In acknowledgement of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, PlayStation revealed the complete details of their accessibility features for the highly anticipated God of War: Ragnarok.
Here’s PlayStation’s official tweet, which mentions just a few of the features players can expect:
The video accompanying the tweet is surprisingly short, but the buzz around this game is already at such a fever pitch that fans are excited by the smallest updates.
PlayStation has chosen to recognize a crucial day, using one of their biggest franchises of all time to help spread awareness. It reminds everyone what a unifying force that gaming can and should be. So, be sure to show your support for GAAD as well, any way you can.
Accessibility features breakdown
In a lengthy official blog post, various important features are explained. It begins with the promise that everything from the PC release of God of War (2018) will return for the latest installment.
This includes Sprint Auto Sprint, Persistent Dot, Speaker Names, Aim Style and Block Style. Also, you’ll be able to change the text and icon sizes again, but the scaling is improved.
Many of the new features involve the subtitles and captions. Players will be able to adjust their size, color, and background blur.
These are fundamental additions, but a highlight is the new Direction Indicator, which clarifies where sounds are coming from in-game. It’s an impressive and straightforward idea that should really be universal in the industry, especially for such complex AAA games.
This time around, players will also have access to controller remapping and a high contrast mode. You’ll have unprecedented control over the color palettes of your characters, items and environments.
Alongside other miscellaneous additions, such as Audio Cues and Traversal Assistance, the posting closes with an Audio Description of last year’s God of War: Ragnarok trailer.
This is the kind of attention today deserves, and more, from a booming industry that reaches such wide and young audiences.
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