{"id":8395,"date":"2010-11-05T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"god-of-war-ghost-of-sparta-sexy-time-integrated-really-well-in-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/8395-god-of-war-ghost-of-sparta-sexy-time-integrated-really-well-in-the-game","title":{"rendered":"God of War: Ghost of Sparta sexy time \u201cintegrated really well\u201d in the game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The truth is, nobody really plays God of War games for the&#8230; whatever it is they&rsquo;re actually about. Everybody plays God of War games for the sex. You&rsquo;ll be pleased (in your pants) to know, then, that upcoming PSP title God of War: Ghost of Sparta features sex. And whatever it is that the rest of the game is actually about.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> CVG<\/a>, Ready at Dawn creative director Ru Weerasuriya talks it up, saying, &ldquo;&#8221;It&#8217;s a really fun one that is integrated really well in the game, more so than any of the ones before it. It&#8217;s become a staple of God of War but rather than being serious about it, it&#8217;s more of a light-hearted way of looking at things and making fun gameplay out of something that is often considered taboo.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>See, it&rsquo;s not about moral panic, it&rsquo;s a social statement. And it&rsquo;s totally intellectual and stuff too.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This one is cool as a mini-game, there&#8217;s some good dialogue in there. It&#8217;s also bringing it back to Greek mythology,&rdquo; he elaborates. &ldquo;People want to say we did that because it&#8217;s God of War but if you read Greek mythology there&#8217;s stories about it, so it falls in line with the context, the world a mythology of the game and it works.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>I was going to make the obvious joke about man-man love, but I won&rsquo;t. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re going to click this link because it has \u201csex\u201d in the title<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}