God of War team considered setting the new game in Egypt

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The God of War we saw unveiled at Sony's press conference was an unfamiliar one. Kratos is back, but he's now got himself a son and a massive beard. There's a new camera angle to consider and a story that might have something to say about fatherhood. And then there's the setting!
"We've actually moved away from Greece and Kratos has kind of wandered," creative director Cory Barlog said during a roundtable interview attended by Eurogamer at E3. "We are parsing it as the time in which the vikings spoke of their gods walking the earth. So it's not in the era where the vikings are around, we're predating them by a considerable amount of time."
No longer will we be fighting Olympian gods, then, but it's probably a safe bet to presume that Kratos will find something to kill within the world of Norse mythology. That's sort of his thing. That's what he does.
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