God of War II

Pushed PS2 hardware to its ceiling and cemented set-piece scale as an action-game selling point.

Released 2007 Developer Santa Monica Studio Publisher Sony Computer Entertainment Platform PlayStation 2 Genre Action Era Broadband & the console shooter

Mechanics it built on

Ideas God of War II inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Quick-Time Event ~~1983~~Chained Combo Strings ~~1991~~Directed In-Engine Camera Language ~~1998~~Contextual Execution ~~2006~~

The God of War series in this dataset

2005

God of War ~~2005~~

2007

God of War II ~~this page~~

2010

God of War III ~~2010~~

2018

God of War ~~2018~~

2022

God of War Ragnarök ~~2022~~

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