God of War: Ascension
PS3

God of War: Ascension

(PEGI - Special Edition)

Mar 12, 2013
Offline play
Yes
Download required
Yes*
(*) Download required: Significant pieces of content are missing from this physical release or has major issues (more details bellow)
Comments:

Test Notes:

The game suffers from a potentially game-breaking bug, if you don't beat a certain fight first try and has received an orange rating for "download required" as a result.

The game itself has lot of framedrops, especially in cutscenes. Otherwise it mostly ran fine.

There are enemies that can be thrown to higher platforms you shouldn't be able to reach at this point or a Gorgon where the QTE to finish it didn't switch from "petrification phase" to "clawing phase" and the struggle would have gone on forever but letting ourselves get petrified and grabbing her again did the trick, so no major issue.

Encountered a game-breaking bug at the beginning of the chapter "The Lantern of Delos". When reloading the fight against the flying lion-like enemy, after loading the cutscene (in which Kratos and the lion fall into the arena) the camera is bugged. When returning to gameplay it remained fixed in a weird position in which you don't see the whole Arena! We somehow managed to win the fight, but couldn't progress any further since the gate wouldn't open after the fight! Patching the game fixed the issue and we didn't even have to do the fight again, as the gate just opened. We walked to the next checkpoint and "unpatched" the game, reinstalling it offline to finish it. Pretty sure loading the chapter before this one and finishing the fight first try would avoid the issue, but it is too easy to trigger to warrant a better rating.

Content Completed:
Finished one playthrough of the campaign on hard to get the platinum throphy which unlocked offline. Had to perform the trick mentioned above to circumvent the game-breaking bug, though.

Additional Notes:

Build Version: 01.00F0.1
Disc ID Code: BCES-01741
Spine ID Code: 9231554
Number of Players: 1 (to 8 Players online)
Audio Language Supported: All major European languages + Russian + Turkish
Menu/Subtitle Language Supported: All major European languages + Russian + Turkish
Accessibility Options: N/A
Quality/Performance Option: N/A

Tested by Community Report on PS3 Slim