Kratos Is One Cheap-Ass Mother-F@#$er
Since i can’t stand the Mortal Kombat games, I’d forgotten that God of War‘s Kratos was an exclusive character in the PS3 version. Good thing this video of Kratos in action came out to remind me, which also serves as a warning to everyone that Kratos will be the cheapest motherfucker ever featured in a fighting game. Jesus Christ, just watch him — he has all his GoW weapons, including his Blades of Chaos, which cover practically the entire board, and can switch to a barrage of fire arrows in about a quarter of a second. And that’s not counting the fact that he apparently has quick-time events for his special attacks — which means while Raiden and everyone else is hitting “up-right-back quarter circle left-triangle-triangle-up-triangle” to throw a flaming uppercut, Kratos has to hit “circle.” If I didn’t think Mortal Kombat‘s gameplay was already irretrievably broken, I’d be a bit concerned.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.