Review: God of War III
Bye, Zeus.
Although I doubt you could count on Kratos to guide you through your Classics GCSE, it’s hard to think of many other games that understand their source material as well as God of War. Sony’s audience, like Homer’s, is looking for the release that violent heroics can bring, an escape from drudgery into a vivid world where the emotions haven’t been simplified so much as heightened.
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Article Date: Mar 08,2010