God Of War ~ Moghta Brother's Gamespot

God of War is a third person action-adventure video game developed by SCE Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment that was first released on March 22, 2005
The game is loosely based on Greek mythology, and is set in Ancient Greece. The player controls the protagonist Kratos, a Spartan warrior in the service of the Olympian Gods. Kratos is tasked by the goddess Athena with killing Ares, the God of War, who is responsible for Kratos accidentally killing his wife and child. As Ares ravages Athens, Kratos embarks on a quest to find the one object capable of stopping the god: the legendary Pandora's Box. Ultimately successful, Kratos replaces Ares as the new God of War. God of War is the third chapter in the series, which focuses on vengeance as its central theme.

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STORY & SYNOPSIS:

Kratos is a warrior in the service of the Greek gods of Olympus. A series of flashbacks reveals that he was once a successful captain in the Spartan army and led his men to several victories before he was defeated by a barbarian king. Facing death, Kratos called to the God of War, Ares, whom he promised to serve if the god would spare his men and provide the power to destroy their enemies. Ares agreed to Kratos' entreaty and bonded the Blades of Chaos, a pair of chained blades forged in the depths of Tartarus, to his new servant. Kratos, equipped with the blades, then decapitated the barbarian king.

Kratos waged war at the behest of Ares, eventually leading an attack on a village occupied by worshipers of Athena. Ares had secretly transported Kratos' wife and child to the village; during his frenzied attack on its temple, Kratos accidentally killed them. Although Ares believed this act would free Kratos to become the perfect warrior, the Spartan instead renounced his pledge of servitude to the god. The oracle of the destroyed village cursed Kratos by bonding the ashes of his dead family to his skin, turning it ash-white and earning him the name Ghost of Sparta. Plagued by nightmares of his horrible deed, Kratos vowed to serve the other gods in hope of ridding himself of the visions.

When the game starts, Kratos has been serving the gods for ten years. He kills the Hydra on behalf of Poseidon, but grows tired of his service and suffering. He summons Athena, who states that if Kratos performs one final act—the murder of Ares—he will be forgiven for the killing of his family. Athena assigns Kratos to destroy Ares because Zeus has forbidden divine intervention. The goddess guides Kratos to the city of Athens, which is under siege by Ares' minions. After a strange encounter with a gravedigger, who encourages him to continue his task, Kratos battles his way to Athens' oracle, finds her, and learns that the only way to defeat Ares is to locate and use Pandora's Box, a mythical artifact that grants the power to kill a god.

Kratos enters the Desert of Lost Souls, and Athena tells him that Pandora's Box is hidden within a temple that is chained to the back of the Titan Cronos. Kratos summons Cronos, climbs for three days before reaching the Temple entrance, overcomes an array of deadly traps and an army of monsters, and eventually finds the Box. Although Kratos succeeds, Ares, aware of his former servant's success, kills Kratos as the latter is leaving the Temple. While a group of harpies take the Box to Ares, Kratos falls into the Underworld. He battles his way through it, and with the aid of the mysterious gravedigger, who tells him that Athena is not the only god watching over him, he escapes and returns to Athens.

Kratos recovers Pandora's Box from Ares, opens it, and uses its power to become godlike. Despite Ares' best efforts to destroy Kratos physically and mentally, including stripping him of the Blades of Chaos and all magic, he survives and kills Ares with the Blade of the Gods. Athens is saved, and although Athena tells Kratos that his sins are forgiven, the gods cannot rid him of his nightmares. Forsaken by the gods, he tries to commit suicide by casting himself into the Aegean Sea, but Athena intervenes and transports him to Mount Olympus. As a reward for his services to the gods, she provides Kratos with a new set of blades and the seat as the new God of War.