God of War III officially PS3-bound
Confirming Cory Barlog's exit from its Santa Monica studio, SCEA announces Kratos is indeed coming to its next-gen console.
In March, Sony Computer Entertainment America held a lavish launch party in San Francisco for God of War II. In the course of the celebrations, Cory Barlog, the game's outspoken director, dropped some none-too-subtle hints that the series would be coming to the PlayStation 3 along with force feedback technology.
"If we were to do a God of War III on the PS3..." said Barlog to the enthusiastic crowd, before changing pace midsentence. "We're excited about the potential--maybe, no commitment, no announcement or anything like that--to maybe have [God of War hero] Kratos in 1080p with the Sixaxis and vibration. Vibration is coming back to the PS3, that's pretty cool, huh?"
At the time of Barlog's outburst, SCEA reps would comment on neither a rumble-enabled Sixaxis nor the possible appearance of God of War III on the PS3. Now, less than two months after the Dual Shock 3 was unveiled at the 2007 Tokyo Game Show, Sony has officially confirmed that God of War III is indeed in development exclusively for the PS3 at SCEA's Santa Monica studio. It provided no further details on the game.
Unfortunately, the God of War III announcement was tempered by some bittersweet news. SCEA has confirmed that Barlog himself no longer works at the company's Santa Monica studio. "We are grateful for his work and creative vision for the critically acclaimed God of War franchise," the company said in a brief statement in which it expressed faith in the remaining members of the GOWIII and God of War: Chains of Olympus teams.
Barlog's departure remains shrouded in mystery. So far, he has shared no information about his future plans on his personal blog, where he last posted in mid-October. His exit comes just under four months after God of War series creative director David Jaffe announced he was leaving SCEA's employ after 14 years. Jaffe maintains close ties with Sony, and his indie studio Eat Sleep Play's first project is a PlayStation 2 port of the PSP game Twisted Metal: Head On.
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I want this game on the PS2 not just the PS3.
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god of war rules i can't wait for this game so much blood and gore its like weed so addictive
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there should be more new games on PS2 as the number of users are more than PS3. We still love PS2. Scheeraz
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That's what I said too,both the developers and the ps2 owners would benefit if GoW 3 would come out on the ps2 too.
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Alright, then it should at least come on the ps2.
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Putting GOW3 on 360 would be like putting Halo on P3, GOW has been a playstation game from the beginning and thats how it should stay.
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tose of you who think 360 is beter you wrong I have a 360 and 2 Ps3s and every game I have for the 360 have capey grafics and the games I have for the ps3 have way better grafics
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i cant wait for this game
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I just got hired for a new job and gamestop store is right beside me
I became friends with the people who work there. The manager said that god of war 3 is comeing out on 3/2/2009 thats what they said and am just letting people know
Can't wait for this game to come out, and to all you xbox fanboys and girls can't you guys just stay in your section and not come on ours. GOW will never be on xbox just like halo or what ever microsoft games will never be on the ps3 
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I understand that ps3 is the console of today,but there are more ps2 users in the world.So everybody whould benefit if God of War 3 would be released on ps2 too.Sony Santa Monica Studios should profit at this and the GoW fans too,because not everyone has money for a ps3 but still we want to continue this wonderfull "franchise".
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This a long with MGS 4 will make me buy a PS3. Now there will be good games on the PS3
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Good thing i have a PS3, cuz this is stayin xclusive
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GoW 3 will sell more than Halo 3 ever did, or can even dream of selling...
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I'm currently playing Chains of Olympus and loving it. A GOW on the ps3 would be legendary.
As far as the xbox 360 comments, I own both systems and while I ,overall, like the 360 better, this game MUST be ps3 exclusive. Why? Because platform exclusive or first party games usually outshine multiplatform ones. Additionally, SCEA has great experience with Playstation systems and working with the 360 would only draw valuable effort from what should be an amazing ps3 title.
With DS3, MSG4 coming soon along with FFXIII, GOW3 for the future; Sony may force me to set down my 360/WII controller for awhile.
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F*** man ... i want GOW on the xbox 360 !!!!!!
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ah mannnnnn WTF!!!!!!!! this should have been a 10.0 perferct. For a psp hand held game this is a very hard game to put down once you is playing it. I dont understand the review staff employed by gamestop but i feel they need to get some better people becaus this game should have made the Gampspot Award. metal gear op and teken made it but this game derseves it too. And as far as the perfect 10.0 score, only game i see that have gotten that award was Zelda 64 and Soul Calibur for Dreamcast. Lets stop being scared to give a 10.0 to games that derseves it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the first game on th psp that played so well that yall had to do a graphic comprison to the some of the games on PS2. Get that Stick out of ya'll @sses and give scores to games that derseves it
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So far every F****ing exclusive ps3 game that has a good rep that I have checked has more than 20 360 fanboys complaining about how the game should be on 360 and other sh**t like how the 360 is better than the ps3.
The F*****ing 360 has it's own F******ing section on gamespot, why the hell are you 360 fanboys coming into our section to barge about 360. So what the 360 has more games, the 360 came out one year earlier than PS3. This is the year the PS3 will really get on track with bringing out games.
The only game that you 360 fanboys where hoping would come out for the 360 and did that was a PS3 exclusive, was Devil May Cry 4. Most of you don't even know the whole story exaclty for that game, the only way you would know it is if you played it at a family\friends house who owned a Playstaton 2, or if you yourself owned a Playstation 2 and that would mean that you like Playstation.
Besides even though you guys got Devil May Cry 4 we got Lost Planet 1, and 2, and possibly Gears of War 2. The PS3 will be bringing out exclusive games that I know you 360 fanboys wish you had but it doesn't mean you should come over in our section to start a whole bunch of bullsh***it with the PS3 owners. It only shows that PS3 is better if you can't keep to you 360 section, so do yourselevs a favour and keep to yourself in your section.
