God of War III/Controls

These basic controls can be seen from the options menu at any time. For details on combinations specific to each weapon, see the Weapons page.

Control	Action	Details
	Movement	This will make you go in the direction you're pressing on ground, while climbing, flying or in the water. When you need to jump to another section while climbing, hold the direction at the edge until Kratos reaches for the other side.
	Evade	You will attempt to quickly move in the direction you press. You use your equipped weapon to help you quickly evade, so the distance you travel and how fast you move depends on which one you're using.
	Rotate object	While grabbing onto a movable object, you can move right or left to rotate the object around without letting go.
	Heavy attack	Heavy attacks are slow, but powerful. Unless you're facing a slow enemy, try using knockback from a chain of normal attacks to set up a pause for a heavy attack.
	Ascend (swimming)	Hold this button down to swim upwards.
	Normal attack	The normal attack is quick and allows you to chain multiple hits together.
	Kick object	While grabbing onto a movable object, press this button to kick the object away from you in the direction you're facing. Hold down the button and release it to deliver a stronger kick.
	Grab	For the most part, only weaker enemies can be grabbed. Once you have them you can press or tap one of the controller buttons to perform different actions. While destroying a grabbed enemy, you will normally be impervious to attacks. Grabbing for an enemy on the ground will result in stomping the life out of it.
	Jump	You can jump to reach higher places and ledges, or to access your aerial combat moves. Double-jump by tapping the button again quickly after the first jump.
	Glide	While in the air, hold down the button to use your Icarus Wings to glide. Flying into rising steam will push you up higher, extending your flight.
	Quick climb	While hanging from a ceiling or a rope/chain or while on a wall, use this button with the movement control.
	Climb ledge	While hanging below a ledge, this button without using the movement control will let you climb up onto the ledge if it's possible.
	Descend (swimming)	Hold this button down to swim downwards.
	Guard	Hold this button down to guard against attacks. Tapping the button right as an enemy attacks will parry the blow, giving you temporary invulnerability and allowing you to counterattack if you've learned to with the equipped weapon.
	Swim boost	While swimming, hold the button down and release it to shoot through the water in the direction you're facing.
+	Cycle weapons	This allows you to change weapons while still attacking. Each press does a light attack with the next weapon, and goes in the order you acquire them, which is clockwise around the .
	Use item	When holding this button down, the controller face buttons will activate different items, depending on what you've acquired. It starts with the last item used.
	Interact	Get close to an object until the on-screen indicator in the upper left corner says to press this button. Many things you can interact with will have a white, glinting light on them.
	Swing	When you can swing from somewhere with your chains, you'll see a white, glinting light on it and the command to press the button will appear. Hold the button down while swinging, and use the movement control to swing back and forth or around in a circle and to release.
	Slide	When climbing a wall, holding this button will let you quickly slide down until you can't go any farther.
	Descend ledge	When standing on a ledge you can hang from, pressing this button will let you drop down and hang over the side.
	Magic	Pressing this button will activate your magical attack. You have different magic attacks based on which weapon you have equipped.
+	Rage of Sparta	Activating Rage of Sparta turns you invincible and lets you use the Blade of Olympus to deal devastating attacks to enemies.
	Select weapon	The four weapons you acquire over the course of the game can be selected by pressing its associated direction. Pressing a direction for a weapon you don't have does nothing.
	Character menu	This takes you to the set of menus where you can level up weapons and items, see what you've collected or see your move lists.
	Game options	Here you can quit to the main menu, load a game or change game options.