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God of War 3 begins right where the second game left off, with Kratos and the Titans storming Olympus. At first, it feels a little weird to have such a massive and climactic battle going on while you're fighting early-game mooks in the background, but they solve that issue pretty quickly when you graduate to fighting a giant water-horse summoned by the God Poseidon, and then like six of the damn things alongside Poseidon himself, who becomes the first God to die in this game within about 30 minutes of the game start. Afterward, Zeus knocks both Kratos and Gaia off the mountain, and Gaia refuses to help Kratos because she was only using him as a pawn, in her own words. Kratos winds up back in the underworld and has all his powers from the second game drained away by the souls of the damned, although he gets to keep the Icarus glide move and the reflector shield thing. Athena comes back as a ghost and tells Kratos that she wants Zeus to die now because she has new ghost knowledge about how evil he is. She upgrades his blades of chaos and then sends him on his way. Just ahead, Kratos meets a guy trapped in a wooden cage who says he will give Kratos his bow if he frees him, but instead of that Kratos burns him to death and just takes the bow. I was feeling tired so I stopped just after that.

Gameplay-wise, it's more or less the same as the last two games so far, except you have a few new moves. You can grab and enemy and run around using him as a "battering ram" to hit others with, which I like and find funny. It was definitely cool to see the huge sense of scale and the big draw distance in effect on the Olympus section, even if it was quite visually reminiscent of the climax from Disney's Hercules. The graphics look really good on the whole, and have held up pretty well even after two full console generations between now and the game's release. I'm glad they rolled out that Poseidon boss right away, I hope they keep the boss fights coming.

When I watched the Poseidon fight on Youtube as a kid, I remember I sympathized a lot more with Poseidon than with Kratos. That's still how I felt playing it myself lol. The guy is pretty helpless after a certain point, so you're just watching Kratos brutally kill him with no real resistance. A lot of it is seen from Poseidon's first-person perspective, which I thought was kind of creative.

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