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Developer(s): SCE Santa Monica
Publisher(s): SCEA (US), SCEE (EU), SCEI (KO), Capcom (JP), SCE Australia (AU)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Wikipedia: Link
Game review links: IGN: 9.8/10, Metacritic: 94/100, GameSpot: 9.3/10, Eurogamer: 9/10
Game description: In God of War, the dark world of Greek mythology comes to life right before your eyes. As you take the role of Kratos, a story unfolds with various plot twists and multiple endings that take you through traps, stunts and puzzles. With a deep combat system built around double chain blade weapons, the game places you in a variety of environments where you must fight challenging enemies, swing on ropes, scale mountain cliffs, swim through rivers and slide down zip lines.
God of War is a single player game that features a third-person perspective view with a fixed camera. The player controls the character Kratos, a Spartan warrior in the service of the Olympian Gods in a mixture of combat, both normal and quick time with platforming and puzzle game elements. The player guides the protagonist through a long series of tests, trials and mazes to achieve goals. The game is loosely based on Greek mythology and is set in Ancient Greece.
Test configurations on Windows:
| Environment | Configurations | Comments | Tester | ||||
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| Region | OS | CPU/GPU | Revision | Graphics | Sound/Pad | ||
| NTSC-U | ? |
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0.9.7 (SVN r3113) | GSdx SSE2 (r3068) |
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BIOS: USA v02.20, GSdx plugin settings : Try to enable Native tick and disable any others. Speed hacks settings : Try to enable everything. VU Cycle Stealing causes huge speed up, but Kratus blinks. | Squall* |
| NTSC-U | ? |
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0.9.8 (r4895) | GSdx SSE4 (r4895) |
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BIOS: USA v02.00. Try to enable Native ( weak GPU ) Emulation Settings : try to enable those speedhacks : VU Cycle Stealing( which causes huge speed up, and cause fake FPS (slider2/3)) recomended Speedhacks specially MTVU ( if you're on triple core or higher may cause a decent increase on dual cores ) don't use EE Cycling minimum speed will cause increase stuttering FMVs. | Abdo123 |
| NTSC-U | ? |
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0.9.9 (r5128) | GSDX SSE4.1 (r5133) |
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With 5x resolution I get 50 FPS super stable! Recomended speedhacks on, Automatic Gamefixes on , MTVU on, GSdx: Direct3D11, Texture Filtering, hardware hacks: Half-pixel Offset. Change NTSC framerate to 50 FPS or lower, change in Pcsx2_vm.ini | Heltonxl |
| NTSC-U | Windows |
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1.1.0 (r5480) | GSdx SSE41 (r5442) |
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Runs near full speed. | |
| NTSC-U | Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit |
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1.2.1 (r5875) | GSdx SSE4 0.1.16 (r5875) |
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The game is fully playable, and all the Bonus features you unlock after completing the game work. The entire game was played at 2x Native Resolution, with Shade Boost, FXAA and FX Shader options all enabled, at a solid 60 FPS (with very rare drops) in Direct3D11 Hardware mode. NOTE : Shadows on Kratos and enemies cannot be seen. The Hades section is missing some effects resulting in a washed out look. | digital_devil |
| PAL | Windows |
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1.3 (svn r5932) | GSdx |
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USA v02.20(10/02/2006), No Bugs. | |
| NTSC-U | Windows |
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1.3.0 (git 2014-08-30) | GSdx SSE41 0.1.16 |
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US v02.00(14/06/2004), Defaults + MTVU (Multi-Threaded microVU1). Run at max speed (60 FPS) with a few rare slowdowns (45-50 FPS) using also 1920x1080 resolution. In Hardware mode shadows from main character and creatures are not displayed. The same also happen with the fog effect. In Software mode both works fine. | |
| NTSC | Windows 8.1 Pro x64 |
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1.3.1 (r530 g62beb3a) | GSdx |
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BIOS: USA 2.2.0(10/02/2006), Completed the entire game with no crashing. | INVALID_STRING_NAME |
| NTSC-U | Windows 7 Ultimate x64 |
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1.4.0 (2016-08-01) | GSdx AVX/SSE4 |
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BIOS: USA 2.2.0, Fully playable with solid performance 50-60 FPS. "OpenGL (Hardware)" for shadows and fog working, Blending Unit Accuracy on High along with CRC this emulates shadows and volumetric fog (video card compatible with OpenGl 4.5 req.), TC Offset X:337, TC Offset Y:337 (removes vertical lines and bad effects). Edit: If you manage to run it at "4x native" resolution, change the TC offset to "370" in X and Y. Completed the entire game in HD with the shadows and fog correctly emulated. | Desran1010 |
| NTSC-U | Windows 10 |
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1.5.0 (dev-2240) | GSdx AVX2 1.1.0 |
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BIOS: USA 1.60, Playable with full 60FPS. I have noticed a total freeze occur during the third phase of Ares Boss fight and the growls would just loop on and on. This could possibly be due to mtVU since it is warned it may cause hanging, though not fully certain. This issue has also in fact been experienced by some others on real PS2s, so it is possibly just a bad bug. I suggest using save states in case this ever happens. I suggest enabling mtVU because without it, the game is unable to maintain 60fps in heavy battles. Do use OpenGL (Hardware) or software rendering of any backend to render shadows. OpenGL (Hardware) is much more demanding on the GPU than other hardware backends. Disabling Framebuffer helps however. A GTX 750 Ti is able to run it at 720p maximum. | Skryptonyte |
