So yes, guts spill out, and heads and other limbs are ripped off, as Kratos hacks and slashes his way through Hades and Tartarus. And with the possible exception of Hephaestus (voiced wonderfully by Rip Torn), the player is quite happy to have seen them all variously beheaded, disemboweled, drowned and otherwise dispatched. Empowered by Athena, Kratos set off on a grand mission of revenge that now, in the new God of War III, published by Sony for the Playstation3, has delivered him to the pinnacle of Olympus as he seeks to slay Zeus himself.īy the time Kratos reaches his final confrontation with Zeus around 15 hours into the game, Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Hercules, Hermes and Poseidon, not to mention the titan Cronos, are all dead. When we first met Kratos, five years ago in the original God of War, he had just been deceived into killing his wife and family by the god he had sworn to serve, the blackhearted Ares. In video games that suspicion has been given the graveled voice of Kratos, the tormented Spartan soldier who is one of the most compelling video game characters of the last half-decade. In fact they are generally less moral than humans because they have been corrupted by their power.įor thousands of years people have suspected that the gods jealous, greedy, deceitful and altogether selfish are just messing around up there and may not actually have humanity’s best interests at heart. One of the great motifs of the ancients was that the gods were just as, uh, human, as the rest of us.

There are few good guys in Greek mythology.

Zeus poseidon god of war