I LOVE this series. It's fantastic, amazing, and epic all at the same time. The action, the story, and the puzzles all flow together so well to make everything nearly flawless. (No game in existance is flawless.)
Basically, you are Kratos. He has served the gods of olympus for 10 long years, hoping to rid himself of his growing madness caused by his own deeds. Athena comes to give him his final task on his quest for atonement, to defeat Ares, the God of War. (because the gods can't fight amongst themselves and Ares is going around being a general a-hole)
