 "Ascension" also only had a generally favorable reception and, not including the PlayStation Vita port of "God of War Collection", it has the lowest score in the series from Metacritic (80/100).At the time of its release, Raymond Padilla of GameSpy wrote that the original "God of War" was the "best action game ever to grace the PS2".Other critics similarly said that it was one of the best action games of all time; it received over a dozen "Game of the Year" awards.