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God of War Ragnarök Gets Rated... Kinda

That rating could mean big progress in it's development.
by Oliver VanDervoort on December 31, 2021   

A rating board in Saudi Arabia has officially graded God of War: Ragnarok, stirring up speculation about whether a release date is forthcoming.

The official ratings board for Saudi Arabia, the General Commission for Audiovisual Media, appears to have rated God of War: Ragnarok and assigned it an age classification of 18. The 18 ratings is reserved for games suitable for adults ages 18 and above.

That rating is especially notable because Saudi Arabia has a seperate rating for unreleased games, dubbed "To be classified."The actual rating appears to mean that Saudia Arabia has had access to enough of God of War: Ragnarok to do a full rating of the game.
 


 

Before anyone leaps to the assumption that God of War: Ragnarok's development is finished or in a playable state, that's not how ratings traditionally work. Ratings boards do not typically play the games they rate. Even the ESRB only rarely play-tests games post-launch to ensure publisher transparency about in-game content. Otherwise, rating boards are entirely reliant on publishers providing a full accounting of content found pertinent to the game's rating, typically including both text descriptions and video evidence.

However, it does appear that Ragnarok is also far enough along that the development team is able to submit an accurate summary of the game's content, as well as potentially videos showing its most "extreme" gameplay and cutscene content.

That has led to experts in the industry to suggest that the game could get an official release date soon. On the other hand, it's possible that everyone involved in this project is going to play it extremely safe. The game was oriignally slated for a 2021 release and was pushed back into "sometime in 2022" just a few months ago.

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