The combat itself is a little shallow - you basically just mash "attack" over and over and auto-perform combos, but the game compensates in a couple of major ways. This basically means that as long as Kratos mashes the attack button without stopping, it's pretty darn hard to get hit. Meaning if an enemy has his weapon raised, about to strike, as long as your attack lands first, his is cancelled. Additionally, Kratos' attacks *always* take priority over an enemy's.
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They'll stand around and let the player wallop them with combo after combo, occasionally taking mindless swipes in the player's general direction. My biggest issue with God of War is that the hordes of enemies seem to exist pretty much solely to act as punching (or slicing, as it were) bags for Kratos. Honestly though, the chain swords are all you need. Kratos also has access to Medusa's Head to freeze enemies in place, the Army of Hades to strike enemies from afar, and the two-handed Sword of Artemis to wreak havoc at close range. Kratos' primary tools of destruction remain Athena's Blades, which are basically two gigantic blades tied to the end of lengthy chains. The game allows gamers to play through the events that pissed off the Olympian Gods so much leading into GoW II, including killing the son of Hermes himself in the game's finale.ĭespite the switch to 2D, franchise veterans should feel right at home. The game takes place between the events of God of War and its sequel - Kratos has defeated Ares and become the new God of War, and, naturally, isn't just content to sit around, given his newly-bestowed title. Ultimately the gameplay is inoffensive enough, but it doesn't do much (with one big exception I'll get to in a minute) to elevate itself from the rest of the 2D action titles already out there. Yet at no point during my time with it did I especially feel like I was having fun.
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It remained compelling enough, right through to the end, that I didn't mind playing through the whole title. Not because it's awful, but because it's just. God of War: Betrayal is one of those games that is frustrating to critique as a reviewer.