In return, Athena offers him absolution for his Dark and Troubled Past, in which he served Ares as a Blood Knight and was manipulated into slaying his beloved wife and daughter. In this extended flashback, Kratos is charged by Athena with the task of killing Ares, the God of War, who has declared war on Athens to do this, he will have to dungeon-crawl through the Temple of Pandora and find Pandora's Box, which contains in it the power to kill a god. Kratos begins by declaring that 'The gods of Olympus have abandoned me' and flinging himself over the tallest cliff in Greece the rest of the game details How We Got Here.

God of War was released for PlayStation 2 in 2005.

These typically include: a ranged attack an area-of-effect attack a ray that causes enemies to freeze somehow and a swarm-of-souls attack that damages everything in sight. Finally, besides dodging and rolling, Kratos gets access to magic spells. Many enemies and all boss battles have unique finishing moves involving Action Commands boss battles in particular become highly cinematic Puzzle Bosses. Face buttons allow the player to jump, switch between Weak and Strong attacks, and use throws and Finishing Moves, stringing together combos and special moves in a visceral and satisfying combat engine that combines graceful, almost balletic special attacks with the gruesome satisfaction of literally ripping enemies in half.

Kratos's default weapons are the Blades of Chaos, which are swords on the ends of very long chains they function as both melee weapons and Whip Swords, or perhaps Sword Chucks. It features a simple, intuitive combat interface that made fighting remarkably easy. A brutal, tormented man, Kratos begins the series as the sword of Olympus, fighting the enemies of the gods while trying to escape the horrors of his past. One Spartan soldier, Kratos, has a personal relationship with the Gods that can best be described as complicated. To put the setting in simple terms, imagine Ancient Greece, but a version of Ancient Greece where all the omnipresent saviors and detrimental scourges found in countless Classical Mythology textbooks exist. God of War is a Hack and Slash and Action-Adventure video game series for the PlayStation line by SCE Santa Monica Studio.

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