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
Daniel Wallace's "" (1998) adapts the epic to the American South, while also incorporating tall tales into its first-person narrative much as Odysseus does in the "Apologoi" (Books 9-12). The Coen Brothers' 2000 film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" is loosely based on Homer's poem. Margaret Atwood's 2005 novella "The Penelopiad" is an ironic rewriting of the "Odyssey" from Penelope's perspective. Zachary Mason's "The Lost Books of the Odyssey" (2007) is a series of short stories that rework Homer's original plot in a contemporary style reminiscent of Italo Calvino. "The Heroes of Olympus" (2010–2014) by Rick Riordan is based entirely on Greek mythology and includes many aspects and characters from the "Odyssey". Meanwhile, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds use the Odyssey to form the "narrative" of the song "More News from Nowhere," released in 2008 as a single and on the album Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!. In the song, Cave uses a variety of contemporary names to represent the gods and nymphs who populate the Odyssey, and sketches key episodes from the epic across an eight minute track.