After nearly four years, 2018’s God of War will finally be abandoning its PlayStation exclusivity next month when it launches on PC.
Although the critically acclaimed sequel received some welcome enhancements on PS5 via a patch earlier this year, the PC version will be developed by Jetpack Interactive with assistance from Sony Santa Monica and will have some exclusive features of its own. As shown off in the trailer below, God of War on PC can run at up to 4K with an unlocked framerate for supported devices, and features a nice variety of graphical presets and options including NVIDIA DLSS and Reflex Support. Plus, players who still wish to use a controller will find full support for both the Dualshock 4 and Dualsense controllers alongside customizable mouse and keyboard options.
For more on God of War, which is out now on PS4 and is set to launch on PC on January 14, be sure to check out our review.
God Of War PC Features Trailer, Specifications Revealed
God of War is now just over a month away from launching on PC, with a new trailer showing off the many technical improvements you can expect to experience with a suitably powerful PC.
God of War, which originally launched on PS4 in 2018, will benefit from improvements in processing power since then, enabling an unlocked frame rate and native 4K rendering. Those with Nvidia GPUs will also benefit from the company's DLSS feature, letting you get higher frame rates without a noticeable impact on image quality. You can check out the game running fluidly at a higher frame rate below.
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Also included is enhanced screen-space reflections, better asset and decal detail, higher-resolution shadows, enhanced Ground Truth Ambient Occlusions, and Screen Space Directional Occlusion. All of this is sure to make an already great-looking game even more spectacular on the right hardware.
The kicker here is that getting God of War running on par with the PS4 version shouldn't be that difficult, with the recommended specifications calling for a minimum of a GTX 1060 and quad-core processor. If you want to really crank things up then you'll need the hardware to manage it, with anything in the range of an RTX 3080 and octa-core processors required for 4K and higher. You can check out the full specification list below.
God of War on PC will also launch with some DLC from the start, giving you access to some special gear for Kratos. This includes:
God of War launches on Steam and the Epic Games Store on January 14, 2022. The game's sequel, God of War: Ragnarok, is scheduled to launch on PS4 and PS5 sometime in 2022.
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God Of War PC Specs Revealed, And Horizon Zero Dawn Adds A New PC Feature
God of War developer Sony Santa Monica has revealed the game's specs ahead of its move to PC while Nvidia has announced that Horizon: Zero Dawn's PC edition is also getting a new feature today.
The PC specs for God of War have been released by Sony Santa Monica prior to the game's Steam launch on January 14, 2022.
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As per the specs detailed below, to run the game at its minimum requirements of 720p resolution at 30FPS, players will need to be packing an Nvidia GTX 960 or AMD R9 290X alongside an Intel i5 processor (or equivalent) and 8GB ram. The game itself will require around 70GB of free space which can be installed on a standard hard drive, though it's recommended that players run the game via a solid-state drive (SSD) even at low-performance settings.
Ultra graphics settings will allow players to run the game in 4K at 60 FPS though the hardware needed to do so is significantly higher in spec. In order to run the game in Ultra, PC players will need an Nvidia RTX 3080 (10GB) or AMD RX 6080 XT (16 GB) as well as an i9-9900k (8 core 3.6 GHz) processor (or equivalent) plus 16 GB of ram. To see how your PC will shape up, you can check the full range of the game's specs below.
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Image Credit: Sony Santa MonicaIn addition to releasing the specs for the game, Nvidia GeForce has also released a trailer detailing a wealth of new features coming to God of War with its PC release. As can be seen in the video below, these include NVIDIA DLSS support for increased performance, Nvidia Reflex support for more responsive gameplay, higher resolution shadows, improved screen-space reflections, and more.
As well as announcing new features for God of War's upcoming PC launch, Nvidia has revealed that Horizon Zero Dawn's PC edition will also include DLSS support as of today. Nvidia notes that players with an RTX graphics card should receive up to a 50% extra accelerated performance in the game.
The inclusion of DLSS support for Horizon Zero Dawn comes alongside a number of other titles set to receive the feature this month including Ratloop Games' Lemnis Gate, RocketWerkz’s Icarus, and Deep Silver's new sci-fi action-adventure game, Chorus.
Horizon Zero Dawn first made its way to Steam on August 7. For more from Guerilla's jump from console to PC, make sure to check out this article detailing our full Horizon Zero Dawn PC analysis.
Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitte
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