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Originally Posted by Dmitry M. (Lazer)
No offense but GoW was way overrated. People want more shoot em ups, kill am fast, and just beat em up games. It's really getting rediculuse how game like GTA and GoW get so much credit.
Tell me this, have you ever even played ICO. So many people i know have never even heard of that game for PS2. A game does not have to contain action, violance, or even any graphical content to be great. Tell me how many people will know or have any knowledge of GoW 10-20 years from now unless a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and so on... are released? I doubt many. While a simple game like Tetris will be known and played forever.
GoW is a game for the moment it is nothing special. Final Fantasy, MGS, Tetris, Lumines, WLK, and other such game can be played over and over without boredom.
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No, it's not overrated. And yes, I did play ICO.
If you want to talk overrated amongst the cult followers of a particular game, let's talk ICO. The control wasn't great, the story wasn't fleshed out enough, and the battle seemed not only unnecessary but inconsistent and a detriment to the overall gameplay. Actually, it just seemed downright unnecessary. The issues discussed in multiple reviews are accurate and legitimate. Personally, I think SotC was much better.
GoW, love it or hate it, got the praise it deserved. The graphics are arguably the best on the PS2 (and in terms of artistry, even better than NG, IMO) and the soundtrack was classically wonderful. The control and fluidity of combat is rarely encountered anywhere in the game world, let alone in just the action genre. At no time did the game feel like a chore - in stark contrast to its major competitors in DMC 3 and NG - and it also nearly-flawlessly implemented platforming and puzzle aspects into the action foundation.
No, it didn't offer anything entirely new, but the melding of the elements and the overall polish is essentially "new," in and of itself simply because very few other titles can match it when it comes to that kind of thing. It's hardly perfect, but it's certainly not "overrated." The constant ICO-promoting in video game forums, on the other hand, is getting outrageously tiresome.