Did you SEE the quality of Lords of Shadow? How freakin long that thing is? How refined the combat system was, how detailed and beautiful every single unique level was?
That stuff takes time, friend. Lots of time. You wouldn't want it to be rushed, would you? Quality and polish is something we'll be associating with this series and its developers from here on in: if they dare release something even marginally less worthy of the grandeur that is Lords of Shadow, there will be riots. Riots I say!
Well, from the people who actually bothered to crawl out from the FPS stones and play something different for a change. Criminally ignored, that game seemed to be, despite being second only to God of War for brawlers in my opinion. And that's only cause of Kratos' bad ass behaviour. Gabriel didn't really develop much as a main character, sadly, but as an origin story it's still pretty awesome.