It fulfils a lot of my wishes, but if I'm able to review it, I highly doubt it will get a score higher than what
I gave God of War III.
Last year, Sony
gave us the God of War Collection and the Sly Collection, and is set to deliver an Ico / Shadow of the Colossus and God of War Origins collections in the near future.
GameSpot's Peter Brown
gave God of War a 9/10 in our review and called it «a spectacular action game with epic set pieces.»
As many of you have likely noticed,
Give Me God of War sets itself up ominously with bold red text stating that the difficulty can not be changed mid-game.
Also, note that the hardest difficulty, «
Give me God of War,» is fine if that's your thing, but it's absolutely brutal, and unlike with the other three difficulties, you can't change it without starting a new game.
I tried a new play through on
Give Me God Of War, but it's infuriatingly cheap when you get swarmed.
Gametrailers has
given the God of War III trailer the pop - block video treatment, revealing some interesting new details about our favorite god - killer's latest adventure.
Paste Magazine look ridiculous
giving God of War a 7.5 / 10 considering the lowest recorded score on Metacritic is an 8/10 out of 100 reviews.
In order to find out just how well the service can handle fast action, as well as gameplay that is more reliant on timing, I decided to
give God of War: Ascension a go as well.
A word of warning though, as once «
Give Me God of War» is selected, players will be unable to turn down the difficulty without starting a new game.
Give Me God of War is meant to test mastery of all the combat mechanics and tools available to Kratos and Atreus.
A real Bloodborne player would have started this on challenge... A hardcore Bloodborne would have started on
Give me God of War... Seems that you are a casual one...
Unless, that is, Team ICO's
giving it the God of War: Collection treatment and we see some 720p colossi shadows at 60 fps.
Give me God of War anytime..
And so far, members of the media have
given God of War: Origins Collection a strong thumbs up.
for
giving me God of War, last Month and this month for ps vita.
The change in setting has
given the God of War team a chance to spread their wings beyond the dark, dimly lit stone arenas and stormy skies of the previous games and into the fresh air of the Norse outdoors.
If you are looking for an extra challenge after finishing the game, you can also attempt to beat it at the highest difficulty setting which is the «
Give Me God of War» difficulty setting.
It does seem a little odd that this has gotten so much attention,
given the God of War series» history (gratuitous nudity, graphic and grisly murder of innocent women, major female mythological characters whose main in - game purpose is to provide a sexual interlude, complete with quick time events and experience rewards, etc).
After much speculation, questioning and soothsaying Sony has finally put all of that to rest by finally
giving God of War a release date.
The change in setting has
given the God of War team a chance to spread their wings beyond the dark, dimly lit stone arenas and stormy skies of the previous games and into the fresh air of the Norse outdoors.
Not exact matches
We can debate the number or percentage
of violent passages that were
given by
God to his people in the Torah (Bible — Old Testament)(More than 800) or in the Qur» an (a little over 300) during times
of War.
But until we come to the end
of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on
God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired
of being sick and tired
of our own lives and we just
give up, we know then who has
given up by the one they advocate for, even has
given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when
God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with
God, but our flesh is not: There is a
war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on
God and His ways which has been established in the Word
of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart
wars against our flesh, even as Christ
wars against the man
of sin within: For out
of the abundance
of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words
of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead
of Christ, one has become a teacher
of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man
of sin: Many who have come out
of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right»
of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left»
of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down
of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man
of sin (Adam) through theses valleys
of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word
of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria
«Part
of what we do on Remembrance Sunday is... to
give thanks to
God that it means that those who consider going to
war have the cost before them before they make such a decision.»
It violates our most basic
God -
given rights just as Jesus would not advocate aggressive preemptive
wars killing thousands
of innocent civilians as a means
of attaining peace.
It was formed at a time
of stress (great
wars of religious & political nature) in which the promise
of everlasting life
given to the humans from an alien (he is an off this world
god).
You would think it would be a hard sell
given the fact that the real estate mogul and reality star has boasted about his extramarital affairs, profited off casinos and strip clubs, said he doesn't need to ask
God for forgiveness, called for targeting innocent civilians in
war, mocked a reporter with a disability, threatened the religious liberty
of minority groups in the U.S., and gained wide support among white nationalists for consistently lying about and demeaning blacks, Mexican immigrants, Muslims, and Syrian refugees.
Rather than praise the college for warmly inviting President Bush to
give its commencement address, Neuhaus chose to chide the institution because one hundred teachers (less than 30 percent
of the faculty) published a respectful letter disagreeing with the very reasonable view that the Iraq
War policy is not de-facto «
God's will.»
