The player controls the games protagonist character Kratos in a combination of combat in normal and quick time, with platforming and puzzle-game elements. It is a single-player video game featuring a fixed camera from a third-person view. The game was also honored with the Artistic Achievement award at the 2011 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards.The gameplay of God of War 3 is similar to that of its predecessors. It has received several awards, including the Most Anticipated Game of 2010, Best PS3 Game, Best Graphics, and Kratos received the Biggest Badass award at the Spike Video Game Awards. The game has been highly praised for its graphics, particularly Kratos, with IGN claiming the character is perhaps the single most impressive looking character ever in video games. IGN asserted that it defines the word scale with reference to video games.
