Games As Myth

myth:games_as_myth

The video game made myth playable. Where the epic was sung and the romance read, the game is enacted — the player is called, crosses the threshold, descends to the underworld, and returns. Games draw their gods and monsters straight from the world's pantheons — the Greek underworld, the Norse twilight, whole rosters of the gods of every people — and turn the myth from a story told into a world walked through. — contemporary culture