Le magazine Game Informer est le premier à dévoiler de nouveaux détails sur le tant attendu God of War III. C'est ainsi que nous apprenons que le jeu contiendra plus de boss que le premier volet de la saga mais moins que le second, que Kratos sera composé que 20 000 polygones, qu'il sera entouré de plusieurs dizaines d'ennemis à la fois et qu'il pourra monter sur un cyclope pour l'utiliser comme arme. De même, l'intelligence artificielle des ennemies sera bien meilleure avec une véritable organisation, un combat contre Hadès est d'ores et déjà annoncé et il n'y aura pas de multijoueurs. Bref, les promesses classiques de tout bon développeur de jeu vidéo. Attendont d'en voir plus et surtout la sortie de cette exclusivité, prévue pour début 2010.
 
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Gears of War, Xbox 360, 2006 (according to D’Artiste book)
Wretch - 10,000 polygons with diffuse, specular and normal maps
Boomer - 11,000 polygons with diffuse, specular and normal maps
Marcus - 15,000 polygons with diffuse, specular and normal maps
 
GTA San Andreas, PS2, 2004
Characters - 2,000 polygons with 1 256×256 8bit texture
NPCs - 1,200 polygons with 1 256×128 8bit texture
 
GTA IV, Xbox 360/PS3, 2008
Story Characters - 8-10,000 polygons with multiple 256×256/512×512 diffuse, specular and normal maps
NPCs - 3-4,000 polygons with multiple textures
 
Half-Life, PC, 1998
Zombie - 844 polygons
High Definition pack Zombie- 1700 polygons
Halflife 2, PC, 2004
Alyx Vance - 8323 polygons
Barney - 5922 polygons
Combine Soldier - 4682 polygons
Buggy (without mounted gun) - 5824 polygons
Classic Headcrab - 1690 polygons
SMG - 2854 polygons (with arms)Pistol - 2268 polygons (with arms)
 
Halo, Xbox, 2001
Masterchief - 2,000 polygons
 
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, GC, 2002
Link - 2800 polygons
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, GC/Wii, 2006
Link - 6900 polygons
 
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, PS2, 2005
Snake - 4,000 polygons
 
Project Gotham Racing 2, Xbox, 2003
Vehicles - 10,000 polygons
Project Gotham Racing 3, Xbox 360, 2006
Vehicles - 80,000-100,000 polygons
 
Quake, PC, 1996
200 polygons with 1 320×200 8bit texture using predefined palette.
Quake 4, PC, 2006
Player model - 2,500 polygons with multiple diffuse, specular and normal maps
 
Resident Evil 4, Gamecube, 2005
Leon - 10,000 polygons
 
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, PS3, 2007
 
Main characters - ~20,000-30,000 polygons
Drake - ~30,000 polygons
Pirates - ~12,000-15,000 polygons
 
Unreal Tournament, PC, 1999
Player model - 800 polygons
Unreal Tournament 2k3, PC, 2003
Player model - 3,000 polygons
Unreal Tournament 3, PC, 2007
Weapon models - 4,500 to 12,000 triangles for the first person view  
 
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue
car models ~ 200 000 polygons
http://www.rsart.co.uk/2007/08/27/ [...] -polygons/

- Golden Fleece and Icarus Wings returning
La toison d' or et les Ailes d' Icar seront de retour
 
- "Ethereal Concept" Magic
Des pouvoirs magiques  
 
- Skeleton Knights w/ enchanted shields (bearing the crest of Zeus)
Les squelettes sans bouclier portant le blason de Zeus
 
- Kratos can control monsters like cyclops and harpies
Kratos pourra controller les cyclopes et les Harpyes ( créatures volantes ).
 
- Fire bow can be fired w/ cooldown and doesn't eat into mana
L' arc de feu  n' utilise pas beaucoup de mana et ne necessite pas trop de rechargement
 
- First Person perspective in some brutal kill sequences
Camera à la première personne lors de certaines séquences brutales
 
- Door of Tisiphone puzzle (door to Tartarus)
Une énigme sur la porte de Tisiphone
 
- Cestus has ability to repeal enemies w/ shockwave.
Le Cestus ( Gants en forme de Lion ) a la capacité de repousser les ennemies à l' aide d une onde de choque.
 
- Obligatory sex mini-game
Mini jeu avec les jolies statuettes et les femmes du jeu qui seront obligatoirementde la partie .    
 
- Moving levels possible
Des niveaux mobiles
 
- Hades battle will have chunks of his skin fly off and try to wriggle back
Lors du combat contre Hades, sa chaire pourra se reconstituer.  
 
- Boss fights in-line with Minotaur and Kraken with more environment-based events  
Des combats du même type que le Minaotaur ou le Kraken auront plus d' interactions avec l' environement.
 
- Image of Kratos and what appears to be a very short Titan (Titan who lost his/her powers?)

This is it. This is the game that PlayStation fans have been waiting for. It’s been two and a half years of ups and downs, but with God of War III, the PlayStation 3 finally has its killer app.  
 
