God of War I & II Pack Coming to PlayStation 3

This is a really smart move by Sony. GoW3 is a system-selling game, but since they can't get it out before the holiday season they release this instead. And I believe it will sell many PS3:s this xmas.

I also wholeheartedly agree that a ICO + SotC combo would be a massive hit. Insta-buy for me, and I never even finished SotC.

So is this why BC went goodbye on the PS3? :(

LoL, you do realize that those 2 games was written for a system that didn't have HI-Def in mind. So just a simple update will not make those 2 games run on a HD tv in 720p. Hopefully they will take the six axis into account and make some cool things happen with it.

I already own them, but I think I can safely say sold, if only for the resolution jump and AA.

Both games on 1 bluray for $40 isn't all that bad actually. Especially since they will be rendered in HD (Halo can't even do that :-P ) and have trophies. Might get this. I never had either of them back in PS2 days.

This is so awesome!!

Almost as bad as the Chrono Trigger re-release.

so this is their strategy? no backwards compatibility so that they can sell you old games to you AGAIN???

Sickening, just sickening.

So, this is why they cut off retrocompatibility for PS2 games in the PS3.
They want us to re-buy their best selling games. ¬¬

Sweeeeeet. Wanted to play these before i bought GW3.

Will they hold up?

My copy of God of War 2 arrived for me to replay on Friday. How annoying :(

I know that I'm totally going to get flamed for this, especially here on Shack by the fanboys. This is a really good series, but I just thought that it doesn't hold up to both the Ninja Gaiden and DMC series. I have every release so far of all 3 series, PS2, Xbox, PS3, X360. I'm not talking as someone who is bashing what I haven't played, but more as someone who's played it a large variety of these games since I've been a gamer all my life.

Once thing that I have notice is that the GoW games are more casual friendly and easier to get into than the other series I mentioned. Maybe it's the QTE's, which I hate on most games except for RE and Shenmue. I've felt that especially for the 3rd person combat games, they are an easier way to pull all specific moves and look stylish without requiring the skill to pull it off. There are times that I look at QTE's and see it as dumbing down the genre. Ninja Blade, Heavenly Sword and The Force unleashed great examples. I enjoyed the actual combat but it seems that they were more into using the QTE's to make the figthts look cool as oppose to in DMC that you can pull something crazy off. Even He

Don't get me wrong, but I feel that this is like Sony's Halo. I enjoyed both the Halo and GoW games but both I think are overhyped and their predecessors have been better games. Not to say that they aren't good games in their own right, but I feel that they've gotten unnaturally, and at times undeserved, high praises from the respective communities on each system. Maybe it's because of the time that they came out or whatever but people are almost cultic towards both series. Everyone bashes on the Wii as being casual but in many ways, gaming as a whole is more casual than just the Wii. Rainbow 6 as a series is a great example of this. As someone who's had every game in the series from the PC original to Vegas 2 on X360.

Wow. That's fucking awesome. I was going to replay them again before God of War 3 but I'll wait for this version instead.

holy tits, that is fantastic.

Can I pay $5 extra to get rid of GOWI Hell section?

I also picked up a PS 3 slim yesterday and so far it is great

i have never played theese and was going to buy GOW III hoping that the collectors would have these but now I can play them before it comes out. Sweet! Day 1 purchase for me.

Ouch! Tempts me to sell my nice black labels (GoWII CE too) of both games...maybe I will just keep them and get this anyway.

Sweet. Was going to get a PS3 anyway but this is awesome.

Awesome! I am ashamed to say I never played #2 so I'm looking forward to this.

I love this new "re-release the classics on a modern console" business!

That was lucky, i missed out on the GOW games and was about to hunt down the PS2 versions to get through before GOW3!

Great news! I was going to get a PS2 for primarily these 2 games and now I don't need to!

nice I never tryed this IP.. I need more room in my ps3 now

Finally picked up GoW 2 last month and loved the hell out of it, even better than the first. This series may be the PS3 seller for me.

can't wait to play those again. wheeee

Those games still look awfully good.

Cool. I still need to play these things so maybe if I get a PS3 slim for Xmas or something I'll pick up this pack.

Never played any of the earlier games so im looking forward to this.

I'm gonna wait until GoW3 comes out and they bundle this with that. You know it will happen.

I guess these PS2 copies of GoW1 and 2 will be hitting Craigslist today then! $20 for both? $15?

Goddamnit.... *preorders*