Okay, let's start off with the first thing, it's so beautiful graphically. Im not a fps whore, but it seemed like a smooth experience, and I didn't notice jaggies anywhere (though I didn't really go around looking). This
is the updated build with the impressive lighting, as seen with the fight with the guy's head you take off. It's beautiful all around. "Painting came to life"? Maybe not, but puts tons of games to shame graphically. There are a lot of neat touches too. The blood that spills on Kratos looks good, and stays on him for a good bit, and Kratos Himself is beautiful graphically.
Gameplay is basically what we've always played. Not too much change there, my favorite move (L1 + Square) is still alive and kicking, with a bunch of combos both new and old I think. The lions paws are really cool. And if you use L1 + square or triangle, there are some ranged attacks there. I didn't play with them too much, but I really like them.
Presentation is very barebones (for the demo obviously) you just press start to enter the game, and a short cutscene happens (real time?) and then you have control of Kratos. There is a menu there to invert controls in flight (I will explain later) and other normal options.
Onto flight.
Oh my god, this is going to be the part of the game subject to the most polarizing opinions, but for me, I am going to hate them. They remind me of the chameleons in Resistance 2, in that you have to just remember where all the obstacles and things are to dodge so you don't get hit. If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's the part at the end of the E3 demo. You sprout wings, and then you're flying up a vent. It sucks. The controls are sluggish and the detection when you miss/hit something seems very off. Doesn't help that the perspective isn't bottom up, but kind of an isometric view, so you can't tell if you need to move up or down or left or right to dodge things until it gets too close to matter. So you just have to memorize it. I died on that part 15 times, but I'm sure some could do it in less tries. I do hope that they are tweaked in a newer build, or that they are few and far between.
Other than that, it's basically what we've seen millions of times now, so yeah. GoW 3 for life bitches