Still with us? Amazing. We move on to God of War 2, where things really start to kick off. Kratos, who should really see a therapist, is seeking his own kind of ‘closure’ by ransacking and torching Greece. The bods up in Mount Olympus are pissed, robbing Kratos of his divinity and sending the ruddy great Colossus of Rhodes to whack him.
The Colossus reduced to rubble, Zeus appears and reveals he’s the git behind the coup to oust our (anti) hero. He offers Kratos the chance to become his right-hand hitman, but when no-hair refuses, Zeus slays him. Hades once again beckons for the deposed God of War...
...until Kratos is unexpectedly rescued from a roasting by Gaia, mummy of the Titans. She offers our man an alliance to whack the Olympians. Firstly though, he has to seek out the Sisters of Fate and turn back the clock on his sordid past. Leaping on Pegasus, Kratos whinnies off into the sunset.
Much killing and maiming ensues, with famous Grecian types including Typhon, Prometheus, Theseus, Euryale, Perseus, Icarus and our old pal the Barbarian King all on the receiving end of Kratos’ bad attitude and even badder blades.
Armed with a slew of new god killing powers, Kratos arrives on the Island of Creation to ‘have a word’ with the Sisters of Fate. After a heart-to-heart with old enemy Atlas, he ends up mistakenly killing another pal – a Spartan messenger. Kratos is gutted, and almost dies at the hands of the monstrous Kraken. Inspired by a Gaia pep talk though, he mounts a Rocky-esque comeback...
After a jaunt on the back of a Phoenix, Kratos kicks seven shades out of the Sisters in a monumental multilayered boss scrap – culminating in him trapping them in their looms for all eternity. Thrown back to his fatal encounter with Zeus, but now armed with the Blade of Olympus, the two tough guys go at it again...
...culminating in poor Athena getting killed trying to protect Zeus before the great denouement that old white beard is, in fact, Kratos’ errant dadda. Zounds! Does Kratos give a toss? Does he heck, snarling that he ‘has no father’ and that: ‘If all on Olympus will deny me my vengeance, then all on Olympus will die!’ Zeus, suitably chastened, legs it. That sure told him.
Returning to the rapidly-failing Loom, Kratos returns to climactic moments of The Great War between the Olympians and the Titans. As Zeus desperately rallies pals like Poseidon, Hades and Apollo for the coming ruckus royale, they gaze over the edge of their stately pad – only to see Kratos riding atop Gaia as a gaggle of gigantic Titans hightail it up Mount Olympus.
Kratos yells out: ‘Zeus! Your son has returned! I bring the destruction of Olympus!’ It’s brown trousers time for wicked Zeus and his cronies, and the stage is set for a seismic showdown in God of War III.
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http://mrgodofwar.blogspot.in/2013/11/all-about-that-god.html-The Origins of the Gods-
In the beginning, Chaos, an amorphous, gaping void encompassing the
entire universe, and surrounded by an unending stream of water ruled by the god Oceanus, was the domain of a goddess named Eurynome, which means "far-ruling" or "wide-wandering". She was the Goddess of All Things, and desired to make order out of the Chaos. By coupling with a huge and powerful snake, Ophion, or as some legends say, coupling with the North Wind, she gave birth to Eros, god of Love, also known as Protagonus, the "firstborn".Eurynome separated the sky from the sea by dancing on the waves of Oceanus. In this manner, she created great lands upon which she might wander, a veritable universe, populating it with exotic creatures such as Nymphs, Furies, and Charites as well as with countless beasts and monsters. Also born out of Chaos were Gaia, called Earth, or Mother Earth, and Uranus, the embodiment of the Sky and the Heavens, as well as Tartarus, god of the sunless and terrible region beneath Gaia, the Earth.Gaia and Uranus married and gave birth to the Titans, a race of formidable giants, which included a particularly wily giant named Kronus. Gaia and Uranus warned Kronus that a son of his would one day overpower him. Kronus therefore swallowed his numerous children by his wife Rhea, to keep that forecast from taking place. This angered Gaia greatly, so when the youngest son, Zeus, was born, Gaia took a stone, wrapped it in swaddling clothes and offered it to Cronus to swallow. This satisfied Kronus, and Gaia was able to spirit the baby Zeus away to be raised in Crete, far from his grasping father.In due course, Zeus grew up, came homeward, and got into immediate conflict with the tyrant Kronus, who did not know that this newcomer was his own son. Zeus needed his brothers and sisters help in slaying the tyrant, and Metis, Zeus's first wife, found a way of administering an emetic to Kronus, who then threw