Some gamers may not mind an abundance of quick time events and Ascension has done away with a lot of them, but they still exist. This holds especially true in boss fights where all the colors and details blend into each other and you don’t know where you are opposed to everyone else you have to kill. When a gang of enemies are on you, it turns into a button-mash frenzy with hopes that you’re actually hitting something. Battles become almost impossible to see and it’s difficult to fight properly. The graphic violence remains over the top and will surely please the fans who love seeing Kratos pissed off and destroying everything in his path.Īs beautiful as the new camera angles are, it often messes up the gameplay when it pulls out into a wide shot. The kills are brutal as always with Kratos ripping off heads and tearing bodies apart like clothes during Spring break. Check out the video below for an example of how amazing it looks. Added camera angles give gameplay an extra bump of cinematic cool and when it does come time for a quick time event, it flows flawlessly and doesn’t look like the developers just stuck in an animation. Always known for it’s enormous bosses, God of War: Ascension remains true to bringing across the feeling of an epic battle where you, a god the size of a mortal can viciously kill an enemy the size of a mountain. What fans will immediately notice is that the graphics and animation have gotten a lot smoother. What makes this prequel so awesome is the same thing that ultimately causes it’s own demise. God of War: Ascension is an attempt to convert the gamers who weren’t feeling the past three releases and it works. That wasn’t enough to stop it however from being one of the biggest titles to go down in video game history. Fans of the series hail the beautiful graphics, storyline and super brutal kills while naysayers slam the repetitive QTE (quick time events) and incessant button mashing. There aren’t too many people that ride the middle lane when it comes to Kratos and his beef with the rest of the gods of Olympus. The funny thing about the God of War franchise is that people either love it passionately or hate it.
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