| NTSC-U | Windows 10 |
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1.5.0 (dev-2350) | GSdx AVX2 1.1.0 |
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BIOS: USA 2.30, Playable with full 60FPS, shadows working and no visual artifacts. | silverkid |
| NTSC-U | Windows 10 x64 |
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1.6.0 | GSdx 1.2.0 |
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Unless you set the CRC hack level to Partial or Aggressive, most of the screen will be bright green, essentially making the game unplayable. I tried Aggressive initially, but that messed up the shadows, so I changed it to Partial, which was fine. Initially there was noticeable lag when fighting multiple enemies, but enabling MTVU eliminated the lag, and from then on, the game ran at full speed. However, it's clearly quite demanding on my PC (it's normally almost silent and the fans got very loud, and the PC became warm to the touch), so I'd recommend using VU cycle stealing for mid to low-end PCs. Once I'd enabled MTVU, there were no other issues. Fully playable. | PandoraGTX |
| NTSC-U | Windows 11 x64 |
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1.7.0 | GSdx AVX2 |
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Fully playable from start to finish. FPS drops if Blending Accuracy is set to higher than Basic. FMVs are offset by one pixel to the left side, leaving a vertical trail of randomly colored pixels. Renderer: Automatic, Internal Resolution: 4x Native, Mipmapping: Full, Trilinear Filtering: Automatic, Anisotropic Filtering: 16x, Blending Accuracy: Basic. | Tomle1202 |
Test configurations on Linux:
| Environment | Configurations | Comments | Tester | ||||
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| Region | OS | CPU/GPU | Revision | Graphics | Sound/Pad | ||
| ? | ? |
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pre-0.9.7 beta (r1736) | ZZogl 182 |
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16-bit textures | 188.134.4.34 |
| NTSC-U | Debian 8 Testing (Linux 4.1.6-amd64) |
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1.3.1 (git r1094 gf062b0f) | GSdx SSE2 1.0.0 |
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BIOS: Europe v02.00, Preset: Safest. Runs full speed. | Beta Version BY |
Test configurations on macOS:
| Environment | Configurations | Comments | Tester | ||||
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| Region | OS | CPU/GPU | Revision | Graphics | Sound/Pad | ||
| NTSC-U | macOS Sonoma 14.5 |
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2.1.30 | Default | Default | ? | Garbee |
| PAL-M | macOS Sonoma 14.5 |
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2.2.0 | Vulkan | Default | Using Metal as renderer provoked freezes and frame drops, Vulkan instead worked like a charm. | Yapping9241 |
Trivia
- Original names: ゴッド・オブ・ウォー (SLPM-67010) & (SLPM-67011) & (SLPM-67012), 갓 오브 워: 영혼의 반역자 (SCKA-30002)
- Widescreen crops the top and bottom of the 4:3 image, meaning less visible viewing area than when played in 4:3.
Known Issues
There are currently no known, active issues for this title. If you find one, please add it here.
Fixed Issues
Kratos's shadow is missing
- Status: Fixed
- Type: Minor
- Description: In Hardware mode Kratos's shadow is missing.
- Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.
Green tint
- Status: Fixed
- Type: Minor
- Description: There is a green bloomish tint overlayed.
- Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.
Horizontal lines underwater
- Status: Fixed
- Type: Minor
- Description: In underwater sections horizontal lines appear over the screen.
- Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.
Fog does not shown up right in Hardware mode
- Status: Fixed
- Type: Minor
- Description: When playing on Hardware mode and using upscale settings, fog will not look right.
- Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.
Multiple evenly spaced black vertical lines across screen
- Status: Fixed
- Type: Minor
- Description: Multiple black vertical lines span across the screen image.
- Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.
Misaligned black rectangle at bottom of FMV scenes
- Status: Fixed
- Type: Minor
- Description: When using progressive scan, during FMV scenes, a black rectangle obscures part of the bottom of the image, usually in one of the corners.
- Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.
Missing audio in in-game cutscenes
- Status: Fixed
- Type: Minor
- Description: Voice clips can be muted during in-game cutscenes such as the first one which is Foul beasts, I will send you back to the depths of Hades. It occurs when the EE runs at a relatively fast pace.
- Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.
Non-Issues
Kratos blinking
- Type: Not an issue
- Description: When the "VU Cycle Stealing" speedhack is enabled, Kratos starts blinking.
- Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.
Hardware renderer + upscaling artifacts
- Type: Not an issue
- Description: From a this post: When playing with Hardware renderer upscaled you will see vertical lines. There's also green along the nets of the ship at the beginning of the game. This is just a consequence of upscaling. They go away in Software renderer.
- Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.
Gallery
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