Now, that's a game. I really enjoyed play­ing God of War. It's one of the best action adven­ture games on the PS2 up to date. For a review, check out GameSpot or IGN. It's one of those games where you enjoy every step. There's an excel­lent com­bat sys­tem, plenty of upgrades, and lots of chal­leng­ing puz­zles, and it's backed up by a bril­liantly work­ing story. Very high qual­ity stuff, indeed. OK, I won't bother you with details you can look up for your­self after I've pro­vided the links.

I guess you want to urge me to make a point. Fine, here we go: I seem to really have an affin­ity for anti­heroes. I really like those kinda mean-spirited guys most peo­ple would describe as unlik­able, ruth­less son of a bitch. They add some qual­ity to a story. You see, there's noth­ing like absolutely good or totally evil in this world. We judge things upon our per­cep­tions which are influ­enced by our upbring­ing, our teacher, our idols, our friends, our sur­round­ings. Even good char­ac­ters can do evil deeds and vice versa, in order to achieve a thing or two they believe in.

You may now under­stand why I feel so bad about those shiny and pol­ished heroes. They sim­ply are inhu­man. There is always more to 'em than meets the eye but no mat­ter how hard you try, the author won't let his main char­ac­ter down and you almost never get to know his dark char­ac­ter traits. Well, that's why I like Kratos. He's a tor­tured badass, a very capa­ble war­rior in com­bat and he's using every­thing he can think of to reach his goal – for­get­ting the sins of his past.

There'll be a sequel named God of War II: Divine Ret­ri­bu­tion and it's cur­rently slated to ship in Feb­ru­ary 2007, for the PS2 again. Lots of video mate­r­ial can be found here, and some scans are located here (thx to dragon_x_2 from the Offi­cial Prince of Per­sia forums). I'm already look­ing for­ward to play­ing it. What's cur­rently known makes the impres­sion of an even bet­ter game than the pre­de­ces­sor was …