Yourbirthday could go either way: a great app and day to wake up to and play, or a partially melancholic day, mourning your foolishly spent money while staring at crappy gameplay. Anyway, be optimistic
Seeing as your new I'm not going to be a total ass. But feel free to always check a page before for your answers.
Let's be honest. The first HoS sucked. It royally, royally sucked. But it's old and nobody makes more strides from one game to the next than Gameloft. Gameloft may not be a particularly innovative company, but constant and consistant improvement over time really is their bread and butter. I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that HoS2 will be significantly better than the first. But I don't like God of War. I just don't like the formula. Sure, I can appriciate it. But it's not particularly fun for me to play. So, we'll see, I guess.
I actually agree with this, but my views are a bit more nuanced. HoS did a lot of things right, and it's not surprising that people were (and some still are) impressed with it. The environments were suitably epic, the combat system was actually pretty good, the upgradable weapons and quick-time kills added some depth. All that, however, was ruined by the overall weightlessness of the experience. There was nothing visceral about the game: you got no feedback from a sword strike, no ohmph, and the sound design was simply dreadful. Add to that a poor framerate (even on the 3GS) and you got yourself a pretty awful video game. I trust that Gameloft can do a lot better this time, especially after games like Blades of Fury and Zombie Invasion.
Agree with everything here, except the frame rate part. When I played HoS on my iPod 2G, I didn't experience any framerate problems.
i agree only too the sound part ....btw framerate when i played on my ipod touch 2g was good and on my iphone 3gs was super great
When I played on my 2G, I experienced quite a lot of framerate problems. Especially near the end where they seemed to have thrown in a ton of particle effects and stuff.
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