Gods of War, an Action Adventure RPG (Role Playing Games), is one of the best Action Adventure games out there. Gods of War is a tale of vengeance against the Greek Gods of War, Ares, and the background is set in ancient Greek mythological times. Gods of War is an epic adventure filled with blood, an amazing combat system, and challenging puzzles. Gods of War has the perfect blend of enough puzzles along with the right amount of fighting compared to any other Action Adventure RPGs.
The main plot of Gods of War revolves around Kratos carrying out orders from the Gods of Olympus, to stop one of their brethren, Ares, from destroying the city of Athens. Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, explains to Kratos the only way a mortal man can kill a Gods is to acquire the mythical Pandora’s Box, a weapon powerful enough to kill a Gods. From this point on you take on Kratos’ quest to find Pandora’s Box, while learning more about his troublesome past. He was a Spartan general with power, until he met Ares who screws him over.
Gods of War is based around the antihero Kratos, a powerfully built man, pale-skinned, with tattoos, a Spartan warrior. From the beginning of the game you see Kratos shouting at the Gods of Olympus saying the Gods have betrayed and destroyed his world; at the same time you see Kratos on the verge of jump off. He does jump, but right before Kratos hits the water, the narrator cuts off Kratos’ death and explains of how Kratos’ life was not as dire as the moment. Three weeks prior- to Kratos jump off the mountain- Kratos was on a ship in the Aegean Sea (in the Mediterranean Sea between the gap of Greece and Turkey), where Kratos is fighting his way through loads of undead warriors that attacked the ship. While trying to kill all the undead warriors attacking the ship you see how vicious Kratos is, the way he bash the undead warrior head in, or rips their bodies apart in two, or simply grabs their head and throwing them onto the ground and smash it onto the walls or the ground. By the time Kratos finishes killing all the undead and reaches the end of the ship a boss fight occurs with a hydra –a Greek mythological creature with multiple heads and moves like a snake- and Kratos completely, utterly, and brutally kills the creature. Though by the end of the game you will understand Kratos is a man who just wants to forget his past and all his sins, from this point on all you know is that he will kill anything in his way to achieve his goals.
Kratos is an amazing character, despite the fact he is cruel and evil, he has one great aspect of him, he is a total badass in combat. In combat, Kratos is a capable warrior of fighting against anyone to anything because of his primary weapon “the blades of chaos”. The blades of chaos are a pair of dagger-liked weapons which are burned into Kratos’ skins by a chain. The blades of chaos are a weapon that attacks and moves like a whip, but with a very large dagger at the tip. This is a great weapon you get to used throughout the game and is upgradable to become stronger and be able to use more combos, but Kratos does have more than one weapon in his arsenal, which are given to him by the Gods of Olympus at each encounter. For example, a magical weapon called Army of Hades, given by Hades the Gods of the Underworld, lets you unleash the souls of the underworld against your enemies. There are many other weapons in the game, but you must see them for your selves, but there are many different types of combination of magical weapons along Kratos blades of chaos to form outstanding attacks and variety of attacks.
And Kratos will need all types of variety of attacks to help him reach his goals. Before Kratos can reach his ultimate goals he has to face off against many different types of enemy monsters in his path. All of the enemies in Gods of War are based on Greek mythology, thus you will find creatures like: medusa, gorgons, minotaurs, cyclopes, variety undead warriors, and winged harpies, among other different monsters. From the beginning you will face some easy going undead warriors which you can cut into piece, but the game has the tendency to throw hundreds of them at you; compared to the larger monsters you usually face them one on one, at first, but take a lot of damage to kill. While you can kill all your enemies normally by continuously attacking them, but there is faster and more beneficial way to finish off the larger monsters, which is by engaging in one of Gods of War’s context-sensitive attacks. Once you have worn down a large enemy a button icon will appear on above their head, by pressing that button you will be engaging in a minigame. Each minigame differ, for instance when finishing off a minotaur you will button smash, (keep pressing a certain button over and over again) or watch the screen to see what button to press quickly in a rhythm while watching Kratos pull of acrobatic maneuvers killing his foe. All of the context-sensitive attacks are amazing to do and watch as Kratos’ finishes off his opponents.
