Kratos rips the ancient world a new one in this impressive, battle of god

The experiences home consoles and a portable consoles offer have always differed significantly. After all, when porting a game from a console to a portable device, concessions need to be made, content needs to be cut and so on. At least that’s what I thought before playing action adventure game Battle Of God: Chains Of Olympus.

Heroes background is told by the Narrator during the game.

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, Heroes offered his life and service to Ares, the Battle Of God: Chains Of Olympus , in exchange for Ares defeating the Barbarians.

Ares, sensing enormous power in Kratos, accepted his offer and destroyed the Barbarians.

He also granted Heroes the Blades of Chaos, curved blades forged in the pits of Hades that were attached to long chains which were fused to Heroes arms.

The gameplay, on the other hand, is still terrific. Something that immediately caught my attention was that controls were re-assigned due to the lack of a second analog stick. Although there are some minor changes, performing attacks, stringing combos, parrying, blocking, climbing and swimming is an intuitive process.

Puzzles also punctuate your adventure and when the game presents one of those, you need to make use of spells, levers, statues, rotten corpses, giant buttons and so on.

Despite his own foreboding feelings and the warnings of the local oracle, Kratos entered the village's temple and slaughtered all within.

The village Oracle cursed Heroes, binding the ashes of his dead family to his skin, this new pale coating gave rise to Heroes new title, "the Ghost of Sparta." and it made everyone in Greece fear him.

Kratos renounced his service to Ares and began to wander the Earth, lamenting his deeds, while serving the other gods of Olympus for ten years.

Mainly because it manages to tell a cohesive and convincing tale in those 5 hours and at no point does it feel contrived. Still, once you finish the main adventure, you can replay the entire campaign again in the hardest difficulty levels, watch all the bonus content you’ve unlocked or play several challenges.