Kratos Afraid of Flying, Delays His Trip to Europe [UPDATE]
If for some reason you haven’t yet experienced two of the greatest games to have emerged from SCEA’s Santa Monica Studios, consider the recently announced God of War Collection, a.k.a. the best thing to happen since the Backstreet Boys’ comeback. With both God of War 1 and 2 compacted onto a single Blu-Ray disc, optimized at 720p, featuring double the trophies, and scheduled for a holiday 2009 release, what could go wrong?
Well unfortunately, a SCEE representative has confirmed that our readers across the pond won’t be receiving the God of War Collection anytime this year. Here’s what they had to say regarding this unpleasant matter:
“We are currently looking into options to bring God of War I and II to SCEE consumers on PS3; however it will not be possible to release the games this calendar year. We will provide further information in due course.”
However, there is still hope. All PlayStation3 games are inherently region free, meaning that theoretically, European gamers should have no problem with importing. That is of course if SCEA, being the publisher, refrains from executing their right to enable a region lock. In that case, don’t feel bad. The God of War games aren’t really that great anyway.
…Ok, so we’re bad at lying.
Update: Sony has confirmed that the God of War Collection will indeed be region free.
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17 Responses to “Kratos Afraid of Flying, Delays His Trip to Europe [UPDATE]”
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!
Ghehe, bueno, could anyone please confirm wether it is locked or not?
Thanks in advance!
dont think any ps3 games are region locked.
I am confused as to what it takes to prepare a game for a European release. Does the game need more language support than the American release? Seriously, I do not know.
I have been reading around a bit more and it indeed seems that all PS3 games so far have been region free. Only blueRay movies were set to a region.
Or so I have read…
not strictly true martindude old boy! i have plenty of US blu-ray discs that work fine on my UK playstation. ok, rocky balboa is region locked, but i shouldve checked before i bought it i suppose! its easy enough to find sites on the net that can give u that info if ur in the Uk or vice-versa
but i will definately be getting this on import! i cant see it being region locked, unless they use the reason of it originally being ps2 games that were originally region locked in the first instance. i hope they dont go that way tho.
True! I should have added that I also read that more and more BlueRays are also unlocked these days. Again, just what I read, no personal experience!
But; God of War: Collection cannot be shipped to the selected address.
Dang … other people could order this without any problems?
Is it because of Spain? I couldn’t really find any reason in the Learn More section…
EDIT: Also unable to send it to my Dutch address.
I BAY 100%!!!!!!!!!!!
This sucks so much, it better not be region locked, cause I’ll be inporting
I feel sorry for my friends across the pond always getting shafted. Hopefully one day the gaming industry will learn that all gamers want the same stuff at the same time.
@ TheHater
Apparently, he has a stunt double. I know, I was shocked too when I heard this.
people need to play this great game. It is a fun game to play indeed.
Yeah but ps3 games are region free, and this is going to be on blu ray so i dont think they have anything to worry about. They can just order it from amazon or whatever and get it shipped to them.
Yes this game is not region locked but is it compatible with PAL territories? that is the question you want answered
SCEE won’t spend the money on bringing the collection to Europe too soon because they know the yet-again-shafted European customer will try and get it by any means necessary, regardless of shipping costs.
That’s why they will not put a region lock in it.
That sucks they should make on the PSN so they can at least download it.
I bet that this would be reion locked. Let’s hope for the best though.
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