God of War: Chains of Olympus
Kratos makes his inaugural appearance on a portable gaming platform in the third instalment of the God of War series. Chains of Olympus serves as a prequel, unfolding its narrative a decade before the events…
God of War: Chains of Olympus is an adventure developed by Ready At Dawn, released 4 March 2008 on PlayStation Portable. The main story takes about 4.3 hrs to finish.
What God of War: Chains of Olympus is
God of War: Chains of Olympus is an adventure game developed by Ready At Dawn and released in 2008. It was published by Capcom. It is available on PlayStation Portable only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set halfway through Kratos' ten years of servitude to the Gods, Chains of Olympus begins with Kratos being dispatched to the city of Attica to help defend it from the invading Persian army. Soon after his arrival, the Spartan spots a basilisk climbing over the city walls and gives chase. During his chase, Kratos confronts the Persian King inside the city and kills him. Taking the King's power to summon the Efreet, he then encounters the basilisk and kills it. After defeating the basilisk, he witnesses the sun fall from the sky, plunging the world into darkness. Following the dim remaining light on the horizon, Kratos fights his way through the city of Marathon, along the way encountering…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the God of War series
God of War: Chains of Olympus is the fifth of 42 entries we hold in the God of War series. It arrived 8 months after God of War: Betrayal. The next entry was SoulCalibur: Broken Destiny in 2009. Its critic score of 88 is 3 points above the series average of 85. The highest-rated entry is God of War III at 96.
How it was received
God of War: Chains of Olympus holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 23 points above the year average. Players rate it 82, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4.3 hrs.
What it launched against
God of War: Chains of Olympus launched on 4 March 2008, within three weeks of Audiosurf, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, Penumbra: Black Plague and Condemned 2: Bloodshot. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Audiosurf, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, Penumbra: Black Plague, Condemned 2: Bloodshot.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for God of War: Chains of Olympus yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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