n'gai croal
It is, I would think, no big secret that MTV's
Stephen Totilo and Newsweek's
N'Gai Croal are two of my favorite gaming writers. (Clive Thompson would be the third, in my trinity of game writers)So N'Gai's latest feature over on his Newsweek blog is for me, quite a thing to behold. In Vs. Mode Totilo and N'Gai take one another to task over their feelings on
God of War 2.I'll summarize, poorly, their takes on the game here, but you really, really owe it to yourself to go over there and read the whole thing because it's the sort of game critiquing that you will almost never find.Totilo comes down on the side of liking
God of War 2 but not really being blown away with it. It is a marvel of game creation, he argues, but it's also very much more of the same. And not just because it's a sequel that uses some of the same sorts of setting and themes, but because the game, like its predecessor, uses "level design to define a character's personality", the personalilty of Kratos. And the sequel relies heavily on this same sort of trick.
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Kotaku
Australian director George Miller has teamed up with former God of War II director Cory Barlog. Which explains where Cory got to. Obviously, they're going to be working together on games based on movies. Their first project? Sadly, it's not a Babe MMO, nor is it a collection of Happy Feet mini-games for the Wii. It's Mad Max. Yeah. Mad Max. Miller's had a fourth Mad Max film - "Fury Road" - in the pipeline for a while now, and thinks that working with Barlog from such an early stage in the film's development will result in a kick-ass tie-in. Indeed, so close are the film and game that pre-production on the film's been delayed so that both the film and the game's development cycles are "in sync".
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