Farkhondeh Fazel Bakhsheshi - Shiraz University International Division Shiraz,Iran

Video games are one of the popular genres of entertainment nowadays, they have a very vast group of audience and video game industry growing fast. However like any other genre it deals with narration in its base and although other factors such as graphic and sound are playing a very important roles in the game, narration as a fundamental element plays its own role. From horror stories to romantic ones video games deal with different type of narrations and one of the most popular one is mythology. These ancient type of stories are concern of this paper the study tries to explain how they find their place among game designers and players and why this specific type of narration is popular between both groups. Moreover as an example it will discuss The God OF War in relation to the same theory.

Mythology, Narration, Video Games, Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, God of War Franchise.