God of War: Ghost of Sparta

Alternative title(s)
Antiquity game	CAG
Release	Nov 2, 2010
Publisher	Sony Computer Entertainment
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, Deimos, Thanatos, Callisto, Thera, Erinys, Midas, Poseidon, Zeus
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.

Garfield, A.; Manders, A. (2019). ‘Video Games, Homer to Hesiod: What Ancient Greek Content Do Video Game Players See?’ in Proceedings of the 2019 11^th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers, 190-195.

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

Additional keywords

gods, myth, heroes