Multiplayer not in God of War III, but it *could* be accommodated in the future

Not all hope is lost! There still may be some room for a multiplayer feature in God of War III — or in the franchise at least. This was revealed by no other than John Hight, GoW III director of product development.

 

 

Not all hope is lost! There still may be some room for a multiplayer feature in God of War III — or in the franchise at least. This was revealed by no other than John Hight, GoW III director of product development.

 

In an interview with Joystiq, Hight revealed that they did actually consider implementing the multiplayer feature in the game, albeit not from day one. And that while it did not end up in the final cut, it may still make an appearance later on.

 

“Yeah. It was never considered, from day one. I think that there was some confusion, because I also oversee Lightbox Interactive, which did Warhawk. And last summer we were interviewing for some online engineers. So it said, ‘From the people who brought you God of War.’ So I think some blurb people got that and starting saying, ‘Oh, it looks like they are hiring online … there is going to be multiplayer in God of War.’ No. We never planned on it, because, you know, this is the story of one guy, Kratos, and his beef with the gods. And we didn’t want to trivialize that.

 

We didn’t want to send the wrong message to our fans that somehow we were turning the game into something that it wasn’t. We are excited about it. I love multiplayer games. We all do. And I am sure that we are going to offer something in that space.”

 

If it’s not in God of War III, then that means there’s gonna be a “next” God of War title, which will then have the multiplayer feature? Sweet!

 

 

 

Via [Joystiq] 

 

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