Disturbing sleeping children with large battle cries of
Kratos killing monsters just won't do.
The hyper - violent «God of War» video games are set in ancient Greece and involve a Spartan warrior named Kratos who pledges his servitude to the God of War, only to try and renounce his pledge when in a blind rage,
Kratos kills his own family.
Kratos killed almost all the Greek gods and began to live in Scandinavia, where he grew a beard and began to raise his son, making him a warrior.
Not exact matches
The «God of War» series before this reboot focused on
Kratos getting revenge — revenge for being duped by the Greek god of war, Ares, into
killing his own family.
Odin, Thor, and the rest team up to finally
kill Kratos and keep the gods of the world safe.
It sounds awesome, but if it's true, it will probably take place in asgard where the norse gods live:) Besides,
Kratos pretty much f *** ed up the Earth when he
killed the gods:P The northern gods would make for some brutal Boss fights though.
«It cinematically presents the brutal, bulldozing force that
Kratos exerts to obliterate each and every obstacle in his path (think Poseidon
kill in GoWIII).»
Take a gander at the above video and witness for yourself brutality that is far too brutal for the internet to handle — or possibly just
Kratos riding around on the back of a monster
killing things.
Kratos is now joined by his son Atreus, he has an axe in place of the Blades of Athena and to add to this, there is now a one continuous camera shot which flits between the brilliant story and the over the shoulder action, meaning you'll be immersed from start to finish in the new Norse mythology - inspired setting without a load screen in sight (well unless
Kratos is
killed * disclaimer * he'll be
killed a lot).
Kratos then
killed or caused the deaths of basically the entire Greek pantheon including Zeus, who was revealed in God of War II to be his father.
Our demo started off with
Kratos doing familiar things in familiar territory:
killing things in a city in chaos.
Enemies still bleed, which means
Kratos can still go on a
killing spree to take out the mythical Norse creatures in all of their shapes and sizes.
I don't think we will end up seeing multiple
Kratos fighting it out and trying to
kill each other on Mount Olympus.
After a long successful career of
killing Greek gods,
Kratos has decided to take his god
killing talents to the realm of Norse mythology.
God of War is a soft reboot of the series, taking
Kratos from the world of Greek mythology — which he subsequently
killed all of the deities within — and planting him years later as an older and wiser warrior in the world of the Norse.
For every monster
kill that
Kratos does or quests that he completes, he gains experience points that can be used in leveling up various things to make him strong like teaching him new moves or powering up skills.
During this time, you'll rely on
Kratos's skull - cracking bareknuckle blows, which can stagger enemies and leave them open for an instant
kill (R3).
With
Kratos» notorious reputation of destroying Olympus and
killing all of the gods, the Norse gods are keen to meet him and see what the fuss is all about.
And while there's an element of tradition and rite of passage in how
Kratos teaches Atreus to hunt and
kill (tapping into our nostalgia for an already existing imagery), the fact that so many of us saw ourselves in these characters is alarming.
- I'd love it if, after
killing off everybody remotely related to the Greek pantheon in GoW III, they find an excuse to transport
Kratos to the norse pantheon and start all over again for IV.
It may deal with
Kratos trying to
kill Zeus again with the aid of the Titans.
Toy - maker NECA is just about as awesome as they come, and has what looks like it might be the best figure ever made of Sony's god -
killing badass
Kratos.
In - game chronology would have the Basilisk as
Kratos first truly legendary
kill.
Nevermind the fact that Hades probably would have been nearby and exacted a swift revenge, a fight that
Kratos could not have withstood in his pre-ascension days (though stranger
kills have happened).
Kratos, as a tool of the gods at this point,
kills her for her brash actions.
The worst contribution of all, however, comes in the form of hyper - masculine
killing machine
Kratos.
Kratos betrayed by Zeus, king of the Olympian gods, which deprives him of his divinity and
kill him.
This results in
Kratos accidentally
killing his own family (I hate it when that happens).
This is a
Kratos who understands what the cycle of revenge can do to a person and
kills only because he must.
Now, unless
Kratos gives up his
killing career to become a ballerina, I won't hold my breath for a new God of War.
Charged attacks can maim enemies in all kinds of gruesome ways, and stunning monsters allows
Kratos to use an instant
kill move that typically involves an incredible amount of violence.
As
Kratos, you're job is to
kill terrifying Greek gods, like Poseidon, Hades, and even Zeus himself.
Six months have passed since
Kratos stood before the bodies of his wife and child, his hands stained with their blood — duped by Ares into
killing the only people he ever loved.
The series has taken a bit of change in direction, with
Kratos now living in seclusion in the land of Norse mythology (because hey, when you've
killed all the Greek gods, why not enter a different mythos) with a new, magical axe, a lumberjack beard and son to keep him company.
Since the multiplayer controls as well as
Kratos does in the single - player, gamers shouldn't have any regrets; they'll be able to execute satisfying and brutal attacks, devastating
kills with traditional weapons, magic attacks, and even evade to escape incoming strikes.
In God of War,
Kratos, after being deceived into
killing his wife and daughter, denounced his service to Ares.
Gone is angry,
kill everything for his revenge
Kratos.
Six months after being tricked into
killing his wife and child, a younger
Kratos is sentenced to a life of madness with the Furies, caged in a Titan sized prison for the living damned.
For this title, we say
Kratos» change of personality from a cliched
killing machine, to a flawed and well fleshed out character.
After the previous events in the series — the last of which started with
Kratos storming Mount Olympus and ended with him
killing almost the entire Grecian pantheon, culminating with Zeus himself — it's hard to imagine how the new God of War could go bigger than that.