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Great graphics and decent gameplay

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: March 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

After reading the great reviews of this game I went out and got a PS2 just to play it. Having just finished Resident Evil 4 on the Gamecube, I would have to say this game is a bit disappointing. It reminds me of Prince of Persia and a little bit like Ninja Gaiden, but not as difficult. The graphics look good on my 8 ft diagonal projection screen, but there are occasional stutters. It is a bit of a button-masher as well. Overall this has been an entertaining game, but not game-of-the-year calibur.

Don't let the first level fool you

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 19
Date: September 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game's first level is full of great action and will lead you to believe that the entire game is as exciting, but sadly the rest of the game is your everyday gory hack-and-slash fest we've seen countless times before. Don't think that its really about ancient Greece either, as Greek Gods and creatures appear in name only, as the characters in God of War resemble next to nothing of the ancient Greek creatures that share their names. And for some reason the developers decided to throw in childishly large exposed breasts, no doubt for shock value. If you've played Prince of Persia, you've already played God of War

good until they ran out of ideas!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 36
Date: March 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It's ok until you get to the part where you have to walk through thin planks while avoiding traps. Trust me, that part is so frustrating that it made me hate this game so much!!! Stupid game designers who come up with stupid ideas like this should be fired!!! Anyway, I got past that but then came the final battle. I'd been playing in normal mode but then I has to switch to easy mode just to beat the final boss! Well that was fine, or so I thought. To unlock the bonuses, you have to beat God mode!!! well, by god mode they literally meant you have to be a god to beat it. yes, god because only a god can beat that ridiculously impossible difficulty level! In other words, you can forget about the "unlockables" because you won't be able to unlock them. zero replay value!!!

Pure Sweetness

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: April 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This games rocks! Almost everything about this game is perfect
Graphics are great
Story is great
game play sweet to
the combo system is really amazing
the game is most like devil may cry, onimusha, and pronce of persia
but still i think this game is its own genre
Besides the shear brutality in the game, and the excessive blood,gore and vilence, kratos is a nice guy
hes just on a mission and doing his JOB very well
Well basicly this game is perfect
only flaw i really encountered was a little bit of lagging

As good as action gets

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game does not have many flaws it is a hell of a lot of fun and i really enjoyed playing it. The only downside is that it is a little short well maybe not short but you don't want it to stop. Its gory, beautiful, challenging, a great game with a lot to offer.

Excellent action game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you like action, blood, some nudity, but still enjoy a great story, this is the perfect game for you.

The best reason to own a Playstation 2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

God of War has made me a video game fan again. Very few games can truly blow us away -- Mario, Zelda, Sonic, the original Street Fighter II, Ninja Gaiden, Bionic Commando, Twisted Metal 2 to name a rare handful of gems. God of War takes a seat in that pristine company. A follow-up on the PS 2 would not do it justice. Look for a sequel to debut on PS 3 in '06-07.

Fast and a Little Too Furious

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm only half-way through this game and it's pretty much as awesome as most reviewers say it is. The animation of the main character, Kratos, and the hordes of beasties out to stop him is nothing short of amazing.

The battleplay is somewhat fun, but for the most part, I just turn Kratos around to the direction I want him to attack, and then I keep hitting combinations of square and triangle. My fingers wore out pretty quickly. The special magic combinations are hard to use, too, as you have to hold 3 or more buttons down at the same time during super-quick gameplay. To down many creatures, you have to hit random buttons or swirl joysticks at the right moments. It reminded me more a lot of that old '80s laserdisc game, "Dragon's Lair."

To slow it down a little, the game designers have made difficult little "puzzles" to figure out. It's a bit taxing to try and figure out which way to go and what one is supposed to do next. For example, at one point, you swim across this pool, then run through this corridor, through that room, etc, fighting monsters all the way. Then, you scale these big blocks, jump down, and you're right back where you started. "Huh!?" I was running around in circles until I read a walkthrough that pointed out that an elevator was now available. Other puzzles involve dragging giant crossbows and spinning them toward various blank walls. There's no real explanation that it's a puzzle happening, but no matter. It helps to drag the game out as I think the entire "God of War" experience would only take a few days. I'd rather not "cheat," but there's plenty of free walkthroughs online to help you if you get stuck.

"God of War" is hyperviolent, but things happen so fast that you can hardly tell exactly what just takes place. He twists and rips heads off, stabs giant monsters in the eye, knocks others down and jams his knives down their throat ... at least I think that's what he's done. Like I said, it happens really, really fast and red blood spurts everywhere.

