I wanted to experiment with more deliberate combat but I never wanted to lose that DNA of what 'God of War' is.

You have to have this straddling balance of realizing that games are incredibly complex. You can have an idea of where you want to go with something, the structure of something, but the actual moment to moment figuring all this out-it unravels over the course of, in 'God of War''s case, about five years.

A game director, in my mind, is somebody who makes everybody on the team miserable for the duration of the project.

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