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Kerotan said:

Areym said:
I'm all for praising Sony but Santa Monica is the real MVP here, they seem to have reinvented GoW and proved people wrong, specially after the fairly heavy criticism that it was another TLoU wanna be.

Getting it day one, can't wait to play it. I'm a sucker for a good emotional journey.

Didn't santa Monica blow 50m on a new ip that failed and had to be canned? Sony are probably the ones that encouraged them to make another god of war and in all liklihood greenlit a more modern gameplay approach after seeing the success of uncharted and the last of us. 

I saw an interview with Cory Barlog where he said that Sony actually wanted Santa Monica to make a new IP instead, but Cory kept pushing and they finally went with it.