God of War III News

For:PS3 Release Date: 19 March 2010

God of War 3 is over 40GB

NewsPosted 22/02/2010 - 12:48pm GMT

Sony Santa Monica is thankful for Blu-ray.

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According to Tim Moss, Sony Santa Monica director of technology, God of War 3 will be making the most the PS3's Blu-ray storage capacity, with the European version of the game weighing in at over 40GB.

"GOW3 35Gb of goodness. Thank heavens for Dual Layer Blu-Rays," tweeted Moss.

"Euro version is bigger, in low 40's," he added, pointing to the nine or more languages included on the disc.

Bigger isn't always better, but in this case we certainly hope so.

God of War 3 is scheduled for release in March, only on PS3.

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Rogue_Soul

The wonders of not bothering to compress data.
Posted 13:44 on 22 February 2010

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duggi@ fps_d0minat0r

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, there are no 360 fanboys on videogamer.com ;)
Posted 09:14 on 23 February 2010
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fps_d0minat0r@ Clockpunk

if i wrote that comment about an xbox game you would call me a fanboy but atleast i can understand not everyone will like the biggest games or technologies.
Posted 22:29 on 22 February 2010
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Clockpunk

Meh, God of War 2 only kept my attention for 20 mins (the battle with the Colossus was pretty fun, but... well, even Conan held my attention for longer. Seems awfully bid for what the game is, though. Perhaps too much space is a curse for lack of decent compression techniques. Hope the masses enjoy it, though. They do seem to be clamouring for it.
Posted 22:11 on 22 February 2010
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fps_d0minat0r

not surprised, the amount of textures a game of this scale needs is immense.
i think gran turismo 5 will set the record in terms of biggest sized game.
Posted 21:58 on 22 February 2010
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Woffls

Heh, lack of compression and lazy code optimisation is a selling point now?
Posted 20:48 on 22 February 2010
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DarthKratos7

THe xbox 360 game version of GOW3, will be as big as a console box haha
Posted 18:22 on 22 February 2010
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Karlius

What makes me chuckle is if you could install this game to your HDD to improve load times there's a load of 40gb machines out there that wouldn't be able to as the 40gb will wipe it out.
Posted 17:42 on 22 February 2010
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Wido

I hope this doesn't come with a massive wait of installing to your Station 3!
Posted 14:27 on 22 February 2010
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renegade@ Rogue_Soul

Compressing data messes up the audio.
Posted 13:48 on 22 February 2010
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Rogue_Soul

The wonders of not bothering to compress data.
Posted 13:44 on 22 February 2010
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dav2612

"Thank heavens for Dual Layer Blu-Rays"... I hope everyone who is getting GOW3 will be saying the same thing regularly as they play.
Posted 13:08 on 22 February 2010
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guyderman

Thank god for Bluray indeed! - otherwise swapping between 9 discs would've been a bit of a pain!
Posted 13:06 on 22 February 2010
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renegade

lol thats a lot of space :P, to put that in contrast thats bigger than world of warcraft that is an MMO with 5 years of patches... :S
Posted 13:03 on 22 February 2010
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Neon-Soldier32

The last game that used alot of the BD's space, Uncharted 2, was sweet, I hope this follows the pattern.
Posted 12:50 on 22 February 2010
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