Was first discharged in North America on March 22, 2005, for the PlayStation 2. Following ten years in the administration of the Olympian divine beings, Spartan warrior Kratos is entrusted by Athena to discover Pandora's Box; the way to crushing Ares, the God of War, who is going crazy through Athens. A progression of flashbacks uncovers that Kratos was at one time the hireling of Ares, who spared the Spartan and his armed force from obliteration in fight, however deceived him into killing his family which constrained his transformation into the "Apparition of Sparta". Kratos in the long run discovers Pandora's Box,.