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Hades also was the first game to be awarded a Hugo Award as part of a special video games category introduced for the 2021 Hugo Awards. [69] In a review of Hades in Black Gate, John ONeill said of its Hugo Award win, "I hope the WSFS decides to continue this category. Video games have become a solid reservoir for powerful storytelling, and 16 ...
Zagreus is the protagonist of the 2020 video game Hades. In it, his goal is to escape the Underworld, which is ruled by his father, Hades, with the aspiration of meeting his demigoddess mother, Persephone, on the surface. Along the way, he does battle with the forces of Hades, including the Fury Sister Megaera and the hero Theseus.
Dusa is based on the Greek mythological figure Medusa. [1] She is a floating gorgon head with green skin and snakes for hair who carries a feather duster while she works as a maid in the House of Hades. [citation needed] She was designed by Hades character designer Jen Zee and created by creative director Greg Kasavin.
War Gods is a 3D fighting video game originally released to arcades by Midway Games in 1996. Ports for the Nintendo 64 , PlayStation and Windows were released in 1997. In the game, players control one of ten fighters who have been given great power by a mysterious ore that crashed-landed on Earth from outer space.
Hades appears in several installments of the God of War video game series. He was voiced by Nolan North in the first game, where he served as a minor supporting character and ally, and by Clancy Brown in God of War III, where he serves as a major antagonist and Ascension, where he is again a minor character in the game's multiplayer mode.
(The intimate connection between "holy war" and the "one true god" belief of monotheism has been noted by many scholars, including Jonathan Kirsch in his book God Against The Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism and Joseph Campbell in The Masks of God, Vol. 3: Occidental Mythology.) [1] [2]
While in the underworld, Juno passes several souls who are being punished in Hades. Hades is also a person, and he needs to get rid of those souls because he needs them to fully recover (Tantalus, Sisyphus, Ixion, and the Belides). [31] When the Furies agree to Juno's request, she happily returns to the heavens, where she is purified by Iris. [32]
War Gods may refer to: War Gods (video game) , a 1996 video game for video arcades and for the Nintendo 64, PlayStation and Windows War-Gods of the Deep , a 1965 film also known as City Under the Sea