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Sony unveils lost God of War II stage

Huge Atlantis level cut from final game.

Sony has offered a glimpse at an enormous Atlantis stage that was cut out of God of War II.

In 2005 senior level designer Jonathan Hawkins was given the task of creating a stage set in the mythical submerged city for the PlayStation 2 sequel but the content ended up being cut due to "some high-level changes".

The platform holder posted design concepts for the level and a clip of Hawkins talking through his work, which you can see below, on its PlayStation blog.

You can remind yourself of what the final cut of the game ended up looking like by checking out the excellent God of War Collection, recently released on the PlayStation Store.

Or if that's old hat, there's always the good-but-not-great God of War: Ghost of Sparta, which launches on PSP this week.

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