Heavenly Sword
This has been one of the most anticipated titles coming up for the PS3 for me. It’s been fairly highly accoladed by the swath of gamer sites out there and even Sony is jumping up and down about it. Most of the game websites will all tell you about the game, it’s a combo based action game much like God of War featuring a gorgeously rendered female lead “Nariko” voiced by Anna Torv (imdb), who really helps to bring this character to life. The game itself was done in England by developer Ninja Theory (wikipedia) but was directed by Andy Serkis of “Gollum” fame. Standing opposite of Nariko is the evil King Bohan, who is voiced and mocapped by Andy Serkis as well and all the power he put into his performance of Gollum on the big screen for the Lord of the Rings trillogy come dripping through in this perverse corrupt king. As I sit down to write this I am just starting chapter three of the game but already I find myself liking Nariko a lot more than I thought I would. The character was in mortal danger after playing the demo earlier last month of being too driven, too coarse, not human enough, not likable but as the story has progressed between the making of featurettes that Sony has had in the Playstation store and website over the last month and the actual gameplay one finds themselves really pulling for this character, she has a soft female side that works very well and she carries a GIGANTIC DEIFIED SWORD.
I don’t know how anyone, anywhere can argue with that.
All the other things that the reviews have said are true. The audio is amazing. 5.1 motion picture quality score, professional Foley effects, awesome voice actors, and of course spectacular graphics. I was worried the skin textures would look like Oblivion, where everyone looked like they had shit on their faces, but the skin tones and textures are quite good and I am perpetually amazed in the quality of the PS3 video output. Not to sound like a fan boy but this has to be the prettiest game for any next generation console, hands down.
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