are you thinking of the Satyrs? I recall them being a problem in one of the PS2 games, but CoO is pretty much broken thanks to the Fist of Zeus. Literally wrecks every enemy in the game.
and yeah I did GoW1 and GoW2 sometime last year. Still need to do GoW3
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