God of War 3 alternate ending might be free DLC

17 March 2010

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Posted by:Josh

Did you beat God of War 3 yet?

Well according to the developers of the game, the third God of War game actually had a much longer and different ending which had to be cut from the final game. Apparently the ending had way too many enemies and had to be severely trimmed down because it was simply too overwhelming for the development team to implement. Not including the issue of time and resources that would’ve had to be pumped into it to pull it off successfully.

So the end result was to cut the ending, so that they could concentrate those resources on the rest of the project. Speaking to Kotaku Talk Radio podcast, God of War 3′s director, Stig Asmussen, stated:

“There was a pretty large thing that we chopped from the ending that I had regrets about, but then something we added at the end that helps make up for it a little bit, and helps make it be more personal,” Asmussen said, speaking generically to avoid spoilers. “We had titan encounters in the game, we had a pretty big one planned for the end and we got pretty far with it it, but it was just one of those deals where we just had so much.”

Now it seems though, that this original ending might return as an alternate ending downloadable content! What’s more, it will be FREE. This is because the team had already pumped so much resources into it, that they could simply finish it up, and polish it off. And ta-da, new DLC!

“As far as DLC goes, it might be something we might think about getting out there someday,” Asmussen said. “The pieces are in place, the idea is written. If it’s something we put out there it would be something that would be free.”

He went on to say,
“Those things required so many resources and they’re so hard to work on. It was literally the hardest thing I’ve ever been involved with before in my life and we just couldn’t do more. We couldn’t,” Asmussen said. “It was to the point where we had to remove one just to invest time in the other ones that we had in the game, to get those right. We could have had more, and everything else would have suffered.”

Via Kotaku