Guys you are missing a big point though when it comes to Kratos.
When he opend the box, he was filled with revenge/hatred whatever to himself whereas the other gods were given Fear. This is also why Kratos has such a lust for battle/killing/war in the beginning of GoW2 . Well that and the prophecy of the marked warrior and the fact on what happend in Ghost of Sparta. But that all fueled the gods to stop Kratos. Like.. the power inside the box made everyone act like ass holes and in turn make each other even bigger ass holes.
However since Kratos was the one who opend it, he was also given Hope which as Athena said, was locked deep inside of him.
Hope being a power that trumps all else and is the reason he in a way .."redeems" himself by killing himself and releasing it to the world after finishing every other god.
I believe Ascension will show us the TRUE Kratos. The Kratos we never really got to see.
Thoughts?
EDIT:
In the legend of Pandora, Pandora simply couldn't resist the temptation of what was inside Pandora's Box. Curiously opening the box, she released all of the world's evils;
"pride, wrath, sorrow, deceit, vain, glory, cowardice, hate, arrogance, gluttony, envy, vanity, lust, fear, greed, etc. "
