At first, the skin was received by pre-ordering God of War III from Gamestop, or by purchasing the Ultimate Trilogy Edition of God of War III. Later on, it was released for both the European and the North-American PSN on November 3rd, 2010. In one issue of GameInformer, an article featured how characters change through development. It was stated that this was what Kratos was originally going to look like. In a Gamestop commercial it is joked that the armor is made of a Chimera, as the boots are refer to the snake, the helmet is "fashioned," from a goat skull and the loin cloth is lion hide.