Parent reviews for God of War (2018)

God of War is easily my and my son’s favourite game on the PlayStation 4. Graphically it is incredible, story and gameplay equally as good. VIOLENCE: 8/10 Blood and gore, the most violent taking down a huge dragon with red blood and leaving a gaping hole in its face. Blood and gore is infrequent though, most violence is acted upon monsters, with non-red blood or no blood at all, however it does involve dismemberment of aforementioned monsters, but them being monsters and with the aforementioned blood description, it all looks very cartoony. LANGUAGE: 7/10 Infrequent bad language but the word f**k is probably the most used across the game. SEX: 3/10 One reference to it where the word f**k is used in a sexual context. THERE ARE NO OTHER FORMS OF INAPPROPRIATE CONTENT

This game is fine for mature 11+ year olds

The game does have killing but NEVER humans just monsters. As a die hard god of war lover, I can tell u this is good for ages 13+ because its not super violent as the other god of war games where all u do is kill people for vengeance and have sex with women for points. in this game (the latest god of war) there is no sex AT ALL, its not about killing people for hate, just monsters in order to finish kratos duty as a father to mentor his son into not being like his old self, and that's really it. The kills for monsters are NOT gory as people think, there is rarely any gore shown when u kill monsters and even when u do, its not extreme at all, its mild gore tv-ma level, this is nowhere near mortal kombat or bloodborne gore. There is no ripping hearts and heads off, u just kill monsters/creatures with axes and arrows. The game doesn't teach about war its just a father and son bonding moment for kratos with his kid.

The "white males" complaints is hilarious. Only the true karens of the world care about the color of ppl in a FICTIONAL norse mythology game. The rest of us could care less if our race/gender is "represented" rofl.

boring, the first fight scene takes like an hour, it's so repetitive, how does thsi game have such good reviews.

I was worried that this game would be sex infested such as other games like GTA which I would never let my son go near. However after my son persuaded me to buy this game for him I watched very closely and soon found out that there was no sex or anything vulgar scenes. Rather, the only reason this game is an 18 is purely down to two reasons. Firstly there is a lot of use of the "f" word and "sh*t" which are the only two vulgar words he used and next the violence. In the game he battles monsters and gods who do not resemble humans in any way to protect his son. He kills them with axes and with his fists in meelee combat and there is blood. However there is no more blood than would be in the game Bloodborne for example which is a 16. I understand that at some stage this game was originally a 16 but had moved to an 18 due to the repeated swearing which as a parent can accept that my children have sworn many times. Overall I think this game really is suitable from age 14 up and finally quick mention, you can turn the blood off in the settings.

There are a couple of things you need to know about this game. First, it has a great story but is pretty violent. Blood spills everywhere and there is a lot of inappropriate language, specifically, the f word, the sh word, and the b word etc, are prevalent throughout the game. Second, there are some good messages. The main character, Kratos, inspires his son Artrayus to be brave and to be a strong survivor. The graphics are amazing. The objective of the game is for Kratos to take his wife's ashes to the highest peak in all the realms.

I watched my kid play and he loved the game he is 9 and had no problem with it. Has some violence but not enough for its m rating

its fine for a mature 10 year old's if your kid is not bothered by small amounts of blood its probably fine