E3 2016: New God Of War Was Almost In Egypt
With the Greek Pantheon taken care of, the direction of a new God of War was clearly needing to be somewhere else. However, it wasn’t always going to be the Norse Mythology that appeared next, apparently, Egypt was going to be the setting. With its gods making a debut:
“Half the team was way into that,” Sony Santa Monica creative director Cory Barlog said during a round-table interview, as reported by Eurogamer. “Egyptian mythology is about the pharaohs as embodiment of the gods on earth and there’s a lot more about civilization.”
He continued: “It’s less isolated, less barren.” Because of that, the team chose to move away from that idea and towards the Norse setting, as they wanted the focus to stay on Kratos. “Having too much around distracts from that central theme of a stranger in a strange place,” Barlog said.
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