Defense of the Ancients, Heroes Of Newerth, League Of Legends, otherwise known as DOTA, HON and LOL are today’s most popular computer games played by people of all ages. These computer games are so popular that every year they generate more than 9,000,000 players, tournaments being held all over the world, pot money of the champions reaching up to $10,000,000 and these games are made as icons for most people in their lives. But even though these games are that famous, there are still some of the players who really don’t know the background of the game, that these games were based on mythology and of Homeric Gods and Goddesses yet these selected games are considered the best of today. And what makes these games so popular that they conquered other games so easily, is it because the game is just too good, or is it because of the fact that there are mythical creatures, Homeric proportions and Gods and Goddesses involved in these games that gave them a significant boost in comparing to others.
Zeus, Medusa, Cronos, Hades, Hermes are some of the Gods and Goddesses that are made as characters in the mentioned games but are just remodelled. Go inside any internet café and notice that more than half of the customers there are playing one the mentioned games. Ask them do they know that what their playing is based on mythology and Gods and Goddesses, most will respond in negative while only a handful will respond in positive. Ask those who answered in positive if they love to study mythology and literature, they will answer in negative yet still they love to play these games that are based on mythology.
DOTA, the father of these mentioned popular games, came from an edited map version of a game known as Warcraft III, released on February 2003 by a man known as “Eul”, now is the most popular computer game in the world. Even though we no longer live in the ancient times, game designers