Who voices whom, and who came back

✚ Checked 2026-11-15 · PS5 1.005.000 / PS4 launch build · 2 sources

The short version

Two actors who have both played Kratos return, a new actor takes Deimos, and Bear McCreary scores his third God of War. The full credited cast is longer than that, and it includes several series veterans in new roles.

The leads

The TC Carson return is the one that carries the most weight. Christopher Judge voiced Kratos in the Norse games; Carson is the voice of the Greek era, and having him narrate his own character's youth is a deliberate piece of casting rather than a convenience.

Antony Del Rio returning to a role he last played in 2010 is the other neat piece: the same actor voicing the same thirteen-year-old, sixteen years later.

The supporting cast

Two of those names are quietly interesting. Bridger Zadina voiced young Deimos in Ghost of Sparta and here plays the cult's leader; A.J. LoCascio voiced Skjöldr in Ragnarök and here plays Petros. Series veterans in different roles is a McCreary-era God of War tradition at this point.

The frame story, and why the cast matters to it

Adult Kratos narrates to Calliope — the daughter whose fate defines the Greek era's tragedy. The framing places the telling before that tragedy, while Kratos is still a captain in the Spartan Army.

That is why casting TC Carson matters more than it looks. The narrator is not a generic voice-over; it is the same man who will later lose everything, telling his daughter a story about duty while the audience knows what duty will cost him.

The composer

Bear McCreary returns after God of War (2018) and Ragnarök. For this game he had a specific brief: meld retro aesthetics with the series' orchestral and choral style.

His own account of the approach is that the score runs on three palettes — Greek folk instrumentation (kithara, aulos) for the setting, chiptune synthesis for the retro aesthetic, and full symphony and choir for the emotional story — mixed together rather than used in separate sections.

He also wrote one theme for both brothers rather than separate themes, on the reasoning that the game is about their relationship and a single theme could evolve as that relationship changes.

Practical note for a guide reader

None of this is required to play the game. It matters in one specific way: the voice cast is doing narrative work that the reviews singled out as the game's strongest element. If you are deciding whether to buy, the cast list is evidence for the side of the ledger that says the story is the reason to be here.

What this page is not

It is not a spoiler summary of what each character does. The cast list is credited-role information; the story those roles serve is the thing the game is best at, and it is not this page's job to spend it.