Wow. This is nuts.

Who in their right mind would organize a video game release party [for God of War II] with...

"topless women dropping grapes into guests mouths"
"games that included throwing knives at a target and pulling live snakes from a pit with bare hands"
"reaching into the guts of the freshly slaughtered goat, with its head dangling from threads of tissue, and eating what looked like animal intestines, but were actually Greek food"

Yes, a real goat. Not some artistic fake, but a real decapitated goat with it's head still slightly attached from which you spoon your food into a bowl. That's just fuckin gross.

To answer my own question, it looks like Sony would throw a party like that! Although they're still trying to figure out who actually authorized this Caligula-like event. I totally get the concept of trying to bring the game's world to life at the party to make it more stimulating and fire up the people, but this is just stupid. It's shit like this that feeds the Jack Thompson's of the world [people who blindly and ignorantly blame video games for all of the world's problems].

And I'm not trying to bash Sony, I think quite highly of their products. In fact, I've read plenty of articles on GoW II and it looks like an interesting game. Not too mention the first one got rave reviews from professional game sites along with "nice-guy" Scott Hanselman's recommendation. It's a game I can easily see myself playing if I had a PS2 or PS3.

But eating from a decapitated goat. Wow.

~tod

tags: GoW2, GoW, God of War, Sony