Sample the God of War-book

As so many other games, God of War is being turned into a book, written by Matthew Stover and Robert E. Vardeman (of Star Wars and Star Trek fame). If you want to, you can now read the first 20 pages of the book in pdf-format - including prologue and the first chapter - and if you feel the urge to do so you can do it right here.

A word of warning, though. The book includes such paragraphs as...

"His wrists and forearms are the true symbol of his service to the gods. The ragged strips of flesh flutter in the cruel wind, blackening with rot; even the bone itself bears the scars of the chains that once were fused there: the chains of the Blades of Chaos. Those chains are gone now, ripped from him by the very god who inflicted them upon him. Those chains not only joined him to the blades and the blades to him; those chains were the bonds shackling him to the service of the gods."

...and...

"Blood and death. Those were Kratos's stock in trade. No one who'd ever seen him in battle, no one who'd even heard the tales of his legendary exploits, could mistake him for any other man."

Not a very subtle narrative, to say the least.