God of War 3 was actually bigger during the alpha stages of production, director Stig Asmussen has revealed.
Speaking in an interview with Destructoid, Asmussen admitted that God of War III had to be substantially cut before release.
"It was around Alpha, and it was bigger," he said. "It was too big, and it wasn't as tight as it could possibly be. And we had to cut some things out, just to make sure that we got the quality across the board."
Included in the pieces left on the cutting room floor were extra areas and even complete boss levels.
"We had a creature named Argus who had a hundred eyes, and he was a creature that was designed to have use the Helios head to defeat him," said Asmussen. "You had to make him close his eyes, and he'd get blinded. You couldn't defeat him unless he's blind, and then he'd go into this kind of blind rage, and you had to fight him. He was fun. It was fun."
"[Argus] was going to be another surprise thing. You know how we had kind of secrets where you could use the Helios head to find them? We were going to have those secrets paced out so you find four or five of those, and you'd get a chest in each one.
"Then in one, we were going to have basically a reveal where you'd expect to see a chest there -- setting up expectations and then breaking it -- and out of the darkness this Argus would leap out, and you'd have to fight him."
If you haven't played this behemoth of a game yet, read our God of War 3 review to get an idea of just how massive it is. It's big.
An Xbox Fanboy first to comment on Playstation article what does that tell ye ay . On to the article as much of a fanboy Stone Cold is when i seen the article i was like hang on isent Blu Ray hear to stop all that cut down crap.... After reading the article i understand now i just hope what they said was the actual reason...... even cut down God of War 3 was a fntastic game
I'm playing (enduring?) MGS4 at the moment which proves beyond doubt "less is more". God of War 3 played great and if there is more content to come I would be happy to pay for it. I am glad they didn't clutter up the finally released game with over-indulgence.
I can't think of an ending to a game that I enjoyed as much .. it even pipped Uncharted 2's finale for me.
I 100%'d GoW3 yesterday . Some of those additions seem like they would have been quite random so I'm not too upset about them being cut. I hope the epilogue DLC makes sense and is just as epic as the game.
This is actually awesome news. Hopefully wei'll see the cut levels/bosses as dlc. I would buy it in a heartbeat. I'm glad they didn't add this in the actual game, it doesn't seem like it woud've fit into the story anywhere. The story was very balanced and just felt complete. Except for the mystery ending.
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. On to the article as much of a fanboy Stone Cold is when i seen the article i was like hang on isent Blu Ray hear to stop all that cut down crap.... After reading the article i understand now i just hope what they said was the actual reason...... even cut down God of War 3 was a fntastic game
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