities and magic in dozens of different compounds. The combat system God of War: Ascension incredibly colorful and pretty fast. Of course, God of War: Ascension there are a couple of things that can cause disgust, but it is unlikely you waiting for something different from the originally cruel game.

Technically God of War: Ascension squeezing the last juices out of the attachment by offering players a mirrored surface, large-scale fights, built on the use of physics, as well as highly detailed enemies and simply stunning in its scope bosses. This is definitely one of the most beautiful games PS3.

However, in God of War: Ascension It has its drawbacks, some of which have to fix a future update. In some places, the sound and music are seriously lagging. This applies to both scripted scenes and ordinary door opening.Sometimes Kratos can not cling to the ladder. But most of all problems is the system QTE. Now they are used during battles, as the counter-attack, and it brings a number of serious problems.For example, you spend a series of blows against a centaur - the screen on fire QTE button a second after you press another fragment of your hand.No matter what you do to stop the attack and pressed the correct button - QTE will not be counted, and you lose.At another point during the downhill for three meters up the cliff you see on the screen comes on X, but you already had planned to jump, just a second later on the edge of a cliff.But QTE will not be counted, and you lose. Finally, at one point in the game during the challenging puzzle hung script, so we had to start from the checkpoint.

Multiplayer mode at the time of writing this review was not available, but we will update the review after the official launch. However, the final assessment it will not affect as online has never been the heart of the series.

God of War: Ascension - This is much more adventurous than Uncharted and the last Tomb RaiderThat can boast not only epic battles and stunning design, but also studies with a really interesting puzzles that use physics, as well as the manipulation of time and other abilities of Kratos. If you like the genre of Action-Adventure and miss the first God of War with PlayStation 2Then Ascension in any case it is impossible to miss.