Ok this is my first blog and I want to put out there that I just recently (4 days ago) picked up God of War. Now I don't play for super extended periods of time, but this game was very short lived. I have come to the conclusion that it hardly reaches the expectations I had built up for it due to reviews and it's award nominations. Don't get me wrong, the game was great, but not great enough to receive the accolades it did. The battle mechanics were way too simple. 2 weapons? 4 Spells? (2 of which I never used...) The finisher system was genius, I'll admit. But in the end, this game does not hold a candle to Devil may cry 3. The variation of weapons/Guns, the styles system, and definite re-playability put this game to a unreachable standard in Action games, in my opinion. I owned the original, and still ponyed the extra 29.99 for the Special Edition just to play as Virgil (which is worth the 29.99 already) and still found myself starting from scratch with both characters. All in all, It's in my opinion that if you have to choose between the 2, Devil may cry 3:SE is the greatest hits game you need to pick up.