Robin
2010-03-31 12:43:32 UTC
(NY TIMES) - For thousands of years people have suspected that the
gods — jealous, greedy, deceitful and altogether selfish — are just
messing around up there and may not actually have humanity’s best
interests at heart. In video games that suspicion has been given the
graveled voice of Kratos, the tormented Spartan soldier who is one of
the most compelling video game characters of the last half-decade.
When we first met Kratos, five years ago in the original God of War,
he had just been deceived into killing his wife and family by the god
he had sworn to serve, the blackhearted Ares. Empowered by Athena,
Kratos set off on a grand mission of revenge that now, in the new God
of War III, published by Sony for the Playstation3 (Amazon.com:
http://xrl.us/GodOfWar3 ), has delivered him to the pinnacle of
Olympus as he seeks to slay Zeus himself...
Continued: http://xrl.us/GoWIII
gods — jealous, greedy, deceitful and altogether selfish — are just
messing around up there and may not actually have humanity’s best
interests at heart. In video games that suspicion has been given the
graveled voice of Kratos, the tormented Spartan soldier who is one of
the most compelling video game characters of the last half-decade.
When we first met Kratos, five years ago in the original God of War,
he had just been deceived into killing his wife and family by the god
he had sworn to serve, the blackhearted Ares. Empowered by Athena,
Kratos set off on a grand mission of revenge that now, in the new God
of War III, published by Sony for the Playstation3 (Amazon.com:
http://xrl.us/GodOfWar3 ), has delivered him to the pinnacle of
Olympus as he seeks to slay Zeus himself...
Continued: http://xrl.us/GoWIII