God of War

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8.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 1569 Ratings

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  1. Zinaldo
    Sep 4, 2023
    6
    game-play and combat are extremely boring and like 6th generation games also boss fights are repetitive
    game story is childish and not interesting
    only the game graphics are incredible
  2. vova22379
    Dec 3, 2022
    6
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  3. piglordofallham
    Mar 5, 2022
    6
    I had heard a great deal of things about the latest installment of "God of War." I heard it was a departure from the original series, a vast retooling of the original mechanics to explore a more story-driven third-person action experience.. and it vastly sucks compared to anything I've touched in the genre. By that I mean, compared to all other action games in the history of action gamesI had heard a great deal of things about the latest installment of "God of War." I heard it was a departure from the original series, a vast retooling of the original mechanics to explore a more story-driven third-person action experience.. and it vastly sucks compared to anything I've touched in the genre. By that I mean, compared to all other action games in the history of action games so far, God of War: Skyrim Edition is the single worst title I've ever played. This isn't because Norse of War is notoriously bad, but because its pompous. Its vain. Its overtly injecting drama into a script that didn't call for one. Its preachy, its shallow, its overall presentation has more in common with a DVD interactive menu than an actual videogame.

    Graphics? Who cares when you can only see in a field 72 degrees around you and are expected to somehow be able to fight multiple enemies in every direction. Granted they are stupid enemies that can be cheesed by axe throwing them to death, and you can even do this to enemies that are outside of aggro range, which is either broken or poorly programmed, but I couldn't tell you which is more hilarious. Dialogue? Who cares how well its delivered when it stinks to high heaven, when every other word out of the blue dwarf is f**k while you're talking to him about upgrading your armor. Who cares about dialogue when the worst sequence in the game is anytime you are locked into a cutscene and are unable to skip it? Who cares about dialogue when scripted events like "walking across the room while carrying a wounded boar as terribly written lines are exchanged" is less fun than buying toilet paper at store?

    The BOY is a terrible, terrible, awful, hideous, stupid, meandering, and woefully misused character. He is most of the reason why I stopped playing. With extremely amazing lines like, "CAN WE GO NOW," or "I BET THIS IS HOW TO SOLVE THE PUZZLE IN THIS ROOM" or "WOW DAD YOU ARE BEING ATTACKED RIGHT NOW THAT'S CRAZY." Wow, what endlessly amazing superfluous and garbage-tier dialogue, which is also on repeat throughout the entire game. Enjoy traipsing through majestic landscapes that only consist of a lake the size of a puddle, a few large rooms, a boss fight (which is always obvious) and then back-tracking through the same section so the level designers can pretend that changing the coat of paint on the walls, opening some doors, or pretending extra trinkets to find are actual reasons to make you play through the same area twice. Puzzles are so dumb my dog wrote them for the game- no really- he actually works for SONY and recently did the lead character design for Alloy in the new "Horizon - Zero Dawn" game. He was hired on as a consultant, because they wanted the main character to appeal more to dogs that might enjoy being able to relate to a dog-faced woman as a lead character.

