The General

Honestly, the trailer killed all interest I had in the game.

Bring on the Plats

God of War III

Estimated time: 13.5 Hours

Platinum Difficulty: 3/10

Playthroughs Required: 1 (I did it in 2)

Difficulty Trophies: Yes, you must play once on Titan

Online Trophies: No

Most Challenging Trophy: Up To The Challenge (Get Stoned was a pain. The rest of the them were 1st or 2nd try, but Get Stoned took me like 15 tries)

Way better than the 1st & 2nd installments. That makes the GOW Platinum trifecta.

God of War II

Estimated Time: 10.5 hours

Platinum Difficulty: 3/10

Playthroughs Required: 1

Difficulty Trophies: No

Online Trophies: No

Most Challenging Trophy: Bleeding Thumbs (Challenge of the Titans)

After reading about the boss batch 3 trophy being glitched, I saved/quit before freeing the Phoenix, then played through until beating the game in 1 sitting, and it unlocked fine after defeating Clotho, the final sister of fate. As long as you don't quit the game (back to the xmb) between the Kraken and the final sister, you should get the trophy with no problems.

It was sort of tough playing through this type of confined game after playing RDR. Linear, button-mashers just don't measure up.

I was helping some dudes out who needed most of the trophies including all the hideouts in 1 sitting lastnight, and the 2 best now are Tesoro Azul & Fort Mercer.

This sucks for dudes still grinding, but it's a fun game, so enjoy it. Shit, I have the Plat & I still play it lol. That NEVER happens.

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Red Dead Redemption

Estimated Time: 80 hours+

Platinum Difficulty: 4/10

Playthroughs Required: 1 (but if you miss the 20 missions with the same horse, you will need to do another playthrough, as I'm not sure if mission select would work)

Difficulty Trophies: No (but you must switch to a higher “aiming” difficulty for 1 trophy)

Online Trophies: Yes

Most Challenging Trophy: Posse Up (To get 8 ppl together from your friends list can be tough enough, so trying with dbags in a public free roam is almost impossible as some just refuse to join a posse. Luckily we got 8 ppl together from the site and all took turns getting it. Thanks to all who participated BTW.)

Hands down, GOTY. It's still early in the year, but I don't think anything will be coming out this year that could challenge it. If you don't have this game, GO & GET it right NOW. For those that didn't like GTA IV, give Rockstar a chance with this one. I'm almost 99.9% certain you won't regret it.

The SP is epic & very deep. The online is quite fun, although the past few days, I've had problems staying in matches some of the time, but that could be on my end.

Overall, I'd give it a 9.5/10, because it does have some flaws, and nothing can be perfect…