Playstation always!!!!!!!!!
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god of war 3 should not be on the 360 because it is a sony exclusive so far and it should stay that way if you are too poor buy a ps3 too bad find something else today
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username_is_me - "they should make it 4 360 the ps3 is a over sized over priced paper weight..."
It's not as good of a paper weight as a RROD 360...
This is great news for PS3 owners, and due to it's exclusivity, they should be able to take full advantage of the PS3's hardware and produce an awesome game with some awesome animations.
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ps3's suck thats why it should be on the 360 its not that noone can afford it it's just they flat out suck (DPumbliQ)
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they should make it 4 360 the ps3 is a over sized over priced paper weight since the ps3 sony has done very few things right
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Jesus f*cking Christ, when will you fanboys (and girls) grow up?
It´s a good thing there are exclusives for each console, yes, it makes way for a great variation of games, yes, the competition between Sony and Microsoft creates better games, yes.
Good, good, but there is no need to be all "HAHA!" in each other´s faces when one game is exclusive to one of the consoles, because YOU had certaintly nothing to do with the production of the game!
Just be glad the game is out there, and if you cannot afford the console that the one exclusive game is available on, you need to prioritize.
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ur all idiots, i love 360 fanboy cries to get playstation fanchises. makes me feel better knowing that i dont have to cry myself to sleep at night thinking about how much better the other consoles franchises are. metal gear isnt comming, final fantasy isnt comming, and god of war sure as hell isnt comming. so get over it.
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Diabolikal_PS3 is correct! You'll never see games produced by microsoft in a PS3 as well a game produced by SCEA in a xbox360 ( thank god)!
I would like if god of war: chains of olympus go to ps3. That will be great for ps3, for sony and for us, the players. PS3 4EVER
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you guys are dumbassez for even talking about GoW3 going to 360. cuz im sure SCEA would love to publish a game for the 360. GoW will never be on xbox and thats why i have a ps3.
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I love GoW and I0 sure that GoW III will be the best god of war ever!!! (and its hard to be). I have a ps3 and I can't wait to play it but I read that it only be released in the end of 2009! PS3 IS THE BEST!!!!
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i think its good that god of war isn`t coming out on 360! 360 Sucks ASS!!!! PS3 FTW
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"I love the God of War games; but the PS3 just isn't very good. It doesn't have nearly as good of a game selection as the Xbox360. So, sorry I bought the better sytem but now I won't get God of War III. Who knows hopfully a liitle while after the realease of the game they will release it for 360. It's not like that's never happend before." by Crazyk100
So would Halo come out for PS3? GoW is made by Sony's first party dev team called Sony Santamonica. Now why would Sony's internal devs make it for 360? The ignorance of this is just too laughable
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finally the official release for the PS3..now we just sit back and wait for announcement for god war 3 to hit the PS2
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Willbe awesome (:
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Hope its true!
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Sweet, never played GOD OF WAR b4, i hope this gets me hooked
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PS3 rocks!!!! It doesn't have the game selection as the 360 does, but at least it doesn't show the ring of death 5 min after turning it on and the graphics are just as awesome to look at as the games are to play!!
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I love the God of War games; but the PS3 just isn't very good. It doesn't have nearly as good of a game selection as the Xbox360. So, sorry I bought the better sytem but now I won't get God of War III. Who knows hopfully a liitle while after the realease of the game they will release it for 360. It's not like that's never happend before.
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i think that they should put this game on ps3 and ps2 because not everyone got a ps3 like me. I'm a huge fan of god of war (look at my freakin' name) and i didn't buy a ps3 but i still got my ps2 along with many other people who still have a ps2. I think they should make it for both systems.
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i cant wait to get my hands on that game...GOD OF WAR III
one o my favorites just like devil may cry...
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god of war is an exclusive...
so keep dreaming ahmedbilal
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Batsosaims: Kratos is a god so how would a half demon be able to over power him, it doestn make sense
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AWW! I wish it would come on the 360 just like DMC
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now that i think about it ryu or dante either of them would kill kratos ryu is just way too fast and a way better fighter he would decapitate kratops before he saw what hit him
dante isnt as fast but hes half demon he would over power kratos easily
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i like god of war but ninja gaiden has a way better fighting system and better ai
plus the move list is way deeper and it had cooler enemies god of war main strenght was its story and production values god of war 1 and 2 were my fave ps2 games though and if it looked that good on a ps2 i cant imagine how it would look on a ps3
oh btw ryu is actually more of a bad ass then kratos he would probaly izuna drop kratos and kratos head would explode
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God of War 3....... Everyone that says DMC or NG are better series then GoW are 360 fanboys that are pissed cause they don't want too or can't afford a PS3

NG is good, difficulty keeps you stuck for a long time at one spot, GoW is sometimes similar but you get awesome finishers and a more badass character...... Master Ryu vs. Kratos? R.I.P. Master Ryu
DMC is awesome, Dante is cool, but he is no longer sticking only with Sony (Traitor) and he would underestimate Kratos (being Greek and very pale and all that) so Kratos would also kill him
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yes !! i'm defenitly gonna buy the PS3 not the stupid xbox 360 ...... not only for GOW3 but for MGS4 and FFXIII
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GO PS3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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once this gets released i doubt xbots will still exist
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@Naggeh

I really hope your not serious about your comment; "They used all the good parts already"... I mean, my god did you see the ending to GOW2?!?
Hes climbing up Mt Olympus or w/e to kill the gods themselves for Christ sake!! I ask you how is this game not gonna be epic?!?
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