Kratos is framed for the killing of Argos by an unidentified assassin in an attempt to further fracture his relationship with Olympus. The gods, displeased with Kratos’s bloodlust, attempt to stop his latest conquest with Argos, a many-eyed giant that serves Hera, Queen of the Gods. This mobile 2D sidescroller is officially part of the God of War canon, according to Sony Santa Monica animation director Bruno Velazquez.
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By the time the credits roll, Kratos has grown even wearier and more furious with the other Olympians.Īvailable on: PS3 (Origins Collection), PSP | IGN’s God of War: Ghost of Sparta Review 5. Despite victory, it’s another unhappy ending for Kratos. The climax sees Kratos and his brother reunited, doing battle with the Greek God of Death, Thanatos. Ghost of Sparta provides closure to two familial narrative threads: Kratos travels to Atlantis where he encounters both his mortal mother and his long-lost brother Deimos, who was kidnapped by the gods during childhood to prevent the fulfillment of Olympus’s prophesized demise. The subtitle references the nickname given to Kratos due to his pale-white appearance, the result of an oracle’s curse that fastened the ashes of his wife and child to his skin. Ghost of Sparta, the series’ second PSP game, takes place between God of War and God of War 2.
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Ares answered the call, defeated the barbarians, and claimed Kratos as his servant, fusing his arms with the Blades of Chaos.Īvailable on: PS3 (God of War Collection), PS2 | IGN’s God of War Review 4. On the verge of death and defeat against a massive force of barbarians, he offered himself to Ares in exchange for victory. Kratos once served as a revered captain in the Spartan army. Throughout the game, a narrator provides crucial backstory about Kratos’s life through cut scenes. Athena pulls him from the water and offers him a throne on Olympus, completing his 10-year ascension to becoming the God of War. Victorious yet no less troubled by his past, Kratos jump off the bluff as we saw in the game’s opening. The task takes him to hell and back, with Kratos ultimately facing off against the God of War. With the promise of forgiveness for his past atrocites as his reward, Kratos sets out to obtain Pandora’s Box and kill Ares. Kratos, nearing the end of his servitude to the gods, is given one final task by Athena: defeat Ares and save the city of Athens from his siege. Before he hits the water, we flash back three weeks to discover what led the Spartan off the brink. Set roughly 10 years after Ascension, the first God of War game begins with Kratos succumbing to his grief and jumping off a cliff into the Aegean Sea. Persephone presents Kratos with an opportunity to reunite with his daughter, and Kratos wrestles with the apocalyptic repercussions of that reunion and his promise to return Helios to the gods.Īvailable on: PS3 (Origins Collection), PSP | IGN’s God of War: Chains of Olympus Review 3. There, he encounters the game’s primary antagonist Persephone, Queen of the Underworld.
The main plot tasks Kratos with rescuing Helios, the Titan God of the Sun, from the underworld at the behest of Athena.
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Olympus takes place halfway through Kratos’s ten-year servitude to the gods (five years before God of War) - a servitude that, once completed, will free him from the torturous visions of his past. Kratos’s next adventure is told in the PSP game aptly named God of War: Chains of Olympus. The story ends with Kratos leaving his Spartan home behind, still tormented by his grief.Īvailable on: PS3 | IGN’s God of War: Ascension Review 2. Ares seeks revenge through the game’s antagonistic Furies, three beings tasked with punishing betrayal, whom Kratos must kill in order to free himself from his oath. Kratos, traumatized by the killings, refuses to honor the oath he swore to Ares, setting into motion the story of Ascension.
God of War: Ascension (2013)Īscension, the seventh God of War game by release date but the first chronologically, is a revenge tale that explores the early days of Kratos’s transformation from a Spartan demigod into the God of War.Īscension takes place months after Kratos was manipulated into killing his wife and daughter by the Greek God of War Ares (more on this under the original God of War section below). These blurbs contain mild spoilers for each game, including characters, settings, and story beats. There are several God of War stories told through novels and comics as well, though this list only includes games. We’re also excluding PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale in this chronology, despite its comical inclusion in the God of War canon. We’re excluding its second mobile release, God of War: Mimir’s Vision, as this AR game doesn’t add to the ongoing narrative but instead provides players with background lore from the world of God of War.
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