Impressive.

Someone I know keeps pestering me to play God of War. He says I'll like it. He says it's the action game for people who don't like action games, packed full of Greek mythology which I'll love. He insists that I won't find it infuriatingly hard because I managed to get up to the 4th level of Ninja Gaiden and only dying twice, while he could never get past the first boss. There's more to it than repetitive kill-kill-kill-platform bit-kill gameplay, and it requires skill to play. It has a powerful plot. It's stunningly beautiful. And so on and so forth, over and over.

I don't know. While very rarely I’ll play games like Devil May Cry or Ninja Gaiden they aren’t my usual cup of tea, and I don’t tend to get very far in them because I find I lack the desire to go back and play some more. Anyone got a hype-free verdict?