carocat
25-03-2007, 03:35 PM
BIZ: Do you have it planned out in your head exactly how the God of War franchise is going to continue? Is it a trilogy or what's the master plan?
Jaffe: Well that's debatable... There is a master plan. I know exactly how it's going to end...
BIZ: Right, the trailer even says "The End Begins."
Jaffe: And we seeded that even in the first God of War. If you go around and start looking at artwork on the walls and artwork on the floors you'll actually see images and text that sort of talk about this coming battle on Mt. Olympus and what it ultimately means. So the idea of where this is going we've known for quite some time. Whether it's a trilogy or whether we make four games, who the hell knows.
BIZ: Wouldn't a lot of that be sales dependent?
Jaffe: Well, a lot of it is sales dependent but a lot is scope dependent. For example, me and Cory have a story for how God of War wraps up. Whether or not we'll be able to tell that story in one game for PS3, or it's going to take 2 or 3 games is really more dependent on how much time we have to make that game. Now when that story is concluded and assuming people?and we hope they are?are still interested in Kratos and his universe, there's a lot of places we can go to continue to make God of War games if people are interested, but the core story of Kratos will have been told. So that's what I really want to get told is that core story. And then after that, there's all these gaps where Kratos was doing things for Ares, where Kratos was doing things for the gods and we can tell all kinds of stories. But right now we're just focused on the main story of where Kratos ultimately ends up.
Source (http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=15557&page=3)
I don't know how reliable the site is, but this is a great way to hype the second one that just came out.
Jaffe: Well that's debatable... There is a master plan. I know exactly how it's going to end...
BIZ: Right, the trailer even says "The End Begins."
Jaffe: And we seeded that even in the first God of War. If you go around and start looking at artwork on the walls and artwork on the floors you'll actually see images and text that sort of talk about this coming battle on Mt. Olympus and what it ultimately means. So the idea of where this is going we've known for quite some time. Whether it's a trilogy or whether we make four games, who the hell knows.
BIZ: Wouldn't a lot of that be sales dependent?
Jaffe: Well, a lot of it is sales dependent but a lot is scope dependent. For example, me and Cory have a story for how God of War wraps up. Whether or not we'll be able to tell that story in one game for PS3, or it's going to take 2 or 3 games is really more dependent on how much time we have to make that game. Now when that story is concluded and assuming people?and we hope they are?are still interested in Kratos and his universe, there's a lot of places we can go to continue to make God of War games if people are interested, but the core story of Kratos will have been told. So that's what I really want to get told is that core story. And then after that, there's all these gaps where Kratos was doing things for Ares, where Kratos was doing things for the gods and we can tell all kinds of stories. But right now we're just focused on the main story of where Kratos ultimately ends up.
Source (http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=15557&page=3)
I don't know how reliable the site is, but this is a great way to hype the second one that just came out.