God of War III to get online capabilities?!?

[Maximus]

http://jobs.gamasutra.com/jobseekerx...&accountno=345

Join the God of War team!

Be a part of the most exciting and innovating computer entertainment in North America. Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) markets the PlayStation® family of products and develops, publishes, markets, and distributes software for the PS one™ console, the PlayStation®2 and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment systems and the PlayStation Portable (PSP™).

Sony Computer Entertainment Santa Monica is seeking an online gameplay
programmer to join the team behind the critically acclaimed AAA titles
"God of War" and "God of War II."

RESPONSIBILITIES:


* Designs, develops and maintains the networking portions of game
and tools code.
* Interact with gameplay programmers to make existing and new code
support desired network functionality (including networking of
gameplay state, lobbying, commerce, chat, security, and similar).
* Write clear, maintainable, portable, and highly functional code
* Evaluate and integrate 3rd party technology and APIs
* Collaborate with game and tools programmers to integrate new
technologies into game and tools
* As needed work on non-networking tasks such as tools and game-
specific systems to support specific project requirements


REQUIREMENTS:


* B.Sc. degree in computer science or equivalent experience
* Minimum five years programming experience
* Expertise in C and C++
* Experience implementing networking components for a modern
game (or equivalent application), and expert understanding of
how to robustly and efficiently network game state
* In-depth understanding of networking protocols (TCP, UDP), client-
server and peer-to-peer architectures, dealing with bandwidth,
latency, synchronization, and dropped-packet issues, etc.
* Skilled in modern algorithms and data structures
* Strong architecture, documentation and design skills
* Self-motivated, with excellent communication and problem
solving skills

Wow!

Definitely looks like they are planning online for the game, I wonder what they would do, co-op or competitive. Competitive doesn't really make sense, but then neither does co-op!