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God of War: Ragnarok will release exclusively on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. Kratos and Atreus will spend some portion of the game tracking him down in an attempt to avert Ragnarok, the Norse apocalypse.įor more on the game, you can check out the PlayStation Blog post released alongside the trailer. We also see a new character, a young Black girl named Angrboda who’s one of the last remaining giants.īut the big surprise of the trailer is that Tyr, the supposedly dead Norse god of War, will be in the game. Kratos will also be showing down against Thor, as teased in the first game, and Odin will make an appearance (played by The West Wing‘s Richard Schiff). The Leviathan Axe returns, along with many of the same abilities from the first game, it appears. There will be more boating, and in a similar vein, there’s a new dogsled for navigating and icy area. In the meantime, it might be a good idea to start brushing up on your Egyptian mythology.So what does this brief look at the game teach us, apart from the fact that it’ll look gorgeous? Kratos is joined once again-at least in some capacity, for some portion of the game-by both Mimir and Atreus. Whether that means retiring Kratos, shifting the focus to Atreus or simply changing the location is anyone’s guess.
GOD OF WAR RAGNAROK SERIES
No matter what happens to Kratos in God of War Ragnarok, we should expect the series to go in a very different direction afterward. A grueling fight to the finish against a deity who calls himself “The Prince of Peace” seems unlikely.) I’m less certain that Sony would actually pit him against Jesus, for both reasons both theological and pragmatic. (For what it’s worth: I’m positive that Kratos could square off against Horus without ruffling too many falcon feathers. If Sony’s ultimate objective is to bring Kratos all around the ancient world and encounter all the fascinating creatures and gods along the way, he can’t spend too long in one location. Its still a ways off, but heres what we know about the forthcoming sequel from Santa Monica Studio. The more time Kratos spends in the Norselands, the less time he spends elsewhere. God of War Ragnarok is the sequel to 2018s God of War. Egypt seems like the next logical location in which Kratos could commit deicide, but either way, the fact is that there are a lot of other pantheons to explore. Either Kratos will complete his story arc by dying (for real, this time), or he’ll move on to another pantheon in the next game.Īlert God of War fans are aware that the series has already foreshadowed other pantheons, including the gods of Celtic myth, Egyptian myth, Japanese myth and Christianity. If the Norse story wraps up in Ragnarok, that could mean one of two things.
GOD OF WAR RAGNAROK FULL
God of War (2018)’s director Cory Barlog explained that the current God of War story wouldn’t be a trilogy, primarily because Sony doesn’t want to make fans wait 15 years for a full story arc. Fighting Ares, Zeus and Gaia was a thrill fighting Persephone, Thanatos and Alecto didn’t feel quite as epic. Keeping the Norse myth arc focused on the most recognizable parts of the pantheon could also help avoid some of the issues the God of War Greek myth spinoffs ran into. I don’t think fans were absolutely dying for showdowns with Theseus, Perseus, Icarus, or Helios. But the downside of that approach was that we had to spend a lot of time fighting relatively minor deities along the way. Granted, if Sony wanted to stretch out the Norse myth arc, it could repeat what it did in God of War II and III, by dividing the pantheon up between two games.
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In other words: once Ragnarok is done, there won’t be all that many Norse gods left to kill. If I were a betting man, I might put a little money on Ragnarok ending with Kratos and Odin tearing each other to metaphorical (and possibly literal) pieces. And, of course, God of War (2018) spent a lot of time foreshadowing Odin as a cruel and belligerent king. We finally got our first look at the upcoming sequel to 2018s God of War, officially titled God of War: Ragnarok, during Sonys PlayStation Showcase.
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Freya and Angrboda will probably play big roles in the story, and the traditional Ragnarok myth doesn’t end well for either one. In Ragnarok, Kratos will almost certainly face off against Thor and Tyr. In the first game, he tore his way through the Valkyries, a host of trolls, the king of the dark elves, Thor’s sons, and the beautiful Baldur himself. Drawing out God of War’s Norse arc into a trilogy presents another potential issue: Kratos has already killed a lot of our favorite Norse gods, and he’s (presumably) going to kill a lot more of them in Ragnarok.