‘God of War: Ascension’ Game Length Revealed

In March 2013, Sony Computer Entertainment along with Sony Santa Monica will release one of the PlayStation 3’s most anticipated upcoming titles with “God of War: Ascension”. While the wait ahead may be lengthy, new information concerning the game’s single-player was shared on Friday evening during the “God of War: Ascension” PAX Prime Panel.

[KingOptimusOrigin111]

14 hours WOW!!! I hope that's true.

[Abash]

The online is going to even add more replayability to it

[BattleAxe]

@ KingOptimus

Looks like a couple of 360 fans hope its not true. Oh well, at least they'll get their five hours worth of Halo once again this holiday season.

@ Disagrees,

My bad you guys, I meant 4 hours.

[Awesome_Gamer]

Wow, that's really good for a hack&slash game, can't wait.

[Kingdom Come]

@ BattleAxe, whilst I agree that the Agree/Disagree system on this site can get monotonous at times, I believe then when people comment in the way you have just exampled, the commentator can be just as immature and biased.

Why introduce Xbox fans or the Halo franchise when neither are of any relevance to the discussion. Look at the comments you criticised disagreers on:

"The online is going to add more replay ability to it", people could rightfully disagree with this comment, perhaps not particularly enjoying the multiplayer they have as of yet seen, also even if they are "Halo Fanboys" as you see them, wouldn't they have the right to disagree due to their favoured franchise having an already popular and critically acclaimed multiplayer component?

[PLASTICA-MAN]

HEY PEOPLE LISTEN:

Not the SP ALONE IS 14 HOURS LONG!
SP+MP together are 14 hours long!

https://twitter.com/ToddPap...

[Mainsqueeze]

14 hours with the combination of both sp and mp is a little disappointing to me, dang.

[MaxXAttaxX]

It'll be just as long as the other GOW games. Length hasn't stopped other games from being great.

This "the more open and longer the better" attitude needs to stop.

[HeavenlySnipes]

They didnt specify difficulty or whether this includes complete exploration or just a run through. Still, 14 hours +/- a few hours is a great number for this gen let alone a GOW game. Can't wait for the beta

[guitarded77]

It's probably true, but someone will speed run through the game and write some story about how the game's too short and how they beat it in x number of hours. It's pretty much inevitable.

[DigitalAnalog]

Didn't they say the game length was as long as GOW1? That's about twice the length.

[specialguest]

14 hours of gameplay usually means an additional 5 hours for me when I play it, making it a realistic 19 hours. I usually end up dying and replaying different areas, stages, and boss fights many times.

[mafiahajeri]

Sounds great the demo I played was really good can't wait.

[Sevir]

Sounds like we get a game with great value, a lengthy campaign and a pretty great multiplayer component. Plus all the challenge modes and such. So much for people saying we'll have a shorter game because of "Tacked on Multiplayer mode"

[torchic]

and most probably the best graphics on console ;) (until The Last of Us drops, of course)

[Omar91]

Awesome! I would like to see more single player though. Kratos ripping someones spine off like if it was no big deal : D

[francknara6]

I've watched the panel and haven't heard that...

[DaPrintz]

Yeah Pappy said during the panel that if they've done their jobs right, the player would play for 14 hours straight. He doesn't really ever come out and say its 14 hours long. I hope so though.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

Games usually don't tend to be the length the producers mention before release, but I expected to hear 10 hours. This is a pleasant surprise.

[neoMAXMLC]

It'll be 3 years since the release of GoW3. This game will definitely be very lengthy since the team already had all the tools and an amazing engine all set up.

[EmperorDalek]

They said 15 hours for GoW3, then one of the devs said "NO! it's 8", which was correct.

[telekineticmantis]

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[IHateYouFanboys]

One GOW3 dev said that no play tester could finish 3 in under 20 hours. The majority of players finished it in under 10 when it released. Take this with a grain of salt.

[MySwordIsHeavenly]

Link?

[ginsunuva]

Who said that?

[NotSoSilentBob]

Making things up again Fanboy? You really need to stop trolling.

[snowman2149]

God of war 3 was substantially shorter than 1 and 2, I was slightly disappointed by that. Hope this game is at least as long as the first God of war..

[nevin1]

Im with snowman2149. GOW3 should of been saved for another time as I thought the game was too short. I liked GOW 3 pacing because it didnt have that many usless puzzles like GOW1/2 had. So maybe thats why 3 was shorter.

I'm also with Ihateyoufanboys. I cant believe people still believe what developers/publishers say.

[Gwyn-Lord-Of-Cinder]

14 hours not to shabby pluss multiplayer pretty good deal.

[RememberThe357]

Yeah lets take this with a grain of salt. We'll see what it really is when it comes out. Either way I'm looking forward to it, Santa Monica hasn't gone wrong yet and I don't expect them to go wrong any time soon.

[StreetsofRage]

I'm probably going to put a good 20 hours or more into it. I take my sweet ass time with these type of games.

[HappyWithOneBubble]

Me too. I know I played over 30 hrs for GOW3 on my 1st play through on hard mode.

[black911]

I'm buying this and Beyond Two Souls Day One.

[Winckle]

I'm skeptical about this. I remember seeing on the PS Blog an interview of Todd Pappy where he said that the game was a little shorter than God of War 3 (at least, the script). And we've never seen a GoW game go past the 10 hour mark.

[SolidDuck]

Well since this game will get at least two playthroughs from me, normal, and then hard and going for trophies. Plus the multiplayer. Ill get plenty of play out of it. Can't wait.

[Quagland]

Not so long ago they said it would be shorter than III
http://www.videogamer.com/p...

Now it's essentially doubled in length just a few months later? Eh, cool I guess.

[imt558]

This is fucking surprise. Well, GOW III isn't short game. I played GOW III on Chaos. My finish time was almost 14 hours. But GOW : Ascension on Chaos... Hm... 18 hours.:)

[DivineAssault]

games seem to be getting shorter & more expensive.. Ima buy it to complete my collection but damn.. Action games like this should be over 20 hours on home consoles.. Handheld action games are longer n cheaper.. The elephant ppl look cool & i cant wait to finish all these new enemies off