Um clássico atemporal, enquanto jogava havia duas perspectivas sobre a obra, uma visão onde essa franquia já está consolidada e teve recentemente um revitalização, e a outra visão olhando a obra de forma separada sem consta suas continuações e o peso que elas tiveram, e nas duas perspectivas esse jogo se demonstra excelente, onde o hack n slash não entra apenas como gameplay mas como narrativa, um homem consumido pelo ódio e vingança, onde a sede por poder o consumiu, e ainda que o tenha consumido foi o que fez ele tomar o renome de Deus da Guerra, isso sempre abriu margem para uma continuação desse desenvolvimento perfeito de personagem, ainda que a primeira historia seja extremamente bem fechada, onde passamos por altos e baixo, entendemos motivações e os vilões e eh tudo tão perfeitamente encaixado durante a gameplay, que se esse jogo não tivesse se tornado uma franquia, ainda seria lembrado com tanto apreço, vcs DEVEM jogar God of War

Me arrependo de ter jogado esse jogo só agora. Tem tudo o que um Hack and Slash precisa ter e um pouco mais:
Combate viciante
Lore e narrativa espetaculares
Kratos matando tudo que é vivo da forma mais brutal possível

Jogaço.

(Also: GoW mitologia grega >>>>> GoW mitologia nórdica
tanto em história quanto em gameplay)

God of War was naturally a DMC clone, but nevertheless stood its ground and forged its own identity.

It's poetic, and was built like an epic, with some of the best environmental design and set-pieces that Sony had on its rampage with the Playstation 2.

While most view God of War as needlessly violent, its extreme parts complements the ever so often humane parts of Kratos. Quite cheap, maybe, but still impactful, storytelling wise.

God of War is worthy of its praise. There's some frustrations here and there with the puzzles and possibility of being infinitely staggered. However, it's certainly a strong contender in PS2's catalogue, except for one thing. God of War 2 existed.

Para arrancar con la review aclaro que a este juego, cuando era más chico no le di mucha importancia, lo jugaba uno o dos niveles y lo dejaba. Hace poco me agarró las ganas de jugar a los de nueva generación porque me interesa mucho más la cámara detras del hombro que un hack and slash.
Me lo instalé en mis PS3 (guiño guiño) y lo terminé en un par de días.
El juego me pareció en tema mecánicas bastante menos pesado de lo que me esperaba, la historia es genial (me encanta la historia griega) y Kratos es DIOS (literalmente). Ya mismo estoy bajando la secuela

To start with the review, I clarify that when I was younger I didn't give much importance to this game, I played it for one or two levels and left it. Recently I got the urge to play the new generation because I'm much more interested in the camera behind my shoulder than in a hack and slash.
I installed it on my PS3s (wink wink) and finished it in a couple of days.
I found the game much less mechanically heavy than I expected, the story is great (I love Greek history) and Kratos is GOD (literally). I'm downloading the sequel right now

This game is rad. I had a blast replaying it, but there's all sorts of rookie mistakes and things that stick out in this game.

Like making 2/4 of your power-ups in the game AoEs. And the Gorgon Head being an instant kill device being a bit silly. . Or Rage of The Gods being a power-up that makes you invincible and changes your moves.
Or the small enemy variety, where you'll fight more and more legionaries for the entire game, with Minotaurs, Gorgons or Satyrs splashed in there, and Centaurs or Sirens making literally one appearance each.
Or this game barely having any bosses, and all of them lean a little toward set pieces.

Or how all the enemies have really quick counters and poor tells for when they'll break out of combos, so the game has a very heavy emphasis on having a back and forth with enemies and being vigilant and you don't get often get a chance to finish a lot of your combos. (this is both a fun and intentional thing and a bit of a flaw). Or how they can hit you from off-screen pretty often.

But for how many little things you can pick at, it all comes together, and so much of that falls squarely on the Blades of Chaos just being really fun to use, and learning to use the Blade of Artemis.
The pacing in this game is pretty solid too. The puzzles and platforming being pretty easy and breaking up the already-repetitive combat well, but the environments could be more interesting.

