10 Scrapped Video Game Boss Battles That Would've Been Incredible
6. The Harpy Boss - God Of War (2005)
The very first God of War was a milestone in the PS2's lifecycle - a ferocious, hyper-violent action-adventure that breathed new life into the console and started another flagship franchise for the Playstation.
But it wasn't perfect. One of the game's most common criticisms was that, after kicking off with a spectacular battle against a Hydra (not the Half-Life 2 one), there was an almost complete lack of boss fights until the final clash against Ares.
Had things gone to plan, though, there would have been at least one more boss fight in the game, and it sounds like it would have been a doozy.
Skip to the four-minute mark in the above video and you'll hear GoW creator David Jaffe talking about the game's abandoned Harpy boss fight. A puzzle-boss fight that would have involved Kratos using the Harpy's slaughtered young as bait, the fight would have taken place over a large arena and provided more evidence that you were not playing as the hero in this story.
Given how well GoW's trifecta of boss fights (Hydra, Minotaur, Ares) were executed, it's safe to say that the Harpy would have provided one more memory for PS2 gamers to savour. (Not that they're lacking in that regard).