The spirit of Athena works as a guide for the game and helps Kratos in battling away monsters, Titans, and God’s for searching Pandora, which is required for him to open the box of Pandora, defeating Zeus and finish the era of Olympian gods. It provided ignition to the Great War, in which Mount Olympus was ascended by Kratos till he gets abandonment from Titan Gaia.
The protagonist is controlled by the players and Kratos, who is considered as an earlier God of wars after he was betrayed by Zeus, his father, and the King of Olympian Gods. It is somewhat constructed on the theme of Greek Mythology and is set in the ancient period of Greece.
It is also a sequel to the God of War-2 released in the year 2007.
This game is the fifth inclusion in the series of God of War, which ranks seventh in chronological order and last one in the Greek era franchise.