EA Publishing Special Edition of Inferno

[ShadowKirby]

Dude, who is responsible of the PR on this gig, Satan himself.
I'm still waiting for them to re-release the Bible, sponsored by Mountain Dew.

(Mat 4:1-11 NIV) Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. {2} After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. But he wasn't thirsty because he had some Mountain Dew!

 

[Yassen]

Funnily enough just learning about this game got me interested enough to buy the divine comedy and I've fallen in love with it. You could say then that I'm going to be disappointed since the game is "nothing like the poem". Thing is though, the poem used imagery to design a realm full of ironic punishments that was so terrifying and fascinating that it's no wonder it has survived 700 years. The setting was what made Dante's Inferno what it is but it was also how Dante placed himself in this realm to give his own personal commentary on what he saw.

From what I've seen, the designers of the game have stayed as true to the setting as they could, "Hell is the main character" they have said. This is what I'm buying the game for. As for Dante, you could say he is completely different from the poem but the fact is, Dante was a wuss. He fainted a few times in the poem just from shock. Is that the kind of character you want to play? Do you really think just walking around this place will make it work as a game? Of course not. They have used a popular and fun genre (spectacle fighters) to make the game as fun to play as it is fascinating to explore. And you know what? I applaud them for this.

If you don't agree with what the developers have done with this game, here's my advice. Wait until the damn thing is out before saying it's a horrible idea, sound fair?

 

[docbox1567]

HERE IS THE FULL QUOTE:

"Through the creative process of developing this game, we have grown quite close to the literary works of Dante Alighieri. So close, in fact, that we've decided to replace all Dante's literary value with tits and violence. We are confident that if Dante were alive today he would have wanted his protagonist welding a chainsaw or double shotguns, but since this happened a long time ago, and Wikipedia tells me that isn't feasible, so we?re hoping to fit it into Dante 2: The Bastardizing of literary work we really didn?t give a shit about but only put Dante on our title because it?s about hell and we thought that no one really reads anymore so hopefully we won?t be called on being a bunch of tasteless hacks. We hope gamers will be encouraged to go beyond the game and explore the classic text that has inspired us so deeply; and please look out for our next game, Shakespeare?s "Romeo and Juliet". Romeo will battle the Capulets with a mini gun and a flamethrower in order to save his beloved Juliet, who will look like a prostitute, from a horde of flesh eating zombies.?

 

[Kwatsu]

As for Dante, you could say he is completely different from the poem but the fact is, Dante was a wuss. He fainted a few times in the poem just from shock.

Of course he fainted. It's Hell. It's supposed to be the most horrific place in creation.

I don't think fainting makes him a wuss: it just proves he's human and how terrible Hell is. (And in some places, it serves the plot and themes as well, like the time in Purgatory when he dozes off.)

 

[The Random One]

Well, finally I can read Dante's Inferno without anyone finding out I'm reading a STUPID WIMPY POEM. Now everyone will think I'm reading a BADASS STORY ABOUT SCYTHES.

Or maybe GAY SADO-MASOCHIST PORNOGRAPHY.

Do please realise, before buying the book, that it's mostly politic satire in poetry, not an action novel by any means. The relation with the game it's 1%, that is represented by the title and the approximate conformation of the circles of hell.

For some reason, I find it very hard to enjoy poetry, even the good stuff. But when I tried reading the Inferno, I was pissed at how it stopped at every canto to explain how some guy from Italy or the great grandfather of some guy from Italy was burning in hell.