The God of War franchise kicked off in 2005 with the release of the first game in the Greek saga. The story followed a brand new character called Kratos. Soon, he would become a fan-favorite and one of the faces of Sony’s PlayStation lineup of exclusive video games. After he wrapped up the Greek pantheon of Gods, the Spartan used the Blade of Olympus to put himself out for good. However, his journey was far from over, as comics have shown that he travelled to Egypt, while the soft reboot from 2018 and its 2022 sequel showed Kratos in Norse mythology. But this isn’t how the game was originally planned to end.
God of War Has A Scrapped Ending
David Jaffe was the director for the first God of War game. In God of War 2, he served as the creative director, controlling the overall bigger picture of the plot. By the time Santa Monica Studios started working on the third game, he had left the company. However, before leaving, he had an idea in mind that reflected in the ending of God of War 2 as well.
Turns out, Jaffe was never planning to make the third GoW game about Zeus. Instead, he would have the raging Spartan kill his father and the rest of the Olympians at the very beginning of the game. This would then create a power vacuum that Gods from other pantheons like Norse and Egyptian would try to fill, raging a war amongst all Gods.
He kills Zeus in the first couple of minutes of God of War 3; there’s a vacuum on earth cause the Greek mythology religion is in shambles, and the other religions and gods rush in. Norse mythology, Egyptian mythology. They kind of take over that place now that Zeus is no longer a power.
And it really becomes sort of a mash-up of Greek and Egyptian and Norse mythology, where Kratos kind of gets to journey to all these other locations. You know. It’s kind of something like a toy â but you’d have Egyptian Kratos, and Norse Kratos, and he kills Thor and takes his hammer, and I always love the idea that the reason we have the Sphinx in Egypt is he used the Medusa head to freeze this creature out in the desert, which ultimately ends up being what the Sphinx is.
But ultimately he ends up getting all the gods to fight amongst themselves. Thus, ignoring man on earth and the way Kratos realizes that you kill gods with finality is that you get people to stop believing in them. So as the gods have ignored man, man begins to turn away from the gods â and that’s how Kratos kills all of the gods.
He confirmed that the first epilogue would have Kratos ending himself. The second epilogue, though, would have dove deeper into how the three travelers came across the birth of Christ, thus paving the way for another God, showing us that mankind will always find a higher power to believe in. Whether we would still have more Kratos stories after that is something to wonder.
Would you have preferred this ending over the one we got?
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