God of War: Ghost of Sparta is Now Available! First Reviews Are In

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Today is the day you’ve been waiting for! Kratos plunges onto the PSP with God of War: Ghost of Sparta, a technologically sophisticated action tour-de-force. Don’t take our word for it – the critics have spoken and they are ecstatic. Get a sneak peek at the first wave of reviews below.

10 / 10 – GOLD Award

“Sparta offers an immersive experience on par with many of the best PS3 games.”PlayStation: The Official Magazine

9.5 / 10 – Editor’s Choice

“Absolutely the best-looking game on the PSP thus far.”IGN

Kotaku Editor’s Choice

“God of War: Ghost of Sparta is a palm-sized epic video game.”Kotaku

Pre-Order Voucher Redeem and PSPgo Owners

Now, for those that pre-ordered through any of our participating retailers, you’ll be able to redeem your retail exclusive voucher code from PSN starting today, November 2nd at 5:00pm PST. Be sure to also redeem your exclusive Deimos Skin (For God of War III) packed into your game disc copy of God of War: Ghost of Sparta!

PSPgo owners, God of War: Ghost of Sparta will be available through PSN today, November 2nd at 5:00pm PST. As a Limited Time Offer, the entire Pre-Order bundle and Deimos Skin will be included as “Gift with Purchase” with God of War: Ghost of Sparta through PSN. To ensure our PSPgo owners are able to take full advantage of the digital exclusives, the offer has now been extended from November 2nd 2010 to November 23rd 2010.

Thanks again to the PlayStation.Blog and Spartan Army Community for their relentless “rage” placed behind the release of God of War: Ghost of Sparta! Hope you guys will enjoy all the pre-order exclusives and the Deimos Skin (For God of War III) as these items were put together for you, the ultimate God of War fans.

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  • Another Tuesday afternoon means another meeting of the Whiny Baby Association, the Sony PS3 chapter.

  • @148 im not butthurt lol your the one complaining about the store not updating lmao….go play your xbox

  • As if only once per week updates weren’t bad enough, we’re forced to wait until very late at night for that single update. Add to that abysmal support for the PSPGo and I can’t really blame anyone on jumping ship from Sony.

    Promising a certain update time and missing it is way worse than just a late update. Pull it together, guys!

  • @149 I like PSN, but its basically a charity. I’m a fan of ALL consoles, but I recognize great service when I see it. Itunes and Xlive are the best of their kind.

  • where is this update?

  • Where is Ken at? He should know something… Hello, is there a Ken out there?

  • @149

    Where else is he going to voice his displeasure in hopes of someone hearing him about this issue, Xbox forums?

    And he is surprised/outraged cause he actually believe something Sony said about the store. How would you feel if you had a PSPGo and been waiting for this game for a year? You have no other option.

    The fact that there is no set-time is highly unprofessional as many people have said. It shows they don’t fully care. If they don’t care, why should we care? No caring and you go to other products. I am typing words and getting sick.

  • I remember when the store updated around 4-7pm EST… now it’s going on 9pm which I didn’t notice until just now.

    Keep up the good work Sony <3

  • I’m glad you agree Ken about the voucher codes being active sooner. And wow another super late week, 9PM EDT already. The weekly updates need to happen earlier.

  • @149 – Because I’ve invested so much into my PS3. My PS3 IS MAIN SYSTEM. How does Sony repay me? With incompetence and disrespect. There’s a reason people pay for XBL just like there’s a reason people paid for Plus. I know for a fact I don’t have to wait all day for XBL to update tomorrow. I don’t even go through this nonsense with the Wii Shop Channel. How am I not justified in my anger? I just want my goddamn Sony store to be updated. Do they not want my money? Clearly they don’t.

  • I have waited 8 long months for more GOW, so I guess a few more MINUTES (I hope) are (still) tolerable.

  • I am amazed that when Sony is releasing one of the biggest PSP games of the year (maybe even one of the biggest PSP games of all time), and are releasing a ton of great pre-order items to go along with it, they can’t even meet the deadline. As of now, it has almost been a whole hour past the time they said it would come out.

    I don’t like having to complain to Sony about late updates (it’s happened more times than I can remember), but this is pretty ridiculous. This is why the PSP Go is doing so poorly.

  • This is a test of the PSN, this is only a test, if this was an actual update this would be followed by instructions on how to correctly download the information and DLC at the proposed time.. this was only a test of the PSN.

  • @ 160 exactly , but I really like my GO from the size and portability with no UMD

  • Joke Time: What is brown and sticky?

  • @ 163 what?

  • OK, it is 9:00 PM EDT and nothing yet. What is going on Sony?

