I love Ryan Hurst, but this is a slap in the face to Christopher Judge. Judge literally holds the Guinness World Record for his performance as Kratos. He is the voice and the motion capture. Hollywood needs to stop thinking they need 'face actors' for live-action adaptations when the voice actors are right there. Ryan Hurst was an amazing Thor, so let him be Thor! Swapping roles just feels like a gimmick. It’s going to be so distracting hearing 'Beta' from The Walking Dead trying to do the Kratos grunts.

The level of detail we have seen in the leaks and the official trailer is actually frightening. We are talking about a simulation so deep that the NPCs have their own lives. I’m seeing people analyze the sunscreen on a character's skin or the way the water physics react to a fanboat—this is generation-defining tech. Everyone screaming 'it's just more GTA' doesn't understand that Rockstar sets the standard for the entire industry. When this drops, every other open-world game is going to look obsolete.