<Ul> <Li> WW: February 1, 2018 </Li> </Ul> <Li> WW: February 1, 2018 </Li> <P> God of War is an action - adventure, hack and slash, mythology - based video game series, originally created by David Jaffe at Sony's Santa Monica Studio . Debuting in 2005 on the PlayStation 2 (PS2) video game console, the series has become a flagship title for the PlayStation brand, consisting of seven games across multiple platforms with an eighth currently in development . The series' story centers around its playable character, Kratos, a Spartan warrior tricked into killing his wife and daughter by his former master, the Greek God of War Ares . Kratos kills Ares at the behest of the goddess Athena and takes his place as the new God of War, but is still haunted by the nightmares of his past . Revealed to be a demigod and the son of Zeus, the King of the Olympian Gods who betrays Kratos, the Spartan then seeks revenge against the gods for their machinations . What follows is a series of attempts to free himself from the influence of the gods and the Titans and exact revenge . Many years after taking his revenge against the Greek gods, Kratos ends up in the world of the Norse gods with a son named Atreus and takes a turn for the good . </P> <P> Santa Monica has developed all main entries, while Ready at Dawn and Javaground / Sony Online Entertainment - Los Angeles (SOE - LA) developed the three side games . Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE; formerly Sony Computer Entertainment) has published all games except the mobile phone installment; it was published by Sony Pictures Digital . There are two eras of games in the God of War series . The first era are the first seven games, which are based on Greek mythology with vengeance as a central motif . God of War (2005), God of War II (2007), and God of War III (2010) comprise its main trilogy; the first two were released on the PS2 with the third on the PlayStation 3 (PS3). The fourth main installment, Ascension (2013), a prequel to the entire series, was also released for the PS3 and features multiplayer . The three side games include Chains of Olympus (2008) and Ghost of Sparta (2010) for the PlayStation Portable (PSP), and Betrayal (2007) for mobile phones that supported the Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME). Santa Monica is currently working on the eighth installment, also titled God of War (2018), for the PlayStation 4 (PS4). It will begin the second era, which will take the franchise to the world of Norse mythology . To go along with the new installment, Sony released a short prequel story, A Call from the Wilds (2018), as a text - based game through Facebook Messenger . </P>

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