In multiplayer, players will pledge themselves to one of four gods: Zeus, Hades, Ares and Poseidon.

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The multi-player itself is comprised of several game modes, four gods to which you can give your allegiance in exchange for different starting characters, and a number of upgrades and unlocks to armor, special items, and so forth.

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And there they are, the four river gods, rising from their base, each with his symbolic mark.

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Sikeliote craftsmen became the masters of the ancient world at carving microscopically detailed dies from which gold and silver coins were stamped in a great variety of intricate images not just of gods and humans, but of flying four-horse chariots and great eagles devouring their prey.

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New video installations by Sven Ortel add welcome scenic relief to the production, but Mr Zeldin was nevertheless obliged to take on the old set, which is dominated by four 12-foot-high giants, the primordial gods of Ossetian mythology.

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Up to 70m Hindus are expected to come to this city in eastern Uttar Pradesh to wash away their sins at one of the four spots where drops of the elixir of immortality fell from a pitcher as gods fought with demons to possess it.

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As one of the gods fled with a pitcher of the nectar across the skies, it spilled on four Indian towns: Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Haridwar.

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It has already commissioned four new works between now and 2008 - a second work by Lynne Plowman called 'House of Gods' as well as new musical offerings by Nigel Osborne, Aribert Reimann, Michael Berkeley - which means that lovers of new opera in both Wales and London should have plenty to enjoy.

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