Say hi to gaming's angriest man. To be fair to Kratos, he has a fairly good reason for the perpetual steroid rage shtick that he's known for. After all, wouldn't you be just a little bit miffed if you'd been manipulated into killing your own family and then killed yourself by the almighty Zeus? You can't blame the guy for wanting to stick the God of Thunder's head on a pike for what he's done. If Kratos has to kill the entire Greek Pantheon to achieve such a goal, then so be it - he doesn't really care about the consequences of his actions. But that's both his charm and the reason why he won't just be forgotten as another throwaway hack 'n slash protagonist. The God Of War series as a whole raises the serious question of what should be considered 'good'. If you believe the very definition of the word to be avenging the death of your family no matter the cost, then yeah, Kratos is a bloody saint. Otherwise, he's no better than the God he's on a crusade to kill. In fact, Kratos could have saved himself a lot of hassle if he'd just offed himself straight after murdering the crap out of Ares.
Joe is a freelance games journalist who, while not spending every waking minute selling himself to websites around the world, spends his free time writing. Most of it makes no sense, but when it does, he treats each article as if it were his Magnum Opus - with varying results.
