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God of War Online Suggested By Job Listing?
Written Tuesday, March 29, 2011 By Richard Walker
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A job listing for a position to join God of War studio Sony Santa Monica found on Gamasutra, suggests that the developer could be looking to take Kratos and friends into the online space. Either that or the studio is looking to kickstart a new IP with a strong online component.

Under the list of responsibilities for the position of Senior Online Programmer is the "designing and implementing (of) systems and tools to support networking needs (such as in-game communication, client-server, match-making, leaderboards)," which is either a hint that God of War Online is the next project for Sony Santa Monica or the studio is taking an existing Sony Franchise online or even perhaps embarking upon a new IP.

Either way, Sony Santa Monica is planning something and whether it'll be an Anarchy Reigns-style online brawler starring Kratos and the menagerie of faces from Greek mythology he's bumped into and slaughtered, as speculated by Edge Online, remains to be seen.




 
 

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Comment #1 by Canadian_Wilson
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 07:38:09 AM
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As much as I'd like to see another God of War game, I don't want it to have an online option.

 
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Comment #2 by Intruder777
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 07:45:30 AM
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Another game will be ruined by MP .1 less game to buy

 
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Comment #3 by Kojiro-uchiha
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 07:49:32 AM
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Really hoping its a new ip. Don't ruin God Of War by adding online. I'm sick of playing games with online trophies.

 
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Comment #4 by xX_shoemaker_Xx
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 07:50:34 AM
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so you have an online game with millions of kratos' running around? sounds like a fail to me.. or, you have an online game with 1 kratos for the whole world? who gets to be kratos? sounds like another fail to me. sorry guys, don't see this working out too well..

 
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Comment #5 by Xerios
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 07:57:05 AM
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if they somehow turned this into a Diablo concept where you battle minions through acts to get to an end boss (a god or titan) maybe it could be cool..

 
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Comment #6 by wazza1974
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 08:01:20 AM
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Surely the new Mortal Kombat game will cater for any 'online' Kratos button bashing hankering!!!

 
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Comment #7 by xX_shoemaker_Xx
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 08:12:20 AM
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@#5 the only way i could see this working is if kratos was the end boss you were working towards

 
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Comment #8 by G35coupe
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 08:14:39 AM
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GOW needs to stay as an offline game. I think trying to do to much with a game, Single player and online, takes away from one or the other. Example Black Ops, online is as expected and the story line was garbage.

 
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Comment #9 by Xeno-Vibe
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 08:20:48 AM
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/agreed with Xerios.

An RPG with God of War characters / heroes but not necessarily Kratos as playable character could be pretty awesome, especially if its like Diablo 2 LoD!

 
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Comment #10 by Totoyeahwhat123
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 08:33:24 AM
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to number #2. just stay away from the online, no one says u have to play it... lol

 
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Comment #11 by Metalboy921
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 08:48:14 AM
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God of War online? FAIL

 
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Comment #12 by MrPS3Infinity
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 09:09:00 AM
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oh Jesus Christ! when will these thick Developers ever learn?

 
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Comment #13 by wazza1974
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 09:12:42 AM
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How about a God Of War on-line FPHEU (First Person Hack-Em-Up). If you are going to bollocks it up, do it properly!!!

 
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Comment #14 by BrinkOfSanity
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 09:19:26 AM
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How will this work exactly? Lol...

 
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Comment #15 by dustbustautd
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 09:25:56 AM
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Gotta love this new era of video games. Just throw together whatever franchise you've got with a cheap multiplayer aspect and watch the sales numbers jump! Don't even worry about those game crippling bugs either, we can just release a patch next week to coincide with our first DLC bundle!

 
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Comment #16 by Mee-Gell
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 09:36:40 AM
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im sick of online games lol. and yea. dont mess up a classic

 
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Comment #17 by CrazinessCake
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 09:46:18 AM
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I still need to be God of War 2 and 3 the HD collections and God of War 3 came out about the same time range and hadn't had time to beat them until this year i just not that long ago beat God Of War one, and need too do the 2 and 3 i hope if it is god of war 4 or something like that, that it dosen't come out for a while. Could be interesting too see though if it dose become online.

