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Battlestar Galactica writer working with God of War dev on new game

Michael Angeli says he has been writing for unannounced game for the past 2.5 years.

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Battlestar Galactica and Monk writer Michael Angeli is working with God of War studio Sony Santa Monica on a brand-new game, the TV veteran said during a Comic-Con panel this week attended by Polygon.

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Angeli said during the panel that this new project is not a God of War title, but would not give other details about the game because it has not yet been announced.

The writer told Polygon that he has been working on the game for 2.5 years so far and that after God of War: Ascension development wrapped, about 150 staffers moved to the new game.

Previous job listings at Sony Santa Monica suggest the company is working on a shooter with open-world and vehicle combat elements.

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isn't it the order 1886 ?

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@H13AZE That's made by Ready At Dawn. Sony Santa Monica are simply assisting.

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Ok, but if he wrote "Scar" I'm not buying this game.

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@NeverMore0 Scar was a good episode.

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And Xbone has Ryse: Son of QTE

*facepalm*

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@BoozerX LMAO!

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Am I the only one who click to this page for new GOW game ?

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One of the things i really liked about BSG was how it threw caution to the wind and went full crazy in its epic fusion of religion and technology, man and machine. Its some of the most intelligent and courageous sci-fi of the modern era. In this sense it had a somewhat transhumanist feel to it.

It's all too easy, within sci-fi, to dismiss the concept of deism or spirituality entirely without even discussing it. Instead BSG chose to tackle it head on without ever reaching any definite conclusions. That was very cool and open minded imo and reveal so much more intelligence than the classic "Religion is for stupid people LOLZ" attitude prevailing in our time.

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@gufberg I mean the show itself reached a conclusion - god did exist and angels were real.

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@Grenadeh Yea thats what i took away from it as well.

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I bet this is a new exclusive title for PS4. Great news, Santa Monica is another top studio from Sony's army.

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@Sun-Tzu-GE That was one of the things i liked to much about BSG as well. They discussed a lot of religious, political and philospohical themes. Ultimately, it seemed to me like certain characters came to harbour a sort of pantheist conviction (like Gaius Baltar)


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awesome news, GOW series is great but it is good idea for now to let it rest maybe comeback to it on 2015 with GOW4

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@wdma It'll be difficult narrative-wise to bring back Kratos I think. I mean, who could he possibly rage at this time? lol

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@dogbert784 @wdma Enough is enough. His ass has died what, 4 times now? The last by impaling himself with the damn sword of olympus. He's dead, Jim. Leave him dead. The storyline already lost all credibility after having him die and come back to life and back into power the exact same way multiple times.

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@dogbert784 @wdma Tyr could

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yeah this awesome but if it was kratos then the things would have been different


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This is awesome news.

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we need kratos back


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Poor cow

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Hmmm what could it be??

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I'm just glad to hear there working on something fresh and something big. Looking foward to finding out what it is.

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Yay Battestar Galactica is awesome show and Santa Monica studios are amazing,give us new Colony Wars or something similar :-D

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@Sun-Tzu-GE Shame on SyFy for cancelling Caprica... I agree with your whole comment and yeah if Bear McCreary could work on the OST, it'd be amazing, I love his work, this guy is amazing. If you guys don't know, he's the dude who made the BSG/Caprica OSTs, Dark Void OST, Defiance OST and many others :D

So say we all.

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Bear McCreary makes the OST for every show. BSG, Caprica, Eureka, Walking Dead, and many others. And he pwns.

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holy mother of god Battlestar Galactica was an amazing show mixed with someone who made god of war, i wonder what they could be working on (no sarcasm)

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I found BS Galactica boring.After severaly shows, the "aha-effect" was gone(nice fight close ups,the music).
I am for all to have as much females as possible in shows but here they took over roles of male protagonists of the original show(i saw all of them) and i just couldnt accept that fact.
Also throwing the religion in it was a mistake imo aswell as annoying flashbacks.

Hope the story for the upcoming game isnt anything like that.

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@sladakrobot Anyone who sees new BSG and watches old BSG and then says new BSG is anything but exponentially better, is silly. Katee Sackhoff as Starbucks beats the bejesus out of Dirk Benedict.

Your comment is nothing but that of an old racist/sexist who can't accept change and clings to things that actually weren't better.

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@sladakrobot Totally agree, towards the end there, it was like the writers got together, threw every idea into a box and just shook the thing until it came out looking like a completed tetris game.


That said, I am always excited to see other entertainment pros involved in VG's. especially writers for such beloved series, it only leads to deeper more interesting story elements.

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@sladakrobot well you can't lie the first season of BSG was amazing it did hit some bumps in the road but it only makes you think what will they be working on

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Starhawk 2 maybe?

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@Erzcn24 Maybe then starhawk will stop being insanely overpriced and I can buy it.

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