et's try a quick experiment here. I want you to think of the first thing that pops into your head were you to describe Kratos from God of War. What did you end up saying? "Fueled by rage?" "Frothing at the mouth?" Apparently the folks at Sideshow Collectibles answered "Calmly looking at nothing" when designing their most recent polystone statue.
We've been waiting a long, long time for Kratos' Sideshow appearance, but all we get is him lazily standing on a broken pillar? Why isn't he leaping with his jaw opened so wide he could eat a man's head, blood splattered everywhere from the piles of corpses under his feet? He's just standing there. Just standing there. Kratos doesn't stand around unless something huge is trying to intimidate him. Come on! Is a Kratos statue that hard to design?
Kratos stands at a decent 17'' high and weighs in at 10 lbs, but his price also comes in at US$249.99, a price I can't in my right mind justify for a statue of Kratos doing nothing. Think the Sideshow Exclusive edition is any better? It costs ten bucks more and includes some alternate hands holding the Claws of Hades which, you know, look more-or-less like a pair of freaking hooks that Kratos just limply holds at his sides.
I don't think I'd be so pissed if the product description didn't explicitly state, "The Kratos statue captures every aspect of the God of War with lifelike realism." Is that so? Because I thought Kratos' defining aspect was killing everything, not doing nothing. You can pre-order Kratos and have him in your living room doing nothing by January of next year.