God of War 3 and God of War PSP Official 39
GOWfreak writes "Oh his blog covering the God of War 2 launch event at the PlayStation store in San Francisco, 1UP editor Matt Leone revealed a whole ton of stuff on the future of the God of War series. The biggest news is that God of War 3 is coming to PS3 and it will have rumble (first confirmation of rumble coming back to PS3!) and 1080p resolution. There's even talk of it having co-op play. Director Cory Barlog also spoke about the God of War PSP game. 'It is epic. It is big. There are hooks in the PSP story that I actually wrote from one of my first stories for God of War 2.'"
Rumble? But I thought... (Score:5, Interesting)
Seriously though, and correct me if I'm wrong, I thought PS3 controllers didn't have rumble. Will you have to buy a new controller, or will this be some sort of plugin pack, like the N64 rumble pack was?
Co-op (Score:3, Interesting)
It seems to me there is great demand for co-op in many genres, but it's difficult to do well. The trouble being that you need to support singleplayer and it's too expensive to do another entire game for co-op, so you end up tweaking the singleplayer and hoping that's good enough.
If God of War 3 does this well and really is an exclusive for PS3, the main thing that will do is irritate people who don't want to buy PS3s. Microsoft, I imagine, will be relatively indifferent.
Re:Rumble (Score:3, Interesting)
Actually that's not guaranteed yet. As IGN [ign.com] points out, Splitfish has developed technology that is both an addon and could be added to the existing design internally. So it's up in the air as Sony hasn't said word about whether they'll go with Immersion or Splitfish. And it's possible that even if Sony does go with Immersion for internal workings, Splitfish might figure out a way to get their rumble pack to be compatible with the Immersion technology. Long story short, it's way to early to call it at this point.