I am a faithful PC gamer with a strong bias to FPSes, but I love hack'n'slash ones too... GOW1/2 was the primary reason I got myself a cheap second hand PS2, GOW:COO was the reason that I got myself a slim PSP.... an now it looks like GOW3 will be the reason I will buy a PS3.....
Maybe.
)like being able to do wall runs,new weapons like the Cestus and presence of upto 50 enemies..
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You are kidding right.The PS2 might have had hard times during its launch period but in the later years it wiped the floor with all its competitors in terms of market share and still enjoys a healthy sale.
^What the? That is a royal sin if you own a Playstation 2 & have not played/completed/touched/imagined playing God of War.
The following pic made my day...ROFLMAO !!!!
*img207.imageshack.us/img207/4937/kratoslw5eu0.jpg
The game is most likely to hit next year so take your time but that you have them and haven't played them is beyond surprising.
(Hides in a corner,afraid of ethan and uchicha).
Allow me to cut in. Playstation 2 had never really faced much competition from any console. Even when the original Xbox was launched it still sold like hot cakes. PS2 was the only console to secure a huge part of third party & first party exclusive titles. Just check it's sales stats & you'll know how it managed to outsell even the PS3.
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Bashing? Nah! That's not our style. I prefer to take it out in a steel cage match.
Allow me to cut in. Playstation 2 had never really faced much competition from any console. Even when the original Xbox was launched it still sold like hot cakes. PS2 was the only console to secure a huge part of third party & first party exclusive titles. Just check it's sales stats & you'll know how it managed to outsell even the PS3.
It's not a comparison of the next-generation console being on top in contrast to the PS2. It's pretty obvious that a next-generation console would have better processing power than it's older generation brethren. The only question is to how long can a older generation console sustain albeit facing competition from the newer generation. Microsoft had obliterated it's original Xbox from the grid once the Xbox 360 was supposed to be launched. But the PS2 is still going strong & shows no indication of stopping. This was never expected as every console has an estimated life is roughly 3-4 years (or less depending on the success). It's almost nearing a decade.
God of War II was not the reason for it's success but the original God of War & many other titles were. The original God of War was released in 2004, a time when people thought that PS2 had reached it's hardware limitations. It set a benchmark for lot of games available at that point. A lot of people bought the PS2 (and are still buying it) merely because it had a huge library of titles. God of War II was just one of the must-have titles. Even without it the console still had high amount of sales.
As for the stats, I got off from Wikipedia & it mentions that in 2006, PS2 sold around 6 million units in Europe alone & the 360 sold around 2 million units in Europe in 2006. So that shows how popular PS2 sales chart was even back when Xbox 360 was available.
@vamsikrishna919:As I said before they didn't make GOW-2 so they could sell more PS2, *www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=1&cId=3172707 read up what the game director has to say.
Or the hole to Hades
The best way to know the story is to experience it first hand by playing it on the PS2. That is how you will feel connected to each character's. This is not a game that you would like to just read the story & hop along on any of it's series randomly. If you really need to know about it then why not try reading it over Wikipedia. They have a properly formatted storyline.
Quite simply because there isn't any SCE game released for the PC.