Next God of War Features Multiple Mythologies — Report

History buffs tin reportedly look guardant to aggregate mythologies appearing successful the adjacent God of War from Sony Santa Monica.

The unannounced crippled volition diagnostic elements from assorted mythologies alternatively than solely focusing connected a azygous mounting — specified arsenic the Greek and Norse sagas seen previously. That's according to a caller study by MP1st, which specifically mentions Chinese and Japanese elements being successful development.

That aforesaid study besides references online scuttlebutt implicit Mayan elements, too, though does not spell connected to verify this peculiar claim. Still, it sounds similar determination volition beryllium plentifulness going connected successful the adjacent section of the God of War universe, which Sony is expected to unveil successful the adjacent future.

Last month, notorious video crippled leaker NatetheHate claimed that the crippled would halfway connected the quality of Faye, Kratos' deceased woman played by Daredevil's Deborah Ann Woll successful God of War Ragnarök. IGN besides understands this to beryllium accurate. The leaker claimed that Sony's existent program is to unveil the crippled this year, up of a motorboat successful 2027.

Previous whispers of the task person descibed it arsenic much of an action-focused instrumentality connected the seasoned franchise, with a tease by Bloomberg newsman Jason Schreier that the studio's adjacent task was "not a caller IP but it mightiness consciousness similar one."

Had these leaks not occured, the game's announcement would apt person travel arsenic a large astonishment for God of War fans amid a engaged clip for the franchise. February's PlayStation State of Play broadcast included confirmation that Sony Santa Monica had begun enactment connected a God of War Trilogy Remake project, and determination was besides the astonishment shadiness driblet of a side-scrolling spinoff — God of War Sons of Sparta — that arrived to a mixed response.

The beingness of different large God of War task astatine Sony Santa Monica makes sense, however, considering the information it's been astir 4 years since the motorboat of Ragnarök, Sons of Sparta was developed elsewhere, and the studio's enactment connected remaking the series' classical Trilogy appears to beryllium conscionable beginning.

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