A latest job posting for a “Sr Hero Fight Designer” accustomed to God of Conflict and God of Conflict: Ragnarök’s fight programs hints at a brand new entry within the sequence being in improvement.
The itemizing particularly requested for these “who’re fluent with the fight design decisions, programs, mechanics, and enemies in God of Conflict (2018) and God of Conflict Ragnarök (2022) are most popular,” hinting that the rumored new IP may additionally be in improvement.
Since Kratos returned to our consoles in 2018 as a father, followers have but to have sufficient, with the sequel even breaking a PlayStation gross sales document the week it dropped. This demand is not misplaced on the builders, whose hiring calls have been floor for rumors since November final 12 months.
It has lengthy been hinted that we’re nearing the tip of Kratos’ story, however as of now, we do not know if the following entry within the sequence will probably be his epilogue or Atreus’ prologue.
What’s Cooking At Santa Monica Studios?
God of Conflict is the studio’s golden goose that retains on laying tasty little golden eggs, however the studio’s hiding one thing except for a sequel.
As Santa Monica Studio has nearly completely labored on God of Conflict tasks up to now, it’s of nice significance that the hiring publish mentions the sequence solely within the “most popular” part, not as a requirement.
Cory Barlog, director and author for the 2018 recreation and inventive director of Ragnarök, stated the studio desires to department out into completely different IPs as early as 2022. In a latest X publish, he stated he is come again to SMS to “trigger chaos.”
Barlog’s subsequent recreation has been rumored to be set in area, so until Kratos is launching an area program to exterminate Area Gods, it is unlikely he is solely engaged on one other God of Conflict recreation.
This new IP is large for SMS as, except for externally developed tasks, they have not launched something with out Kratos’ pale and sullen face in 20 years.
Details about the following God of Conflict and the rumored sci-fi recreation is scarce, with a couple of X and LinkedIn posts as our solely sources. No matter SMS has in retailer, it is sure to create ripples within the trade.
Nonetheless, a person can hope that we see Atreus in his personal recreation, and Kratos in an area shuttle headed in the direction of Mars.