    Kratos is a stump of a character. I don't know what you could actually do with him in all seriousness. He is basically a self-insert mythological joke of a character, and nobody actually took him as a well meaning or sympathetic character. The old games were more about raunchy, bloody, raw fights with the occasional nudity that most 13 year olds (myself included) absolutely loved. I think they're great distractions, they don't really have a cohesive story, but who cares? They weren't really about that. This new Kratos is painted as some kind of stoic, silent and brooding old dude who can't decide if he hates his obnoxious little brat of a son or actually kind of enjoys his company. If anything at least the comedic side-kick angle has been worked to death now. All-in-all, the game is way to melodramatic, too cutscene heavy and lacks the grit, fun or nudity from the older games. The new axe gets boring after 2 hours, having to mash an extra button so your AI companion actually fires his bow was probably just developers being lazy and the camera is so bad that it caused me to stop playing after 5 hours. Difficulty doesn't feel right on any setting as "baby-mode" story is ridiculously easy, but "Give me slightly above normal" adds more health to every enemy, drawing fights out to a ridiculous degree. Three troll fights in and I honestly couldn't believe it was the exact same fight again- it was like something out of "Batman Arkham Asylum," ironically another game with a slow, boring protagonist who takes up way too much of the screen for me to see what is going on. Sorry about all the money and talent that was wasted on such a mediocre product.    … Expand
  4. Feri4k
    Jan 21, 2022
    6
    It's a good game , Not a "God of War" game that you expect from it's past . It doesn't impress you in anyway. It's good if it's your first time playing a god of war game .
    It should cost 40$ max .
    Story : 5/10
    Graphics : 7/10
    Gameplay : 7/10
  5. Theanbushinobi
    Sep 3, 2022
    6
    Beautiful game, and I love the fact that they have "original" graphics settings to match the consoles graphics, that being said it very much has the issue that most Sony games have where the world missions and side content feels the same and thrown in just to make the game a little longer. It very much felt like a god of war game was with horizon zero dawns formula
  6. yourstupidmon
    Nov 20, 2022
    6
    Honestly for 2022 this game isn't that great. There is a lot of reused content and reused boss fights, side stories are also not that interesting. Main story, cinematic fights and kratos carries this game really hard tho while gameplay is just good.
  7. saksukasermet
    Sep 7, 2023
    6
    It's more like a movie than a game, but the main thing that pisses me off is that a head hanging from my ass and a 7-year-old child is constantly giving me advice, and the game never gives you the opportunity to solve things??? dude i am god of war do you think i really need a 7 year old's advice?
  8. vgmkyle
    Jan 16, 2022
    5
    Completely overrated. The game does have superb animation, and the graphics are also on par with what you would want from God of War. That being said, the gameplay is quite shallow in comparison to other offerings in the genre, and side quests offering was no different from Final Fantasy XV a game that was panned for having fetch quests. The puzzles are so weak an individual with a firstCompletely overrated. The game does have superb animation, and the graphics are also on par with what you would want from God of War. That being said, the gameplay is quite shallow in comparison to other offerings in the genre, and side quests offering was no different from Final Fantasy XV a game that was panned for having fetch quests. The puzzles are so weak an individual with a first grader education could complete them. Decent game, yes? BEST GAME OF ALL TIME? Absolutely not.… Expand
  9. aSkorm
    Jun 7, 2022
    5
    This game is incredibly overrated. It's a very well put together product, but not a very good game.

    I'll get the production value out of the way: It's great! The game looks really good (minus some low res textures), it runs great and it sounds really good. You can really see where most of the budget went. Unfortunately, that's where the positives end. Movement is a chore. There is    This game is incredibly overrated. It's a very well put together product, but not a very good game.

    I'll get the production value out of the way: It's great! The game looks really good (minus some low res textures), it runs great and it sounds really good. You can really see where most of the budget went.

    Unfortunately, that's where the positives end.
    Movement is a chore. There is no organic interaction. You are just advancing through narrow tunnels, pressing a button to watch a short cutscene every time you want to do something. Even jumping works like this.

    Exploration can be mildly entertaining despite the movement. The problem is that you are not equipped to explore the entirety of a location on your first visit. This would be fine but you often need to revisit a location 3 - 4 times just to pick up everything. This is obviously done to increase play time.

    Combat is competent but dull. There's no need to use most of your moves. Using the same 2 - 3 attacks is far more efficient. The enemies won't care. There's not a lot of variety to them. Also, the fact that Kratos covers half of the screen during combat is frustrating.

    The story exists and it is fine.

