God of War: Chains of Olympus

Alternative title(s)
Antiquity game	CAG
Release	Mar 4, 2008
Publisher	Sony Computer Entertainment, Capcom (JP)
Developer	Ready at Dawn, SCE Santa Monica Studio
Platform(s)	PSP
Mode	Single-player
Genre	Action-adventure; role-playing game; hack and slash; hero-based
Setting	Mythological storyworld based on Ancient Greece
Notable charactersB	Athena, Eos, Persephone, Atlas, Helios, Charon, Morpheus
DLC

On Sep 13, 2011, remastered versions of God of War: Chains of Olympus and God of War: Ghost of Sparta were released together in God of War Origins Collection (also called God of War Collection – Volume II [EU, AU]) for the PS3.

On Aug 28, 2012, remastered versions of God of War, God of War II, God of War: Chains of Olympus, God of War: Ghost of Sparta and God of War III were released together in God of War Saga (PS3).

Bibliography

Furtwängler, F. (2012). ‘God of War and the Mythology of Games’ in T.S. Thorsen (ed.), Greek and Roman Games in the Computer Age. Trondheim: Akademika Publishing, 27-51.

Gordon, J. (2017). ‘When Superman smote Zeus: analysing violent deicide in popular culture’ in Classical Receptions Journal 9 (2), 211-236.

Lowe, D. (2009). ‘Playing with Antiquity: Videogame Receptions of the Classical World’ in D. Lowe & K. Shahabudin (eds.), Classics for All: Reworking Antiquity in Mass Culture. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 64-90.

Lowe, D. (2012). ‘Always Already Ancient: Ruins in the Virtual World’ in T. S. Thorsen (ed.), Greek and Roman Games in the Computer Age. Trondheim: Akademika Publishing, 53-90.

Macías Villalobos, C. (2020). ‘The Videogame Hero in His Labyrinth. The Hero in Electronic Gaming’ in R. López Gregoris & C. Macías Villalobos (ed.), The Hero Reloaded: The reinvention of the classical hero in contemporary mass media. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 73-102.

Additional keywords

gods, heroes, myth