
Throughout the life cycles of the PlayStation 2, 3, and Portable, God of War remained a fixed-camera hack-and-slash game with interspersed puzzle-solving and platforming. Kratos' anger and violent revenge for Ares' betrayal are the narrative impetuses that began the series, which now has a total of seven games, soon to be eight. Tragedy befalls Kratos when he is tricked by Ares into killing his own wife and daughter, a ruse Ares hoped would mold Kratos into an even greater killer by detaching him from his emotional anchors. Players take control of Kratos, who is formerly a commanding officer and great warrior under the Greek god of war, Ares.


The hack-and-slash series began in 2005 with the original God of War on the PS2.
