God of War

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9.1

Universal acclaim- based on 23476 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 1,356 out of 23476
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  1. rocco30
    Feb 6, 2019
    0
    How could you downgrade this from the first game! I guess it could be due to repetetive gameplay but seriously I regret buying this stupid game. You've lost a fan, zombie labs.
  2. GioOneX
    Feb 27, 2019
    0
    Jogo horrível não vale 1 centavo... Mataram a originalidade do jogo. Como podem lançár um game de ação se o personagem nem pula. A sony está cada vez mais preguiçosa e lança apenas jogos estilo filme onde se joga apenas apertando apenas 1 botão e vai passando toda história do jogo ate zerar em pouquíssimas horas...lamentável...
  3. Frames24
    Mar 26, 2019
    0
    I am very sad that god of war has turned into some soap opera BS that no one cares about, it's a story about a dad that is trying to educate his son in the ways of killing, very murderous game, wouldn't reccommend for small children. framerate is nice with 24 frames very cinematic but that's about it.
  4. rabarbara099
    Mar 30, 2019
    0
    I was very hyped for this game but sadly it didn't met my high expectations. Bosses are reused or not even present and the boy is always crying and being annoying. After I finally climbed that stupid mountain up I got greeted by a very lackluster ending and then they teased some DLC with another norse god that is probably trying to kill kratos, boring game. Wouldn't rec.
  5. choosenone2
    Mar 30, 2019
    0
    doesn't feel like the old games, I am dissappointed by this very much. I am sad for what has become of god of war :(
  6. SHiiK3n
    Apr 7, 2019
    0
    The most overrated game ever. Repeated boring boss fight, repeated boring puzzles, even though its hack and slash but the combat is just trash. Huge world with like 2 Npc only!!! And they give the same missions!!! This game actually has ZERO creativity
  7. redbeggsandsham
    Oct 13, 2020
    0
    It's depressing to think that a boring repetitive game about a middle aged single father with anger issues and his brat son got any good reviews to begin with. It has an unoriginal, uninteresting, boring story that doesn't get you dragged into the world, instead it pushes you away from the game from how bland it is. It has gorgeous visuals, but they rarely feel varied, and the clunkyIt's depressing to think that a boring repetitive game about a middle aged single father with anger issues and his brat son got any good reviews to begin with. It has an unoriginal, uninteresting, boring story that doesn't get you dragged into the world, instead it pushes you away from the game from how bland it is. It has gorgeous visuals, but they rarely feel varied, and the clunky unorganized mess that is the gameplay, and especially the combat, will remind you of Bubsy 3D more than anything else.… Expand
  8. Brake
    Aug 2, 2019
    0
    Aparte de que ya no es God of War........... Es un the witcher en Grecia... Mucho gráfico y ya sta una peli juego con combates machacabotones......... Y miau... Poca acción....
  9. Dantecz78
    Nov 12, 2019
    0
    Trama avvincente, grafica mozzafiato e gameplay meraviglioso. Davvero la grafica è sbalorditiva così come la trama che si fa seguire con interesse e curiosità. Il gameplay offre soddisfazione ed il combat sistem (combinato con Atreus) è così variegato e pieno di mosse da eseguire che si fa fatica a ricordarle tutte. L'unica pecca, secondo me, è che dal 70% del gioco in poi i minibossTrama avvincente, grafica mozzafiato e gameplay meraviglioso. Davvero la grafica è sbalorditiva così come la trama che si fa seguire con interesse e curiosità. Il gameplay offre soddisfazione ed il combat sistem (combinato con Atreus) è così variegato e pieno di mosse da eseguire che si fa fatica a ricordarle tutte. L'unica pecca, secondo me, è che dal 70% del gioco in poi i miniboss diventano ripetitivi, solo in questo si poteva far meglio. Capolavoro… Expand
  10. Hahn
    Nov 6, 2019
    0
    There's so much to like and love about this game - but in the end everything is ruined by a few horrible flaws in the game design.
  11. Revolution193
    Oct 18, 2019
    0
    Kratos does not know how to do a double jump and does not know combos ! To get them you need to play 6 hours with a light blow and a weak blow !!!! During this time, you can die!!I God of war ****
  12. tunahan43
    Feb 20, 2022
    0
    overrated bir oyun .Aynı cyberpunk gibi .Özellikle türkiyede çok kanser fan kitlesi var.Bu oyunu sevmedim deyince.Dövmeye gelecekler.Bu yüzden bu oyunun fanboylarından uzak durun kendi sağlınız için.
  13. joash
    Jun 29, 2020
    0
    God of War never ceases to amaze me. Do yourself a favor and buy this game right away.
  14. Francisco45
    Dec 2, 2019
    0
    Me ha decepcionado muchisimo , no merece la pena que gastes tu dinero en este juego se parece muchisimo a un dark souls o un bloodborne de mundo abierto
  15. Rektnarok91
    Dec 30, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. One objective great part of the game, it's visual presentation is incredible. Everything else is just flipping the bird at what made GOW such a popular series in the first place.

