elrechazao said:
Why shouldn't they do it at all? I love greek mythology, and had fun with many games that shat all over the stories, starting back with kid icarus and athena on my NES, all the way through god of war. If you demand ideological and artistic purity from your hack n slash genre, how do you survive as a gamer? Fun games are fun, end of story.
Where's the fun here though? The game's 'compelling' or whatever. The fun could come with the puzzles or the combos or the upgrading or ...
But the imagery isn't fun (unless you're into fucked up shit, I guess). The connection to the DC isn't fun. The whole copycat attitude isn't fun.
The game has no chance in my book in any case because I detest GOW-like games (I suck at them). But it's real easy to hate on this one from all angles.
Also, we're not on NES here. That shit's played out. You have to marry gameplay with something else with these big releases. And they obviously attempted it here, doesn't convince me it's enjoyable stuff though.
And there are all sorts of opportunities they're not taking by going down this path. Sure, they can do wacky gory demon splatter combo slomo multiplier junk, but come on, who wants to do this stuff over. and. over. again. It's played out.
Ah fuck it, not saying it's a sin if you buy this one, go ahead, by all means. I can't get anything out of it though, even if I ignore the whole literature-is-too-holy-for-gaemz angle.