The new ‘God of War’ redefines what epic means

In the years after its release in the mid 2000s, the original God of War trilogy became a symbol for everything wrong with video games: gruesome violence, nonsensical and overwrought storytelling, angry hypermasculinity, nauseating male power fantasies, the exploitation of women, or even the dreaded quick-time event.

But if the demo with the first couple hours of the new, reimagined Nordic-themed God of War is any indication, you must leave those assumptions behind. Because like Kratos, you are a stranger in a strange land. 

And everything has changed. 

The most striking transformation in the new God of War — which comes through in everything from story to combat — is its decidedly human scale. Read more…

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