    I feel like every good review is from people who didn't like the series before and now that its been filtered and altered to more "serious" and "mature" and "boring" it fits what mainstream audiences want from games now.

    What really bugs me about the story and gameplay is how the narrative between Kratos and Atreus is so apologetic about Kratos's actions in the previous games. Like he was the bad guy and *now* he's the good guy teaching his son better. And gameplay wise they removed all the "video games" elements so everything is more stifled and restrictive so it feels more in line with AAA games now.

    It just incredibly undermines every aspect of GOW. The games, all the emotional beats of the story from the last series, etc. It's like it was written and made by people who only heard about the GOW games rather than actually experienced them.

    Speaking about narrative, how it handles Kratos's past like he was some evil villian back in the day. He was extremely justified in his hatred and revenge against those gods for everything they did to him. They were conniving and manipulative **** who deserved to be wrecked by Kratos. It was only by GOW 3 where it went too far and he destroyed the world (and that was after he was betrayed by his supposed allies, there is literally no one Kratos can trust in the world).

    But for 3-4 games prior (if you include the cannn psp titles) the Greek gods thoroughly **** with him the whole time. He was a monster they made, not something Kratos is inherintly. No one even bothers to treat him like a person except Athena, even knowing how powerful he is.

    And this is not something just brought up in this game. A number of the games directly explore why Kratos became so violent, but it's even shown in GOW 1 that at worst before Aries uses him he's no different than any other Spartan warrior and that Aries started the decent.

    He even tried for a decade iirc to do it by the book and follow the god's lead just for them to pull the rug and use a technicality to not grant him peace from his nightmares. The guy tried. He was even tries to kill himself and the gods won't let him.

    The gods: tricked him into killing his own wife and child, lied to him constantly to use him as their hit man, sent his brother to hell for eternity, tried to kill him on multiple occasions, attempted to genocide his people, etc.

    And every time he tried to deal justice he has to deal with the **** of all the people defending the evil gods. I mean wouldn't you be pissed? Not even that often Kratos attempts to talk before attacking when faced with a new obstacle and they always basically tell him to **** off even knowing who he is.

