Hi everyone
I’m Thach Quach, Senior European Product Manager for the brutal and highly-anticipated God of War III, exclusive to PlayStation 3.
I’d like to give you some details about the “God of War III: Ultimate Trilogy Edition” we have planned for Europe, Australia and New Zealand and answer any questions you might have.
We’ve been working pretty hard on this for the past few months but I’m delighted to announce that the “Ultimate Trilogy Edition” will be available in limited quantities in most European countries, Australia and New Zealand at the same time as the standalone God of War III game. Pricing and exact release details to be confirmed in the next few weeks so stay tuned
This very special edition will come in a high-end, sculpted replica of Pandora’s Box and we are planning to include the following items inside:
- God of War III
- God of War Collection (gentle reminder, this is God of War and God of War II, remastered in HD, running at 60 fps, with Trophy support, all on one Blu-ray Disc)
- Extra game content downloadable via PlayStation Network:
- God of War Combat Arena containing an exclusive environment and seven challenges to complete
- Dominus character skin
- Apollo character skin
- Phantom of Chaos character skin
- Forgotten Warrior character skin
- Exclusive video content downloadable via PlayStation Network:
- God of War: Unearthing the Legend Franchise Documentary. This is a full-length documentary detailing the history of the God of War franchise. A must have for fans!
- Special audio bonus content:
- God of War Trilogy Soundtrack – God of War, II, and III scores from the game
- God of War: Blood and Metal EP – a heavy metal homage featuring original music inspired by God of War
- Additional content:
- Artbook
- Postcards
Below is an image of the actual box and also work in progress visuals of its content. I hope you’ll agree that it looks pretty sweet
This “Ultimate Trilogy Edition” will be released in limited quantities at the same time as the main God of War III launch next year.
That’s about it for now… I leave you with some concept art pieces which have been released previously but that you may not yet have seen. Enjoy the rest of the end of year festivities.
Thach
















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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 8:54 pm by Handige_Harry
I LOVE YOU !!!!!!!
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 8:56 pm by maddymad
Amazing! I already own the GOW:Collection, but I will defennitely buy this special edition (no excuse for being a huge fan of gow ^^)
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 8:59 pm by BryceS
I don’t need a useless (though pretty) box, artcards, soundtracks, etc. and I already have the GoW collection.
I would however be interested in the DLC. Will there be a middle option between the basic GoW III game and this version?
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 9:01 pm by Pitreck
Hi Thach,
Thanks for the great news! You say “most European countries”. Unfortunately this often means “except Poland”, so I have to ask. Will this also be available in Poland?
Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 11:20 pm by Thach Quach
Hi Pitreck. Good news for you, this will be available in Poland as well:)
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 9:06 pm by CloudStorm87
Good thing I put off importing GOW Collection from the US. This is exactly what they needed for the “Ultimate” edition. Good thing SCEE did for a change what SCEA could not! Thank you!!
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 9:09 pm by kal-jo
This is old news
. Pre-ordered this weeks ago.
http://cdon.no/spill/god_of_war_iii_trilogy_edition-7583827
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 9:10 pm by onlineatron
Really needs to be a good price on this. I know it’s a hell of a lot of great content… but it’s March, I can’t afford Final Fantasy XIII, Yakuza 3 and this!
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 9:21 pm by Lacri
I have a few questions:
1) The Trilogy soundtrack is a “best of” compilation or the complete score of the three games?
2) How many pages will have the arbook? Are we talking about a little artbook or a full collection of artworks?
3) The music albums are MP3 audio format or two bonus audio CDs?
4) Can we expect God of War Collection to be multilanguage?
Thank you very much
Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 11:23 pm by Thach Quach
Hi Lacri. Good set of questions
My answers below:
1) That’s correct, all three games.
2) We haven’t decided yet. It will feature some great artwork pieces though. Watch this space.
