
God of War: Ascension
SCE Santa Monica Studio
Taste attributes: actionadventurefantasyhistoricalfresh & originalunsavouryimaginarylinearglossyall consuming questfighting evilhuman spirit/resilience/survivalself destruction/implosionsolving the riddle/not as it seems
Boxlist takeFantastical and polished: an inventive hack-and-slash game. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.
Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: glossy · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
IGDB rating
75 / 100
271 ratings
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About This Game
God of War: Ascension, the seventh instalment in the God of War series, acts as a prequel to the preceding games. The narrative revolves around Kratos, the protagonist from earlier instalments, who was once a loyal servant of the God of War, Ares. Tricked by Ares into unknowingly murdering his own family, Kratos breaks the blood oath binding him to Ares and abandons his former master. Subsequently, Kratos finds himself imprisoned and must navigate a path to freedom, severing the bond between him and Ares. The game retains the familiar hack-and-slash combat system of its predecessors, featuring Kratos wielding the Blades of Chaos. However, a new addition, the World Weapon system, allows Kratos to wield various weapons. Additionally, Kratos can now acquire up to four magical disciplines—Fires of Ares, Ice of Poseidon, Lightning of Zeus, and Soul of Hades—each bestowing unique abilities and...
Summary: IGDB
Story
In a war between the astronomically large deities known as the Primordials, the madness and rage of the war took form, becoming the three guardians of honor, the Furies, who were tasked with exacting retribution onto any oath-breaker or betrayer. The first victim of the Furies was the Hecatonchires, Aegaeon, who had broken a blood oath to Zeus himself. The Furies set about their task, and, believing death to be too kind for one who had broken an oath to a God, transformed Aegaeon's humongous body into a stone prison for all who would dare follow his example in the future.
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- Developer
- SCE Santa Monica Studio
- Publisher
- Sony Computer Entertainment
- Released
- 12 March 2013
- Series
- God of War
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Perspective
- Third person
- Time to beat
- 7h normally
- Age rating
- PEGI 18
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- How we score
- Source
- IGDB
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