God of War is a third-person slasher adventure game set in Greece and set in Scandinavia. The game is both a sequel and a reboot of the series. The story revolves around the Spartan Kratos, who manages to take revenge on the gods of Olympus. Now he and his son live in the north, in a world of Scandinavian gods and monsters. He must fight to survive and must teach his son how to survive and fight.
The protagonist Kratos is a Spartan warrior who serves the Olympian gods. As instructed by the goddess Athena, Kratos must destroy the current god of war, Ares, in order to gain forgiveness from the Olympian gods. Kratos agrees, as Ares is implicated in the murder of the protagonist’s family. To stop the powerful god, Kratos embarks on a dangerous journey to get his hands on the legendary Pandora’s Box.
The game begins on a ship attacked by Hydra. As he jumps around the ships in the fleet, Kratos finds an altar of Poseidon and his message to Kratos in one of them. Poseidon tells him that he has been trying for years to catch the Hydra destroying his underwater cities and mansions. To help Kratos kill her, he gives him his power (Poseidon’s wrath). After Hydra’s death, Kratos talks to the statue of Athena, who tells him he has a chance for revenge and redemption – Ares attacked her city, destroying legions, temples and villages. Meanwhile, the Fleet sails toward Athens. Kratos steps off the ship. A new weapon, the head of a gorgon, awaits him at the port. Walking through the city citadel, Kratos encounters the ghost of an oracle. The oracle tells Kratos that she can help him and suggests that he find her in the oracle’s temple. There, too, Kratos meets Ares, who does not notice him, apparently because of the difference in size of the two. On the way to the temple, Kratos meets the oracle, who is immediately grabbed by a harpy and taken somewhere, and a gravedigger. After passing the temple, Kratos sees the oracle being thrown off in flight, but she manages to grab hold of the rope. If Kratos does not get her off it in time, she will break. Rescued by Kratos, the oracle “climbs” into his head to see who he is. She opens the gate that leads to the Desert of Lost Souls. Kratos goes there. On the way, he meets another statue of Athena, who tells him about the lone titan Crone and the Pandora’s Box kept in the temple on his back.
In this temple Kratos awaits many deadly traps, 3 chambers belonging to the three main god brothers – Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades – as well as an iron minotaur waiting to be released and several new abilities – the blade of Artemis, the army of Hades, and Zeus’ lightning bolts.
Finding Pandora’s Box, Kratos carries it to the exit. The fact is that Ares’ henchmen have reported to him that Kratos is looking for Pandora’s Box to kill him. Ares throws a broken column with a sharp end at Kratos across the desert. Before he reaches the exit of the temple, Kratos is struck by the column flying at him, piercing him through and nailing him to the gate. Kratos enters the realm of Hades, where he encounters the soul of the captain he killed in the jaws of the hydra on the ship. He throws the captain into the abyss. The kingdom of Hades also has many traps in it.
While passing through the underworld, a bundle of stones on a rope falls on Kratos. This is the way out. Crawling along it, he climbs out of a tomb near the temple of the oracle in Athens that has been dug by a famous gravedigger. Walking again through the now dilapidated temple, Kratos encounters the oracle lying in a pool of blood and having lost all hope. Walking out to the cliffs of suicide, Kratos meets Ares with Pandora’s Box. Kratos takes the box from Ares and, after opening it, becomes the same size as Ares. Ares suddenly has giant claws with blades growing out of his back, which he uses as a weapon. During the fight, Ares sends Kratos into his greatest nightmare, killing his family. Kratos stands on a piece of land in front of a temple. As he enters he meets Lysandra and Calliope. Suddenly they are attacked by Kratos’ clones, hovering from the floor and walls of the temple. Ares offers to give them back to him if he exterminates his clones. After exterminating them, Ares takes away Kratos’ abilities, and the Blades of Chaos. With them he kills Lysandra and Calliope.
Kratos returns from his nightmare to the real world. Ares is about to kill him, but Kratos catches sight of the Blade of the Gods, which serves as a bridge from the oracle temple to the statue of Athena. Kratos deftly dodges the blow, and plucks the sword from the rock.
After a second sword fight, Kratos pierces Ares with the Blade of the Gods. Ares is killed.
Kratos talks to Athena about getting rid of his memories, to which she answers him: the gods forgive Kratos, but they did not promise him deliverance from his nightmares. Kratos feels deceived and in despair commits suicide. Athena prevents this, explaining that the gods cannot allow a man who has done them such a favor to kill himself. She gives him the blades of Athena, and tells him that the throne of the god of war is now his.
