PS4-exclusive God of War has been an enormous hit with fans and critics alike. Though there has been one often-requested feature – New Game Plus. This Mode would allow you to play God of War all over once again without losing your loot or upgrades from your very first playthrough. It was announced for the video game at E3 2018. Now Sony has verified when it would be coming to the game. The God of War New Game Plus Mode release date is August 20, which incidentally, is the 4 month anniversary of the game’s launch. Here’s what you get with New Game Plus in God of War.

God of War New Game Plus Mode features

• Relive the journey of Kratos and Atreus with all of your previous armors, enchantments, talismans, resources and abilities on the difficulty of your choosing.
• Test your skills against higher level enemies; some of which might even have a few new tricks up their sleeves.
• Unique to New Game Plus is a brand new rarity level of equipment to craft and upgrade. Collect ‘Skap Slag’, a new resource to upgrade your gear to the best of the best from the finest blacksmiths.
• Play the game in a whole new way by exploring new customization options with extremely powerful new armor sets and enchantments.
• Finally, get right back into the action with the newly added ability to skip through cinematics in both normal and New Game Plus modes once a full play through has been completed.

Previously, Sony announced that God of War sold five million units in its first month.

“For some contrasts. Uncharted 4 sold 2.7 m systems in 1 week. Horizon Zero Dawn offered 2.6 m systems in two weeks. The Last of United States delivered 3.4 m units in 3 weeks on PS3,” tweeted noted industry expert Daniel Ahmad.

For what it’s worth, the game has offered extremely well in India. Multiple game shops speaking to Gadgets 360 have confirmed it to be the highest selling video game of the year for them up until now and all of them have seen a healthy bump in PS4 console sales as well. With the PS4 Slim being the number one seller followed by the God of War Limited Edition PS4 Pro and after that the standard PS4 Pro.

“This has been our finest month for hardware thus far thanks to God of War. We cannot keep the PS4 Slim on the shelves and PS4 Pro sales have actually been up by 35 percent too,” says a Mumbai-based video game shopkeeper.

In our God of War review we felt that Kratos’ return is among the generation’s best. Kratos’ PS4 launching is, if you ‘d excuse the pun, a god tier affair. Fan kids may deride the lack of phenomenon and its nuanced take on a well-loved lead character might not be for everyone, but it’s rare to see a reimagining to a series dealt with as deftly and with such polish and care.

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