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![]() He ends up doing a bit in Tartarus Correctional Center, which is a level one maximum security facility of the Greek Pantheon, but he grants himself early parole because Kratos ain’t got time to wait for his mandatory supervised release date, which in these times was traditionally never. Not yet ready to take his revenge on Ares or to address his daddy issues with Zeus, Kratos finds himself pitted against the likes of Charon at the River Styx who gives him a hard time about travelling into the underworld based on the technicality of Kratos not being dead. Athena tasks Kratos with finding the missing sun god Helios and restoring light to the world, and what follows is standard God of War fare, Kratos travels through various locations in a world based on Greek mythology with many creative liberties and kills many gods and mythic figures. ![]() Hearing a flute melody his daughter Calliope played which perplexes him since he clearly remembers killing his daughter thanks to some trickery by Ares, that Ares jerk punked him good. That’ll teach them not to have street lights. The sun falls from the sky, and Morpheus unleashes some black fog that floods the streets of Marathon. But the darnedest thing happened that prevents Kratos from enjoying some well earned rest and relaxation after killing the king of Persia and his overgrown pet lizard. #GOD OF WAR CHAINS OF OLYMPUS PS3#This happened before that extra satisfying trophy pop occurred, but that was added in later in the PS3 HD port. #GOD OF WAR CHAINS OF OLYMPUS PSP#This forced anyone who doubted that the PSP could provide a suitable battleground for Kratos to eat some crow, such as a certain writer for a game website who shall remain nameless that relates to Kratos because he is bald and has no friends due to poor anger management skills.Īfter winning the battle in Attica and slay basilisk, Kratos enjoys some female companionship as is now tradition where joysticks are twisted and buttons are mashed until satisfaction is reached. #GOD OF WAR CHAINS OF OLYMPUS PS2#This introductory level shows the same grand scale of enemy creatures and environments that impressed us on the PS2 God of War games. Much like the first game, Kratos begins this adventure being thrown in the middle of a battle that ultimately pits him against a gigantic monster, in this case he is in Attica battling the Persians and a rampaging basilisk. Luckily, all these fears were for nothing because God of War Chains of Olympus successfully recreated everything that makes God of War great, just smaller. ![]() If I saw Ahmed Best’s name credited as voice actor for Kratos I was done with the franchise. Having not yet played the game, I was already leery of the move to a handheld system, and thanks to Star Wars the word prequel caused a lot of anxiety over how bad things can get. #GOD OF WAR CHAINS OF OLYMPUS PORTABLE#The limited power of the Playstation Portable would result in an anticlimactic conclusion to Kratos’s story, so Sony saved that for the PS3 and went with the prequel route for the first PSP outing, allowing us to get a glimpse into what tasks Kratos was stuck with during his ten years of servitude to the gods. While not a fully rational concern, I imagined a Tiger Electronics handheld version of God of War, which if that is a reference you aren’t familiar with consider yourself lucky. Being able to wield the Blades of Chaos during slow days at the office or stuck in the back of the van on a cross country trip was appealing, but at the same time I remembered some abysmal ports of classic games to handheld systems. When it was announced that the uncontrollable rage of Kratos was going to be condensed to a pocket sized incarnation, I was both skeptical and excited. The first two God of War games were able to prove that the PS2 was still capable of delivering memorable games in the twilight of its life cycle. Though these games lack raw processing muscle, they have a power all their own. Though today you can stuff stereoscopic 3D and console-quality graphics into your backpack, that once seemed inconceivable. Handhelds have evolved quickly, but we shouldn’t forget the games that made them great in the first place. ![]()
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