    The only justification to him being an **** is how he treats regular people in the series as cannon fodder, but that I'll admit is probably a consequence of "edginess" they were going for but is rarely ever in canonical cutscenes. The reason this game turned me off outside the gorgeous presentation is that it feels like it was made by people who didn't like the original games and considered them to be low art. There are connections but it feels so pretensious that this slower paced over the shoulder bearded dad game is the more respectable game.    … Expand
  16. Okthisisepic69
    Jan 25, 2020
    0
    Nothing you'd expect from a god of war title in the worst way imaginable. Annoying child companion, recasting Kratos and annoying RPG elements plus the fact that the gameplay is weak and story is weaker. The only people who will enjoy this have never played a god of war game in their life. Why no just make this game a new IP? It's nothing alike to the superior trilogy.
  17. geweth
    Jan 24, 2023
    0
    add the ability to change PSN region!!! add the ability to change PSN region!!! add the ability to change PSN region!!! add the ability to change PSN region!!! add the ability to change PSN region!!! add the ability to change PSN region!!! add the ability to change PSN region!!! add the ability to change PSN region!!! add the ability to change PSN region!!! add the ability to change PSNadd the ability to change PSN region!!! add the ability to change PSN region!!! add the ability to change PSN region!!! add the ability to change PSN region!!! add the ability to change PSN region!!! add the ability to change PSN region!!! add the ability to change PSN region!!! add the ability to change PSN region!!! add the ability to change PSN region!!! add the ability to change PSN region!!! add the ability to change PSN region!!!… Expand
  18. Riccardof95
    Mar 28, 2020
    0
    Non mi piace lento è monotono , molto sbilanciato impreciso, mappa poco distruttibile
  19. Ryujisa
    Apr 1, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is so worse. The graphic is awful. I hate Kratos and Thor. The leviathan is so weak.… Expand
  20. pryxa
    Jun 10, 2020
    0
    Просто включили все техники что популярны и все, скучная история и забыто традиции экшн и жестокость в угоду милым отношений отца и сына кароче last of us на минималках
  21. Evilswine
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    A terribly repetitive game that lacks new ideas and concepts. Everything in this game has been done before, which is utterly disappointing. And the continuous repetition of activities is as foreseeable as it is insultingly easy. Fight, riddle, repeat. Until you can't just take it anymore and switch it off forever, wishing you had never spent any money on this.
  22. IamTurtle
    Jun 14, 2020
    0
    Worst GOW game. I love GOW1,2,3 but this part is a shame. Copying DS gameplay, making weak Kratos. Bring me back Spartan Kratos
  23. AboodCJ
    Feb 15, 2022
    0
    This an average game at best you fight the same boss like 15 times 2 different ones repeated the valks&trolls. Graphics look good but the gameplay is very repetitive cant skip past foes even if your back tracking to an old area which you do alot of, theres only like 4 real boss fights the rpg mechanics are basically useless cause no matter how much you upgrade your gear it wont get better
  24. luisbortolaso
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    jogo chato, o kreiton é muito duro de manobrar parece uma carreta, carregada com pneu furado, e ainda não pula, é só chatisse do começo ao fim como todo e exclusivo da sonia forçando a barra e querendo ser fóda mas para gamers atentos não passa de demomstração de falta de criatividade na jogabilidade travada e pesada, lento e enfadonho e com uma historia ridicula um espartano na mitologiajogo chato, o kreiton é muito duro de manobrar parece uma carreta, carregada com pneu furado, e ainda não pula, é só chatisse do começo ao fim como todo e exclusivo da sonia forçando a barra e querendo ser fóda mas para gamers atentos não passa de demomstração de falta de criatividade na jogabilidade travada e pesada, lento e enfadonho e com uma historia ridicula um espartano na mitologia nódica .,,,,....kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk....?????????????… Expand
  25. omglioromg
    Jun 24, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The short version
    - Terrible Combat
    - Terrible Story
    - Terrible Game

    Never in my life have I put a review, this is the one and possibly the only review I am going to leave on this website.
    This game is not God of War at all.
    This is not Cratos.
    This game have nothing to do with GOW trillogy.
    I got this game on sale for half price and I STILL feel like I was ripped off.
    The god of war game is known for its hardest mode, which like resident evil 4, this is where the meat of the game is, in normal god of war games you play on normal, learn how the game works, then play on hard, but in this game the game becomes an unplayable glitchy mess.
    The game on "give me a chllange" is too damn easy, I was bored out of my mind for almost 100% of it since it offered no challenge whatsoever.
    Then I switched to hard mode (give me god of war) which is when I realized that the game is nothing but a glitchy mess, enemies killing me with one hit from offscreen where the camera is impossible to pan down, attacks that must have have a terrible hit detection (this is probably due to the game being glitchy, the game doesnt register hits), The axe does nearly no damage I can hit an enemy for hours and see a fraction of a fraction of their health drop,
    The dodge machanic is glitchy = The game has so many framedrops that it is impossible to time the dodge which is 0.1 second long (I tried to swapping to 1080p in the menu and it didnt help. I switched screens to a very cheap screen I have in my house and instantly won impossible battles since the 50 fps 720p screen allowed smooth action ) ,
    Another thing is that the game overheat my ps4 so that he fan becomes load as an airplan and the game doesn't look that good, I have better looking games that has zero effect of overheating (batman, resident evil 4/5 revolation 2 which look fantastic)
    The dodge is trash = The game is grid based meanning you are fighting on little squars and dodge is so tight it sometimes roll and instead of moving you 2-3 mini squars, it doesnt move you at all, meanning after the roll you will die from one hit again and again and again sometimes the roll didn't even give me invulnerable frames and not because I rolled into something, but because the game failed to register my movement.
    The combat is not functioning hence the score zero out of 10
    Now lets talk about the story
    This is copy past the last of us, the creators of this game didn't even want to call Cratos as Cratos, he was meant to have the name Stig and be a whole other person, this game just simply use Cratos as a skin, this is not Cratos, Cratos is a villain, a hardcore killer, he is a scambag, a bad guy. Cratos does what he does because rage consume him to the point that once he couldnt recognize his family, he is a deep well writen humanoid character that has anger issues. The new cratos is a Stig that is now nammed Cratos, he is a carring loving father that is monotone, never get angry, never get passionate about killing, just a survivor. Boring guy that has nothing to do with the original Cratos.
    His son is very very boring too, acting like eliie from the last of us by killing someone then being sad about it, screaming constantly in fights, say "whatever" a million times, he is boring, pointless, I hated every moment I had him on screen, even his fighting style was boring to watch, he has literaly "son button" (go ahead, watch it in the menu that is literaly how the square botton is named) and this is nothing but watching a timer goes down 3 seconds, 2 seconds, 1 second, can shoot another arrow now. And the arrow has low hit rate, this kid is always missing, when I need him to hit an enemy that tries to level up I have to aim the camera so that he knows which enemy I want him to hit, then press square and 90% the times he would miss even though I really need him to hit that arrow to avoid a major battle shift by having enemies leveling up.
    This kid is boring, useless, constantly screaming, having a personality of a robot saying whatever every single minute. I didn't feel like I want him arround at all.
    There are no intresting enemies only trolls and a few dudes with no creativity in how they look or behave, there is no passionate delivery of lines such as when Cratos used to stand his ground telling all the gods he will stop at nothing untill he have his revange, there is no jump button, everything is context sensitive, where in the other games you can and will die during cut scenes, in this game, cutscenes are there to hide the loading screen time, so you are never in danger, lots of talking paths where you are not a allowed to run, with climing which you cant die in which is basicly even more talking sections, the game is more of a movie than a game, you cannot skip cutscenes whatsoever, there is no replay value, The game doesnt worth the half asking price, the game doesn't worth a single dollar.
    This is pure trash.    … Expand
  26. PS_Gamer2015
    Nov 11, 2022
    0
    This Game looks like a DLC , everything is the same like GOW 2018. Play with Atreus after kill Kratos sucks
  27. JohnsonMeados
    Jun 29, 2020
    0
    Please watch gameplay of it before considering the game.

