Whereas God of Struggle Ragnarök got here out in 2022, the sequence as a complete has hardly been in Odinsleep. From remasters to new video games and cancelled ones, a lot has stirred in Kratos’ mythological realm. After recognizing a now-deleted LinkedIn web page relating to Sony Santa Monica Studio, followers consider a giant new God of Struggle recreation is within the works, albeit one with out its titular vengeance-seeker.
The web page from a Senior Author at Sony Interactive Leisure says they “Helped form narrative imaginative and prescient and inventive path for a brand new franchise inside the God of Struggle universe” and ended their time on the studio final September. Whereas speculative threads on ResetEra don’t maintain a lot water on their very own, reporter and trade fortune-teller Jason Schreier chimed in, posting “I suppose now it’s develop into apparent what I meant by ‘not a brand new IP however it may really feel like one.’”
It’s been a busy month for the ol’ God of Struggle. Throughout the newest State of Play, Sony unveiled a remake for all the unique trilogy of video games, during which Kratos cleaves all the Greek pantheon from Hades to Olympus. It was paired with a shock 2D prequel, Sons of Sparta, which dropped that very same day. On the opposite finish, Sony shuttered Bluepoint Video games, who lately noticed their live-service God of Struggle spin-off cancelled following the dramatic fall of Harmony. Someplace within the center, the primary glimpse at Amazon’s live-action adaptation dropped on-line, leaving followers to cope with one thing that resembles a Tremendous Bowl business.
Prequels and variations deal with the previous and current for God of Struggle, however what does that depart for the long run? Schreier’s latest publish a couple of new-but-not-new IP appears to refer to 1 made final July, during which he scratched out a rumor that Cory Barlog was creating a brand new sci-fi journey. Put collectively, these two posts recommend that new IP and this spin-off are one in the identical. This new recreation may see one other dramatic departure, not solely from the sequence’ foremost protagonist however its style as nicely, much like when God of Struggle descended from a frenzied Satan Could Cry hack-em-up to an over the shoulder affair. It could actually be extra constant for Sony, who appear extra desperate to tease out their present characters with spin-offs, cross-media variations, live-service video games and self-congratulatory cameos than develop one thing new.