    Overall it's a very middle of the road game. It's perfectly mediocre.    … Expand
  10. Balor
    Jul 4, 2022
    5
    Сюжет конечно не плохой, но гемплей не разнообразный и история ну слабая ну такая себе игра, кратос потерял весь свой шарм
  11. ROM30NRG
    Feb 14, 2022
    5
    I recently played the PC port and didn't play it on the PS and I feel like the game was overhyped. The game was okay and the story was good but that's all it was good. This is just a third person story-driven walking simulator. the game is good and the story is good but it's not amazing. The gameplay is good but it's nothing exceptional or new. It took me two days to complete it and II recently played the PC port and didn't play it on the PS and I feel like the game was overhyped. The game was okay and the story was good but that's all it was good. This is just a third person story-driven walking simulator. the game is good and the story is good but it's not amazing. The gameplay is good but it's nothing exceptional or new. It took me two days to complete it and I never touched it again. The replayability of this game is extremely low. I don't think anyone would play it more than once.… Expand
  12. Megalovirus
    Mar 31, 2022
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Un juego con una buena historia 8, música que cumple y ya pone en atmósfera 7, pero vaya será que soy nuevo en los god of war. Pero cuando te dicen que Dios de la guerra piensas en pelear y descuartizar y no resolver puzzles, cargar con un infante molesto,y enemigos cada 20 minutos separados de adivina así otro puzzle. Incluso la pelea del dragon Es una cinemática al 70%.. Esperaba más acción y menos película. No obstante la calidad técnica es buena, el rendimiento, pero tiene muchas características de un juego casual y comercial.… Expand
  13. RozmrdanaPrdel
    Mar 30, 2022
    5
    Idk why ppl rate it so high i like story games but i lost interest in this in less than 3hrs in game :) good graphics but kinda boring idk ... not worth my time
  14. DishonoredKilla
    Nov 22, 2022
    5
    Meh-h! Move. Cut monsters in same mech. Repeat. Repeat. Move forward. Issues in all time. I bored really while playing.
  15. J0F
    Jan 16, 2022
    5
    Just an average game. it's nothing special, and I feel like it's really overrated.
  16. Mar1987
    Jan 17, 2022
    5
    Normal game, nothing special. I don't know why so many people praise her so much.
  17. ketkunal
    Jan 31, 2022
    5
    Its best pc port ever. Hoping santa monica should port Ragnarok too. This game will give you feel of god.
  18. waturbottle
    Feb 17, 2022
    5
    An extremely forgetful installment in the God of War Franchise. It attempts to do so many things and fails at almost all of them. The one thing I can say I enjoyed thoroughly about the game was the boss segments. The story was extremely dull and left something to be desired. While 100%ing the game on the hardest difficulty, I can absolutely say it's just not for me.
  19. greatestgamer00
    Mar 6, 2022
    5
    missing that feel that the ogs had. To slow and cinematicy. The ps3 ones where better
  20. k1erx
    Feb 27, 2023
    5
    игра сильно не затянула меня сюжет такой себе геймлпей прикольный графика нормальная может потом допройду потому что уже сил не было проходить ее удалил после половины прохождения
  21. thenov3mberist
    Mar 8, 2022
    4
    While visually impressive, with fantastic art direction, this game borrows too much from other successful games. I couldn’t get attached to the narrative because no matter what happened, I couldn’t stop thinking about how much they are copying The Last Of Us.
  22. ireviewthingsig
    Mar 9, 2022
    4
    4/10 I cannot recommend this to anyone, this is a monstrosity of genres that got duct-taped together and then coated in 24k gold to make it look like it's good when it's not.

    Graphics/Art style 8/10 - Although the environments are highly detailed and visually amazing, it tends to get repetitive as most of the locations are fundamentally the same, it's just a bunch of mountains, caves,    4/10 I cannot recommend this to anyone, this is a monstrosity of genres that got duct-taped together and then coated in 24k gold to make it look like it's good when it's not.

    Graphics/Art style 8/10 - Although the environments are highly detailed and visually amazing, it tends to get repetitive as most of the locations are fundamentally the same, it's just a bunch of mountains, caves, and rivers. The level design really needs some work as it brings down other scores.

    Gameplay 1/10 - It is downright horrendous. The combat is an incredibly repetitive hack and slash with little variety in fighting styles. Every single enemy is essentially copy-pasted bullet sponges and this includes the bosses. With artificial difficulty and level scaling included, it's even more infuriating and tedious to kill enemies and it feels as if I never even made any progress since even common enemies take time to kill. Not only that, the simplistic puzzles just bring the game to a halt and cause a headache as they are usually hidden in the most obscure locations possible and it requires you to look around everywhere with the horrid camera.

    Performance 10/10 - I can actually run this game on medium/high settings on a 1050ti mobile with decent framerates so god damn that's pretty good optimization. This should be expected though cause the game was already done and just ported to PC a few years after so this part will not affect the overall score.

    Lore 5/10 - All their problems would not exist if Kratos just talked it out with Baldur and it was very possible too since Baldur was literally down to solve things peacefully before they started fighting. They really should have just gotten rid of Baldur completely, it would have made the game at least bearable. Also, boy of war sounds like a pasty angsty white kid rather than some nordic kid from Midgard. This really broke the immersion and made the game all the more unbearable.

