Bluepoint’s Cancelled God of War Game Sent Atreus To Hades – WGB

Final 12 months, we learned that Sony had cancelled several of its live-service projects, considered one of which was some form of God of Battle spinoff by developed by remake specialists Bluepoint. With Bluepoint now shuttered by Sony, we’re beginning to get some particulars, together with what the God of Battle title was going to be.

Journalist Jason Schreier has the report over at Bloomberg. In keeping with his sources, Sony hoped God of Battle might help quite a few spin-offs, “…like its personal smaller model of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.” A type of – God of War: Sons of Sparta – just got released and appears to have performed okay, even when it didn’t set the world ablaze.

Bluepoint’s live-service title was apparently going to star Atreus, the son of Kratos. In keeping with Schreier’s sources, Atrues was going to search out himself in Hades.

“A free thought was for gamers to manage totally different variations or elements of Atreus as they battled by means of Greek hell, and to have some form of cooperative gameplay and ongoing help,” writes Schreier.

Unsurprisingly, the mission was struggling because the small crew, which hadn’t launched an unique title in almost 20 years, discovered itself making an attempt to create a live-service recreation.

“Some Bluepoint staffers grumbled that they need to be engaged on one other conventional motion recreation like Demon’s Souls or God of Battle Ragnarok slightly than a live-service mission that few of them appeared to wish to make.”

Schreier notes that regardless of assist from Santa Monica, Bluepoint didn’t make a lot progress and “floundered” for years.

The mission was then cancelled outright, and Bluepoint was left pitching concepts. We even learned that they once again pitched the idea of a Bloodborne remake, but it was shot down, not by Sony, but by another company.

I’ll be trustworthy, not one of the cancelled recreation’s ideas sounds interesting to me, however I’d have taken it if it meant Bluepoint might keep alive. After all, when it failed (which it most likely would have), they might have been left in the identical boat. Or if it had in some way been profitable, they might have ended up engaged on it full-time, and the Bluepoint we knew would have disappeared, so I assume it was a lose-lose state of affairs.