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God Of War III

Review from Giantbomb game review and IGN

Genre

IGN and Giantbomb both describe God Of War III as being a third person action-adventure game which is heavily based on Greek Mythology. IGN has a brief description of the game but Giantbomb goes into a lot of detail about the story, character background and to the follow on from previous God Of War series. 

Target Audience

The target audience is viewed differently by both reviewers with Giantbomb review says the game is aimed at gamers who play mythology games and greek mythology based on the different characters, maps and what you actually have to do during the game which might not appeal to action gamers who are placed in a dungeon with different characters with abilities. 

IGN review said that the game could attract other gamers because of the different characters, violence and graphics which are very appealing with gamers wanting more of a challenge with a game which allows them to also free roam and complete missions and different bosses. 

Characters

Giantbomb focuses on each and every character is deep detailed explanation like telling us what abilities the characters have and what there role in the game is, the review gives a lot of information about the main character by telling us our character is called Kratos who is a fallen spartan general who must solve different puzzles, traverse dangerous locales and kill anything which stands in his way. IGN review doesn't really tell us much about any other character apart from the main character Kratos which tells us he's on a mission who used to be a general for Spartans and is now up against different creatures.

Narrative 

Giantbomb review talks a lot about the narrative of the game which goes onto talk about at the end of the game the main character finds out he has a wife and a daughter whilst telling us what he has to go through to get to the end. Ign's review refers back to the God of war I and God of war II which compares the story from then and now.

Gameplay

Giantbomb gives us a lot of information about the gameplay like how it is reminiscent of previous game series which consists of battling various creatures. It tells us in depth about his position, different locations and weapons which our character will get where on the page review we are also given pictures of gameplay like our character, fighting creatures and many more. 

IGN provides a different area of gameplay information to Giantbomb with the review on IGN mostly talking about boss strategies, collectables and other things rather than what our character goes through.

Platform

Giantbomb have said in there review that the game is only available on Playstation 3 however IGN have stated in there reviews that it is not only for Playstation 3 but Playstation 4 where the game has been (remastered)