You may have noticed that Sony’s smash hit, God of War, is in the news almost constantly. The game launched about a month ago, and landed to massively positive reception (and we liked it as well). Today, Nate Stephens, the main environmental artist at PlayStation Santa Monica Studio talked a bit about the plans and ambitions for a potential God of War sequel. Here’s an interesting tidbit for ya: 
I assume you can not talk too much about the future, but we know that there is probably a fight with Thor. What are the key features you want to keep from this game for the future"
We still want to be God of War. What I want to say is that the first battle in this game when you’re fighting the “Alien” is really an epic fight. It ends by destroying the entire environment in which you fight. It was really hard to create, I myself was working on lighting in this site and it was super hard to process it there. If we have a meeting with Thor or Odin, it must be bigger than this, better than this. This game was very good, but we think we can make it even better, of course, it must be a little bit bigger, 10% cheaper. So if we do another game – no one actually said that we are doing it – it will be bigger, better, longer. The game’s development process also features some interesting character design, which made a huge difference in the final product:
Where did you take inspiration for the various creatures in this world. F...