The combat-centric trailer, which you can watch at the top of the story, features Kratos and his son in a crypt, fighting off several undead foes. Sony released another, relatively brief trailer during its Paris Games Week 2017 presentation. According to Barlog, Kratos’ ability to manage his anger will be paramount to the new game’s plot.Īt one point in the new trailer, we even see Kratos cast away his ax, though the gargantuan World Serpent seems keen to return it. Indeed, the E3 2017 showcases him taking the helping hand of more than one character.Īlthough a man driven by his rage in previous games, Kratos does seem to have at least attempted to get it under control. The child tells him of his mother’s teachings of being open to assistance. While this is to be expected from the protagonist from the previous God of War games, it seems in this one, he will be mollified by his son’s outlook as well. The road he and his son are on, is “no place for a boy,” we’re told, instead, the lad must become a warrior.
“Close your heart to their desperation their suffering,” he says. Echoing the difficulties in slaying the deer in the earlier reveal, this time Kratos expounded why it’s so important not to feel for your enemy.
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In a more recent trailer at E3 2017, we saw the series’ protagonist teach his son of emotions and how to control them. He’ll learn more under Kratos’ tutelage though. That son, who creative director Cory Barlog confirmed will be named Atreus, learned to hunt from his mother, about whom we know precious little thus far. “Your mother’s knife,” Kratos says to his son. What impressed us more, however, was the storytelling surrounding the unfamiliar role into which Kratos has been flung: That of a father. Though he still seems to be a terse, hard man, Kratos’ first words suggest that maybe his anger has begun to subside. The demo included some spectacularly gory set pieces. In the demo, an older Kratos taught his young son how to survive in the wild, before saving him from a wild monster. Catching up with KratosĪt E3 2016, Sony and Santa Monica Studios announced God of War, showing off a small slice of the new game. Though the development team and Sony haven’t revealed much about the game yet, we rounded up as much info as we can about the series’ next chapter. He’s even more grizzled than before, raising his son in a world with a new pantheon: The Norse gods. More than seven years after felling Zeus and the Greek pantheon - or what was left of them - in God of War III, Kratos is set to return in God of War, the eighth game in the series. Taking place many years after the events of the original games, Kratos’ age is showing.