God of War Composer Says He Would 'Be Open to' Revisiting the Franchise

The God of War TV Series is inactive a ways off, but 1 of the cardinal players of some the God of War (2018) and God of War Ragnarök video games says he’d beryllium unfastened to continuing his enactment connected that and different God of War projects.

Speaking exclusively with IGN during an interrogation astir his enactment connected the Disney+ bid Percy Jackson and the Olympians, composer Bear McCreary said helium isn’t wholly done with the God of War franchise. I asked McCreary if he'd beryllium funny successful expanding his enactment into different media oregon if his clip connected God of War was done.

“I inactive consciousness that I americium precise arrogant of the enactment that I've done (with God of War),” McCreary replied. “And if determination were an accidental to grow upon it, I would beryllium unfastened to that.”

McCreary antecedently said that helium felt his enactment connected God of War was “complete,” but present seems unfastened to revisiting the fashionable video crippled bid successful tv form. The amusement is being developed by Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions to watercourse connected Prime Video. The series, which is being helmed by Battlestar Galactica showrunner Ronald D. Moore, volition travel Kratos and Atreus arsenic they question to the highest highest successful the 9 realms of Norse mythology to dispersed the ashes of their precocious woman and mother.

For his part, McCreary said that his acquisition moving connected God of War was unsocial to the galore different franchises he’s scored, which see Lord of the Rings, Halo, Star Wars, Marvel, Terminator, and the aforementioned Percy Jackson.

“The large happening astir moving connected these God of War games (is) they are truthful expansive,” McCreary explained. “I don't deliberation I person written thing musically successful the 2 games and DLC that hasn't been discovered. If anything, I deliberation the much you excavation into it, what I anticipation is evident is however overmuch the squad and I (were) ever moving to conscionable marque it better.

“At the extremity of each 1 of these monolithic games, aft I've played done it and each I privation to bash is sleep, I'm like, ‘Here's what we should bash adjacent time.’”

McCreary added that moving connected video games is inherently antithetic from producing euphony for TV oregon movies fixed the interactive quality of the storytelling. “We (were) ever pushing the boundaries connected God of War,” helium said. “For example, successful God War Ragnarök we decided to instrumentality a ‘do nary harm to melody’ rule. What that means is if (a subordinate is) truly doing good successful a skirmish oregon an encounter, you commencement getting these quality themes and it changes depending connected who your spouse is successful the game.

“But let's accidental it's Kratos's theme. If you win, usually there'd conscionable beryllium a large splash and it would stop. But successful Ragnarök, there's the large splash, everything other stops, but that melody completes itself. It sounds simple, but it took thousands of antheral hours from a fractional twelve radical to beryllium capable to bash that.”

Beyond God of War, McCreary’s emotion of gaming runs deep. So overmuch truthful that he’s itching to constitute euphony for a bushed game.

“I would emotion to bash thing similar that,” McCreary said. “I'm ever looking for absorbing projects, absorbing radical to collaborate with. One of my favourite games from the past procreation is Stray. I deliberation I've played it done 7 oregon 8 times. And I'm precise funny successful (indie) and AA gaming. I deliberation there's a batch of experimentation that happens there. And I emotion the medium. I'm putting it retired there.”

Stay tuned aboriginal this week for much from our interrogation with Bear McCreary.

Michael Peyton is the Senior Editorial Director of Events & Entertainment astatine IGN, starring amusement contented and sum of tentpole events including IGN Live, San Diego Comic Con, gamescom, and IGN Fan Fest. He's spent 20 years moving successful the games and amusement industry, and his adventures person taken him everyplace from the Oscars to Japan to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Follow him connected Bluesky @MichaelPeyton