Santa Monica studios take a look back at God of War as fans prepare for launch of Ragnarok
God of Warfare Ragnarok is just some weeks away from launch, and as such, PlayStation and developer Santa Monica Studio have ramped up the sport’s advertising and marketing. Notably, promotions have been fairly sparse for a title that’s simply one of many 12 months’s most anticipated arrivals.
PlayStation not too long ago gave followers a behind-the-scenes have a look at how Santa Monica Studio formed the sport’s narrative in an try to match, if not surpass, its predecessor’s phenomenal storyline. The function additionally concluded the Ghost of Sparta, Kratos’ Norse saga.
The video marks the start of a “behind the scenes” sequence that may give a glimpse on the sport’s growth and new features that the builders have launched.
The sequence kicks off with a deep dive into the sport’s narrative and the way Santa Monica Studio, regardless of the hurdles they confronted throughout growth, manifested their imaginative and prescient.
BTS for God of Warfare Ragnarok focuses on sport’s narrative, giving a glimpse at some cutscenes
In response to Ariel Angelotti, senior producer on God of Warfare Ragnarok, contriving the story for the sequel to the outstanding 2018 soft-reboot was tremendously difficult.
The God of Warfare video games had been at all times identified for offering a cathartic expertise, versus narrative nuance. A lot of the love stemmed from the enjoyable platforming and fight sections that noticed Kratos slaughtering anybody unlucky sufficient to fall sufferer to his rage.
Nonetheless, after Ascension, Santa Monica Studio wished to attempt one thing new and recent. The ambition was to evolve the character of Kratos from a two-dimensional rage monster to somebody extra relatable.
That is precisely what Cory Barlog did along with his imaginative and prescient for the soft-reboot, giving Kratos, a demi-god identified for his blind rage, a model new character arc that regardless of in-keeping along with his Spartan persona, added many layers.
God of Warfare Ragnarok takes place few years after the earlier sport, with the onset of fimbulwinter that was triggered early by Baldur’s loss of life. This initiated the prophesied finish of the world, the titular Ragnarok.
Richard Gaubert, lead author on the sequel, discusses how every thing Kratos and Atreus did within the final sport will ripple again in direction of them within the sequel, whether or not or not it’s dealing with the Aesir for killing their very own or clashing in opposition to the ally-turned-enemy Freya. The latter is searching Kratos for the killing of her son Baldur.
Supervising dialog designer of God of Warfare Ragnarok, Jodie Kupsco acknowledged that the studio began engaged on filming the scenes a lot earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Nonetheless, there was nonetheless a whole lot of work left, which was additional exacerbated because of the restrictions enforced in gentle of the worldwide pandemic. Regardless of that, the workforce didn’t compromise on the sport’s authentic imaginative and prescient.
The ten-minute lengthy video additionally provides followers a glimpse at a number of the sport’s cutscenes, together with an prolonged have a look at the very first scene of God of Warfare Ragnarok’s announcement trailer. The visuals demonstrated the deep bond between Kratos and Atreus.
Sadly, there wasn’t any gameplay or combat-related info within the video, which can in all probability be saved for the following episode of the sequence approaching October 25, 2022. It can function an in-depth have a look at Ragnarok’s gameplay, fight methods, and a glimpse on the land of the elves, Alfheim.
God of Warfare Ragnarok is scheduled to be launched in simply three weeks’ time, on November 9, 2022 for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.
