• God of War III Spartans Stand Tall explained Theory #1

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    Regarding the speculations made on the recently teased website upon getting Platinum Trophy in God of War III. A lot of people out there trying to figure it out ! I’m listing below some selected points and you can head to Official GOW Forums for more info.

    http://www.godofwar.com/spartansstandtall/

    Leonidas's shield

    Leonidas's shield

    Warning Spoilers follow:

    On the modern monument to the battle of Thermopylae, Leonidas’s shield has a representation of Deimos.

    Deimos’ voice actor is listed in the credits as “Josh Keaton” (the same man who played the Young Spartan in God of War 2 and the Boat Captain you see in both God of War 1 and 2), but Deimos never appears in God of War 3 (this leads me to believe this going to be DLC, rather than a whole new game).

    To those who are unaware, Deimos is the son of Ares and Aphrodite.

    By: BJtheLegend

    But I’ll go one further by saying that perhaps the “Young Spartan” is Deimos!

    kratos changed the fate of the Spartans when he stopped Zeus from destroying Sparta, and it’s rather odd that the Young Spartan never appears again.

    Isn’t it a BIT ODD that this one spartan could put up such a fight against kratos (the battle is pretty damn hard on god mode)?

    then there’s the strange voice you hear while floating in the water in kratos’ mind, as you catch a line that wasn’t said in god of war 3: “A Spartan never lets his back touch the ground. Right brother?”

    And it sounds EXACTLY like Josh Keaton!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXkw672fUJ0 (go to about the 5:16)

    http://i43.tinypic.com/10h3fvr.png (look at the shield on the Young Spartan’s back!)

    Doesn’t it look like the SAME shield that’s on the Spartans Stand Tall website!?!

    By: BJtheLegend

    All of that stuff sounds good,but I’m thinking that kratos (now in control of the power the box gave him) can not not be killed by stabbing him self so he pulled his own body to the ocean to try to drowned himself, when he lands in the water he starts to understand more things( like Athena said she could after becoming that ghost form) and then knows he must kill her because of the evil from the box got to her before she died and is now going to stop at nothing to kill humanity. So Athena teams up with kratos`s brother who was locked away in a chamber in Hades doman to kill everything. Now kratos must kill them both for humanity to truly be free of any gods, hopefully a titan made it so we can fight him too (or maybe three titans). Anyway maybe the only weapon that can kill Athena is also the only one that can kill kratos and kratos`s brother is the only one who knows where it is because he spent his whole life trying to find it. Ive been thinking a lot about this and im prob way off, but i really don’t want a psp game to come from the website.

    Also i think the website will be done in 8 days because it only took ten days to fill half way, if it started the day the game was released.

    By: STEBO-

    I like all the ideas presented here really. But I just wonder if anybody noticed the spot where kratos lays atop. It has the form of a Phoenix Bird and as you may know The Phoenix Bird in Mythology represent a bird that burns itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new reborn one.

    Anybody can notice the bird clearly in the accompanied pic here: http://twitpic.com/1bixm9

    And about the ending, I loved it. It works as an end actually and also it can be extended to a new game again exactly like a Phoenix bird. this is called Cliffhanger in movies and games and what awesome about the idea is that he died on an actual cliff too

    Update:
    just noticed another thread discussing that !! however, worth spreading

    By: Gradly

    Going back to the whole thing about Deimos:

    1. Since all the voices in the darkness were from Kratos’ past, if Deimos is truly the voice, then Kratos already encountered him, so, with what we have now, there’s no reason to believe that we will encounter him in future DLC.

    2. The so-called “phoenix” looked more like an eagle (the bird of Zeus) to me, which is more appropriate being that it is on the top of Mount Olympus

    3. The part after the credits is an ambiguous ending. We last saw Kratos with a giant hole in him, bleeding profusely, and people think that he is alive because he dragged himself off a cliff? What’s more likely is that SSM can use that to either say “Kratos is dead, we will not make a sequel” OR “Kratos was saved by *insert name/action here* and GoW 4 is in production” depending on what the future holds.

    4. As for the cut ending, they seem to talk about it more along the lines of an alternate ending, rather than an extension of it

    By: Powerock

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  • God Of War III Media Kit Out Now !!

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    God Of War III Media Kit

    The MotorStorm: Pacific Rift press kit was our favorite until WE received the God of War III media kit. This stunning package amazed us even before opening the box and looking into it.

    The whole box is fabricated from solid wood (yes, this is real wood!) with a unique hand-painted red stripe on the front; this red painting is different on every copy. Our wooden box is 25cm long, 20cm wide and 5cm high. After removing the lid you can see a thin brochure for explaining the game’s new features along with some great artworks and screenshots.

    Under the brochure there is a containder divided into 3 parts. One holds the small-sized art cards with a God of War III logo on their back and artworks with a golden frame on the front. These cards have dimensions of 7.4cm x 11.9 cm. There is also a small metal coin in the box with Kratos’s face. In the other containers you can discover the dark game disc and light media disc. The last piece of the package is a small poster tied together with a bloddy textile.

    God of War III Media Kit

    God of War III Media Kit

    God of War III Media Kit

    God of War III Media Kit

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  • Heavy Rain patch released, All problems fixed

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    Heavy Rain

    If Heavy Rain was causing major problems for you, then you should head to your PS3 now and pop-in your copy of Heavy Rain. Quantic Dream and Sony have released Patch 1.02 for the title and it is reportedly fixing all previous problems the game was suffering from.

    As has been reported since the game launched, many had freezing issues, graphical glitches, and a variety of other bugs damper their Heavy Rain experience, thankfully all that now appears to have passed us by with this new patch. Weighing in at 38MBs, the file is small in size, but some are reporting some minor problems while trying to download it the file, so please be patient if it doesn’t download right away.

    Let us know if this patch fixed your problems or if some still remain. Sony did state this patch may not fix all the problems, but they hope it fixes most.

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  • God of War III Mystery Website Promises Nothing

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    http://www.godofwar.com/spartansstandtall/

    Attaining a platinum medal in the PlayStation 3’s God of War III rewards players with the address to mystery web page Spartans Stand Tall. What’s it mean?

    So far, we’ve got is this web address: http://www.godofwar.com/spartansstandtall/

    It takes you to a web page that features the sights and sounds of a rainstorm, along with a quarter-filled meter in the upper right hand corner.

    That is all. There’s not even a countdown clock, unless we’re supposed to be counting the number of raindrops.

    We have asked Sony for an explanation for the site, but let’s all be skeptical together about them spelling things out.

    Back in 2007, a God of War countdown website revealed two things: A high-definition graphics mode in God of War II and the name of the then-forthcoming PSP game God of War: Chains Of Olympus.

    Usually websites like this send gamers into a tizzy wondering what they could be teasing. But let’s first explore a more fundamental question: Is this even a tease?

    + via Kotaku