Kratos is back in an epic adventure straight out of Sony Santa Monica Studios. God of War: Ragnarök arrives in less than a week, the opportunity to go around all the useful information about it.
[Mis à jour le 3 novembre 2022 à 13h30] The most divine of father-son duos is making its big comeback at the beginning of November! God of War: Ragnarök offers us a new chapter in the epic adventures of our favorite Spartan god-slayer and his son in a triple-A production exclusive to Sony consoles (for now). A release that fans have been waiting for a little over four years and that the video game industry is scrutinizing as one of the most beautiful promises of the year 2022. Less than a week from this event release, we are concentrating a little on the various recent information about it, in particular on the big leaks which took place at the beginning of the week, and on all the practical information.
to be clear, I was expressing my frustration in the first tweet. not advocating for that at all. not the future i want as a gamer or dev.
just so beyond frustrated. feel terrible for the team.
this whole ordeal is incredibly stressful for us all.
mental health break time.
— cory barlog (@corybarlog) October 30, 2022
It’s been a long and complicated week for Sony Santa Monica employees. To their surprise earlier this week, various gameplay footage and images from the game spilled onto social media, forcing many players to view content that was still under embargo. In addition to the dimension of spoil which can seriously disturb the gaming experience of the fans, it is also the work of the developers which finds itself disclosed in the public square, for their greatest dismay. Cory Balrog, Creative Director at Sony Santa Monica spoke about these dishonest reseller practices:
“A retailer that sells God of War Ragnarok almost two weeks before release… It’s really disappointing... Sorry to anyone who has to avoid spoilers and wants to play the game. It’s fucking stupid to have to do this. This is not at all how we wanted things to happen at SMS (Sony Santa Monica Studio). To be clear, I was expressing my frustration in the first tweet. I am not advocating for this situation at all. This is not the future I wish for gamers or developers. I am more than frustrated. I feel bad for the team. This whole ordeal is incredibly stressful for all of us. We need a break for the sake of our sanity.”
God of War: Ragnarök will be released on November 9, 2022 at midnight one (according to Playstation’s usual release times) directly on Playstation 5 and Playstation 4. If the performance of the PS5 makes absolutely no one doubt its ability to run the game correctly, attention is focused on the Playstation 4. console is not far from celebrating its eight years and now technically seems to be lagging behind its youngest, and this quite logically. It remains to be seen how Sony Santa Monica adapted the game to Sony’s most venerable and active console.
God of War: Ragnarök will be sold in no less than four different editions. Besides the two editions collector and Jotnar, which both include exclusive accessories and collectibles such as a replica of Mjölnir, wooden figures, dice and a box, already out of stock, there are of course the more classic editions, namely Launch and Digital Deluxe. These two versions of the game include different in-game cosmetics, with a slight advantage for the Digital Deluxe edition offered at a higher price (89.99 vs. €79.99)
More than ever, the question of the space occupied by games on hard drives is topical. With the arrival in force of 4K graphics, Ray-Tracing, and especially triple A graphics on the console video game market, titles have never been so heavy, as evidenced by a certain Call of Duty: Modern Warfare from 2019 (200 GB) which will have left its mark. And on console, hard drives are limited, and unless you install an M2 SSD hard drive in your PS5, God of War: Ragnarök might give you a bit of a pain. We could indeed see the size of the game in a photo posted on Twitter, and it reaches close to 119 GB.
The Story of God of War Ragnarok
While Sony Santa Monica likes to keep the story content of God of War: Ragnarök a secret, we’ve tried to dive a bit into the adventures that await Kratos and Atreus in this upcoming release. You should know that our two protagonists ended their first adventure with the death of their persecutor, Baldur, son of Odin and Freya and brother of Thor. Ragnarök will therefore be the scene of the revenge of the gods of Valhalla, eager to avenge one of their family members, and to overcome the deicide threat caused by Kratos and his son.
Their adventures will take them to the four corners of the Seven Kingdoms of Norse mythology, including Midgard, Hellheim, Asgard, Jotunheim, Svartalfheim, Nilfheim, Vanaheim and Alfheim. We have already seen a very angry Freya in one of the game’s trailers, as well as Mimir who will also be making his big comeback in Ragnarök. It is also very likely that the adventures of our two heroes will make them cross paths with Fenrir, the giant wolf son of the god Loki. Anyway, it’s a whole bunch of beautiful names from Norse mythology that we can expect to find in this new release.
If we can not yet be ecstatic in front of official gameplay sequences of God of War: Ragnarök, we were still able to see some images thanks to our colleagues from Game Informer. Mihir Sheth and Denny Yeh answered questions from the newspaper a few weeks ago, providing some details on the new forms of combat that can be found in God of War: Ragnarök. And we already know that Kratos will have some new toys to have fun with his comrades.
All of these changes speak to Yeh and Sheth’s desire to deepen combat in God of War: Ragnarök: “In the last game, if you pressed the “Triangle” key, the ax would return. But if you already had the ax, nothing happened. In the same way, if you held the Chaos Blades, you switched to the Axe. We wanted to add something to this button: a new set of options.“Small highlight for this interview, two images, showing us some Kratos fight sequences.
If Sony’s announcements about the release date of God of War: Ragnarök do not mention the PC as a game medium, nothing is carved in stone regarding the future of this Playstation exclusive. Indeed, although the game is reserved for Playstation 4 and Playstation 5 consoles, it could well arrive on PC in a few months or even a few years. Sony’s policy regarding its exclusives is changing, and the video game juggernaut intends to transport the exclusives that have made the success and identity of its keyboard and mouse consoles. This is particularly the case for the previous Horizon: Zero Dawn and God of War which appeared on Steam a little over two years after their release on Playstation 4. The PC market is indeed too huge to be ignored by console manufacturers. .