3) Audio CDs
4) Same languages as the original God of War and God of War II on PS2.
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 9:21 pm by niked
I will buy this asap!
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 9:23 pm by HazelAM
good to finally get some confirmation that we are actually getting the god of war collection, and this trilogy box set looks nice, but really, really expensive
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 9:27 pm by CaptainVidal
wow thats awesome!! i want this beauty P:
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 9:29 pm by whoismilan
Awesome, will buy.
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 9:32 pm by SimplyHard
im only 15 so please dont tell me this is going to cost a bomb
if it is around 60-80 i will preorder it
if it becomes a ripoff like the MW2 prestige edition
then i will just buy the gow collection and gow 3 seperately
hopefully u will release the online stuff as DLC aswell
would be a good idea on your part to maximise sales for those who have already imported the Gow collection
reading over this saying im 15 seems like a pretty crap excuse, but still doesnt take away that fact that i will be broke when this comes out assuming it will come out on the day of gow 3
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 9:34 pm by V_Ben
will we be able to get the ultimate edition, sans collection? i’ve imported it
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 9:40 pm by Valthyr
Hmm, it’s gonna be the rgular one for me then. I already imported my God of War collection, since this special edition for Europe just wasn’t to be revelead.
Why the **** does it always take so long to get things to Europe >_>?
And… uhm.. Will this be the only edition with the full Trilogy? ‘Cuase my friends might pick up the regular editions for GoW 1, 2 and 3 Bundeled without the extra’s. Becuase this editition is most likely going to cost way too much.
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 9:49 pm by Spurvugle
Want, but not if it costs more than 1000 nok
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 9:50 pm by daffycare
never played a god of war game before,i played the demo of god of war 3 and i enjoyed, so will get this day 1 when released as long as it’s not to expensive.
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 9:52 pm by mony24
This game is a must buy demo was amazing
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 9:56 pm by Kalamoj
Nice! Preorder asap.
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 10:00 pm by Ikkarus
This is fantastic news!
I held fire importing the US version, very glad I did now.
Will this edition be available to numerous retailers or will it just be given to one retailer?
I cannot wait for 2010 to come around!
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 10:08 pm by Sniper_at_w0rk
Nice
I’ve played GOW I, II and Chains of Olympus
But I only have Chains of olympus
Let the collection come!!!
And DON’T add Chains of Olympus
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 10:08 pm by chimnino
QUESTION FOR THACH (or other mods/newsposters)!
Are the soundtracks digital or Compact Disc? Because I prefer the latter.
Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 11:25 pm by Thach Quach
Hi chimnino. The music tracks will be delivered on two separate audio CDs.
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 10:12 pm by BaPu420
and chance of this comming to canada?
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 10:12 pm by KingKjellboy
Consider this bundle bought. Too bad I already have GoW Collection. Oh well. Gonna buy this one.
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 10:15 pm by Prem-aka-Prince
looks good but I don’t think I’ll have enough money for that kind of thing, I’d rather be able to get just the collection and then 3… preferably getting the collection beforehand, too, because if they’re both in your hands why play that before you’ve played 3? ><
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 10:15 pm by vonhammer
Sold
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 10:31 pm by DNA-619
Here’s the deal – you bring this to the UK, i buy.
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 10:34 pm by Crystalchild
Oh Unholy Greece Gods…
i avoided the series so far, but this piece of pure awesmoeness cant be avoided any longer…
must.. buy.. this. well done SCEE!
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 10:37 pm by O_277
Best day ever? Yep, I’d say so, Quick question thach, will this be the only way of getting the GoW Collection? Or will it be released separately, thanks dude!
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 10:51 pm by Polypinoon
I’m glad you guys listened to my request to bring out a Special edition including the GOW Collections.
I hope we soon will be able to pre-order it, because I want this bad so I will pre-order it the moment it becomes available.
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 10:53 pm by waypoetic
The pricetag for this is ridiculous = 1500 swedish kronors.
