Hands-on: God of War: Chains of Olympus

by Andrew Yoon { Jul 15th 2007 at 2:22PM }

September can't come soon enough. That's when the public will be able to get their hands on the incredible God of War: Chains of Olympus demo that we got to play at E3. The game is everything a God of War fan could possible want: beautiful, gory, and utterly exhilarating.

The controls are incredible intuitive, and it was within mere seconds that we were able to start pulling off combos and dodges with relative ease. Kratos' basic moves return unchanged, but there are a few new special attacks, exclusive for the PSP edition. We were surprised to see the dodge return, in spite of the second analog stick. In order to jump out of an enemy's way, pressing down on both shoulder buttons whilst using the analog nub will allow Kratos to jump away. It's surprisingly intuitive and easy to use.

It should go without saying that the game is beautiful, taking advantage of all 333MHz the system has to offer. It is everything a PS2 God of War game should be ... but on a handheld. And knowing Ready at Dawn, we knew they'd be able to pull it off.

Gallery: God of War: Chains of Olympus

Tags: chains of olympus, ChainsOfOlympus, e307, god of war, GodOfWar

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

kingofwale @ Jul 15th 2007 2:27PM

for the rest of us who applied but aren't going to receive a hard UMD copy of the game, I beg you, Sony

Please make a downloadable version, or else you're forcing me to go OE and rip it that way.

joey @ Jul 25th 2007 11:19AM

the true is the dev said they developed this game based on 222mhz, now new psp firmware 3.50 will allow psp to fully use 333mhz. Imagine the extra power now the game should run really smooth with 30fps.

drdre74 @ Jul 15th 2007 4:30PM

I can't wait. this is the first PSP game to come out that I just couldn't wait to get my hands on. I'll be pre-ordering mine very soon. Now im just waiting on my demo to hit the mail.

Extinction @ Jul 20th 2007 8:53PM

@#2 actually the truth is the develop is making it for 333 mhz.

NdFaN1083 @ Jul 15th 2007 9:28PM

um...where the hell is pspfanboy theater? it SUNDAY!

kingofwale @ Jul 15th 2007 11:32PM

Above poster I am sure you know that has nothing to do with this

Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry.,

Thank you.

Phil @ Jul 16th 2007 12:29AM

@ kingofwale: dont be daft

kingofwale @ Jul 16th 2007 12:41AM

@Phil: Just trying to do my part as a loyal pspfanboy reader

Don @ Jul 16th 2007 1:25AM

NdFaN1083:

I think that Andrew Yoon is the one who handles the PSPFanboy theatre, and he's been on the west coast covering E3. So it'll probably be a bit late this week.

On topic: I think that Daxter (and Ready At Dawn) is highly overrated, so my enthusiasm for GoW:CoO is a bit tempered. But I'm still excited about it, it looks great. Haven't heard anything bad about the game.

Trekster @ Jul 16th 2007 1:31AM

oh good grief another uninspired PSP game that does not look nearly as good as any DS game! You PSP suckers will fall for anything
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Kidding! I'm Kidding!
Just rattling some chains :)
Of course this game is going to AWSOME. I was not a huge fan of daxter but then again it was not really my type of game, a little too cute for my taste, but GOW BABY! Look out!