Hardcore Gamer was invited to LA to check out the first ever demo of God of War III. The first two God of War titles were two of the best looking games on the PS2. God of War III simply blows them away. To put it in perspective, the model of Kratos alone is so advanced that if you were to put just him on a PS2 disc, the PS2 would be unable to handle it. Graphically, God of War III may just be the best looking game this generation.  
 
Everything in the game seems like it shouldn’t be running as smooth as it is. Even the smallest character in God of War III seems advanced and alive. All of the landscapes and buildings are beautiful and incredibly realistic. In fact, many of the environments are literally alive. God of War III will mostly be fought on huge creatures known as Titans.  
 
Unfortunately, not much is known about the Titans yet. One of the Titans that we do know about is Gaia. Gaia is a huge rock-type creature that has a living forest on it. While on Gaia, it seems as if you are in a normal forest. However, there is always a little hint of the living creature you’re actually on, which really brings the game alive  
The graphics of God of War III are incredible, but the gameplay is equally as impressive. If you’ve played either of the first two God of War games, you’ll basically know what to expect. The gameplay model is solid enough that it didn’t need to be drastically changed. The additions, though, take it to the next level.  
 
 
 
The enemies are already more intelligent than the average game baddie, but their skills can increase when a commander-type enemy comes out. He’ll rally them and they’ll work together with more strategy. Luckily, there are plenty of awesome moves that you can combat them with. For instance, you’ll be able to grab enemies and use them as a battery ram, which looks really cool.  
 
The best combat addition, though, are the moves that are enemy specific. If you’re fighting a cyclops, for example, you’ll be able to rip its eye out of the socket. You’ll also fight a chimera in the game that changes forms as you cut different parts off. The best new combat feature, though, is the ability to disembowel. It’s not known how often or to which enemies you’ll be able to use this new feature. In one of the sequences shown, Kratos is fighting a large centaur that he finally pins to the ground. He takes out a blade and rips open his stomach, revealing his entrails. If more of God of War III is like this, it could definitely be one of the goriest games yet.  
http://www.hardcoregamer.com/index [...] rticle=247

 
Joystik interview with the Art Director :  
 
John Hight, the guy that runs the Sony Santa Monica studio, was telling me that you are using the same engine from God of War II. Is that right?
 
There are some truths in that we are using the same engine, but the renderer is brand new -- we're not using anything that was with the God of War II game rendering system. We are using a brand new renderer, brand new animation system, because the animation system needs to sit on the SPU so that it runs really fast, so we could have four times or 10 times as many joints on character; so we could do things like the Titans. On one of our Titans, we have probably ... I want to say as many joints on all of the characters that we had on God of War II on one character because of that.
 
The core engine is all brand new because it has to be able to manage across all the SPUs. What would be the same would be like our entity code. So the game play code was great, because from the very start we were able to continue designing game play. What we didn't have was the new types of game play that we wanted. I mean, we could still wall climb and all that, but we couldn't walk on Titans. We couldn't ride on the back of characters, so we had to make that kind of stuff. So we had to improve on the engine. I would say that a lot of the engine is new.
 
What other titles have you worked on before, besides the first God of War?
 
I have worked at Sony for eight and a half years. I am almost on my ninth year now. We started with Kinetica. That was the first game that we put out. The goal with that was we opened the studio, and within the first year we wanted to build an engine and ship a game. We worked our tails off. We were very successful with that.
 
And then we took that technology and we came up with Devil May Cry -- that a big game for us. So was Ico. We wanted to start developing character-based games. So we took that technology, we took the team that we built, and we started making the God of War game.
 
Speaking of Ico, that brings up Shadow of the Colossus, which was kind of the "spiritual sequel" to Ico. Is there going to be another Shadow of the Colossus? Have you heard rumblings? That was such a great game. God of War almost seems to kind of owe a lot to it, especially with those Colossus battles.
 
I hope that team is busy and working.
 
Stig was saying that Kratos's model wouldn't even fit on the PS2 ...
 
I know. He stole my line! [Laughter.]
 
Is he talking about the cut scene model that we are seeing?
 
There is no cut scene model.
 
So it is all the same game model.
 
"Anything that you see in the trailer, we are doing it in the real game."
 
Yes. Anything that you see in the trailer, we are doing it in the real game. We are not super sampling stuff in the trailer. We are not loading a higher resolution Kratos with higher-res textures; nothing. It is all exactly the same. Again, if Kratos is standing on that Titan and you are at a micro shot, and you pull out to a micro-shot, I don't want any camera tricks. I want it all to happen in real time. I don't want any popping. If we have to do a pre-rendered cinematic, it is all just frames that we take from the engine, because it has to look exactly what the game looks like. We do not want to pull the player out of the reality of that fantasy.
 
If you look at Kratos on the PS2, he is about 5,000 polygons. He is about 20,000 polygons now. I think he had three textures on the PlayStation 2. I think he has at least 20 textures on him now. The animation data on him is probably about six times as big. So Kratos went from being a couple of megabytes to now, it would actually take two PS2's to fit his memory footprint all in there. He is always loaded in the game. The other thing is that he has many more weapons, too. He can load between all of those different weapons, so all that stuff is loaded with him also, and all of the move sets.
 
Full Interview  
 
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/13/ [...] -director/