  • @149 – Because I’ve invested so much into my PS3. My PS3 IS MAIN SYSTEM. How does Sony repay me? With incompetence and disrespect. There’s a reason people pay for XBL just like there’s a reason people paid for Plus. I know for a fact I don’t have to wait all day for XBL to update tomorrow. I don’t even go through this nonsense with the Wii Shop Channel. How am I not justified in my anger? I just want my Sony store to be updated. Do they not want my money? Clearly they don’t.

    No I have to wait because I was a sucker and bought the PSP Go. All my friends of course can play the game but for me I have to wait because being a sucker is what Sony has reduced me to, week, after week.

  • 9PM now (6PM PST) watching Law and Order, refreshing the PSN… What is everyone else doing

  • The jimmy is stuck in da zippah!

  • Answer: A stick

    idk i just heard it a few days ago, it’s not that funny i’m just bored like everyone else

    C’mon Sony!

  • @BearofKratos

    So do I. When I bought my PSP 3000 on Amazon, the UMD drive got messed up, and it makes a very irritating noise when it plays a UMD. I prefer getting the games digitally now because it makes no noise, loading is shorter, and the PSP Go is very portable.

    I’m just irritated that all the PSP Go owners are basically getting kind of screwed by Sony a bit because while everyone has the game on UMD and is enjoying it right now, we’re still waiting for the store to update.

  • UPDATE THE STORE…….please?

  • You’d think someone at Sony by now would figure out to start sorting these updates on Monday and simply flip the switch at a set time every week on Tuesday instead of this nonsense week after week.

  • Ken says they are looking into it, so that could be good news…

  • waatchin the Heat vs Wolves Dwade is a beast

  • still nothing

  • why does nintendo and MS update early in the morning (eastern time) yet sony updates late evening? what are the benefits of doing this?

  • How about a Facebook “like” to settle people down?:
    The difference between 6th grade and 8th grade:
    6th- *guy takes girls seat* Girl:I’ll sit on you! *boy moves*
    8th- *guy takes girls seat* Girl:I’ll sit on you!
    Boy: *pats leg* Go ahead!

  • EVERYBODY: ign.com just reported that GRAN TURISMO 5 discs are being pressed (stamped)! I think it’s coming!

  • @ 167 8:03pm CST I am listening to my wife going off about the elections and wanting Democrats out 9 don’t blame her.

  • Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur

  • @178 thats old news ><

  • @ 176

    Rock Hard Abs

    Lol I don’t know :P but people need to learn to be patient and not attack, man I wonder what would happen to these people if food wasn’t delivered on time once by their mothers.

  • They been telling us over and over again for months November 2nd GOW blah blah on DLC.. this past weekend we are almost there for the premier of GOW.. Does anyone else notice Ken is not saying anything ???

  • Ken doesn’t have any control over the Store update…

  • HAHAHAHAHAHA once again Sony lies!! LMAO!!

  • Sooo… are we gonna see an update today or not?

  • @183 – Ken says they are looking into it… whatever that means

  • Bye bye… don’t wanna be a fool for you, just another player in your game for two, you may hate me but it ain’t no lie baby bye bye bye (bye bye!)

  • wooot!! Downloading ^_^

  • I think the store should update early just for PS+ members.

  • so can we get something free to compensate for this wait time or something? i mean i would like a set in stone policy that it will update at a certain time each week. i mean comeon. how hard is this? they usually have all the list on hear to say “this is what u can expect” so why not copy that list, add whats needed, and when u made that original list you start to update the servers but put a virtual barrier there so it won’t show then at the set time u let the post up and let the barrier dissappear. if u prepare earlier then u can be more efficient.

  • @188

    shut up lol

  • Yes, this is pretty unprofessional.

    Have a set time please, it’s pretty ridiculous to refresh the blog waiting for the store to update. It’s one thing if it’s within a 5-10 minutes from the 5PM PST…but we’re going over an hour passed…

    It’s pretty ridiculous

  • update will happen like it does every week at ten . but they lie every week that the update will be at 5 pacific and it always the same two hours late

  • Ken Chan  |  November 2nd, 2010 at 6:02 pm We’re looking into this

    what’s threre to look? this is (sadly) common for ps store updates. apparently its impossible to have everything set by monday, so that when tuesday morning comes its just a matter of pushing the “update” button.

  • I’m so happy I at least get to play this awesome game, but it would be great to get all that DLC I paid for!!!

  • @191

    How about every time you’re late for school or for work, no matter the reason, you pay up $1000. Sounds fair yeah, I like it.

  • @ 187 that is the same as the BFBC Vet status for the F2000 , they are looking into why the gun is available.Or in other words “looking into” means “We don’t know chit..or OOPS FUBAR” LOL

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