And the lawsuits keep coming. Having recently been sued for Blu-ray, Sony faces another lawsuit as Sony Computer Entertainment America and game designer David Jaffe are being sued for alleged copyright infringement when it comes to their PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable God of War series, according to GamePolitics.

The suit, filed in late February by Jonathan Bissoon-Dath and Jennifer Barrette-Herzog, claims that various elements of God of War (the first game having shipped in 2005) were lifted from Bissoon-Dath’s work The Adventures of Own: Owen’s Olympic Adventure (and the included map drawn by Barrette-Herzog) and his screenplay Olympiad, both of which he submitted to Sony Pictures in 2002.

Some of the similarities cited include the “brutish and animalistic qualities” of Kratos (from God of War) being modeled on Bissoon-Dath’s protagonist Gaylon, the Blades of Chaos from God of War bearing similarities to the “two massive swords that glow like light sabers” that Zeus wields in Olympiad, and the “long, sagging suspension bridge” over the Bottomless Chasm that Kratos must cross compared to the “long, sagging suspension bridge” over the Bottomless Valley shown on Barrette-Herzog’s map.

SCEA and Jaffe filed a response denying any copyright infringement, pointing out that Greek mythology is in the public domain.

As with the Blu-ray suit, the similarities are a bit vague. Also, the lawsuit seems to be coming in rather late, considering that the first God of War game has been out for more than three years, and that two other God of War games have been released since then, with another on its way.

The question, then, is: did the plaintiffs simply not notice the supposed plagiarism taking place in one of Sony’s most popular game series for the past three years?