Prior to attending E3 in 2004, and much like everyone else, no-one from developer Ready at Dawn had heard of God of War. The studio already had an ongoing relationship with Sony, however, and was there to showcase the portable wizardry it was doing with PSP spin-off Daxter. What members of the team saw would set Ready at Dawn’s development trajectory for years to come, and all it took was a visit to the Sony Santa Monica booth. “Whoever played it first on the team came back and told everyone ‘you’ve got to go play this!’ And we did,” says Ru Weerasuriya, Ready at Dawn’s CEO and creative director. “All of us…