#HADES GOD OF WAR 3 SERIES#
But I must admit, playing it again made me remember how much fun this game – and the God of War series – was and is. Never fear all you need to know here is that Kratos wants revenge, and in this game, he will finally have it.ĥ years is a long time in gaming, and I will admit that I was less than enthusiastic about revisiting God of War III – I felt that I had been there, done that, and had moved on. If you are a newcomer playing God of War III for the first time, it will still be fun as hell, don’t worry, but it will just have no contextual basis for you. It just feels chintzy, especially considering God of War III Remastered’s $40 price tag. But no, you are only given the one game, and if you want to play the other two, you will have to play them separately through PlayStation Now.
Sony had a perfect opportunity here to bring newcomers up to speed by including the first two games in this package. If this is your first time playing a God of War game, you will have no idea what is going on – and this brings me to my first quibble with God of War III Remastered. The game, like the first two, throws you into the action right away, and you have already sliced and stabbed lots of enemies before you even have time to realize that you have started. Like any great Greek epic, it begins in medias res, with Kratos still on the back of Gaia, climbing towards the top of Mount Olympus. _ “If you are a newcomer playing God of War III for the first time, it will still be fun as hell, don’t worry, but it will just have no context for you.”Īnd that brings us to God of War III, first released back in 2010 on the PS3. So yeah, Kratos has some serious Oedipal issues by the cliffhanger end of the franchise’s second instalment, in which he has finally climbed out of Hades and has his murderous sights firmly fixed on none other than Big Daddy himself – Zeus. Then, in God of War II (2007), Kratos is betrayed by his own father, Zeus, who takes his powers and kills him. In the first God of War (2005), he was tricked by Ares into killing his own wife and children. Let’s just say the Gods ‘done him wrong’, big-time. To catch you up, Kratos is Zeus’ son, and he wants revenge for, well, a bunch of things. Now, if you haven’t played any of the series at all before – well first of all, congratulations on coming out of that coma. This guy has an Olympus-sized hate on for the entire Greek pantheon, and in God of War III, he takes it to a whole new level of mean. Ok, maybe we didn’t want to kill Hercules, Apollo and Zeus but damn, Kratos sure does. When we play God of War, we aren’t just playing a videogame, we are living the dream we had as children reading those mythical tales – to travel to Olympus, meet the Gods themselves … and kill them. It is a perfect combination of classic storytelling and ass-kickin’ arcade action, satisfying both the yin and yang in every gamer.
There’s a good reason the God of War series has been among the most acclaimed in modern gaming.