Dante's Inferno

[Jabberwock xeno]

Though I swore to myself to pick the game up within a week of it's release, I never got around to it.

So, to those who have played it, how was it?

(for context, anything with judeo-chiorstian demons would boost a rating by a full point or two.)

 

[MrGalactus]

I honestly think it was good. If it were longer and have a bit more variety in enemies it would've been real good.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

It's pretty good and i enjoyed it..mainly because i took off my Kratos goggles and judged it as is.

 

[AnAngryMoose]

I thought it was great fun. Yes, it's a God of War clone, but it does it so well and the enviroments and amazing. The story was also pretty engaging.

 

[jamescorck]

I think it's pretty good, but the difference between difficulty levels is jarring. The normal mode is murderously difficult (difficult as that it takes minutes to kill normal enemies) and the easy difficulty breaks the game to super easy level.

Aside from that issue, it's a very fun, very enjoyable game with a very unique art style and eye popping visuals. It has the same loyalty to the original poem of a Hollywood movie based on a novel, but it is (even on easy) long enough. It's been a while since the release, so I am sure you can find it for a cheap price. Worth checking out.

 

[Lybs]

It was decent enough but the weapons where a little unbalanced.

 

[ace_of_something]

Graphically it was great really unique and cool look. Other than that it's kind of... bland. Not great, not bad though either.

(for context, anything with judeo-chiorstian demons would boost a rating by a full point or two.)

What like legion? That's the only demon I actually remember learning about in catholic school, and other than being in a bunch of pigs it's not physically described.
All that demon stuff is non-cannon. Fanfics made by Renaissance artists.

edit: though I guess it's fairly likely that they just avoided the subject altogether. Though I remember in theology class we discussed what the devil 'looks like' in actuality he's not described other than being a fallen angel and is barely mentioned.

 

[Ridgemo]

On a purely gameplay point of view, it works very well. You can bash stuff and it will eventually die depending on the mode you got it on. It's definatly worth renting.

The story, however, i thought was wretched.

 

[Mr.France]

I liked that game a great deal. Combat is awesome and obstacles are reasonable difficult. But what I liked the most about it was the art, I absolutely loved the environment design. I think it is definitely worth checking it out.

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

It was okay. The story was weak, but the source material was cool. Gameplay was competent at what it did, but there was one part in the game that could die in a fire. The difficulty from it arose because it expected you to use techniques no player would have used up to that point. Honestly, a lot of layers of Hell felt as if the devs ran out of good ideas, so they came off as if someone was giving an abridged version of how it should have been. For instance, some areas such as Lust were pretty good, but Gluttony was a five minute walk.

My biggest complaint with the game is the camera. This was a game that needed the a freed up camera, especially one that goes into the First-Person. The levels are gorgeous, but, more often than not, you'll find yourself staring at a wall while some hellspawn is rending souls to your left, and you aren't allowed to look at it.

 

[Sir_Auron_the_Badass]

That game was one of my "guilty pleasures" (as in, a game that only you and maybe just a few others you know enjoyed it; there was a topic on this a couple weeks ago, but I couldn't find the link). Well, in that sense, as well as another (think second ring). Anyway, I thought it was a pretty imaginative and fun game. It many not have been that long of one, and somewhat similar to God of War in playing style, but fun none the less. Just DON'T play it in front of other family members unless they are old enough and you feel comfortable with displaying nudity in front of them (can get very awkward if you know what I mean). On a critical level, I seriously don't get the backlash it got from them apparently ruining the original source; the Divine Comedy is one of the few epics I truly enjoy, and I'm not even that religious, and yet I just saw the game as a way to put an interesting twist to the classic story, as well as draw the current generation to read the original if they hadn't already.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Graphically it was great really unique and cool look. Other than that it's kind of... bland. Not great, not bad though either.

(for context, anything with judeo-chiorstian demons would boost a rating by a full point or two.)

What like legion? That's the only demon I actually remember learning about in catholic school, and other than being in a bunch of pigs it's not physically described.
All that demon stuff is non-cannon. Fanfics made by Renaissance artists.

edit: though I guess it's fairly likely that they just avoided the subject altogether. Though I remember in theology class we discussed what the devil 'looks like' in actuality he's not described other than being a fallen angel and is barely mentioned.

Well, that's the point ins't isn't it? the whole Demon hierarchy was set up by people in the middle ages.