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Wow, what an opener that was. Sony started its E3 2016 press conference on the front foot, dealing out a God of War PlayStation 4 gameplay demo, and it's honestly not what we expected. For a start, the property's trademark combat has seemingly been altered to a large degree, with fights now resembling an action game akin to something like Dark Souls - but we'll be damned if we go ahead and claim that this the Dark Souls of God of War, and we'd encourage you to avoid doing so as well.

As expected, though, the game looks stunning, although it sadly doesn't have any kind of release window just yet - all we know is that it's "in development", so we'll probably be waiting a while. In any case, this is arguably the kind of shake-up that the franchise needed, and we're all aboard for something a bit different.

Watch the gameplay that we've embedded and let us know if you're ready to axe mythical creatures in the comments section below.