\nI was equally surprised to discover that “God of War” is a fantastic game, even though I kind of felt like they were trying to shove their Greek gods on me. I couldn’t believe that I ended up actually killing one of them as part of the plot.<\/p>\n
I don’t know too much about those Odyssey-thumpers, but they sure seem to like blood and boobs. A LOT.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
When I played God of War, I made MHG giggle more than once with my furious, teeth-grinding lambasting of the game’s difficulty, broken only by giddy cries of “Boobies!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The folks who brought you Left Behind, which an uncle bought for me but I never read, have created an RTS game where you control the “troops” of either God or the Anti-Christ — from a lofty omnipotent perch, mind you. The minds of Metfailter weighed in in their typical humorous but thought-provoking fashion. 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