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 10:54 pm by waypoetic
… And oh (!), it doesn’t even contain a Kratos mini-statue! That’s sucky.
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 11:08 pm by GuttermouthSIN
Holy ****, that thing is amazing! I was going to import the GoW collection after Christmas but I think I’ll just get this instead. Day one for sure!
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 11:13 pm by alex500
Damn it if only this had been announced a few weeks earlier. I now have the GoW collection in my room having had it imported but if I had known about this I would have held on.
Is there any chance of a not so special but still special edition that includes all the same things but not the GoW Collection?
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 11:17 pm by Vaistrat
Much appreciated! Right direction!
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 11:18 pm by CruizD
I take it this will appear in some form in South Africa?
Also is there no bundle which just includes GoW3/ GoWC?
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 11:25 pm by BlueViper
May be worth it for me, havent played any GOW game!
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 11:29 pm by Guerrier
OHHHHH MY GOD!!! xD In the end, it was worth waiting for the GoW:Collection and not importing from the USA.
Mine!!
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 11:37 pm by Cesarcsrf
EPIC
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 11:39 pm by chriscowboyd
Does the Trilogy soundtrack and Blood and Metal EP mean that GOW 3 will support custom soundtrax?
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 11:47 pm by exion
@90
Not that it needs to, the series is famed for its awesome music… but it would be a great feature all the same.
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Posted on 17 December, 2009 at 11:49 pm by Lacri
Yay! Thank you very much for the reply. Im glad to see we are getting audio CDs while the american people are getting MP3 downloads. I can see the European Ultimate edition shaping better than the american one. I just hope the price is not too expensive.
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Posted on 18 December, 2009 at 12:05 am by chimnino
Thanks for that Thach! I love that! I have to agree with Lacri that the European version is the REAL Ultimate Edition! Hope the price is indeed not too high. I’d expect about 120-130 Euro’s? But since the American version is like $100,- and the Collection about $40,-: applying the stupid 1=1 equation would mean we’ll have to pay €140-150 …
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Posted on 18 December, 2009 at 12:08 am by COOLER72
YEAH…! i can’t wait any longer..?
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Posted on 18 December, 2009 at 12:15 am by VonBraunschweigg
Yo, Sashquatch, Senior European Product Manager for the brutal and highly-anticipated God of War III, exclusive to PlayStation 3…
RELEASE THE MOTHAING DEMO!
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Posted on 18 December, 2009 at 12:16 am by VonBraunschweigg
…damn moderators
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Posted on 18 December, 2009 at 12:23 am by Blackxino
ok glad to hear that God of War collection will be bundled with God Of War 3. Now I don’t have to buy both separately.
But I don’t like paying more than £40 for a next gen games, since they never contain unlockable contents nor multiplayer or even co-op. £40 just for a Single Player Campaign. Not to mention paying £40 for an incomplete game, yet they charge us extra for Downloadable Contents!
Now I’ll be willing to pay £60-£70 max for this collection!
And if it’s more than that, then I’ll forget about the GoW series and just stick to Ninja Gaiden or other sick Hack n Slash games.
Freaking hll, £70 just for a game, a third of £100! When I can be using that kind of money to buy food shopping or pay a small bill.
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Posted on 18 December, 2009 at 12:51 am by gbh08
Better late than never!
however by the time iot gets released i would have brought my gow 1 & 2 off of ebay… Secondhand
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Posted on 18 December, 2009 at 12:55 am by FarronFox
Awesome! Definite buy.. will be pre-ordering as soon as possible in Australia.
Very glad I didn’t get impatient and try to place my order for any of this from the US now.
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Posted on 18 December, 2009 at 1:10 am by rocky21211
oh no, i ordered gow collection 2 weeks ago online, now what am i gonna do
, wish they announced this a tad bit earlier, now i need to try and sell the one i already have, but then again, this edition may be pretty dam expensive…
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