God of War III is a hack-and-slash action adventure developed by SCE Santa Monica Studio and released in 2010 exclusively for PlayStation 3. The game follows Kratos, a former Spartan warrior, as he traverses the heights of Mount Olympus and the depths of the underworld in pursuit of vengeance against those who betrayed him. Armed with his signature double-chained blades alongside an expanded arsenal of weapons and magic, Kratos battles creatures drawn from Greek mythology and works through complex puzzles across a series of large-scale set pieces. Built on a new engine developed specifically for the PS3, the game features quadrupled texture resolutions compared to its PlayStation 2 predecessor, dynamic lighting, and fluid character animation. Combat encounters are designed at a significantly greater scale than earlier entries in the trilogy, and world-altering events unfold throughout the single-player campaign as Kratos pursues the destruction of Olympus.
Following the ending of God of War II, God of War III picks up directly after this with a stirring opening narration from Zeus discussing the actions of the rogue Kratos, who is 'commanding' a small army of Titans rescued from the Great War (using the power of the Fates). The Olympians immediately rush to battle; Helios rides on his chariot over Olympus, Hermes speeds down the very peaks of Olympus as Zeus watches on, Hercules receives the order to lead his troops down into the fray, Hades lunges off and engages several Titans in his giant form, and Poseidon (using his aquakinesis) shoots down from Olympus like a missile and performs a death blow through the chest of Epimetheus, and then manifests himself as a massive water being and spawns several water horses called Hippocampi to aid in the battle. With Poseidon as their greatest threat in the battle, having already decimated numerous Titans and soon going after Gaia herself, Kratos engages the God of the Sea and after drawing him into Gaia's grasp manages to knock a weakened Poseidon out of his godly form and onto a separate platform. The two quarrel with each other briefly before Kratos walks up and beats the Lord of the Sea savagely, finally gouging out his eyes and snapping his neck before he tosses him into the ocean. With Poseidon's death, the seas cataclysm and ocean levels rise significantly, causing a flood that appears to engulf the entire world and destroying almost all of mankind save those on top of Olympia.
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