God Of War Collection Not For Europe
Not yet, anyway - Sony say it won't be this year.Published 03/09/2009 at 8:28 by nofi
Rumour: GOW Collection Dated For EU [45]
God Of War Collection: A Public Thank You [36]
God Of War Collection: 15 Weeks Of Dev [42]
Thank Zeus, we now have a name for the God Of War collection. It’s called the God Of War Collection, and it’s a collection of two God Of War games, with the PSP version presumably being shoehorned in to the forthcoming God Of War Collection: Director’s Cut. I’ve no idea why the boffins at Sony can hack in PlayStation 2 support but fail to include one of the PSP’s best games yet, unless of course they actually want you to buy Chains of Olympus for the PSP. You should, it’s mind blowing.
So, that’s the rather uninspiring box art, complete with daft header graphics. This box art could have been awesome, and feel free to get Microsoft Paint out and be a little creative – the best ones we’ll send to SCEE and force them to use when they bring the package out over here. Sorry, what’s that? They’re not doing? “We are currently looking into options to bring God of War I and II to SCEE consumers on PS3; however it will not be possible to release the games this calendar year,” said Sony Europe.
“We will provide further information in due course.” Oh, right. Thanks. Well, in the meantime we’ll rejoice in the fact that other publishers are interested in bringing their PS2 games over to the PS3 in similarly repackaged exploits. “We are constantly exploring unique ways to expose players to some of our legacy titles such as Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill”, a Konami representative Kotaku. “Re-releasing games on Blu-ray presents an exciting opportunity for a publisher, however we have no announcements at this time”.
And as for Capcom? “I don’t want anyone reading this the wrong way (as I’m not saying anything like this could happen) but I’m seeing some interested for DMC to get this treatment”, said Capcom’s Christian Svensson on the company’s Unity forums. “Are there other titles you’d like see go this way? I’m looking for some temperature readings”. We’re thinking how about some remakes of Megaman, we can never have enough of that silly little sprite. No, seriously, Resident Evil box-set, please guys – that could be utterly wonderful, and you can throw in Resident Evil 4, we won’t mind.
Just sure there’s a European release before Mount Olympus freezes over.
Thanks, Erroneus, radiobridge, illogicology, superjag86 and Kratos himself.
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Bilbo_bobbins | 03/09/2009 09:18
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Well never mind, I will just purchase from the land of the free, USA> Since the console was made region free, this wont be a problem. They wont be bringing out DLC for this so no need to worry about that either. Shame Sony have mucked it up once again for those in Europe, there biggest market.
TWADGES !
bajere | 03/09/2009 09:24
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???Why is this a problem??? I thought the PS3 was region free. just get it from the US and play it!
seedaripper1973 | 03/09/2009 09:29
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bloody bollox!! i never actually completed the 1st 2 games,and when i heard ths announced,i thought..heres my chance!! sods! anyhow,ive got the ps3 slim, i’m assuming its still region free…yes??any knowledge in sixthaxis land?
Gastos84 | 03/09/2009 09:48
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As long as it’s a month or two before GoW3 then i’ll still be happy. It’s a shame they couldn’t get this done for whatever reason, they could have cashed in on the christmas market and made a small mint (like a tic tac)!
cc_star | 03/09/2009 09:57
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This had turned in to my hottest ‘Christmas quarter’ purchase – simply awesome
I’m effin angry about this, I’m starting to think I might fashion myself some Blades Of Chaos, get red tattoo on my face and be going to pay someone at SCEE a visit – hopefully I can do a QTE finishing move on someone
Lorcan | 03/09/2009 10:03
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Whilst SCEE could get by without this, it would be damaging to their GoWIII sales not to release it.
It gives so many people who missed out on the last ones a chance to catch up and, let’s be honest, nobody is going to not buy God of War 3 after they’ve played ANY of the others!
G_The_Enemy14 | 03/09/2009 10:06
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Oh, stupid sony, why doesn’t europe matter to you!?
shrimpeh | 03/09/2009 10:12
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I’ll be disappointed if this doesn’t make it over here. 2 cracking games that I actually had a craving to play not long ago.
tyrant161 | 03/09/2009 10:43
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OK, Sony Europe strike again…..cheers SCEE, Does anyone know which online shop is the best for US imports? Ive never bought imports before and dont know where to buy them from.
mr_jebus | 03/09/2009 10:56
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you know.. i’m sure there’s more to it.. copyright issues or localisation or something.. but sometimes it seems that sony hire straight from the ‘tard farm
w3r3w0lf | 03/09/2009 10:59
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Although disappointing news, I hardly find this surprising. Yes, I can import it, but I shouldn’t have to. Knowing Sony, they’ll release it over here (if at all) AFTER God of War 3 comes out, and not before.
fsteve | 03/09/2009 12:11
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This is a great idea, instead of fixing the backwards compatibility issues I’m glad that they’ve come up with a way for developers to whore of their product one last time…in HD =D
I would like to see some of these though, Metal Gear would be great, Europe didn’t get the last collection, so if they did one again it would be great to see it come to Europe. Then again I would really like to see a Persona collection…which I’m pretty sure wont happen.
rht992 | 03/09/2009 13:48
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isn’t any one going to say the obvious? ok i’ll do it. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
yogh_wayne | 03/09/2009 13:52
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Very disappointing, Sony! Once more they show how little they care about their european customers.
Oh well, at least Blu-rays are still region-free, so I’m going to import the collection.
slates16 | 03/09/2009 14:00
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this is annoying, i somehow never played any god of war games and was looking forward to this, hopefuly they sort it and then it opens the doors for all the best ps2 games to be remade! of corse without taking time away from making new games
iNsAnE_gAmInG | 04/09/2009 16:24
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I agree 100% there mate. I’m also yet to play these two GoW games and was excited about doing so.