Games you're thinking of buying but not sure about . . .

[beema]

I'm wondering about God of War 3, Assassins Creed 2, and Demon's Souls.

How different is GOW3 from 2? I played 2 pretty recently, and it was kind of fun, but also kind of obnoxious with all the QTE's and button mashing. I feel like 3 will just be more of the same with updated graphics?

As for AC2, I feel pretty much the same as VeloZer0 has said. I found the first game to be repetitive to a fault, boring, and ironically restrictive in its openness (just poorly implemented sandboxiness). I don't want more sandboxiness if it just means a bunch of interchangeable fetch quest and other wastes of time.

I have to say, it is pretty frustrating that so many games these days make multiplayer such an important part of the game (like half the experience) and almost none of them have active multiplayer more than a couple months after release.

There were a couple other games like Bad Company and Resistance that I was kind of interested in before, but the demos didn't sell me, and I also hate console shooters with a passion so I wont even bother asking about those.

I'm tempted to get Black Ops but I would be getting it for PC and I've heard so much bad stuff about PC multiplayer. I'm also against paying $60 for a PC title, since we PC gamers get treated like redheaded step children so often with these games.

Demon's Souls I've heard great things about, and I've been looking for some more games to make use of my PS3 (I've mostly been using it for movies). Conversely, I've also heard it can be very frustrating and unforgiving and grueling. Knowing myself and my propensity for rage quits on frustrating games, I feel like it's probably a game I should avoid.

To people wondering about Heavy Rain, I would say get it. I bought it when it first came out, and although it has almost zero replay value, and there are a couple flaws which pissed me off, it is a very unique and amazing experience, like no other game out there currently, that is worthwhile to play, just as a refreshing change of pace. It's lightyears better than Indigo Prophecy, if you've played that. The QTE implementation is much more fluid and better integrated in to the gameplay. It's possibly the first game I've ever played where the QTE's did NOT piss me off. The story is really nice (until the very end), music and atmosphere are fantastic.