Review by Jihad  "Olympic, Herculean, and all that stuff"  God
of War is a game that channels the bloody, pitiless wrath of
ancient Greek gods and warriors. The ads ominously proclaim that
“a new myth will be written in the blood of the old,” and I'll
be damned if the designers of this game haven't gone out and
done just that.  A man must fight off legions of mythical beasts
and find Pandora's Box in order to kill Ares (the vindictive god
of war) and redeem his own soul. Need I say it's extremely,
unapologetically violent? Birthed from the mind of David Jaffe,
the man behind the good Twisted Metal titles, God of War
delivers the same sort of fearsome action in the same sort of
moral vacuum. This is a world of rage, cruelty, and human
sacrifice: expect to be sucked in.  The man who must recover the
box is Kratos, a Spartan warrior with ashen skin who acts as the
gods' angel of death. They took the liberty of searing a chain
to each of Kratos' forearms; at the end of each chain is a blade
that's normally soaked