While not in combat you will most likely be solving one of the numerous puzzles in the game. Because Gods of War is set in ancient Greek times, the puzzles are modeled after ancient Greek traps, pitfalls, and Greek mythological mazes. Even though most of the puzzles in Gods of War are pulling leavers and racing against time, to moving statues or moving large blocks on stone switches on the ground, and countless turning or pulling cranks; but the traps do not define the game, the size of the maze do. For instance, Pandora’s Temple, the largest maze in the game, you will find yourself in a massive large circular room maze. Within the circular room you will find a switch which you can push or pull to reach new rooms which were hidden before. With each new room discovers a new mazes appears and enemies to face in those rooms. Once you have solved all of the small puzzles in the room, you slow start to solve the larger ones in the temple. Pandora Temple maze takes a lot of time to finish, however, even though it took so long to finish this one massive large puzzle with many small ones within Pandora, you will feel accomplish and have felt your time was well spend.
The great aspect of this game is the fact this game looks amazing. From the moment you turn on the game and watch the opening cinematic (being like a movie interlude) makes you feel as if you were watching a movie. While playing the game as Kratos you can tell the difference between the cinematic and game play, but at the time this game looked amazing. At certain points in the game you think you are actually within the game. This really comes out when you are fighting your enemies, when you attack you can see where their blood being scatter on the wall, ground, and on top your of your enemies, but usually the blood on your enemies is your own blood. But coming to the point of the gore in this game, this game has people being killed, dying, blood being scatter all over the world from the moment you beginning. So this game completely deserves the rating of M for Mature from ESRB (Entertainment Software Rating Board). But the visual of the game would not be complete without the astonishing music and sounds in this game.
While not in combat you will most likely be solving one of the numerous puzzles in the game. Because Gods of War is set in ancient Greek times, the puzzles are modeled after ancient Greek traps, pitfalls, and Greek mythological mazes. Even though most of the puzzles in Gods of War are pulling leavers and racing against time, to moving statues or moving large blocks on stone switches on the ground, and countless turning or pulling cranks; but the traps do not define the game, the size of the maze do. For instance, Pandora’s Temple, the largest maze in the game, you will find yourself in a massive large circular room maze. Within the circular room you will find a switch which you can push or pull to reach new rooms which were hidden before. With each new room discovers a new mazes appears and enemies to face in those rooms. Once you have solved all of the small puzzles in the room, you slow start to solve the larger ones in the temple. Pandora Temple maze takes a lot of time to finish, however, even though it took so long to finish this one massive large puzzle with many small ones within Pandora, you will feel accomplish and have felt your time was well spend.
The great aspect of this game is the fact this game looks amazing. From the moment you turn on the game and watch the opening cinematic (being like a movie interlude) makes you feel as if you were watching a movie. While playing the game as Kratos you can tell the difference between the cinematic and game play, but at the time this game looked amazing. At certain points in the game you think you are actually within the game. This really comes out when you are fighting your enemies, when you attack you can see where their blood being scatter on the wall, ground, and on top your of your enemies, but usually the blood on your enemies is your own blood. But coming to the point of the gore in this game, this game has people being killed, dying, blood being scatter all over the world from the moment you beginning. So this game completely deserves the rating of M for Mature from ESRB (Entertainment Software Rating Board). But the visual of the game would not be complete without the astonishing music and sounds in this game.
The moment you start the game you can hear intense, electrifying music which set up the mood of the game. The sounds in Gods of War are perfect fit from every aspect. The orchestra whom worked on Gods of War made this game sound to be like any great Hollywood movie. The music is placed perfectly within the story of the game that you never think that the sounds are out of place. While fighting you can hear every slash, blood splatter, and moaning of the dead, or dying feel as it should be. The greatest achievement of this game sounds are the sounds of all the characters within the game. For instance, Kratos voice is perfect; his voice of a strong man with many years of fighting experience under his belt. Along with all the other characters whose voice could not have been any better. But the great voice in the whole game is no other than the narrator’s voice who makes the game seem epic as it is. Kratos story is told by an elderly aged woman voice, and her tone is perfect for the role, from the moment she speaks at the beginning of the game till the last moments of the game. Overall the sounds in Gods of War are amazing.
To sum it all up Gods of War is amazing video game from start to finish. With a remarkable combat system even though sometimes it does feels like button mashing is the best strategy, but overall fighting system rock and it would only get better in the next game. Visually the game will make your jaw drop from the moment the game starts to the end of the game. And throughout the game you would say Aw, Wow, or Whoa, when the cinematic start. Lastly the sounds, the orchestra make Gods of War sounds so awesome and without the sounds the game would be incomplete. Along with the perfect voice actors they got for Kratos and all the other people were perfect match in my opinion, in truth only the Gods could have let the sounds of Gods of War be so perfect. The puzzles and a bit challenging at points, but sometimes it just get repetitive. At the end of the day no video gamer that likes to play Action Adventure RPG with misses this. Overall I give this game 9.5 out of 10.
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