Tons of New God of War: Ascension Details Revealed Via Twitter

May 7th, 2012 News, PS3 1 comments

Todd Papy, Game Director of God of War: Ascension, answered questions regarding Kratos’ prequel journey via Twitter. A handful of details were revealed during his Twitter Q&A. Here’s what we learned:

There will be no SP campaign co-op

Big open environments will not be in the game due to the style of gameplay

Cloth physics are being updated with new engine developed by their own team

GoW:A will use a similar blended animation system as in Uncharted

Character features will be updated (i.e. hair, skin etc.)

Various weapons seen in MP will make their way to the SP and allow for mixed weapon combos

Puzzles will play a part in the game

The Uncharted-like climbing system shown in the MP stream will be in the main campaign

Besides the Tattoos, skin tones will also be customisable in the online component

FPS rate will vary instead of steady 60

As of now there are no plans to create a GoW title on the Vita

The biggest surprise that came out of Papy’s responses was the fact that he tried to avoid discussing the single player. At one point, he made it known that he doesn’t know if God of War: Ascension’s single player aspect is going to be shown at E3. With Papy claiming that the team is trying to focus on the multiplayer right now and Santa Monica stating that the demigod’s adventure won’t be hindered by multiplayer, one begins to wonder where the focus is primarily.

Personally, I find this news a little unsettling since the multiplayer portion is taking the spotlight (and may continue to do so) and not Kratos. Hopefully, in order to calm our nerves, the vengeful antihero doesn’t miss next month’s event.

1 Comment

Anonymous
May 8, 2012 at 1:45 PM
Of course they’re going to show single player footage at E3, what an amateur game journalist. They’re showing multiplayer only now because it’s a huge brand new thing for God of War and they don’t want to spoil any single player surprises that they’re waiting to unveil at E3. Also they doubled the size of the studio to make sure the single player is still as good as ever and they can also have a great multiplayer mode. Your lack of faith in Sony Santa Monica doesn’t surprise me though, I believe this is the same site that trolled God of War 3 with a 9 for absolute fabricated rubbish bias reasons, and no a 9 isn’t a good score for GOW3, anything less than 9.5 is trolling.