in the E3 Demo of Ryse the graphics really impressed me, but I was a bit let down by the combat system being like a bunch of QTE's. I think they changed that though because in the recent video for Ryse it's not so much QTE's any more and it looks pretty fun.
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it seems to play more like guitar hero than god of war, given you have to press the right buttons at the right time or else you lose points if you press the wrong button, yet it still kills the fool