    Experience 1/10 - I have never played a game as boring as this when it's rated so highly. I really tried to get into it too, I played a good 10-20 hours but I just can't bring myself to play it any longer. Firstly there are wayyyyy too many cinematics and situations where you just traverse the terrain. It just gets so boring and repetitive when a good 40%-60% of the game is just doing that. Furthermore, boy of war can't keep his mouth shut for 5 seconds. Not only did they have the audacity to give him the most annoying voice in all of Midgard, but also make him on par with Horizon: Instructions West. GoW really couldn't escape the influence of the **** formula huh? As for the golden coat I mentioned earlier is possible due to the linearity of the game. Due to the linearity of the game, the developers are able to carefully craft and choose what the player sees, thus they made everything we see really high quality visually and tried to hide its mountains of **** distracting the player with its shiny graphics and detailed snow.    … Expand
  23. nimdA_
    Jan 21, 2022
    3
    Ожидал чего-то божественного, получил максимально приземлённое и обыденное, то, что видел уже сотню раз в других играх. Не знаю на что здесь молятся сонибои. Просто коридорная игра, со своими достоинствами и недостатками. Ничего сверхъестественного. Было много игр, в которых я с большим удовольствием время проводил.Ожидал чего-то божественного, получил максимально приземлённое и обыденное, то, что видел уже сотню раз в других играх. Не знаю на что здесь молятся сонибои. Просто коридорная игра, со своими достоинствами и недостатками. Ничего сверхъестественного. Было много игр, в которых я с большим удовольствием время проводил.
  24. Gamer420
    Apr 25, 2023
    3
    Honestly, highly overrated.

    Let's start with the good: the combat. The combat is great, it feels great, it's super fun. Weapons have good feel to them, the feedback from striking enemies is good. The bad: everything else. The story is just some world building that doesn't go anywhere or gets resolved. The exploration and movement is a **** CHORE. There are these hidden loading    Honestly, highly overrated.

    Let's start with the good: the combat. The combat is great, it feels great, it's super fun. Weapons have good feel to them, the feedback from striking enemies is good.

    The bad: everything else. The story is just some world building that doesn't go anywhere or gets resolved. The exploration and movement is a **** CHORE. There are these hidden loading screens all over the place that make it quite annoying to move, not to mention that the Dad moves at snails pace. Dad can't even jump or do any sort of platforming, but rather you can press a button to interact with a ledge, watch a mini cutscene and jump on it. As a result, backtracking in this game is physically painful.

    Most of the game is a linear corridor, however that is disguised with fake verticality and platforming sections that amount to a lot of cutscene watching.