 
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Comment #18 by guillermo
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 10:04:23 AM
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Maybe online beacuse god of war 3 as muh of an orgasmic game it was not supported by DLC it should of had more of something

 
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Comment #19 by jackmoore
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 10:07:01 AM
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no way anyone would think GoW needs online play.

 
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Comment #20 by DETfaninATL
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 10:10:10 AM
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Completely agree with the general sentiment of these responses : GOW should not be an online MP game.

 
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Comment #21 by GoCanes
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 10:25:05 AM
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What this article fails to point out is that Sony Santa Monica was the developer of Warhawk, so why would a job posting that mentions nothing about GoW have to be for a online GoW game? My guess is they are planning an expansion for Warhawk or it's for a new IP.

 
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Comment #22 by HiramJ
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 10:34:47 AM
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@2
i agree with you frist Assassins Creed and now maybe God of War all i got to say is GTFO online can now officially got to HELL! i'm so glad that Batman Arkham City decided not to add online multiplayer. Online multiplayer is OVERRATED.

 
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Comment #23 by HiramJ
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 10:36:12 AM
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darn
edit *can go to Hell*

 
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Comment #24 by ABBAS-786
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 10:51:05 AM
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Agreed with @1 and @2

Why are game developers adding online to games tht don't need it

 
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Comment #25 by yowzagabowza
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 10:52:43 AM
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i dont even want anymore GOW games, period. the last one on psp was the same as the first one on ps2. its dun, it was great, but its time to move on.

 
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Comment #26 by DarkAngelus23
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 11:07:01 AM
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GOW needs to stay SP only. Look at this list of games that were ruined by adding MP: Resident Evil,Dead Space. So I doubt Santa Monica would be adding GOW strickly for MP. GOW is known for its SP and adding MP would be a mistake. I swear if GOW 4 has MP I will scream. End of GOW 3 the secret Cinamatic :Kratos is nowhere to found" So there maybe a GOW 4.

 
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Comment #27 by fletchar2
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 11:29:37 AM
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@8 what about uncharted 2? that tried to do too much and it succeeded.. online was awesome and single player was better than the first one.. there are exceptions, although i agree with you guys that perhaps this will be a pretty big failure IF its either correct.. for all you know it could be a new IP like mentioned in the article, don't jump to conclusions and don't expect this game out until late 2012/early 2013 if they are only just advertising for jobs now..

 
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Comment #28 by wS IRapture
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 11:44:12 AM
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no thankyou

 
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Comment #29 by Jimbo76
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 12:21:00 PM
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not sure about that. God Of War is ok how it already is, offline.

 
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Comment #30 by Colon_Commando
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 12:41:06 PM
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Boring. Pointless. Waste of time for both developers and players. I hope it's a new ip because honestly God Of War is getting redundant. Ooooh Kratos is angry again...

The one thing I hate about God Of War the most is that you HAVE to watch the cut scenes, I honestly don't find the story to be anything special. Versus something like MGS or Uncharted.

 
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Comment #31 by steve_fox_fm
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 01:19:27 PM
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no no no no nooooooooo
noooooooooooooooooooooo no
no no no NO NO NOOOOOO
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

DONT'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT !!!!!!!!!!!
& NO

 
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Comment #32 by OktaBuo
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 01:39:36 PM
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Super weak.

 
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Comment #33 by Double Rainbow
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 01:40:00 PM
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Though I doubt they'll actually be putting GOW online unless its in the same way of Dante's Inferno. With arena challenges where you create your own arena and can play co-op with a different character.

 
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Comment #34 by FatalKrouzer
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 01:52:14 PM
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I don't want this game to have online, but maybe it'll turn out good like Uncharted 2 did.

 
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Comment #35 by SirSephiroth
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 02:11:59 PM
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too powerful crap!

 
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Comment #36 by Shirokurou
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 02:29:37 PM
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?
I really don't care. Too vague. Could be anything.

 
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Comment #37 by rioskenny
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 02:30:59 PM
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WTF!

