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God of War 3 Director Discusses DLC Challenge Rooms
by Nick Breckon, Oct 21, 2009 3:40pm PDTThe God of War series' challenge rooms will be returning in the third entry, and God of War 3 director Stig Asmussen is hinting that further rooms may be added later as downloadable content.
"It would make a lot of sense to be able to download [challenge rooms]," said Asmussen to GamePro. "That's something we might see in the future."
He added: "So, maybe you'll see the game ship with a certain amount of challenges on it, then later on, we might put a download pack out with new challenges. It's a good way to keep the series going."
God of War 3 is scheduled for a March 2010 release on PlayStation 3.
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Still, it's entirely reasonable and possible (and it does happen) that up to around 3 months before ship people start rolling off the project as changes. They're done working on the game at that point, and things are locked down hardcore for bug fixes and cert tweaks. They could just as easily be working on another new project, or even starting to ramp up on the sequel for a game if one is planned. At the end of a project, you've also got a lot of momentum in the workflow and turnaround times are pretty fast. In those few months, you can pound out a lot of content that's ready to go shortly after the launch of the game.
If content has been cut, you can always pull quick turnaround time - this is often perceived as a money grab, but lots of games lose lots of great stuff that there's just not time and/or funding to put together for the initial launch. This content has traditionally been forgotten forever, or handed over to traditional expansion packs.
That's not to say no one out there has the deliberate intent of selling less to sell more later - but applying that blanket statement to every team expanding their game on the sole perception that the game's not out yet isn't fair - especially in this case, where the guy's just saying "we're thinking about adding new stuff later"
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