Unfortunately, after his blood-lust cleared, he realized that his two last victims had been his own wife and daughter Ares explained that this village had been a test of Kratos' power, severing the last of his humanity. In one battle, they came across a village that worshiped Athena and put the residents to the sword, and their homes to the flame. Despite his own foreboding feelings and the warnings of the local oracle, Kratos entered the village's temple and slaughtered all within. Kratos then became Ares' servant, leading the Spartan army in conquering much of Greece. He also granted Kratos the Blades of Chaos, curved blades forged in the pits of Hades that were attached to long chains which were fused to Kratos' arms. Ares, sensing enormous power in Kratos, accepted his offer and destroyed the Barbarians. However, in a battle against a barbarian horde, his army was massacred, and, in a desperate measure, Kratos offered his life and service to Ares, the God of War, in exchange for Ares defeating the Barbarians. Kratos was a fearsome Spartan warrior, and grew his fifty-man squad into an army of thousands via strategy, tactics, ferocity and conquest. While the player starts the game three weeks prior to this event, Kratos' background is told by the Narrator during the game (revealed to be the Titan Gaia in God of War II). The story is told mostly in flashback, after being framed with a scene from the present wherein Kratos, standing atop the tallest cliff in Greece, laments how the Gods have abandoned him and tosses himself into the waters below. The load times are masked by prefetching the next area as the player traverses a long, relatively featureless area. While most epic games suffer from immersion-breaking loading screens, God of War's story mode switches seamlessly from the title screen to FMV sequences to gameplay and back with very little load time. God of War is notable for its movie-like presentation. This includes spells like Medusa's Gaze and weapons such as the Blade of Artemis. Throughout the story of the game, Kratos obtain numerous weapons and powers from the various Gods of Olympus, and many of them pertain to classic Greek myth.
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He also finds Gorgon Eyes and Phoenix Feathers that allow him to increase his health and magic meters. For a lot of enemies, Kratos can also initate a minigame that involves precise button presses, analog spins, or button mashing, to finish off enemies with a bloody special kill.Īll through the game, Kratos can find red experience orbs which allow him to level up his weapons and magic powers. Kratos, the main character in the God of War series, uses an array of both weapons and magic powers to fight many different types of enemies, most of them based on monsters of Greek myth. God of War focuses heavily on combat and puzzle-solving, much like the Prince of Persia series.