 
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Comment #38 by TastyHalloween
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 03:39:16 PM
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I really really REALLY hope this isn't a God of war 4 with an online option...but I'm at the point where I think games should split anyway (to save them some money). I believe if they want to focus online, don't make a single player, if your going for a single player story, don't go online. Work on DLC instead. Saves us from crappy single/online for one or the other, and saves them money for not having to waste resources into something no one is gonna really care about...

 
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Comment #39 by AbysmalTorment
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 03:54:07 PM
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go on the blog share and vote for no god of war online, tell them how stupid it would be

 
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Comment #40 by aliceinlalaland
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 04:44:27 PM
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pass

 
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Comment #41 by juzam666
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 05:29:15 PM
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Some games were meant to stay single player. Dont go socom with the franchise guys.

 
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Comment #42 by TheLilyNipper
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 06:09:43 PM
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maybe it just meant for online leaderboards

 
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Comment #43 by TheLilyNipper
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 06:11:15 PM
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lame hit submit too early, and that match making was just race to see who can finish the fastest, or maybe its co op, where its kratos' twin brother, Rice Cakes

 
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Comment #44 by maninred22
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 06:24:45 PM
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never played god of war ... yet that is

 
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Comment #45 by SlLENT RAGE
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 07:02:58 PM
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Im tired of buying a game and can never platinum it because there are bullshit online trophies. If I want to play a online game Ill play Socom or Call of Duty. If they ruin God of War with online I will never buy another. I have every one of them on PS2 and PS3. If it comes out with online just the hell with it, no more for me.

 
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Comment #46 by Pure_Breed-1
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 07:24:59 PM
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it doesn't make sense to make an mmorpg off of GOW but look at the storyline. all they really can do is repair earth. maybe it will take form of RTS were you control army's to take over earth or what's left of it lol

 
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Comment #47 by Riptide9
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 07:39:54 PM
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down with multiplayer!

 
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Comment #48 by BlakeyBlake999
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 08:14:22 PM
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@43 or his actual half brother :P

 
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Comment #49 by zpam
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 09:28:42 PM
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Kratos would turn in his grave, shame on you SantaMonica :'(

 
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Comment #50 by NTKrist
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 @ 05:55:35 AM
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Like so many others, I can't see how MP is supposed to add an enjoyable dimension to this game. Only thing I can imagine would be the possibility of going Online in the Challenges...but it would most likely still suck...

 
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Comment #51 by Drexiel
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 @ 06:50:23 AM
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it's funny how a simple speculation managed to brainwash almost everyone here into thinking it WILL be GoW with online... Pure Fail...

 
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Comment #52 by johnny159
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 @ 06:54:34 AM
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just started god of war 3 ( damn titan is hard ) anyway no MP on any god of war games

 
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Comment #53 by kingdomkiller3
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 @ 07:07:47 AM
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NOOOOOOO ITS TO GOOD FOR ONLINE

 
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Comment #54 by TeamRKO
Thursday, March 31, 2011 @ 02:07:57 AM
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@26: You can't say that RE and DS were ruined by MP if the MP is not the sole focus of the game or the main selling point. RE5 gave players the option to have their AI partner be played by a human rather than brainless AI that takes all your ammo and healing herbs (Ashley from RE4!) and the Versus mode was DLC. DS2 pumps up it's story more than anything, it's just an added bonus/whatever that it also has competitive multi-player that you don't have to play.

Back on topic: If this is a new GoW game i'll be really torn cause I thought GoW3 was such a perfect way to end the series (key word END). As another poster said here Sony SM also produced Warhawk and that game has had a rumored sequel for some time, though with the first one really slowing down I can't see Sony trying to push a

 
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Comment #55 by Datdamdemon
Thursday, March 31, 2011 @ 02:40:28 PM
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I dont know about most of you guys but I'm in my 20's now and nobody likes to sit around and watch other people play games where i'm from so i'm all for co-op games. I think we should save the criticisms for actual info or footage of the game


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Game Info
Developer:
SCE Studios Santa Monica

Publisher:
Sony Computer Entertainment

Genre:
Action

Release:

US: March 16, 2010
Europe: March 19, 2010
Japan: March 25, 2010

Resolution: 480p, 720p, 1080i
Sound: Dolby 5.1
Players: 1
ESRB: Mature
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