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First impressions were that the graphics looked smooth and everything flowed pretty well with little slowdown. Sometime the frame rate will struggle to keep up but its rare and lasts less then a second.
The controls are easy to get on with, you have two attack buttons which can be used together to pull of combos, a block button and you can also dodge using the shoulder buttons and also your special attacks come from holding down L1 and using one of the four buttons on the front of the console.
The story and cut sense are very good slandered and entertaining throughout the game but the quick time events can be frustrating at times as they could be quite fast. The early stages when you have mini boss fights require you to finish off the bosses with quick time events but get it wrong and the boss regains half his health...............Half? Its a bit much. The funny thing is that later in the game this no longer happens and any enemy you have to use quicktime events on still has it if you get it wrong.
As you power up the game gets easier and easier especially the end which is a little disappointing, also the length of the game is very short. I finished it in a day and a half and thats only playing for a few hours.
Sometimes open chests and doors can be frustrating as you have to be standing in the correct place to get the option to open.
I feel that they have concentrated to much on quick time events rather then stick to epic boss battles and this is a shame as it gets a bit too much.
This is the only problem with the game, its fun to play, a great story and I suppose it would have a replay value. My recommendation would be to start on Hard if you plan to go through it once. You can pick it up for £10 so its more then worth it for this price.
Reviewed by: Amazon Reviewer Rating: Date Reviewed: 22Apr2009 | | | THIS IS THE BEST GAME ON THE PSP, TO DATE!
Im baffled at why some of the previous reviewers have slated this game.
To me it sounds like a bet gone wrong, as there is not a genuine gripe in the whole paragraph! (a lot of the negative comments sound nonsensical, I mean not being able to open the box if not standing face on is pretty standard stuff in gaming and the alternative is a game where boxes etc can be opened from the side or when not next to it, which then look like pixel glitches (takes me back to the NES or Mastersystem. lol)
This game is truly GREAT!, I had it on PS2 and played it to death, (one of the only games I would play on Hard mode and then after completing it play it again immediately after in God mode to see what extra has been included.
There are a lot of elements from this game which feature in others but not done as well. The Hack and Slash element of the game is VERRRRRRYY SATISFYING! I could sit and do that for hours, like i do. This game has everything, puzzles which make you have to put your thinking cap on and at times have you stuck in a room for hours trying to find a way out, but eventually you figure them out. (Its not so hard that Ive had to look for cheats etc)
The translation from Playstation 2 - PSP is amazing! Obviously the keen eyed can spot the differences and the places in which they could not completely replicate the action from PS2, but the effort is valiant to say the least. If youve never seen the PS2 version then your none the wiser.
Ready at Dawn Studios deserve the highest accolade you can receive for video gaming. (The graphics, the game play, the scenery, the epic proportions of the landscape, and the courage to have a human sized character battling GIGANTIC Gods and Demons, Cut scene story is very well drawn and written.
They could keep this series going on for ever, set in different times, places, with different monsters. A Prequel game with Kratos in battle as a human is a game they surely need to make!
11 out of 10!
Reviewed by: Amazon Reviewer Rating:  Date Reviewed: 06Apr2009 | | | The PSP doesnt have as many games as some other consoles, but it has some fantastic ones. God of War: Chains of Olympus is no exception.
You play Kratos, and basically need to fight your way through a mythical world fighting the baddies along the way.
Firstly the graphics are superb. This is a great looking game, and certainly one of the best on the PSP. It isnt just the quality, it is the striking imagery that does it. The sound is also very good. Good use of dramatic music to really draw you in.
In terms of gameplay, I was a little surprised (I havent played any of the other games in the franchise). You basically hack away at your enemies using a variety of gruesome moves and weapons until, with the bigger opponents, you get the opportunity to perform a `finish`, which is basically where you press O, then the prompted buttons (pretty sharpish) to execute a sequence where your opponent is finished-off. This could involve tearing his/her head off, ramming your blade in the head, etc, etc. Pretty gruesome but higher entertaining (for well balanced adults!!) stuff. Imagine it is your boss and it becomes quite fun!
While it quite a linear game compared to some, there are also different puzzles to solve along the way to keep you thinking. These are a really good feature and along with the `O` prompt described above, really separate the game from a more typical hack and slash type fare.
The game itself is pretty short (probably took me 12 or 15 hours to get through but maybe because I died more than some!), but there is a reasonable amount of bonus material to work through if you are that way inclined. I am about to go through the game again on a higher skill level (I very rarely do that on games!) because although I have a bit of a backlog of games to play at the moment, this one is just so entertaining.
Overall, I think anyone over 18, who has a PSP should buy this (especially at the Platinum price).
Reviewed by: Amazon Reviewer Rating: Date Reviewed: 23Mar2009 | | | Once I picked it up I scarcely put it down again. Very addictive. Gameplay generally very good for a hack n slash, with a reliance on (a little finger-killing but still very doable) quick time events.
Graphics - For any game - pretty competent, but for a PSP particularly well done. Theyve chosen colours you can actually easiy see on the screen so its possible to play on the train.
Gameplay - its a button-bashing adventure where you add moves and weapons with experience - If thats your thing (in my case it is) its very well packages and delivered.
The extra add-on missions are also a bit of a giggle.
Reviewed by: Amazon Reviewer Rating: Date Reviewed: 02Feb2009 | | | At the time of writing Chains of Olympus is the highest ranking PSP title on metacritic (the review comparison site) and is being named as game of the year by all of the major PSP media outles. Despite having never played either of the God of War PS2 games I came to this with high expectations. And, how can I put this delicately?
THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES!
It baffles me how this game managed to pick up so many accolades and its led me to cynically conclude that it had more to do with Sonys marketing muscle then journalistic integrity.
I have two main problems with it: the bugs and the fighting mechanic.
Bugs: unless you are stood on the EXACT pixel that the game requires you cannot carry out certain functions like opening chests, doors, etc. This problem crops up every few minutes and really frustrated me.
The camera is pretty naff and frustrating, whats needed is a button to centre it behind the character when necessary (remember when that was the standard for 3rd person perspective 3D game? You know, 10 years ago on the N64).
The PSP analog nub isnt accurate enough for the moments when Chains of Olympus suddenly becomes a rhythm game (see below). My heart sank whenever I saw the swivel nub clock wise icon, knowing I would be suck at these points in the game for some time until I could randomly get it right (and its not my PSP thats faulty).
The fighting mechanic. I was aware that the God of War series is famed for its epic boss battles. What I didnt know was that each boss battle starts out as a feisty button masher but always ends up as Dance Dance Revolution (or insert the rhyme game of your choice. How about Guitaroo man as its the PSP, or lets go old skool and compare it to Parappa the Rappa?). Who in their right mind thinks its fun to finish a simulated bout of hand to hand combat by following on screen prompts to press buttons at exactly the right time in order to trigger cut scenes of action which the player has no control over. In the 80s we had a name for this type of thing: Dragons Lair. And it is a name to be feared by gamers everywhere!
The puzzles and the regular fighting are good enough. But I just cant recommend this game to anybody, its glitchy and the very moments that should take your breathe away are made wholly unsatisfying by the terrible rhythm game aspects.
Reviewed by: Amazon Reviewer Rating:  Date Reviewed: 26Jan2009 | | |
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