Metal Gear Solid 4’s gone and stole our hearts, LittleBigPlanet captured our imagination (despite Media Molecule being a total ASS with content moderation), and Killzone 2 is one of the many good-looking FPS games we’re still going to play despite how saturated the genre is already. What else can we look forward to on the Sony PlayStation 3 besides the next Final Fantasy?

Enter Ready at Dawn’s God of War 3, the next-gen sequel to the series that lets gamers play as the angriest man on earth. With swords chained to his arms. We see him in action via this trailer fresh from the Spike VGAs.

Looking at the trailer,  Kratos hasn’t lost his touch, still killing mythological beasties in his own style that’s just as brutal as it is fucking awesome. Whether you’re a towering centaur, a hulking cyclops or even one of those weird flying things, Kratos is going to rip you a new one and there’s not much else you can do about it.

While the trailer does show some pretty slick graphics, and Kratos looks like his own scowling self, there’s a bit of…well, typical-ness about the trailer. Sure, everything looks good, but the graphics aren’t something we haven’t seen before. Maybe it’s just the fact that the trailer takes place in the night stage, or something – but for some reason it doesn’t look like the polygon-crunching, boundary-pushing epic we’ve been hoping for. Hopefully this is just a peek at an unpolished first build, and we’ll be able to see the game in a better light soon.

You can view the trailer here.