Kotaku was invited to have the first look at God of War Ascension and confirms their is multiplayer in the game.
In terms of multiplayer, two teams of four players each are fighting over to win both territories and an item in order to finish the objective or kill the monster in the end. The demo showed off multiple versions of Kratos which might be teasing Kratos' appearance will be changing a lot during the game's single player mode.
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"Basically we showed a team component where two people killed the small Cyclops. Then we pulled back and tried to show that there's a bigger fight happening on a bigger scale with a bigger Cyclops."
The game we just watched was a four versus four affair — essentially God of War's interpretation of ‘territories'. Each team had to hold two separate positions, and hold said positions for a specific amount of time before earning ‘the favour of the gods', and the right to use the Spear sent from the heavens to slaughter the massive Cyclops.
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The game will also contain a class system tied into character creation with playable characters such as Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, and Aires as possible choices.
The PR guy from Santa Monica Studio also hinted the series trademark "Titan moment" to generate the main hype for the game will be the multiplayer and not the traditional large scale boss battle.
Santa Monica Studio is also aware of the huge risk of the game's single player taking a hit or concerns of the multiplayer feeling tact on like the case with other single player games when they added multiplayer (ex. Bioschock 2, Dead Space 2). They feel it won't be a concern with Ascension due to their status and the God of War series status has with gamers.
http://kotaku.com/5906237/our-titani...ns-multiplayer
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Daily Recap:
1) Richard Lemarchand, lead designer of the Uncharted series, will be leaving Naughty Dog studio in order to take on a professor job at the University of Southern California.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/richar...et-crazy/4114/
2) Bayonetta 2 is rumored to have been cancelled with the unofficial reason due to Sega's poor financial report and losses from last year.
http://spong.com/article/26926/Rumou...Been-Cancelled
3) Awesomenaughts which was set for a release this week on XBLA and PSN could now be delayed indefinitely after the developers recently filed for bankruptcy.
UPDATE: Sony confirms the PSN version will still arrive on time while the developers confirmed the XBLA will also arrive a day later.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/you-pr...his-week/4113/