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God of War story across five games: From Greece to the Norse realms
From a vow to Ares to the prophecy of Ragnarök. Five games, two mythological worlds, and a Kratos learning to live beyond his past.
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Game Stories / Grand Theft Auto V (2013)
GTA V Story: Three Dreams and the Cost of Starting Over
Michael wants to keep the life he has. Franklin wants to move up. Trevor wants to recover something he believes he has lost. Los Santos brings them into the same crew, but money never settles everything between them.
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Story & perspective / Grand Theft Auto IV (2008)
GTA IV Story: Niko Bellic and the Price of the American Dream
From Roman’s letters to two endings marked by loss, GTA IV follows a man who crosses an ocean to change his life, yet carries an unfinished war within him.
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Game story / Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)
GTA Vice City: You Played It Growing Up, but Do You Know the Story?
Return to Vice City to understand Tommy Vercetti's debt, his business relationships, and the 1980s culture behind a city of childhood memories.
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Game story / Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)
GTA San Andreas Story: What Did We Miss When We Played as Kids?
Return to San Andreas to understand CJ's journey, his relationships in Grove Street, and the culture behind missions remembered from childhood.
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Game story / Grand Theft Auto III (2001)
GTA III: Why does the betrayed become the betrayer?
A betrayal sends Claude to the bottom of Liberty City's criminal world. Each job takes him closer to power, while making trust harder to define.
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Game story / Sleeping Dogs (2012)
Sleeping Dogs: When the People You Must Arrest Call You Brother
Wei Shen returns to Hong Kong to infiltrate Sun On Yee. When the people he must investigate begin treating him as family, his mission becomes a test of trust and loyalty.
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Game stories / Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018)
Red Dead Redemption 2: Arthur Morgan and the Cost of Loyalty
Follow Arthur Morgan through the Van der Linde gang's decline, the culture of the American frontier, and the cost of promises about freedom.
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Story & perspective / God of War Ragnarök
God of War Ragnarök: Why does Kratos escape the prophecy?
A mural foretells Kratos falling into his son’s arms. As the world faces its end, what does he change to make another future possible?
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Story & perspective / God of War (2018)
God of War’s story: For his son, Kratos awakens the past
The Blades of Chaos still wait beneath the floor. To save Atreus, Kratos must take up the past that once destroyed his life. What can he teach his son to keep that tragedy from repeating?
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Story & perspective / God of War III
God of War 3: After defeating Zeus, what does Kratos have left?
Kratos can drag gods from their thrones. But when Olympus falls, who can bring back the people he has lost? A return to God of War III, from the thrill of victory to the emptiness that follows.
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Story & perspective / God of War II (2007)
God of War II: Reclaiming fate
Zeus turns the victory at Rhodes into a trap. Kratos seeks the Sisters of Fate to return to the moment of betrayal. But if he wins the power to change the past, can he save what he has lost?
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Story & perspective / God of War (2005)
God of War (2005): The price of power
Kratos begs for the power to escape death, then turns that power against Ares. Why does his final victory still fail to give him what he wants most?
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Mystery & fan theories / Temple Run
The mystery of Temple Run: what if you never left the temple?
You have run for thousands of metres. But what if the runner’s body is still inside the temple, and the path ahead exists only in his mind?
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Gaming memories / Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead: back then, the four of us
Mention Left 4 Dead, and memories like that often return before the map names do.
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Recognising the Infected / Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead 1 & 2: recognise the threats that send the team back to save each other
Smoker pulls away stragglers. Spitter floods your hiding place. Recognise the threats sooner to understand why the team needs each other.
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A pre-release perspective / Marvel’s Wolverine
Marvel’s Wolverine: wounds and the past
You meet someone who already has a past. The problem is that he does not have a complete grasp of that past himself.
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Selected on 12 Sep 2026
Five PS5 games on LYFP’s watchlist
Five names, five different kinds of excitement: a town to fear, a city to explore, a hero to understand, a martial arts world to test yourself in, and a Vice City to return to.
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