He takes sadistic pleasure in slowly hacking open an one enemy’s noggin, then lobotomizing it. He tears the horns off critters and jams them into their own heads or down their throats. Kratos dismembers and guts creatures, rips their heads off, snaps backbones and impales baddies on large spikes. But most battles dive right into the heart of the eviscerating fray. Some of this tearing and ripping slaughter is seen from a distance. It’s almost impossible to separate the violence-which is constant and visceral-from the scenery painted in the blood and gore.Įvery punch, kick, hack, slash, stab and swipe of Kratos’ chain blades, swords and spears results in seemingly infinite amounts of entrails-spilling goop. Ascension gurgles with a witches brew of lurid nastiness. If few franchises can match God of War’s graphic wonders, however, it’s also true that few can match its even more graphic gore. Its controls are so intuitive that a complete novice will be throwing jaw-dropping combos almost immediately-with scores of power-ups and new moves leading them forward into increasingly vicious combat. Likewise, Ascension’s well-oiled game mechanics are as easy to master quickly as any contest out there. And this game’s ability to swoop in and around an immense and graphically grand world, while still keeping us locked into Kratos’ up-close point of view, is undeniably impressive. The God of War games all feature amazing visual details in both scope and scale, whether Kratos is battling sea monsters, manticores, Medusas or mountain-sized foes. With that interchangeable, oh-so-familiar storyline in place, Ascension plunges right back into the series’ hack-and-slash action and never looks back for the next 12 or so hours of gameplay.Īdmittedly, what this franchise does well, it does like no other. And so the carnage commences as Kratos begins a brutal quest to seize control of his own fate once more. But that kind of independent thinking is a big no-no in the traitor-punishing Furies’ book. wouldn’t be wise, and he decides to break his blood oath with the deity. Rage-fueled Kratos-who’s been manipulated into serving the god of war after accidentally murdering his own family-realizes that following through on his suicidal obligation to Ares and Co.
Olympus, and they plan to use Kratos as their ultimate human superweapon. Ares and this trio of über-powerful sisters want to overthrow Zeus and Mt. This time around, the super-strong, ashen-skinned antihero Kratos finds himself in the midst of a plot whipped up by the Greek god of war, Ares, and three deity-like beings called the Furies. Because by now, the gamemakers at Sony’s Santa Monica Studio know exactly what fans want to see in a Kratos-vs.-Greek-gods video game, and they’re not about to go messing with that well-tested formula the sixth time around.Īscension is a prequel set 10 years prior to the first God of War game.
And, really, that’s probably enough description for anyone who has experienced one of the previous God of War games. With some game franchises, that’s pretty much all that needs to be said.
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