This one takes Chains of Olympus and improves on it in every way.
Demios ;(
This game is incredibly good, the worst part of it is the combats, which in addition to being large in number, are repetitive, but the story is still incredible, you see how Kratos feels about killing his own mother, this game is what but it shows the human side of Kratos, you see him accepting and accepting death for his own brother just so he doesn't have to kill him, and Zeus's (digger) phrase: 'You became death, a destroyer of the world' is classic, and Furthermore, it justifies a little the hatred of Kratos from GOW 2, who starts very angry out of nowhere
While the combat is not quite as varied as in God of War 3, Ghost of Sparta easily makes up for this with its story. It's surprising to see a PSP spin-off dive deeper into Kratos' character than the mainline games ever did. It's great to see Kratos in a non hostile environment for once (if only for a couple of minutes), and one can even spot a lot of elements that would become much more prominent in the later PS4 era titles.
What holds the game somewhat back is the way it treats its antagonists. Whereas Zeus and Ares both get entire games worth of build up, the main antagonist in Ghost of Sparta appears only a couple minutes before the climactic boss fight against him starts. I don't think the middle part of Ghost of Sparta drags as much as the one in GoW 2 did, but I still think it could've been put to better use to flesh out Kratos' opponents.
The PS3 port is also fairly mediocre. I'm assuming that it runs better than on the PSP, but there's still tons of screen tearing, stuttering, and the game even crashed once (this might be due to my disc copy as the game froze up right when a cutscene was supposed to start). The controls also fail to make use of all the buttons available, as more than one action is bound onto single buttons - a layout that might have made sense on a PSP, but feels clunky on the PS3.
Technical issues aside, this is one of the better Greek God of War games and definitely worth playing. Despite being released after God of War 3, try to play it before playing 2 and 3, otherwise some of the dialogue in 3 won't make sense to you.
What holds the game somewhat back is the way it treats its antagonists. Whereas Zeus and Ares both get entire games worth of build up, the main antagonist in Ghost of Sparta appears only a couple minutes before the climactic boss fight against him starts. I don't think the middle part of Ghost of Sparta drags as much as the one in GoW 2 did, but I still think it could've been put to better use to flesh out Kratos' opponents.
The PS3 port is also fairly mediocre. I'm assuming that it runs better than on the PSP, but there's still tons of screen tearing, stuttering, and the game even crashed once (this might be due to my disc copy as the game froze up right when a cutscene was supposed to start). The controls also fail to make use of all the buttons available, as more than one action is bound onto single buttons - a layout that might have made sense on a PSP, but feels clunky on the PS3.
Technical issues aside, this is one of the better Greek God of War games and definitely worth playing. Despite being released after God of War 3, try to play it before playing 2 and 3, otherwise some of the dialogue in 3 won't make sense to you.