Video Games Quiz: God Of War | 10 Questions

Answer: Apollo's Fire

The god Apollo does not appear in the game. The Army of Hades allows you to summon the souls of the dead to attack your enemies, Medusa's Gaze (given by Aphrodite) allows you to turn your enemies to stone, and the Blade of Artemis is an alternative weapon to Kratos's Blades of Chaos.

Answer: Sphinx

The sphinx (a lion with a woman's head, that asks riddles) does not appear in the game. The Hydra (a multi headed monster) is a boss in the first level. Satyrs (half man, half goat) appear in the upper levels of Pandora's Temple, and Sirens (woman-like monsters that sing sweetly to lure men) appear in the Desert of Lost Souls.

Answer: Green orbs (that replenish health)

For most monsters, you gain red experience orbs when you kill them with or without using the Circle Button mini game. Killing a Gorgon using a mini game (where you twist the Analog Stick in a particular direction) will get you blue magic orbs. Phoenix Feathers are found in chests - for every six that you find, Kratos's magic bar increases in length.

Answer: In the Desert of Lost Souls, chained to the back of Kronos the Titan

Or to be more exact, the temple is on top of a mountain which is chained to the back of Kronos. The game's manual explains that after Zeus took over from Kronos as ruler of Olympus, he punished Kronos by having him wander through the Desert of Lost Souls on his hands and knees, with the temple on his back, until he dies.

Answer: The architect of Pandora's Temple

There are many messages left by Pathos within Pandora's Temple. He "lived only to serve the gods, but went mad trying", according to the temple's body burner. His two sons died constructing the temple - Kratos finds their tombs. He later finds the bodies of Pathos, and a woman who is presumably his wife. Pathos's final message suggests he killed his wife when she called him and the gods fools, then killed himself.

Answer: An Undead Warrior is sacrificed instead of a soldier

In the European version, in the room where the sacrifice occurs, Kratos finds a note from a dead soldier that possibly drops a reference to this change. The soldier's note says he cannot sacrifice the Undead Warriors because "they are monsters now, but they were once men".

Answer: Upgrades of health, magic and experience

You can use the Muse Keys to enter a special room where you can increase the lengths of Kratos's health and magic bars, and gain red experience orbs. You do not need the Muse Keys to reach the upper levels of the temple, and Kratos actually gains Rage Of The Gods when you upgrade the Blades of Chaos to Level 2.

Answer: Centaurs

Kratos has to kill the centaurs inside circles on the floor, marking Hades's altars. By the way, the giant armoured Minotaur appears as a boss at the end of the Challenge of Hades.

Answer: He replaces Ares as the god of war

After Kratos defeats Ares, he is told by Athena that his sins are forgiven, but that the memories of his past cannot be taken away. He attempts to kill himself by jumping off a mountain into the sea, but Athena stops him. Kratos is then rewarded for his service by being given Ares's throne on Mount Olympus, and becoming the new god of war.

Answer: A Cyclops with four arms, carrying four clubs, which was too difficult to animate

Although there is a model of a Gorgon with five feet (instead of the single tail it has in the game) that was considered too difficult to animate. Also among the rejected Cyclops models is one with a human-like face that the game's director "felt sorry for", and one wearing bloodstained armour - the director claims to like the latter model and could not recall why it was rejected.