Kratos er en meget anderledes karakter i det kommende God of War, og meget af den ikoniske vrede og al råberiet er blevet erstattet med en mere kalkuleret persona. Desuden har han heller ikke sine Blades of Chaos mere, og i stedet har han en stor økse.
Det er der mange der har stillet spørgsmålstegn ved, men netop disse er spillets instruktør, Cory Barlog, glad for at kunne besvare.
I et interview med GamesRadar fortæller Barlog hvorfor det ikke giver mening for Kratos at holde fast i hans faste våben:
"We were experimenting with lots of different weapons, lots of different things...I think we wanted to create an identity, because to me the blades represent a very dark time in [Kratos'] life. They are not just a weapon to him. They are his scarlet letter. They are the marking that somebody tricked him, that he made a bad deal, that he made a mistake. Powerful, but I think also powerfully charged in its emotion. So I think of part of him wanting to move forward is being able to [leave the blades behind]."
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