God of War III, an action game to end all action games (that’s what it says on the teleprompter anyway), finally releases tomorrow in North America, bringing to an end a long wait for fans and a long journey for, not only series protagonist Kratos, but the creators of the game, Sony Santa Monica.

Development on God of War III has been especially gruelling, but by the sounds of things, most everything that the developers wanted to squeeze into the game was included… except for a few items, including what sounds like a truly epic ending that was planned, but for scheduling reasons, had to be cut and replaced.

Speaking on Kotaku’s Talk Radio, God of War III’s director Stig Asmussen spoke about what got cut (non-spoiler, promise):

“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 more personal.

“We had titan encounters in the game, we had a pretty big one [planned] for the end and we got pretty far with it, but it was just one of those deals where we just had so much.”

The conversation then switched to downloadable content (DLC) for God of War III, and how Asmussen feels about letting gamers see the cut ending as DLC… for free:

“As far as DLC goes, it might be something we might think about getting out there someday,” said Asmussen. “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.”

Asmussen went on to explain how difficult work on the game became, and how difficult (or impossible) it would have been to include any more than what is already included:

“Those things required so many resources and they’re so hard to work on,” Asmussen continued. “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.

“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.”

God of War III releases around the world over the course of this week. Look over El33tonline’s previous coverage of the title for tons of excellent screenshots, videos and extra information to catch yourself up.

Source: Kotaku