up his five previous children, who were Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon. Together they went to battle against their father. The results were that all of his children, led by Zeus, defeated Kronus and condemned him to the Desert of Lost Souls.Thus, Zeus triumphed over not only his father, and his father's family of Giants, he triumphed over his brothers and sisters as well, dividing up the universe as he fancied, in short, bringing order out of Chaos. He made himself Supreme God over all, creating a great and beautiful place for his favored gods to live on Mount Olympus, in Thessaly. All the others were left to fend for themselves in lands below Mount Olympus.Zeus made himself God of the Sky and all its phenomena, including the clouds as well as the thunderbolts. Hestia became goddess of the Hearth. To his brother Poseidon, he gave the rule of the Sea. Demeter became a goddess of Fertility, Hera (before she married Zeus and became a jealous wife), was goddess of Marriage and Childbirth, while Hades, one of his other brothers, was made god of the Underworld. Zeus married his sister Hera and among the offsping that they had, two were natural rivals: Athena, goddess of wisdom and purity and Ares, the God of War.-The Contest of Athena and Poseidon-Long ago in Greece, King Cecrops established a city. It was predicted that the city would become very famous and prosperous. Many gods wanted to become the special patrons of the city. In the end there were two contestants left--Athena and her uncle, Poseidon, the god of the seas.To resolve the conflict each one was supposed to give some kind of a gift to the city, and whoever presented the greater gift would win the contest. Poseidon made a water spring appear in the city and promised a strong navy to the city. Athena made the olive tree. She told everyone how olives could be used for food, for cleansing, offerings, to light fires, and many other uses. Athena won the contest and the city was named Athens in her honor.-Pandora's Temple- The three chief gods, Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon appeared before an architect named Pathos Verdes III, self-proclaimed 'loyal subject and chief architect of the gods' (i.e. religious zealot) and ordered him to build a temple to house Pandora's Box, a powerful artifact with enough power to kill a god. The massive temple itself is located on the back of Kronos, who was ordered to carry the temple chained to his back until he dies. While building the temple with his two sons, the elder son dies first and the second son follows his brother into the Elusyian Fields. With his two sons gone, Verdes begins to lose faith in the gods. It all comes to a head when he has a heated argument with his wife and ends up killing her by plunging a knife through her chest. Before committing suicide, he leaves a note explaining his actions and of how he felt betrayed by the gods he once served. The first of many who tried to retrieve Pandora's Box was a unknown Greek soldier who had died within the temple. As a result of this screwup, the gods cursed him to forever watch the temple's gates and open them to anyone who think they can brave the temple's traps and retreive Pandora's Box. So far, no one has succeded and the soldier ends up throwing their dead bodies into a giant funeral pyre so they can be recycled to be used as enemies inside the temple, earning him the name 'The Body Burner.'-The Origins of Kratos-Most people don't know the origins of Kratos, but he wasn't originally Spartan. He was born out of wedlock, a product of his shunned mother and his father, whom he will not know of until later on. However, his mother kept his father's identity a close secret. Because Kratos was an illegitimate son (or in other words, a bastard child), rumors of who Kratos' father ran rampant and became more and more brazen. Fearing for her and Kratos' life, Kratos and his mother fled their village and moved to Sparta. During this time, Kratos' mother gave birth to a second son. For most of their childhood, Kratos and his little brother were inseperable. However, when the Spartans came to recruit the boys into military service, that all changed. Those that were physically and mentally fit were sent into the Spartan military. Those that were weaker were sent to the mountains outside Sparta to fend for themselves. Kratos' brother, unfortunately, was part of the weaker bunch and was sent to the mountains. He died soon afterward and was raised in the Underworld. He now spends his time brooding over his older brother's betrayal and plans on getting his revenge on Kratos.Kratos grew up and became a commander in the Spartan army. He started off with fifty men, which swelled over to over a thousand soldiers. Fighting for the glory of Sparta, Kratos' methods were insanely brutal and ruthless. Durning this time, he also married a Spartan woman and fathered a daughter. Despite his reputation as a war-happy commander, only his wife was brave enough to face his mood swings and fury. His daughter, depite being scared of her father, loves him dearly. Also a devoted follower of the gods, Kratos' protector is Athena, goddess of wisdom and puitry.