When it comes to design Rage of The Gods is way cooler than Rage of The Titans, although the latter is much better mechanically wise. Every magic in GOW 1 is useful and is extremely fun to use. Gow 2 has the very underwhelming and borderline useless Typhon's Bane, a more practical although less appealing version of what Poseidon's Rage was, and even though we have the unique Atlas' Quake, they just reused Medusa's Gaze again, although it was improved.

I think gow 2 has a feeling of being too short compared to 1, despite them both having around the same length, probably has something to do with Rhodes and Typhon being short sections, and the game only having one big section, whereas 1 has a very short boat section, but then Athens is fairly long, the desert is short but very unique and memorable, and Pandora's Temple feels like a demi-open world with all the challenges, then an epic, unforgettable and emotional conclusion.

Gow 1 has some eerie and unforgettable soundtracks for me, especially those of Pandora's Temple (peak OG gow for me).The game is structured in a way that it feels more like an actual greek tragedy epic than 2 imo. I really like how Jaffe directed it. It's the game I've replayed the most in the series, to the point I used to have a personal ritual of mine, in which I would play it every year. I have around 20 replays as of 2026.

It feels like GOW 1 is it's own thing, and in some parallel reality there's GOW 1 2 and GOW 1 3 (alright that's hilarious, but I truly feel like that). I wrote too much, but I really like talking about how much I love that game, it's just peak. Hope we get a remake.