Some puzzles are simple, such as moving a box so that the player can use it as a jumping-off point to access a pathway unreachable with normal jumping, but others are more complex, such as finding several items across different areas of the game to unlock one door. Platforming elements require the player to climb walls and ladders, jump across chasms, and swinging on ropes to proceed through sections of the game. Other enemies were created specifically for the game, including wraiths, stone and bronze talos, lost souls, and the Olympian army, including sentries, legionnaires, archers, fiends, guardians, and sentinels. The player controls the character Kratos in combo-based combat, platforming, and puzzle game elements, and battles foes who primarily stem from Greek mythology, including centaurs, harpies, chimeras, cyclopes, satyrs, minotaurs, sirens, cerberuses, and Gorgons. The game also features a first-person camera view during two boss battles (a first for the series).
It is a third-person single player video game viewed from a fixed camera perspective. The gameplay of God of War III is similar to that of its predecessors.
