Update 2: Sony's now released an official video of its new Champions League idents, which includes a bunch of previously unseen clips featuring Nathan Drake among others. You can watch it above.
Update 1: Whoops! Looks like we doubled up on this story – that’s what this author gets for taking a day off. Anyway, you can watch a bunch of other commercials, featuring Horizon Forbidden West's Aloy and others through here.
Original Story: For those of you who don’t know, the Champions League is the biggest club competition in Europe, where the best teams across the continent battle it out for one of the biggest prizes in football. For decades PlayStation has been one of the competition’s principle partners, and in addition to advertising hoardings around the pitch, this also grants it short little adverts in between commercial breaks.
UEFA, the tournament’s organiser, mandates that these spots must have a football theme – and this God of War Ragnarok clip that’s running in Russia is brilliant. It shows a team lining up in the tunnel before heading out onto the pitch. At the front of the line is Atreus, and then captain Kratos emerges from the shadows to lead his side out onto the field. What position do you reckon the Ghost of Sparta would play? He’d be a pretty formidable centre half, wouldn’t he?
[source youtube.com, via reddit.com]
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You'd put the God of War in defense?! 😆
And the Champions League is the biggest club tournament in the world.
I've enjoyed these PS themed ads. Aloy was my favourite so far.
Really......"rad", lol didn't that term die already.
P.s: I'm not mocking, just suprised by the use of words.
Also gotta praise the add quality, the character really look like they belong to the world! Impressive stuff.
Nope Kratos will concede too many penalties and red cards. Maybe he could be a goal keeper. I think he has a good combo of size and speed to keep the balls out.
@lolwhatno me too. It's a very 'how do you do, fellow kids?' thing to say 😆
@Iver the Copa Libertadores is only bigger in the geographical sense 🙂👍
I'd like to see Ellie in an advert! I'd record and keep that!
@Integrity lol, that's exactly what I told myself when reading it lol. Sucks that it comes out as cringe but hey: You miss 100% of the shots you don't take (but not shots of alcohol, you will never miss them, you will be glad to get rid of them)
Do you Europeans love PlayStation just as much as you guys love watching dudes kicking balls in nets lol 😂.
@CynicalGamer I love how you straight up assume that he is gonna not give af about the first red card and keep playing, lol!
I just imagine the referee grabing to stop him while he casually walks back to the pitch.
@4kgk2 A net is way better than a Y, just sayin.
(handball, volleyball, hockey etc) compared to just american football (also wtf come up with original names ppl!)
Edit: And no, I'm not judging what you enjoy (compared to other people ahem), glad people have something to distract them from how s***y today's world is (We still have concentration camps in china ffs)
@lolwhatno I wasn’t trying to be offensive it was just a joke man you don’t have to be so serious. I don’t watch sports use to watch Basketball a long time ago but stop because it was waste of my time and because my team sucked😂.
@4kgk2 watch balls kicked into nets? Pfft...I still play!! And PS comes a safe second to playing footy 😁
@lolwhatno I can't stand drinking alcohol, getting drunk, nasty habit. Really messes with my meth amphetamine addiction.
@Integrity I thought the EXACT same thing! Showing my age but I was using this phrase about 35 years ago ( I'm so old😂)
@Integrity Listen sometimes my brain blacks out, so could you please explain your sentence, are you being sarcastic or what was your comment supposed to convey. Again, sorry my brain is a potato sometimes.
@4kgk2 Lmao, darn it I hate that I still can't convey precise emotions in my comments. I wasn't really serious, it was just a friendly comeback-ish reply, sorry if that was rude, wasn't my intention at all.
@4kgk2 But Europeans aren't the only ones that love football, many continents loves it. The champions league is watched almost religiously by many South Americans and Africans.
@lolwhatno yeah it was a joke 😊 I don't drink and I definetly don't do meth......I get my kicks from letting a dominatrix spank me with a paddle.
Surely Kratos would be best as the referee??
After all, he is the God of VAR!!!
I'll get my coat.
@Futureshark long as he’s not on the receiving end. Those shoulders would fall foul of many an offside call
Kratos playing for 🇫🇷 france and. Winning the world cup with mbappe.haha.word up son
@Integrity Thanks, I'm now even more confused 👍
@lolwhatno 😆 👍
What a COOL PC advert... er erm I mean PlayStation advert (well all those characters are coming to PC soon to) :-/
@4kgk2 Im more into Playstation but i played football aclong time and had great fun doing it. American Football is something i really dont understand. 🤪
@Carl-G It will always be a Playstation add its still the Playstation brand.
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