God of War: Origins Collection

With enhanced anti-aliased visuals running at 60 fps and 1080p, both games on the PlayStation 3 look about as fantastic as you would expect them to when making the transition from a 480x272 pixel portable screen.

In the end, the God of War Collection 2 features two exciting PSP games, Chains of Olympus and Ghost of Sparta, two God of War PSS titles that have been successfully ported to the PS3 with improved graphics and gameplay.

One of the best HD updates we've seen since the trend of updating past games for current machines kicked off.

This second collection of ports is an ode to the growth of developer Ready at Dawn. Chains of Olympus feels like good practise, but Ghost of Sparta can stand tall next to the console God of War-games. Together they form a lovely, if not always consistent collection of adventures for Kratos to fight through.

Both games include 3D for the first time in the franchise. [Nov 2011, p.116]

It's a great remaster of two wonderful Kratos' advetnures, yet sometimes you can feel the gameplay has been designen with a portable device in mind.

Would it have made more sense to truly re-make each episode to have them on par with other PS3 productions? The question remains. That being said, the transition to HD and 3D and the addition of the dodge mechanic on the right analog stick will be enough for the fans, or those who didn't have the opportunity to play the PSP originals. If you're among those who actually did, you can ignore this release. Let's take note, as well, that the technical gap between Chains of Olympus and Ghost of Sparta is pretty obvious, this last one being by far the better port of the two.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Chains of Olympias and Ghost of Sparta are both fine games in the God of War series. For me as someone trying to play through all the games at this point I felt kind of burned out on the formula used in these games. However I think that both of these games are still good especially for the fact that they were made for the PSP. Visually they both look quite impressive for what they are and I think overall I had a better time with both of these titles then I did the original although they both do still carry over some of the more annoying aspects from the original PS2 games. And the story while I thought it would be very unnecessary I found them to be entertaining even if there really not that important in the series. But if you are a fan of the first main series of God of War games then you might want to check them out if you get a chance. The collections like 10$ on the PS3 store so get it before the store shuts down someday.

Two good titles of the saga, but despite having ALMOST all the necessary elements to live up to the numbered titles of PS2, they cannot be. This remastered version meets in Chains of Olympus, where the game looks and runs perfect, however in Ghost of Sparta it seems that 100% performance was not optimized and this second title is somewhat lower also in the final result. Even so, as a Spartan fan, this is a collection that you shouldn't miss.

It's still fantastic package for this serie fans, but few things should be made better. First of all - checkpoint system. It's atrocious in CoO and mediocre in GoS. Remastered versions shouldn't have technical problems like this. Graphics might be better, but it's little cons. The most inmportant thing - Kratos has still power to give you many hours of intensive fun.

Gameplay: 1 (Unplayable) Fun: 1 (You can't Have Fun) Story: 7 (Story is set during Era 5000BC to 500BC) Cast: 7 (Great) Score: 1/10 Overrated By All should got less then 7.8s