The story as well would be a fascinating topic, as for even with how this game nowadays just the slow reveal of the backstory of a character everyone knows (sprinkled at kind of random intervals), there's something that still pulls together. To be honest, nowadays it's hard for me to see GoW 1 Kratos as a complete monster.
I think the undercurrent of this game is that the Gods themselves have been using, and perpetuating Kratos's status as a monster for the past 10 years to do their dirty work. Their cruelty and selfishness is shown through the Architect Pathos Verdes's storyline, and I feel it's a reflection of Kratos. Of a man who gave his life to the service of the Gods and got nothing in return. With Kratos's famous line "By the Gods, what have I become...?" Kratos is having elucidation of how his time as servant of the Gods was ultimately not far off from the barbarism he perpetuated under Ares's name. Serving new masters, saving lives even, but still traveling and killing wherever he goes.
At the end of the game, it's revealed Ares's actions were a temper tantrum over never having gained Zeus's approval over Athena. And that's what Kratos gets at the end of this game: Forgiveness and approval, but Kratos has already realized this means nothing coming from the Gods. All he ever wanted was peace and penance, and the Gods never had any intention of granting him the former. Peace was only something he would be able to find himself. But even then, the Gods aren't done with him. He's their tool, after all.
So he takes the throne as the God of War. As a tortured soul, and the ultimate warrior. An embodiment of what war and power gets someone in the end.

After playing this as my first God of War and continuing with the following entries in order of release date, in retrospect, I see that it made me appreciate God of War 2018 and Ragnarok even more. An epic story, monumental set pieces, addictive gameplay, fun bit sized puzzles, this game has practically everything the newer games has but is limited only by the hardware of its time. For its age, this game can still be enjoyed by most people today that are open to trying it. I love Greek mythology and so seeing the appearances of certain Gods and the way they portrayed them was super cool and made me feel like a Marvel fanatic watching Infinity War for the first time. Unlike the newer installments, this game as well as the others in the trilogy feel much more repayable not so much for experimenting different builds but rather the fluid gameplay. I can totally see myself coming back to these and aiming for faster times or harder difficulties.

O começo do ódio profundo de Kratos pelos deuses!

Quem diria que o inicio seria ele ajudando os deuses para acabar como sabemos que acaba, jogão! Porém não merece 5 estrelas pela quantidade repetitiva de inimigos sem diversificação, apenas alterando a cor.

História redonda e muito bem feita, o plot do final sendo o inicio e o inicio o final é muito bom, apesar de contar pouco a história de como Kratos se tornou o que é acredito que tenha sido o bastante para a história ser tão boa quanto a gameplay.

God of War is spectacular. As someone who played the reboot-era games first, I absolutely love what this game does. The combat is fun with a solid amount of moves to play around with in the game's runtime. I love the way the narrative strings you along and gives you bits of lore before you finally see the full picture. The story drives you to go from area to area and fight a variety of enemies in a handful of environments. I love the settings in this game. I didn't realize it at the time, but Pandora's temple consists of the majority of the game. I appreciate how elaborate the temple is, especially for lore reasons. I found it amusing that the temple just kept going. Every time I thought I was nearing its end, I would push further to find it takes me back to a familiar area I hadn't seen for hours, only to unlock a door I couldn't before. God of War has very simple but interesting level design. Puzzles are not particularly complicated, but still fun and satisfying. A classic from the Playstation 2 era, I am excited to see how the sequels develop the gameplay and story.

I ended up playing this one after Ghost of Sparta and Chains of Olympus, and I will say that I feel this is a game of higher highs, but also lower lows in comparison to those two. One of the high points being Pandora's Temple, with its winding puzzles and variety of challenges, and one of the lower points being the second phase of the final boss, as while a really cool setpiece and story moment, was a pain to actually beat and took a lot of tries (though granted, I did play the game on the game's "hard" difficulty). Combat-wise, I feel this game is sort of inbetween CoO and GoS in terms of feel though, as while the moveset isn't as varied as the latter, air juggling is significantly more powerful here and is really fun to pull off.