The mid-2000s were plagued with dime-a-dozen action games for the PlayStation 2, Gamecube, and Xbox consoles, with a new third-person hack-and-slash game seemingly being released every other week. Nearly all of them were forgettable experiences, best relegated to gamers’ collective memories. But one action game for the Playstation 2 captured gamer’s hearts in 2005: that game was God of War, a wild third-person action game that kicked off a franchise that has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. Join us at GVMERS as we take a look back at the evolution of God of War.