Perfectly blending blood, dismemberment, mythological beasts, tight gameplay, harems, and goddesses that wear sheer handkerchiefs for shirts, the God of War series has always brought the best of what good games should be. Now Kratos comes fireslashing his way to HD glory after 2 mindblowing appearances on the PS2. The series has always brought the hack and slash combat system to an artform, but beyond the awesomely gratuitous sex and violence has always come great level design. Boss battles in the first 2 iterations created an epic scope that still put most current gen games to shame.

Possibly to become the best game to come out ever, God of War 3 comes hacking its way exclusively to the PS3 towards the end of this year.

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