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Takes you behind the scenes of Sony's biggest 2010 game release, featuring character and environment concept art and production art.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
With epic games come epic art,
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This review is from: The Art of God of War III (Paperback)
The Art of God of War III is the second book in the Art of the Game series from Ballistic Publishing. Mine's the paperback edition but for the hardcore collectors, you can indulge yourself with the limited Special edition and the Folio edition, which have suede leather-bound covers and other luxurious finishing. In this book are character studies, 3D models, environment art, production art and storyboards. Just because the imagery doesn't move in this book doesn't make them any less intense. That's my first impression of the book. The concept art is incredible. The work featured are beautiful and extremely detailed. You get to see the true pained face of Hades (sculpted and textured), know whether or not Kratos brushes his teeth from the texture maps, laugh at the straightened out snakes on Gorgon Serpent's head as its in the T-pose, get close with the hot Poseidon Princess and Aphrodite, or just marvel at the muscles, blisters, or intestines of various creatures that made it into the game, as well as many of those that didn't. All the things you want to get a closer look on, but just can't because they happen too fast on screen, are now all captured in high resolution for your viewing. The designs are amazing. After looking at them, I'm not too sure who my favourite character is anymore. A good portion of the book is devoted to the atmospheric environments on the game. You can see these spectacular places as they were in their concept stages, and compare them to the production art which is close to what you see in the game. Everything just looks really grand, Olympus City, Hades' underworld, Hercules' Arena, Labyrinth and all. This is truly one hell of a world that can only be created by talented artists. There's also the commentary and interesting information that weren't even in the bonus section of the game disc. The art direction for the game and art is wonderful. This is an intensely good art book. Highly recommended. (There are more picture of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)
5.0 out of 5 stars
A MUST for any God of War fan,
By Erps (Toronto, CANADA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Art of God of War III (Paperback)
If there is anything unfortunate about The Art of God of War 3 is that you would be closing the book wondering 'where is the art books for GOW 1 and GOW 2?!?'This book is absolutely amazing! One would be drowning from all the sketches, concepts, rendering and models. Every art aspect of the game was covered. It is a fairly thick book, very very well printed with a nice gloss coat and heavy stock, shrunk wrapped and securely encased in a cardboard packaging by Ballistic. I highly HIGHLY recommend this book.
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Amazing art,
This review is from: The Art of God of War III (Paperback)
Definately a must have for any GOW fan or any gamer! As usual, Balistic delivers a high quality product that looks as good from the outside than the inside.This book should pick up amazing value in the next couple of years, so grab one NOW!
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