Midgard is surprisingly varied in its environmental design too. Every axe hit, bone split, and skull smash can be felt with delicious excess. The music is majestic and varied, cutting deep in the game's most emotional moments, and ascending with cinematic intensity during setpiece boss events. God of War is an audiovisual work of art, and the quality of its PC port bodes well for future Sony games.īeyond performance, God of War is a simple marvel on the art direction department too. Of course, I can't test God of War on every possible PC configuration out there, but the fact it works as well as I can expect on my hardware, despite not having a 'day one' update, I'd say it bodes well for general performance (hopefully). God of War gives you a mountain of display settings to tweak and accessibility options to configure, showcasing Sony's efforts to make full use of the benefits of Windows and PC gaming.

God Of War Review 2022 (Image credit: Windows Central) Naturally, more powerful systems than mine will produce better results, but the game performs exactly as I would've expected given my hardware, given its overall presentation density. Of course, you can also leverage both SuperFX from AMD and NVIDIA DLSS too, which is nice to see. At 1080p I could easily reach for a higher frame rate, but God of War is such a detailed and cinematically crisp game, I wanted to really see how far I could push the visuals without settling for a middlingly low frame rate. In the end, I settled on 1440p with a 50 FPS limiter to create a consistent experience on my 4K monitor. While performance naturally varies from system to system, I've been utterly impressed with God of War's performance on my system, although it took me a bit of tweaking to balance the game's stunning visuals and effects with a frame rate that didn't produce tearing or performance degradation. It's by no means the best gaming laptop out there, but it's handled most of what I've thrown at it at 1080p or 1440p.

I am running God of War on a Razer Blade 17, with an RTX 2070 Max-Q, 16 GB of RAM, and Intel i7-10875H CPU, with Windows 11.

Video game where you battle huge gods