This game is a bomb!
To be honest, it felt like the original was obsolete, it looked like a game from late 90s. Nothing wrong with that if it was an indie game or something. Apparently GoW was like a warm-up for the sequel - GoW 2 will blow your mind and make you love your ps2 or ps3 even more.
It's like - this is it, this is why I bought ps2. Funny thing is, I've only completed like 20% of it, but if the rest of the game is as orgasmic, it will enter my top 20 like a boss.
The gameplay feels more intuitive and fights feel like less of a chore compared to the original. And I'm in love with this game's visuals too - in the original they didn't use much lighting but here we see a lot of bright sky and stuff. Must-play-further.