Leaked Screenshots of Canceled Multiplayer God of War Game Tease A Return to Greece and an Infamous Former Villain

Details and images of Sony's canceled live-service multiplayer God of War crippled person leaked online.

At the opening of the year, Sony canceled 2 unannounced live-service games that were successful improvement astatine Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games, with the second thought to beryllium a multiplayer God of War game.

Now, a fig of screenshots reportedly taken from the canceled task person been published by MP1st, hinting that the crippled whitethorn person beryllium acceptable successful Greece erstwhile again and diagnostic a scope of divers backdrops, including caverns and temples.

Two screenshots, purportedly of Hades' Armory, seemingly amusement the aforesaid country successful antithetic states, 1 'normal' and the different seemingly infected by a curse oregon otherworld authorities with rust-colored stains.

Hades was introduced successful 2005's God of War and appeared successful God of War II, but it wasn't until God of War III that helium became a large antagonist earlier his brutal decease astatine the extremity of the 3rd instalment. Quite however Bluepoint planned to explicate his instrumentality successful this crippled we whitethorn ne'er know, but it does amusement the Sony-owned workplace was moving beyond the rebooted series' hitherto Norse setting, though determination are immoderate Norse-like touches successful the screenshots, too, suggesting Bluepoint was either intending to premix it up oregon inactive experimenting.

Sony has yet to denote a caller God of War game, though fixed the occurrence of some 2018's God of War and 2022's God of War Ragnarök it seems inevitable that fans volition get much from the franchise. The question is, successful what signifier and successful which mounting volition God of War instrumentality connected next?

Speaking astatine MCM London Comic Con past week, Kratos histrion Christopher Judge said helium hoped God of War would screen the Egyptian pantheon. “Because I became champion known arsenic Teal’c from Stargate, to spell to Egypt would beryllium a completion of my circle," helium teased. "But immoderate is decided — wait... if determination is different game, I person nary uncertainty that nary substance what pantheon it is, it volition beryllium great.”

As for the God of War TV series? Ronald D. Moore — known for Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Outlander, For All Mankind, and overmuch much — is taking connected the live-action bid for Amazon.

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