-The Battle with the Barbarians-Undefeated in battle, Kratos faces his greatest challenge. From the east, a massive barbarian army emerges, threatening Sparta, as well as all of Greece. Kratos and his men were sent to deal with the incoming menace, hoping to expect a easy victory like so many before them. They were sadly mistaken. Despite the discipline of the Spartan forces, they were not ready for the savagery of their opponents. The Spartans put up a good fight, but the barbarians royally own the Spartans, slaughtering them mercilessly.Kratos and the head barbarian face off. After several moments, Kratos is about to get his head bashed in with a giant war hammer when in desperation Kratos calls for assistance from Ares. Sure enough, Ares hears Kratos' pleas and saves his life by decimating the barbarians that were killing his men. As for Kratos, he had a special gift for him: the Blades of Chaos. Forged in the fires of Hades itself, Kratos receives his weapons from Ares, painfully chained to his wrists as a reminder of his servitude to the God of War.Back to the battle, Kratos tested out his new weapons on the chief barbarian. After decapitating his enemy, he and his forces began to serve Ares, carrying out his will with extreme prejudice, slaughtering anyone and everyone who was against Ares.-The Ghost of Sparta-In his quest for power Kratos makes his ultimate mistake. Under orders from Ares, Kratos and his men - emboldened by the God of War - attack a small village whose temple was dedicated to Athena. Kratos arrives at the temple entrance, where the village Oracle warns him not to enter, for the price he pay will be EXTREMELY dear. Ignoring the Oracle's pleas, Kratos shoves her aside, kicks the door down and starts hacking down villagers left and right.The screams of his two final victims bring Kratos out of his bloodlust. To his horror, he discovered that he had just murdered his wife and daughter in cold blood. Ares appears to him, telling him that he was on his way of becoming a great warrior. With his wife and daughter gone, nothing can stop Kratos from being Death incarnate. Full of remorse for what he has done, Kratos cremates his wife and daughter. Upon exiting the burning temple, the Oracle confronts Kratos. Because of the extremity of his crimes, Kratos is cursed to bear the ashes of his wife and daughter onto his skin, giving him the appearance of a ghost, and as a mark to let everyone know who he is and what he has done. Thus, the legend of the Ghost of Spartawas born. Because of Ares' deception, Kratos has a new goal in life: eliminate the God of War.-The Assault of Athens-For the past decade, Kratos has been fighting his own demons, as well as those in physical form, in hopes that Athena and the other gods would forgive him of his crimes. While travelling through the Aegean Sea, Kratos encounters legions of undead soldiers, as well as the serpentlike Hydra amid several wrecked ships. Poseidon lends a helping hand by giving Kratos the powerful technique: Poseidon's Rage. After killing the Hydra and its spawn, Kratos accquires the Captain's Key...and shoves the Captain down into the throat of the dead Hydra. While Kratos has his hands full with scores of undead and Hydra, Zeus calls forth Ares and Athena, the latter warning him of her brother's impending invasion of Athens. Although the gods can't personally interfere, Athena and the other gods can use Kratos on their behalf.Resuming his travels through the Aegean Sea, Kratos is plagued with constant nightmares of his family's slaughter at his hands. Wine nor the company of women cannot erase the horriffic memories from his mind. He prays to the statue of Athena who tells him that if he succeeds in stopping Ares from wrecking her namesake city, then the gods will forgive his past sins. Arriving in Athens, Kratos disembarks from his ship and is personally greeted with Ares' welcoming commitee of monsters. He hacks his way through the city and while making his way through the city (and seeing Ares wrecking shop with his minions, not to mention yanking Medusa's head off to use asa weapon, thanks to Aphrodite), he is greeted by the Oracle of Athens. However, Harpies show up and kidnap the Oracle, forcing Kratos to progress through the city. Here, he is given the power by Zeus himself to use the Sumpreme God's thunderbolts as weapons.En route to the Oracle's Temple, Kratos encounters an old man digging a grave in the midst of Ares' assault. For a senile old man, the Gravedigger knows a lot about Kratos. Kratos catches up with the Oracle at her Temple and rescues her from becoming a red stain on the pavement. She then reveals the item that has the power to kill a god - Pandora's Box. All Kratos has to do is go through the Desert of Lost Souls, summon Kronos and succeed where everyone else has failed in: conquering the Temple of Pandora and coming out with Pandora's Box.