God Of War III to set new bar for visuals?

by Nicholas Gasse - 2008/11/24 5:25pm

Though nothing outside of a CG teaser trailer has been shown to the general public yet, it seems something is going on behind the scenes in regards to God Of War III. Multiple sources are indicating that the game looks nothing short of breath taking.

After the initial debut of the trailer at E3, GameSpot's podcast, the HotSpot, discussed sources that indicated "the level of realism as far as the graphics go in God of War 3" looks very close to the CG teaser, and were comparable to Beowulf.

Over the weekend, an anonymous source told DPad that GOWIII "looked so good that it couldn’t be[ in-game footage]".

Meanwhile, David Jaffe, former director of the series, went to visit Sony last week to talk about his new game. While there, he too saw the game. Writing on his blog, he wrote "I thought GEARS OF WARS 2 looked about as good as a next-gen game could look... Dudes and dudettes, fucking WAIT till you see the amazing graphics...just fucking wait".

So, could God Of War III be setting a new bar for visuals on the PS3? The series did for the PS2, so it isn't inconceivable that that could also be the case for the third title either.