God of War 2018

Is it still worth playing?

Santa Monica Studio's 2018 action adventure for the PlayStation 4, now in a Norse setting. Kratos travels with his son Atreus to scatter his wife's ashes from the highest peak of the nine realms. The camera sits over Kratos's shoulder, and the whole game is presented as one continuous shot with no camera cuts or loading screens. Combat is built on two fighters. One is Kratos, whose Leviathan Axe can be thrown and recalled with a separate button. The other is Atreus, who fires at a target when you command it and cannot die. Gear, runes, enchantments and a skill tree are paid for with experience, and the story takes about 25 to 35 hours. The combat still carries it today, with the axe thrown and called back while a second fighter works beside you, so each fight has several things going on at once.