The God Of War influence if true means they will be focusing on combat, The one part of any game Ubisoft always mess up basically.
Although I understand that Egypt belonged to the Persian empire further into its history, I immensely enjoyed the concept behind PoP 2008 of an eerie Universe It was a love letter to the 1001 nights and a much closer to my taste appreciation of what a PoP game should be both in terms of gameplay and themes. Really wished those were pushed further (not necessarily PoP 2008 v2 but the same conceptual ideas) rather than be ignored and treated like an error.
PoP 2008 to PoP_ZERO_2 shows a total lack of consitency of what the franchise means and gives me no faith in what Ubisoft will want to sell me.