So we’ve said enough and more about God of War 2 and the Island of Rhodes fiasco. To make matters worse, it looks like Sony is yet again stiffing their PAL region customers. First it was the PS3 minus the Emotion Engine, and now, it’s God of War 2’s HD mode as well.

Kikizo.com reports that the HD mode of the game is available exclusively to NTSC users and that all PAL region owners have no option but to shut up and bitch about how they aren’t getting as much of the graphic gorefest that they are entitled to. According to Sony’s Hugo Bustillos, they had to leave the HD mode out of the PAL versions of the game thanks to all the extra European languages that had to be added in, leaving no space on the disc for the HD video mode. Explaining the movie at the Island of Rhodes site, Director of Technology Tim Moss says that the final decision to not include the HD mode was made late into development, which is why the feature was hidden as an extra and not made a standard. However, if you are playing the game on a PS3 and connect to an HDTV via HDMI or Component cables, the game automatically scales itself to a mucho-weird 576p resolution.

If you still want more God of War 2 goodness, turns out that LevelUp sat down with the Main Man Barlog and talked at length about the game, including God of War 3 on the PS3, how the decision was made to make Kratos the ultimate bad-ass anti-hero, about how RAD is handling the PSP port and how and why they decided to cut the much-publicized God-sized Kratos taking on the Colossus in a fully destructible Rhodes.

Just give me the PSP version already, that’s all I ask for.

Read LevelUp’s interview with Cory Barlog >>

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• Krishnan Rajagopal Says:
  April 18th, 2007 at 11:00 pm

  A couple of clarifications. When they say the game runs in HD mode on the PS2, it doesn’t mean that the game runs in 720p resolution, as most people believe. The game actually runs at 480 with full-size buffers, or a resolution of 640×448. If you want the best looking experience out of GoW2, then pop the game into the PS3 to get true non-upscaled 576p resolution.