It's a bit over the top and mean-spirited in many ways. Kratos is really an anti-hero. He doesn't care at all about the helpless humans he's encountering along the way. Which doesn't matter much because they'll end up dead at any second by monster massacres, crushing constructions, or by Kratos own insensitivity. One woman sees him and says, "I know who you are, leave me alone, get away!" then she runs up some stairs and falls over a ledge. Of course, the game creators have to show you her crumpled body in a pool of blood down at the foot of the building. I wanted to feel bad for these people and maybe help save them to find out more, but there's no allowances for that kind of thing. As far as the nudity, many of the women wear sheer tops and there were a couple of loose women in Kratos bed. (...) None of them seems much more nude than Kratos' own massive musculature. I guess breast implants and steroid injections were popular back in Ancient Greece, too. It's eye-rollingly funny to see this stuff, but for a kid -- the violence and pumped-up body images are not anything they ought to be trying to sort through.

I hope there's some redeeming value in Kratos' character by game's end. Otherwise, it seems like I'm supposed to be gleefully excited by and fascinated at seeing these frightened people getting slaughtered, rather than trying to assist anyone to find out what my bad boy character has done in the past.

The best game qualities lie in the beauty of the graphics and the richness of it's sound. The architecture of Athens is marvelous, and the first time you see the giant god Ares from a distance -- wow! They must have really pushed the processor on this game. You see him fighting an army in the background, and at the same time you're running around and fighting creatures of your own in the foreground. The blend of colors is gorgeous. The music is top notch and the sound effects are perfect. The screech of the hydra will knock you off your feet. And the scream of the gorgon's head will turn anything to stone.

Kyool!

Four parts great, one part frustration

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game, beat it, then bought it. That's how much I like it.

The Story:
The story is great and provides gamers with plenty of opportunities to rip people apart and spread general mayhem. P.S. This is not a game for kids, there is nudity and and a few billion gallons of blood. Please use the game rating systems when buying games for your kids.

The Gameplay:
A blast. Playing through the first time, I never got tired of it. The game paces itself with the abilities it gives you, so you always have something new to play with. I'll talk about my second run through later.

Graphics:
The design team broke the mould with this one. They gave ancient Greece a whole new look and their designs for the the mythical creatures are stunning.

Features:
The game allows you to unlock special features, like a "making of" featurette. These are pretty cool. Play through the game on "normal" and you'll unlock "God mode" and "Trial of the Gods." Beat those and you get alternate endings, deleted scenes and so forth. Thing is ...

Frustrations:
I'm still playing through the game on "God mode." I resigned myself to defeat when it comes to the "Trial of the Gods." I spent an entire day screaming at my television. I got to the last trial and I had to give up before I had a brain aneurism. Needless to say, it might be too hard, which sucks because I want to unlock the special features.

Overall:
It's a great game to own, I'm just not sure about the replay value aside from the impossible higher difficulties.

Repetitive, and ultimately boring

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

First let me say that Ive been gaming since the days of the Apple IIc. In that time, God of War is the first game where Ive made it all the way to the very end boss, and just stopped playing because I was so exhausted and bored with it.

I still give this game 2-1/2 stars. When you first start out, you'll be blown away by the cleanness of the execution (pun intended). As other reviewers have pointed out ad nauseum, there are few if any load times, creating a sense of seamless action-packed exhilaration right from the very start. Are you averse to lengthy cut scenes? Well, God of War throws you right into the middle of some epic battles starting about 2 seconds into the game. Gory, blood-soaked, and with some nudity thrown in for good measure.... it's all that the 13-year-old-boy in you could possibly want; sort of like the movie "Conan the Barbarian" brought to life on the PS2.

But something is just a little bit rotten in Denmark, and by the time you've made it 3/4ths through the Temple of Pandora's Box, the stench is unbearable. To make a long story short, there just isn't enough here, and it becomes the same stuff over and over and over and over and over and over (and over). Even the music is repetitive: I havent played this stupid game in months now, and the annoying theme song is still stuck in my head, not to mention the "grunting" sounds Kratos makes every 2 seconds (just go to the bathroom already, dude!). The action that seemed so fresh at first just starts to get boring after a while, and some of the puzzles are so frustrating that you feel like breaking the controller, to the point where even when you DO complete them, they leave a sour taste in your mouth.

This game should have been about 25% shorter: the last quarter of the game is just more and more (and more) of the same. And it's predictable. You know exactly what's going to happen, you know you'll end up in Hades, have to kill a bunch of dumb monsters and get through some fiery puzzles, and you literally know exactly where you'll end up when you get out of there.

So yeah, by the time I made it to the final boss battle, I was just too bored and tired with it to continue. This game has a lot of cool stuff going for it, hence the mostly positive rating Im giving it here, but just be forewarned that it suffers from a lack of ideas stretched too thin, and way way too much repetition. All the hype surrounding this game is, well, it's just that: hype. But in an era where many videogames lack ANY sort of originality, some of it is warranted.

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