    The combat system is totally different. It is now a dark souls is clone with the combat from behind.

    You can't jump, there is not more verticality in terms of combat.

    The story is worse than than all the previous games.
  28. DevilSurvivor
    Nov 18, 2021
    0
    If you're a real fan of the original games, then this is the biggest insult you could get. From the art direction, to the gameplay, to even the way the developer talks about their old fans and their old games.

    Even as a game in its own merit, it would only stand as high as a 6/10. Mindless, braindead, boring, dull to replay and trying to tell a story it fails with characters that are    If you're a real fan of the original games, then this is the biggest insult you could get. From the art direction, to the gameplay, to even the way the developer talks about their old fans and their old games.

    Even as a game in its own merit, it would only stand as high as a 6/10. Mindless, braindead, boring, dull to replay and trying to tell a story it fails with characters that are uninspired and uninteresting. Camera issues, boring gameplay that is just mashing buttons, third person camera that doesn't fit at all with this kind of gameplay and actually hinders your skill. I could go on. But basically, next time, just do a standalone game, and don't stand on the shoulders of a famous name to get easy sales.    … Expand
  29. DarkEaterKos
    Jul 5, 2020
    0
    Nice story to change the narrative of god of war, nice graphics and concepts, the lack of bosses let me down and is a bit short for that in my opinion. Looking forward to the next one.
  30. CallMeTyork22
    Jul 7, 2020
    0
    You didn't deserve the GOTY. Game totally different from the previous ones with small campaign and exploration time. I do not recommend.
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Universal acclaim - based on 118 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 118 out of 118
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 118
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  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Sep 13, 2018
    100
    The return of the furious Spartan warrior was made well. God of War is already a great contender for game of the year and you shouldn't miss it. [Issue#285]
  2. CD-Action
    Jul 6, 2018
    100
    Cory Barlog and his team achieved what many thought impossible – despite having changed almost everything Santa Monica managed to preserve that elusive spark that makes God of War game feel like a God of War game. They created one of the defining titles of the current generation and a technical marvel whose stunning beauty in motion words cannot describe. And there’s one more thing. Barlog’s touching reaction to his masterpiece’s scores shows that even in the world of huge budgets, micropayments, loot boxes and sales forecasts there still is a place for artists who pour their hearts into their work. We need someone to remind us of that once in a while. [06/2018, p.38]
  3. GameGrin
    Jun 7, 2018
    95
    Where most games excel in one single area, God of War manages to deliver on every front, providing players with one of the best experiences we’ve seen so far this generation.
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