-Pandora's Box-Exiting Athens with the intent of killing Ares and saving his sanity, Kratos travers through the Desert of Lost Souls. By elminating three Sirens, whose irreisistable song leg unwary men to their demise, they lead the way to Pandora's Temple. He summons Kronos by blowing on the Horns of Pandora, who lumbers over to him. Kratos grabs a loose piece of rops, swings across Kronos' face and latches himself to the massive side of the temple. It takes him three days to reach the summit.The decomposing, zombielike Body Burner is still at work, burning the bodies of the fallen that the Harpies bring to him. Skeptical that Kratos can do the impossible, he gives the Spartan a word of warning and urges him to return home. Kratos refuses and enters the temple. He enters the temple and while making his way through the massive structure, two more gods give Kratos their aid: Artemis, the maiden goddess of the hunt, who bestows upon Kratos her weapon which bears her name; and the Lord of the Underworld itself, Hades, who gives Kratos the power to summon the spirits of the dead to help in his battles.Kratos then goes on to passing the three challenges to gain access to the upper levels of the temple: The Challenge of Atlas, Poseidon, and Hades. Once he finds his way to Zeus Mountain he faces new traps, as well as new enemies. Despite these setbacks, Kratos hacks, slashes and breaks his way to his ultimate goal: Pandora's Box.Athena congratulates Kratos on doing the impossible: he is the first human ever to retrieve Pandora's Box since its construction. However, Ares also senses that Kratos was successful in his task. Not wanting to see Pandora's Box used against him, Ares picks up a broken, jagged piece of column and chucks it towards the Temple of Pandora. Kratos is impaled by the column and he watches helplessly as several Harpies take Pandora's Box as he dies.-Escape from Hades-Kratos finds himself in the Underworld, falling toward the Styx River. He reaches out and ends up clinging onto the captain he had killed earlier, who is clinging onto a huge bone pillar. Kratos stabs him, pulls himself up, and knocks the captain into the blood red river. From the bottom of the Underworld, Kratos carves a path of destruction through Hades' minions and makes it to the highest point of Hades' realm.A rope with a huge stone attached to it drops from above. Not one to ask questions, Kratos climbs the length of rope and when he reaches the top, he finds himself back in the world of the living. The Gravedigger, with his insane digging, has saved Kratos from an eternity down in Hades. With a message that the gods were rooting for Kratos, he disappears. There is a possibility that the Gravedigger was Zeus in disguise.While Kratos was making his way though Hades, Ares gained control of Athens and has trashed the Oracle's temple. Kratos finds the fallen Oracle in a pool of her own blood. She is surprised to see Kratos alive but she says that Ares has won the battle. Kratos at this moment could care less, since his revenge is at hand.-Final Battle-Kratos comes upon Ares, who is gloating to Zeus over his victory in the Battle of Athens, as well as his bad choice in favoring Athena over him. In one hand, dangling from a chain, is Pandora's Box. Ares is surprised to see Kratos standing behind him. He is even more surprised to see that he has escaped the Underworld. Ares then mocks his father's choice of champions, assuming that Kratos was not a threat. Once again, Ares underestimates his enemy, as Pandora's Box is sent crashing to the ground, courtesy of a well-aimed thunderbolt from Kratos.Kratos opens the box and the power of the gods is unleashed on him. He grows to Ares' height (about 50-75 feet tall) and prepares for mortal combat. Area reminds him that all of his skills and weapons were taught to Kratos by Ares himself. In a show of UNFAIR sportsmanship, six spiderlike limbs emerge from his back as his sword is at the ready.For a coward, Ares is a formidable opponent, but Kratos' resolve allows him to win the first round. Always not one to play fair, Ares sucks Kratos into his subconscious.As Kratos falls, Ares explains to him about the many ways how to kill a man. But to Ares, the most effective way to kill a man is to break his spirit. And for Kratos, that means he has to relive the moment he invaded the temple and killed his