God Of War: Ranking The 10 Best Boss Battles
3. Poseidon - God Of War 3
You fight Poseidon, who has taken the form of a giant spider-horse centaur made from water, and you fight him whilst riding on the titan Gaia. It's incredible.
The scale of this first fight on the trilogy-ending God of War 3 sets the tone for the rest of the game, and leaves anything seen before in the dust. You traverse the Titan Gaia, and briefly a tomb built for Ares inside Mount Olympus, and battle Poseidon's enormous water steeds.
When you finally have the God pinned by Gaia's enormous hand, the final battle begins, and it's an incredible introduction to the mechanics of the game for the battles yet to come.
This encounter ends with an impressive cinematic kill, one that makes perfect use of POV camera to show you Poseidon's last moments, giving us a glimpse of Kratos' savagery from the perspective of one of his victims. The mixture of satisfaction and repulsion felt when instructed by the quick time event to jab Poseidon's eyes by clicking both of the thumb-sticks is an early highlight of this stellar title, and one of the most creative kills in gaming.