Their experience
of God's acts
of mercy generally came through
God's protection and defence
of His people in time
of war, or through His providing them with food and shelter, or
giving them rites by which they might express sorrow and receive
God's forgiveness.
Liberals generally are for the killing
of babies and other horendous ideas that
war against the sanctity and liberty
of human beings...
Giving men with this kind
of a world view «equal time» isn't what I think
God desires.
If we shall suppose that American slavery is one
of those offenses which, in the providence
of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He
gives to both North and South this terrible
war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living
God always ascribe to Him?
In a century that had seen two hideous world
wars and innumerable examples
of massive human suffering, John Paul established a new Feast
of Divine Mercy,
giving men and women a practical means
of accessing the forgiveness
of a loving
God.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils
of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (
God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and
give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and
give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws
of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins
of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
In this, as Lincoln discovered in the tragic days
of the Civil
War, we find a level
of experience which does the seemingly impossible
of making us firm in the right, «as
God gives us to see the right,» but also humble because we are conscious that «the Almighty has his own purposes.»
Chairman
of the Ware British Legion, George Rist, told the Hertfordshire Mercury: «What is it that
gives these know - nothings the
God -
given right to walk into a church and steal money that is going towards helping the poor girls and boys coming back from
war - torn countries?
The Archbishop
of Canterbury, Most Revd Justin Welby has described the work
of foreign correspondents and
war reporters as a «
God -
given calling to inspire others to serve our common humanity», which helped motivate people to care about what was going on elsewhere in the world.
Looking at this side
of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians
of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation
of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake
of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language
of war; a church
given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that
God will punish the wicked.
In the 1930s a humble and holy housewife Agnes Holloway was shown a vision
of «
God's Master - Key — the Law
of Control and Direction» which was
given for a time when «Rome was sacked and desolate as never before — either by persecution or by
war, or if by
war by a
war which was also a persecution.»
«If we shall suppose that American slavery is one
of those offenses which, in the providence
of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He
gives to both North and South this terrible
war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came,» Lincoln continued, then what other sense can this
war have, except that
God has willed that the
war should be a mechanism
of justice, «until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years
of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop
of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword»?
The dream
of the abolition
of war is
given us in the Bible, but the reason most Christians hesitate to accept that dream and act upon it comes also from the Bible, from all the
wars that are recorded and celebrated by
God's people, all the
wars that are authorized and even commanded by
God.
Proof
of this is the prominent place
given to Indra who was their
god of war.
And, strangely enough, despite the defense
of killing in
war given by Krishna the
god, he finds in it a support for his doctrine
of satyagraha or soul - force by which non-violent means he achieved such signal victories and finally won the independence
of India.
Ali
gave numerous lectures on many topics, such as how to pray and how to thank
God, on Muhammad, on prophecy, on the virtues and morals
of Muhammad, on the Qur» an, on the stages
of life to come, on ways to live in this world, on holy
wars, and the like.
So it is with good reason today, as we turn to look at the spiritual armor which
God has
given for us to use in this spiritual
war, that Paul begins his discussion with the belt
of truth.
The Bible clearly lays out
of us what kind
of war we are in, what resources
God has
given to us as Christians to properly fight in this
war, and what kind
of enemy we are facing.
This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I
give my space to but a small fraction
of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on
God, Christ, the Church, and eternal life — and consider only these in our modem context, in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about in an unsettled world, with an uncertain future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce
of arms, at worst to a
war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and in any event to leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated planet.
The helmet
of salvation is
God's helmet which he has
given to us, for our use, as His soldiers in this
war against spiritual forces.
Just because
Wars had been waged in the name
of religion doesn't make the point
of it Wrong,,, otherwise why does it say (He who loves me, keeps my commandments) almost at the same time as it says (I
give you a new commandment, love...) in short, Yes, Jesus is what matters, but to know Jesus I need His word, the Bible, I need a relationship with Him, I need to understand What He wants me to be Like (Be Holy as your Father in Heaven) which is not just an old testament quote, but a new Testament as well,,, at the end, if Religion was so pointless and to be hated, why Would
God ask us to test the spirits, why does he tell us (by their fruits you would know them.)
It doesn't matter whether a movie explores the atrocities
of war, glorifies
war, or even pokes fun at
war — I just can't sit through ninety minutes
of human beings blowing each other to pieces without facing the temptation to
give up on the goodness
of God altogether.
Shintoism
gave its wholehearted support to the Japanese during the
war, providing its very rationale, that the emperor was a descendant
of the very
gods who had created their islands, that Japan had a mandate to rule the world.