My game of choice for the Edge games magazine is God of War. Personally I have never played the game but I have chose it because I have heard good things about it and I am very interested in it. Below I have completed some research into the main characters and the storyline of God of War.
Main Characters
The characters of the God of War video game franchise belong to a fictional universe loosely based on Greek mythology and Norse mythology. As such, the series features a range of traditional figures, including those from Greek mythology, such as the Olympian Gods, Titans, and Greek heroes, and those from Norse mythology, including the Æsir and Vanirgods and other beings. A number of original characters have also been created to supplement storylines.
Storyline
The overall story arc focuses on the series only playable single-player character, the protagonist Kratos, a Spartan warrior haunted by visions of himself accidentally killing his wife and child. The character finally avenges his family by killing his former master and manipulator, Ares, the God of War. Although Kratos becomes the new God of War, he is still plagued by nightmares and is eventually betrayed by Zeus, the King of the Olympian Gods—revealed by the goddess Athena to be Kratos' father. The constant machinations of the gods and Titans and their misuse of Kratos eventually drive him to destroy Mount Olympus. Many years following the destruction of Olympus, Kratos ends up in Midgard fathering a son named Atreus with the Jötunn warrior Laufey. He trains and teaches the boy while hiding his past from him. Their journey to keep a promise to the boy's late mother ends with Kratos and Atreus becoming enemies to the Norse gods, with Odin in particular becoming extremely paranoid of him like Zeus was before.
What to expect
The main characters will be the main focus of the article as ill be reviewing their representations of age, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, religion and geographical locations. I will also be looking at the games technical codes such as camera shots, angles and movements, editing techniques etc.