Papy told Eurogamer Ascension's campaign is "just a little bit shorter" than in previous God of War games.

Jag kom hit bara för att det stod så på rubriken.

The lights go up, and the crowd erupts. I slink down in my chair. Did I somehow get on the wrong bus and end up at a serial killer convention? Or are tasteless examples of sadism like this slowly but surely slithering their way into video games?

After previewing the upcoming Sleeping Dogs, 1UP EIC Jeremy Parish expressed concerns that some of the acts of violence took on such specifically brutal and graphically depicted forms that they made him feel a little uneasy. I instantly recalled these comments as the megaclops fought against the worst case of blinding since King Lear, despite having murdered thousands upon thousands of digital creatures in my quarter century of gaming. The violence I'm most accustomed to comes in abstract, cartoonish, and mostly unrealistic depictions, and usually lasts just as long as it needs to for the sake of game flow. God of War: Ascension's prolonged and detailed violence felt ripped right out of torture porn's greatest hits, with a dash of added ugliness thanks to the fact that you're not supposed to empathize with the creature crying out in pain. I'm sure that megaclops may have decimated its share of villages and eaten a few hundred virgins, but damn it if I didn't feel for it during those horrible final moments.

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The march of time and technology has only made stomach-churning displays of violence easier to create, but just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. Gut-shot soldiers in Call of Duty multiplayer don't vainly try to shove internal organs back in their midsections as they scream in pain and regret while blood oozes from their wounds -- hell, 2002's Soldier of Fortune II tried to make war as ugly and brutal as the real thing, a trend that (thankfully) never caught on. It may seem strange to desire some protective barrier between violence and ourselves, since media watchdogs tend to condemn unrealistic violence for failing to portray the realistic repercussions. But, speaking from my own perspective, causing intense and prolonged pain in disturbingly vivid detail -- regardless of the context -- doesn't make for the fist-pumping good time the crowd around me seemed to indicate. Granted, Sony showed us only a brief snippet of a very unfinished game, but the focus on gross-out violence doesn't bode well for fans of good taste.

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