God of War review:5 stars (A good solid game.) - I traded Destroy all Humans in for this, even though it was a good game. I was not dissapointed. This game is excellent. There is a greek setting, although some of the music sounds like Egyptian music, and you play as a Spartian, which is really cool. THe graphics are great, and the gameplay is long, and not REALLY boring...just a tiny bit at times. You start off with the blades of chaos, which reak havok and kick booty. There are hundreds of cool moves you can use with only the square and triangle buttons (and occasionaly the circle button). Then you proggress to the sword of artemis, which is awesome. Throughout Krados' journey, you go through ships, athens, deserts, and a titan's back, to get Pandora's box.
There are many puzzles, but none too hard to figure out. Not to mention the cool unlockables. You have trailers, deleted missions, cutscenes, the God Mode, and two secrete messages.

PROS
+Graphics and cutscenes are great.
+Puzzles are at the right difficulty level.
+Gameplay is easy to learn.
+A lot of different beasts and monsters.
+Cool moves and weapons.
+Long gameplay.
+Lots of checkpoints and save spots.

CONS
-Camera angle sucks every now and then.
-Some of the puzzles get REALLY annoying.
-Some of the finishing moves don't always work.
-Sometimes the game is a bit dragged out.
5 stars (GOD OF GAMES) - THIS GAME HAS BECAME MY FAVORITE GAME...ITS SO LONG AND YOU DONT WANT TO PUT THE CONTROLLER DOWN..PERFECT GRAPHICS..PERFECT SOUND
AND THE GAMEPLAY AND STORY..I CANT SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT THIS
GAME...MUST PLAY IT..RENT IT..BUY IT..BORROW IT..ALSO THERE WILL BE A SEQUAL AND I CANT WAIT!!3 stars (It is just like Devil may Cry and Lament of Innocence, just with inaccurate mythology, boring gameplay, and lame acting) - I will bet you that 70 percent of the people seeing this review does not like me for giving such a game a low score, but I really do not care, as most of the fanboys of this game talk "OMG i luv this game!!!! RXXER!!!". This game is nothing but an overhyped hunk of graphics, and while it DID provide fun entertainment for the first few stages of gameplay, boy did it get boring later on. anyway....

GRAPHICS 9/10

The category to be believed the least important of them all, but still important. The graphics are quite nice here, and I especially love how Kratos tears through the enemies, or knocks over the random minotaur and stabs him in the face. The biggest knockoff I have against the graphics is that some of the characters look a little.....stupid. Thankfully, they do not live very long for me to fret about them much.

MUSIC 6.5/10

I found the music to be rather annoying, and every once in a while, when the music got the point of being called "retarded", I muted the Television and put in a soundtrack of my own. A few of the tracks caught my attention every now and then, but they are nothing special for me to remember.

SOUND 9/10

Damn near perfect sound. Every sound is on time, every monster has some kind of screech, roar, or other battle cry, and everything sounds normal

STORY 3/10

Man, what a lame story. You think just because they try and make something up with mythology that it will be good? all I can say is Helllll no. All i can say is that it really drags on and on throughout the game, making the game eventually seem like a bunch of random missions than actually having Kratos GO somewhere. Sure, you have to receive Pandora's box, but that takes a good chunk disk to get, making you go through an annoying amount of dungeons and fighting before you actually have something occur in the game. Other than that, i found a few bits and pieces of the game to become interesting, such as Kratos' past life.

GAMEPLAY 5/10

My first impression of the gameplay in this game was very good. If you asked me what I thought about it after beating the first boss, I would have said "That makes a good 8/10 right there, and it can only improve!". It turns out I would have been quite wrong. You see, the first stage was a blast (all except that box moving part, that was completely lame), and the boss there was exceptionally fun. As time went on, I found it to be beyond repetitive. I found myself continually just using the same very few combo attacks and slaughtering through the easy enemies. Finally, near the end of the game, I was granted a new weapon, and none of that magical crap they offered in the game. I was excited, as the weapon was a huge hulking sword, But after taking down quite a bit of enemies, I came to realize sadly that the sword had even less combo attacks than the default blades.

The gameplay offers the duel chain blades throughout the game, and the more you use the Devil-May-Cry-ripped-off red orbs to power up your weapons, you will learn two-four new combos. as you advance through the game, you will also get abilities and magic that the gods give you, four in total. You get a skill of medusa, being able to turn your enemies to stone just like a gorgon, skill from Poseidon, electrocuting(?? sorry if I am wrong) all of your enemies around you, skill from Zeus, giving you the ability to hurl little pansy bolts of lightning at your foes, and lastly, the gift from Hades (who looks like a complete faggot by the way, why did they make him look like a bloody monster??), allowing you to control spirits as you slaughter your already underpowered enemies. You may also use the red orbs to power these up for moves and power.

To wrap this game up in it's well deserved shabby over-rated package, I suggest renting it, as I did beat it in one twenty four hour period, and it really did not take me that long to complete. It provides, entertainment, but I honestly do not ever feel like playing the game again.

Difficulty (on normal mode)- 4/10
Final Boss Difficulty (normal mode)- 5/10
Final Boss music- 4/10
Ending- 2/10
God of War Features:
Video Games
PS2 (PSX2)
Sony Playstation (Play station) 2
Playstation2 (Play station2)
Action
Adventure
PlayStation 2
ESRB Rating: M (Mature)
Action/Adventure

God of War is the CD-ROM version. The full version can be purchased by clicking on the "CLICK HERE TO ORDER" button below for around 44.95USD.