God of War III

This weekend the good folks at Sony Computer Entertainment saw it fit to give me early access to the game. They did a selected "valued PlayStation®Network user" access code giveaway and I guess they value me :-)

It is the E3 2009 demo and within the demo file they've included the E3 trailer from the same event. And what do I think?  

First off the demo is pretty kick-arse and does showcase alot of the gameplay mechanics and does it well. It looks great and feels organic to play once you've screwed your head around the controls and the flow of it's use. Made me want the game and the PSP game and made me look forward to the re-issue of GoW and GoW II in upscaled Blu-Ray glory.

Visceral and primal, yet sophisticated and absolutely NOT for kids! I am pretty hardened when it comes to violence in my media but this has some moments even I felt a bit "urk.. feel a little sick". I do love it when things can shake me up and stir something deep in me. :)

I do see that this is a 6+month old build and that it's essentially a beta code but with this as the basis for the late March 2010 release, this game is going to be awesome! No questions asked. If this is a real taste for the game I am so there come March 24th next year, first in line.

I do however question the reasoning behind this type of demo release. I guess they like to do something special at times and make some feel special in the process. But having said that, they ought to have a new demo out some time prior to the game being released for all PSN users.

Mirror's Edge

Demo Thoughts

I downloaded the Mirror's Edge demo off the PSN last night and played it today. And here are my impressions on it.

The visuals are great albeit the sterile kind. Very clean. And one clean and tidy city, with the exceptions of the springboards, planks and such. 

The gameplay actually works real well on the console. I was worried it would be awkward seing as first person point of view on a parkour/freerunning game is a brave move. I found it easy to play yet abit hard to master. Only thing that was abit hard to judge was that one place where you have to jump across to another building and land on the wall pipes. Hard to judge when to jump and the angle to jump. 

While these things are positives I still don't see me throwing myself ass first to the game shop to buy it right away. I wasn't that blown away. Though it does seem like a good Zen game, the kind of game you can plug in to meditate to. 

Did my hype for the game increase, decrease or end up at status quo?  I'd say I feel like it made me move the game off the "got to have right away" list to the "get later" list. Having said that I still want the music which I really like.