So how is the actual game? Well, it’s not bad. The squealing of the dogs as I killed them freaked my roommate out, which shows the sound department did its duty! GameplayĪh, the part you’ve all been waiting for. The animations and powers each have unique sounds as well. The atmosphere was perfect, although I found myself thinking of Xena a lot (I must assume they used didgeridoos). The music is best when Kratos is running along a straight path for a full minute. The music is great, at times haunting and at times urging you to battle. There was also more pure eye candy, such as watching a giant python train ascend a mountain or running along a sparkling aqueduct to sad, sweet music. Scumbag God of War has beautiful graphics, uses them to gross you the eff out.īesides the insanely gory stuff, there are also sick and twisted creatures roaming around, all displayed gaudily for your eyes in clear detail. They are used to full effect to show off startling vistas, monstrous towers, and some of the nastiest things you will ever see in a game. The graphics are gorgeous, nice and crisp. Another Fury isn’t even a female! Of course, he is given the most depth and an intriguing story, but I’ll get to this game’s treatment of women later. The first one we are introduced to is a little whiny and shallow, and the second one tries to use trickery to get her way. The main antagonists of this game are the Furies. While it was nice to see a change in his demeanor (he was completely un-relateable in God of War 3), I almost wish they had taken it further and had a few more chances for Kratos to speak and show us a little more of his softer side. What we end up with is a Kratos who is somehow less interesting, and has less of a personality in most cases, and in others we see a side of Kratos we’ve secretly longed to see, watching in awe as he tenderly holds a stranger’s hand as she dies or shoves a soldier out of harm’s way. This Kratos is a lot less furious than his future persona, as he has yet to fully understand all that Ares has done to him. The initial cutscene tells a story of the Furies that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with Kratos, which was a bit off-putting initially, especially to someone who actually knows Greek mythology. The game jumps around the timeline of the story, starting with an epic battle, only to backtrack and explain the journey to that point.
He will be tested as he seeks freedom, redemption for his sins, and the clarity to avenge his family.” Sentenced to an eternity chained within a prison for the living damned, Kratos battles insanity at the hands of the Furies. Swearing to avenge them, Kratos broke the blood oath that bound him to Ares, but oaths to Olympus are not so easily broken… Six months have passed since Kratos stood over the bodies of his wife and child, his hands stained with their blood – tricked by Ares into murdering the only people he ever loved. “Vengeance is born in the fires of betrayal in this prequel to the best-selling God of War franchise. I’d already played the demo of the multiplayer, but I was also anxious to see the changes made since the beta. When I started the game, I was interested to see how they portrayed the less furious, more human Kratos. God of War: Ascension is the prequel to the God of War series and the first game in the hack-and-slash action series to feature a multiplayer component.
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