I want to begin this entry with a spoiler warning for the God of War series.
God of  War 3 is one of the most graphically amazing, technically impressive, perfectly polished and unabashedly fun games of the year. The story, however, is pretty weak. 
At the start of the trilogy Kratos' tale of world flooding bloodletting was as clean cut as any action fan worth his salt could want. Some douche bag is responsible for the death of Kratos' wife and child, this douche bag and all his minions will now die by his hand. Sure the douche bag is an actual god,  he has previously saved Kratos' life by imbuing him with superhuman strength and didn't kill his family per se but rather just stood by as Kratos slaughtered his own family. Doesn't matter. Kill that orange bearded Olympian.
 God of War 2, the dude Kratos thought was responsible is just a pawn of a greater jerk entity so now Kratos can feign justification for further forcing his rage on those who aren't responsible for his past misfortune, but most of the stuff he's killing is monstrous, so screw them. After the decimation  of the mythological hordes, their lightning tossing ringleader manages to thwart Kratos'  revenge.
The epic tale concludes with God of War 3. Kratos finally kills Zeus.... and everyone else. Not just all the other gods, the remaining titans and pretty much every other mythological creature ever, but Kratos also manages to pretty much destroy the world. Like all of it. He then manages to finish of his one man slaughter house impression by killing himslef, leaving no witness except for, literally, the ghost of one of his victims.
Now reflecting on this storyline suggests a teenager took a weekend to try and create the most bad ass explanation of what happened to the Greek gods, but it could be suggested that this storyline follows quite fluidly from other Greek literature of the time. The purpose of this article is to suggest the story of the God of War series is just as pertinent as the rest of Greek mythology. I suggest anyone with small children just relate this story to them, perhaps as a bedtime story and by the maturation of the next generation, Kratos' story will be as integral a part of the mythology as the actual god of war was, that douche bag.