God of War Collection (2009) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

God of War Collection

God of War Collection is a compilation of action-adventure games from Sony’s God of War series. It includes God of War and God of War II, originally released for the PlayStation 2. The collection presents the…

80 17 November 2009

What God of War Collection is

God of War Collection is an adventure game developed by SCE Santa Monica Studio and released in 2009. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3. It runs on Kinetica.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The story is told mostly in flashback, after being framed with a scene from the present wherein Kratos, standing atop the tallest cliff in Greece, laments how the gods have abandoned him and then proceeds to toss himself into the waters below. While the player starts the game three weeks prior to this event, Kratos' background is told by the Narrator during the game (revealed to be the Titan Gaia in God of War II). Kratos was a fearsome Spartan warrior and grew his fifty-man squad into an army of thousands via strategy, tactics, ferocity, and conquest. However, in a battle against a barbarian horde, his army was massacred, and, in a desperate measure, Kratos offered his life and service to…

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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 Collection is the seventh of 42 entries we hold in the God of War series. The next entry was God of War II in 2009. Its critic score of 80 is 5 points below the series average of 85. The highest-rated entry is God of War III at 96.

See all 42 God of War games in release order →

How it was received

God of War Collection holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 13 points above the year average.

What it launched against

God of War Collection launched on 17 November 2009, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Cheats and codes

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