Autumn is upon us. Where I live, the leaves are falling in droves and the Glasgow rain is turning them into slippery mulch that makes every trip to the shops an obstacle course. But one hallmark of autumn is missing: a promising run of new video games to cosy up with as the nights lengthen. Usually this is when the end-of-year rush starts, but not in 2022. It’s as if the video games industry is giving us a little extra time to watch the absolute circus that UK politics has become in recent months.
The actual reasons for this relative drought are manifold, boiling down to the delayed effects of Covid-era development and, well, money. But there’s one game that could save these dreary few months, one that I’ve been looking forward to for years: God of War Ragnarök. I’ve been playing it to review and, for once, the developer is allowing me to write about a game ahead of its release.