family. He kicks the doors open and his wife and child are there, alive. This time, they are surrounded by numerous doppelgangers of himself. In a rage, Kratos vows that Ares will never take his family a second time, that he has a chance for some serious retribution.Kratos charges into the array of clones, defending his family at all turns. The temple breaks away, but he fights on, using the extreme ruthlessness he used while as commander of his Spartan troops. After the extraordinary feat of singlehandedly defending his family, Kratos declares to Ares that he has taken his family once, but not a second time, and that the price he had to pay was not worth the power he gained.Pissed that Kratos had given him the kiss-off, Ares takes his Blades of Chaos from Kratos and uses them to kill his family...again. Kratos is on his kness, lamenting the loss of his wife and child as he and Ares are transported back to Athens. As Ares taunts Kratos and prepares to deliver the final bow, Kratos sees the final gift given to him by the gods: the Sword of the Gods, which was acting like a bridge. Kratos avoids the blow, and grabs the weapon, telling Ares that he still has allies with him. The two enemies, one a god, the other a mortal, teacher and student, square off. Now that he has the Blades of Chaos back in his posession, Ares has some of Kratos' old attacks, but that didn't stop Kratos from gaining the upper hand. Weakened by the constant assault, Ares sees that his end is near. He reminds Kratos that he came to him in his most desperate hour and that he was only trying to make him a great warrior. Kratos flatly replies that Ares had succeeded, right before running Ares through with his sword. Ares falls over and dies, his godlike essence releasing in a massive explosion.-The End of a Journey-Athens has been saved and will be rebuilt. However, the nightmares continued to plague Kratos. He pleads with Athena to take his nightmares away. Athena says that eventhough his sins were forgiven, they never made a deal for Kratos' nightmares to vainsh. Feeling abandoned by the gods, Kratos makes his way up to the Suicide Bluffs in an attempt to rid himself of his nightmares. He flings himself off the cliff and into the waters below, hoping that his misery would end with his death.The gods, however had other plans for Kratos. As Kratos sank into the water, he felt a powerful force grab him and pull him out the waters and back onto the bluffs. There, the statue of Athena spoke to him, saying that a man like Kratos should not die after doing the gods a great service. Also, due to the fact that Ares was now dead, there is an opening for the position for God of War. Athena opens a portal to Mount Olympus, the home of the gods and tells Kratos to enter. As a added bonus, she gives him the Blades of Athena, the exact opposite of the Blades of Chaos.Kratos does so and approaches the empty throne of the God of War. Trophies from his past conquests hang on either side, one of them happens to be Ares. Kratos takes his seat, as the new God of War and for eternity as man goes to war with one another, they did so under the watchful eye of Kratos, the God of War.However, Kratos was not satisfied. He had defeated Ares and avenged himself and his family, but there was something missing. Ever since he was a child, he never knew who his father was. Tracking down his mother, who was on her deathbed, Kratos demanded to know who was his father. Knowing full well of the consequences if she told him, she barely got a word out before she transfrormed into a monstrous beast, intending to make her son her last meal. Putting aside the affection he had for his mother, Kratos executes the beast. As she laid dying she uttered only one word before passing on."Zeus..."Zeus was Kratos' father. He was the son of a god. That made Ares and Athena his half-brother and half-sister (Christ. Can't Zeus keep his rolling thunder in his toga for one freakin' minute?!). Now Kratos plan on getting revenge for the god who ditched him and his mother. (Note: You really can't blame Zeus for abandoning them. If your wife was the queen of the gods with an insanely jealous temper, you'd watch you back too. Just ask Apollo, Artemis and Hercules.)-The Fate of the Titan-Wait a sec...I almost forgot about ol' Kronos...Following Kratos' retrivial of Pandora's Box, the temple laid silent as Kronos wandered the Desert of Lost Souls for another thousand years before dying. The Legend of Pandora's Temple was told throughout the centuries. And just recently, Pandora's Temple - along with the huge bones of Kronos were discovered. As the discovers will soon find out, the temple has many secrets...as well as many traps. Also, as with the myths of the past, soon a new hero will emerge...
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