Regarded as one of the best action-adventure games for the platform, it won several 'Game of the Year' awards. God of War sold more than 4.6 million copies worldwide, making it the fourteenth best-selling PlayStation 2 game of all time. It also features puzzles and platforming elements. The player can use up to four magical attacks and a power-enhancing ability as alternative combat options. It features quick time events that require the player to complete various game controller actions in a timed sequence to defeat stronger enemies and bosses. The gameplay of God of War focuses on combo-based combat, achieved through the player's main weapon-the Blades of Chaos-and a secondary weapon acquired later in the game. As Ares besieges Athens out of hatred for Athena, Kratos embarks on a quest to find the one object capable of stopping the god once and for all: Pandora's Box. The goddess Athena tasks Kratos with killing Ares, the God of War and Kratos' former mentor who tricked Kratos into killing his wife and daughter.

The player controls the protagonist Kratos, a Spartan warrior who serves the Olympian Gods. Loosely based on Greek mythology, it is set in ancient Greece with vengeance as its central motif. First released on March 22, 2005, for the PlayStation 2 (PS2) console, it is the first installment in the series of the same name and the third chronologically. God of War is an action-adventure game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE).

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