Kratos kan bruge forskellige skjold i God of War: Ragnarök

En lille mekanisk detalje som har skabt stor debat i traileren for God of War: Ragnarök er at Kratos bruger et skjold i kampens hede.

Men det viser sig faktisk at være bare ét af flere, som Kratos kan kombinere med forskellige evner i kamp. Dette er blevet bekræftet igennem et interview af instruktør Eric Williams, som findes hos Jon Ford.

Her afslører Williams, at der er adskillige skjolde i spillet, og at de kan kombineres med andre evner.

"I don't want to go too deep on it, but yes, there are different shields, and they have different defensive options and abilities. The reason we're doing this is we really want to open up expressive choice to the way that you build your Kratos, like the equipment and loadout and things like that. So all the way down to the defense, you can kind of play a little differently. And then the enemies know how to respond to that, or force you into these different situations where you need to use different things. So I think it will be fun for players to explore that. But also, we wanted it to be more expressive, where your choices matter when you set them up."