Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is an action-adventure video game developed by Ninja Theory and published by Namco Bandai Games. Announced in 2009 as "Enslaved", it was released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in October 2010. As a loose adaptation of the novel "Journey to the West", the game is set 150 years in a future post-apocalyptic world following a global war. Only remnants of humanity survive, along with the still active war machines left over from the conflict. The game's story follows Monkey who is forced to escort Trip home safely after they survive a ship crash. Players play as Monkey, who must combat enemies using his staff from a third-person perspective, engage in different platforming challenges and solve puzzles.
Odyssey
James Joyce's modernist novel "Ulysses" (1922) is a retelling of the "Odyssey" set in modern-day Dublin. Each chapter in the book has an assigned theme, technique, and correspondences between its characters and those of Homer's "Odyssey". "Homer's Daughter" by Robert Graves is a novel imagining how the version we have might have been invented out of older tales. The Japanese-French anime "Ulysses 31" (1981) updates the ancient setting into a 31st-century space opera. "Omeros" (1991), an epic poem by Derek Walcott, is in part a retelling of the "Odyssey", set on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. The film "Ulysses' Gaze" (1995) directed by Theo Angelopoulos has many of the elements of the "Odyssey" set against the backdrop of the most recent and previous Balkan Wars.