    There is also typical American / Hollywood propaganda here. Kratos (men) is useless and has a bad relationship with his son, Freya (women) of course is the opposite. It's all so tiresome. Makes you wonder in what kind of home were all of these writers raised.    … Expand
  25. Sapdvach_MurMur
    Apr 15, 2023
    2
    Перехайпленное уныльцо. Рескин tlou, но с наихудшей боевкой, состоящей чуть менее чем полностью из затыкивания по капле урона нескольких классов бомжей, живущих в мире из помоек, по которым просто так разбросаны сундуки с невнятной прокачкой и клоунской не атмосферной головоломочной системой открытия, от такого сюра и у героев поехала крыша и даже кратос, куда уж до него раздражающемуПерехайпленное уныльцо. Рескин tlou, но с наихудшей боевкой, состоящей чуть менее чем полностью из затыкивания по капле урона нескольких классов бомжей, живущих в мире из помоек, по которым просто так разбросаны сундуки с невнятной прокачкой и клоунской не атмосферной головоломочной системой открытия, от такого сюра и у героев поехала крыша и даже кратос, куда уж до него раздражающему пакостнику, персонаж ни о чем… Expand
  26. yedrej
    Feb 7, 2022
    2
    all in all not bad but not good either, quite boring, another play and forget game for kids
  27. erfunfazli
    Apr 17, 2023
    2
    Absolutely one of the worst game I have ever played.
    God of war actually has no rhythm it's too slow . one of the most important part of a game like this, is fighting gameplay but fighting in this game is a complete garbage and so fast it will get boring.
    bad gameplay and bad rhythm will prevent you from enjoying from story. many places in game are like each other and sometimes it will    Absolutely one of the worst game I have ever played.
    God of war actually has no rhythm it's too slow . one of the most important part of a game like this, is fighting gameplay but fighting in this game is a complete garbage and so fast it will get boring.
    bad gameplay and bad rhythm will prevent you from enjoying from story.
    many places in game are like each other and sometimes it will get confusing.
    It has a real bad camera too and all of this gives me headache.
    One of the few advantages of the game is some sceneries are really eye-catching and beautiful.
    Final comment: God of war is one of the most overrated games of ever, actually it's a game for kids.    … Expand
  28. mamboy
    Feb 21, 2022
    1
    Good game with worst camera ever. If every enemy that moves fast enough will chancel camera lock why it even exist.
  29. Minipig
    Jan 18, 2022
    1
    Внимание! Всё положителые обзоры пишут преимущественно обладатели видеокарт Nvidia и процессоров Intel. На процах и видеокартах
    AMD происходят жуткие просадки частоты кадров. Это связано с кривым использованием DirectX 11 и последующими потерями ресурсов. То есть системные требования не соответствуют реальности. Игра исползует процессор больше чем видеокарту. При загрузке проца 100%,    Внимание! Всё положителые обзоры пишут преимущественно обладатели видеокарт Nvidia и процессоров Intel. На процах и видеокартах
    AMD происходят жуткие просадки частоты кадров. Это связано с кривым использованием DirectX 11 и последующими потерями ресурсов. То есть системные требования не соответствуют реальности. Игра исползует процессор больше чем видеокарту. При загрузке проца 100%, видеокарта используется только на 50%. К тому-же в игре нет полноэкранного режима, что тоже негативно влияет на производительность. В общем, Sony снова халатно отнеслась к качеству порта    … Expand
  30. TwiTu
    Jun 10, 2022
    0
    Massively overrated game.
    The story is forgettable and not epic in any way.
    Art/story direction is a mess. Viking mythology, but mixed with lots of other stuff. Makes no sense and is very unimaginative. The boy is annoying and irrelevant to the gameplay. Dialogs feel like from a Japanese game, AKA make no sense whatsoever and feel very disconnected to context and completely without    Massively overrated game.
    The story is forgettable and not epic in any way.
    Art/story direction is a mess. Viking mythology, but mixed with lots of other stuff. Makes no sense and is very unimaginative.
    The boy is annoying and irrelevant to the gameplay.
    Dialogs feel like from a Japanese game, AKA make no sense whatsoever and feel very disconnected to context and completely without emotions, or completely overdone emotions, even though its an American developer.
    Characters are bland and soulless.
    The AI is as stupid as if its a 00s game.
    Fights are too many and become very boring after only a few hours.
    Fights with trash mobs take too long. You never feel very strong because of that, even though cutscenes show you being much stronger than that.
    Fights have childish snap animations, like you know from anime crap.
    Weapons are boring and feel weak.
    Abilities are boring and feel weak.
    Kratos can jump very high in cut scenes and is able to lift and crush huge rocks, but in the gameplay he cant even climb/jump a 8 foot wall or kick in/lift a flimsy gate.
    Puzzles are too easy and always the same kind.
    The world is a typical console game one, where you feel trapped in a small valley.
    Exploration is extremely limited because of that.
    Not much happens in the game. Just boring fight after boring fight and easy puzzle after easy puzzle, while your son screams the same lines all the time.

    Are peoples standards really that low nowadays that they hype crap like this so much?    … Expand
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Awards & Rankings

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#3 Best PC Game of 2022
5
#5 Most Discussed PC Game of 2022

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Metascore
93

Universal acclaim - based on 61 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 60 out of 61
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 61
  3. Negative: 0 out of 61
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 30, 2024
    100
    God of War is more or less a game for everyone who is not afraid of action gameplay and appreciates good narrative and production quality. It's also great to watch, so it can be recommended to extended family members over the series. [Issue#317]
  2. GameWatcher
    Feb 24, 2022
    90
    After more than 55 hours spent playing, I’m still awed by just how great God of War is. This is the result of a clear, determined vision, its separate elements harmonizing almost perfectly to deliver an experience that understands the series’ blood-soaked origins but is also not afraid to push it into a more mature and nuanced direction. Kratos and Atreus’ relationship develops naturally as does their understanding of the foreign land they’re journeying through. The story takes its time, never rushing its satisfying reveals, and making way for a set of surprisingly personal boss fights, while the continuous camera shot used throughout the game is a masterstroke in terms of presentation. All this is built around a snappy and responsive combat system that has more depth than you’re initially led to believe. There are more jaw-dropping surprises I didn’t touch upon simply because it’s best that you experience them for yourself. Looking back, aside from the port’s few performance flaws, my only real complaint has to do with Sony taking this long to bring the game to PC.
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  3. Ragequit.gr
    Feb 20, 2022
    99
    God of War merges all its gameplay elements into one excellent package, dressed in unparalleled direction and amazing storytelling. The scale of the narrative, the divine but always human Kratos, the "boy" who sees everything with childlike enthusiasm, all this offers the player a thrilling story that has at its heart the most human and natural relationship between a parent and his child. Regardless of preference, God of War is a must-see title. Benchmark for each and all its elements and still fresh in 2022.
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