That’s actually a small component, as it turns out, of the play, as environmental traps, level traversal, and pickup weapons and refills dot the battlefield inviting a bit of turnabout. Tethering (using chains to pull towards an enemy) adds a touch of variety to combos, but is just an extension of the same back-and-forth combat. Then they each use magic, and the first one to recover and attack after that wins the duel. One player lays in with a killer combo, then rests in a cooldown, when the opponent gets swift and equal revenge. What’s less remarkable (in my short experience with the game, which is indicative of but not definitive for all experiences with it) is the actual process of skull-smashing and thorax-slashing, which is as much a game of violent PONG as chess is a game of strategic PONG. Doing so nets experience which nets new armor, weapons, and magic, and the next stage promises more of the same. Some mythical badass or another (in this case, heroes like Jason and Hercules) teams up with other muscular, oily legends to rip into some other jacked Aeneid cameos until weapons fall from Mount Olympus and somebody carves open the Cyclops, whose name, by the way, is Polyphemus. The Kratos experience ports well to persistent multiplayer.
It’s also, I think, a weak link in Olympus’ chain. This is a well-made enhancement to the GoW formula, and one that deserves attention.
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In fact, movement and combat controls are so analogous to the single-player controls from past GoW games that it’s a friendly addition, and one accented by the set pieces and Greco-Roman lore that the series gleefully brutalizes. That’s not to say that the melee-focused brawler isn’t a joy to play. If there’s a bright center to the God of War IP, Ascension‘s multiplayer is the mode that it’s furthest from.
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