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God of War Ragnarök | PS5 Showcase Reveal Trailer

KyoZz

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As you can see in the trailer, we’re picking up a few years after the events of God of War (2018). The freezing winds of Fimbulwinter have come to Midgard, making survival for Kratos, Atreus, and Mimir in the Norse wilds even more challenging than before.
While the last game built an enormous amount of trust and understanding between father and son, there is still a great deal of complexity in their interactions – especially after the revelation of Atreus’ Giant heritage and the hidden prophecy only Kratos saw.

Atreus is desperately curious. Like most young people, he wants to understand who he is more than anything. In this case, he wants to understand who he could be.
The mystery of Loki’s role in the upcoming conflict is something that Atreus cannot let go of. He wants to keep his family safe, but Atreus also doesn’t want to stand by and do nothing while conflict consumes the Nine Realms.

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Kratos, still bearing the knowledge of his past mistakes, wants to spare Atreus the bloody lessons he learned from his conflict with gods.
He wants to keep his son safe, above all, and their confrontation with Baldur has vindicated the belief that only tragedy will come from further entanglements with the Aesir.
Together, Kratos and Atreus will have to make a choice about which path they will take.

Whatever they choose will define the fate of all those living in the Nine Realms as Ragnarök approaches.

Agony and Vengeance​

We show a brief look at two of the main antagonists you’ll face in God of War Ragnarök: Freya and Thor.
Because of Kratos’ actions at the end of the previous game, the once-ally-turned-enemy Freya has sworn vengeance for the death of her son, Baldur.

We wanted to remind players that Freya isn’t just a terrifyingly powerful user of Vanir magic, but also that she’s a formidable warrior in her own right. Enraged by Kratos’ evasion of justice by her hand, Freya will turn every weapon at her disposal towards her son’s killer.
Also suffering the loss of his sons and half-brother, Thor’s legendary bloodlust and wrath will be aimed at Kratos and Atreus.

Referred to disparagingly by Mimir as the “Biggest Butchering Bastard in the Nine Realms,” Thor earned his title as one of the most powerful Aesir gods by wiping out nearly all the Giants at Odin’s command.
While we don’t want to give too much away right now, we think even a peek at Mjölnir wreathed in lightning will give you a hint at just how formidable Thor will be as an adversary.

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You Have My Axe​

It would not be God of War without a healthy serving of visceral and spectacular combat.
You’ve been able to see just a hint of new attack abilities, a new Runic Summon for Atreus, and of course, the return of Kratos’ legendary weapons

As a team we’ve worked hard to take our learnings from God of War (2018) and improve upon combat to feel fresh, yet familiar. With God of War Ragnarök, one of our main goals was to push player choice in combat.
Whether it’s through hard hitting combos, a mastery of elements, or clever defensive tactics – you will find plenty of opportunity to fight alongside our duo in a way that feels uniquely expressive.

Whatever your choice of combat strategy, the enemies that await in God of War Ragnarök will be ready. The realms have grown harsher, and a whole host of new creatures from across Norse mythology will test your skills.
From the trailer you can see what happens when Kratos finds himself under the hooves of the Stalker or grabbed between the jaws of a Dreki, and that’s just the beginning.

With an expanded cast of adversaries, we aim to keep each combat encounter memorable from the smallest brawls to the big show-stopper bosses! We can’t wait to show you more as we get closer to release.

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Onward to Asgard​

Fans who played the last game know they were able to visit six of the Nine Realms during their journey. In God of War Ragnarök, you will be able to visit all nine!
God of War Ragnarök will take you to the previously unreachable Vanaheim, Svartalfheim, and Asgard – as well as to new areas from locations featured in the last game. Exploring the realms will take you everywhere from verdant, otherworldly jungles to intricate subterranean mining networks.
This next installment in the series will bring you a more diverse, beautiful, and mysterious variety of locations than in any other God of War game.

 
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RJMacready73

Simps for Amouranth
Big fan of the original but it just seemed like more or the same in new maps, I kinda miss the old fighting on the back of a giant beast as it ascends a huge mountain type gameplay, was hoping to see some of that in this, some shots looks straight from a PS4 Pro and others had a wealth of detail not possible on the PS4... It looked great but I was just expecting... To be blown away
 

Dr Bass

Member
Some of the scenery definitely looks like a nice upgrade from the last one. Character models look similar. Definitely a feeling of "cross-sen" at times, but some of the set pieces look like they will be significantly downloaded to fit into PS4. Pretty impressive at times.

No 4k video though yet?
 

Allforce

Member
Are we supposed to know who the guy in the dungeon is? Is that Thor? I don't really remember what happened in 2018 other than Thor showed up at the end to fight and the game ended. Why would they be saving him?
 

Akuji

Member
People thinking the game looks anything like 2018 ... :D well i guess u guys dont remember 2018 .... it looks like a real big step up. Now give me high quality video sony :(
 

vpance

Member
I finished both HZD and GoW 1 on PS4 Pro.

Couldn't care less about Horizon 2 because it's also a Xgen, but I must give it a credit: Horizon 2 on PS5 looks way, waaaaay better than what we saw now in GoW R.

What the fuck happened?

60 vs 30 FPS I guess?

Graphics are ok. If they carry over the same amount of trash mobs as the first one that would be disappointing.
 

Blond

Banned
I just care about how much they’re expanding the combat. By the time I found out all the cool stuff you could do the game ended but at least I got a taste with the end game content.
 

Codes 208

Member
Anyone notice that in the aftershow they said this game will wrap up the norse mythology?

i guess GoW will end at 5 then?
 

GymWolf

Member
Yes. GoW director is also MIA and doing something Next Gen only now. So...uh... B tier team for B tier project?
Yeah maybe, but it's just this fucking crossgen plague dude, spiderman 2 too.

I mean don't get me wrong, more gow is always good, but this doesn't even try to hide the crossgen nature.

The human characters (except kratos), especially the faces were already kinda dated in the original gow, but now they just looks funny...

Tbf, the black child looked pretty good.
 
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Yoboman

Member
Echo the statements it looks a bit cross gen. Part of that might be the similar snowy environments. The areas that aren't snowy looked a fair step ahead of 2018. My thoughts are this was probably always a PS4 game that got delayed by COVID

Hopefully that means they can absolutely cram it with content at least.

The fact its the last game in the norse mythology is surprising - thought we'd get at least 3 games

No Cory also disappointing but he is still around and if things weren't working out with the new guy I'd say he would have been brought back in
 

Mozzarella

Member
I like the first game it was good, this looks more of the same so im not complaining, but given its 4 years it should have some good upgrades.
 
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