God of War for PlayStation 4

God of War

God of War incorporates RPG elements, such as state and equipment upgrades. Improving your weapons, equipping special charms, and swapping gear changes Kratos and Atreus' strength, defense, luck, and other statistics. It is relatively easy to improve your stats, provided that you complete light side quests as you travel the realms. Keep in mind though that enemies also organize themselves based on your skill level, which means you will face enemies that are tougher than Kratos' current rank. Higher-level enemies have purple health bars and easily break through your attacks to get in some hits of their own. They can also kill Kratos with a single hit, depending on the strength gap. I appreciate the challenge that such tough enemies provide, but these bruisers shrug off enough attacks that your combos are ineffective. Resorting to safe, boring attacks to dispatch them is most effective, even though it isn't exactly fun, and the enemies' high health pools make them a chore to fight.

God of War has a decent selection of enemies, including various armed warriors, poisonous witches, vicious wolf-men, brutish ogres, stone golems, and pillar-swinging troll mini-bosses. But in my experience, there are only three real ways to tackle any given enemy, depending on how resistant they are. Easily stunned, lightweight enemies can be slapped around and juggled to death with no real consequence. Heavier enemies that resist Kratos' attacks require intelligent tactics. You are best off throwing one or two of your strongest blows in between the enemy's own attacks. The third enemy type is the gimmick foe, which is vulnerable to projectile attacks.

Encounters are plenty engaging, and mixing up your attacks while building up the stun meter for finishers doesn't get old. With that said, I wish that combat was more complex than what God of War delivers. Sure, the older games weren't particularly complicated; they were arcade-like button-mashers set in fantasy Ancient Greece. I had hoped that the combat would have evolved into something more technical in this installment, with complex enemy patterns and an expanded combo list. While God of War isn't quite up to snuff in that regard, what it does establish is a solid platform on which future installments can easily build.

Santa Monica Studio's God of War lays the foundation for an entirely new action series. God of War combines spectacle, graphical wizardry, RPG development, and meaty melee combat into an impressive package that is sure to please fans of the genre, as well as curious onlookers alike. While the camera isn't ideal and the enemies could have been a bit more interesting, the rebooted God of War delivers a premier action game experience.

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