God Of War PS4: 8 Hands-On Impressions You Need To Know

6. Kratos' New Axe Is A Suitable Blades Of Chaos Replacement

Being to Kratos what Mjolnir is to Thor, at any time you can aim and fling your axe into a crowd of enemies - only to push a button and recall it to your hand in seconds.

Best of all, the trajectory this thing carves through the air will do damage to whatever is in its path, so target limbs and chop a whole platoon down to size - then recall and see its return journey decapitate any stragglers on the way back.

Upgradeable through a sizeable enough skill tree, you'll quickly learn to time your recall, as tapping just after a connection can embue the next throw with a frost power that'll freeze a foe to the spot. Targeting multiple creatures, spinning it in mid-air for quick combos and charge attacks that end in gruesome dismemberments all come soon enough, alongside equippable runes and other special attacks that flesh out your possibilities.

You can tell Sony took criticisms of God of War being a game of "square, square, square, triangle" to heart, as Kratos' movelist is now MASSIVE.