Hands-On: Dante's Inferno

[MurderousToaster]

This game had me from the words 'naked breasts'.

 

[Susan Arendt]

Does God of War truly own the concept of someone running around with melee equipment, killing nearby things at the push of a button?

Perhaps we can discount Diablo which has more a top-down RTS feel, but Rune was 3D and third person. Good times.

I hear what you're saying, but the games feel identical. The combat, the flow, the animation...they could be siblings, they're so close.

And the game will be on 360 and PS3. Sorry I neglected to mention that!

 

[DeadlyYellow]

I'll pass. I can be rather vulgar at times, but there are things I just find too tasteless to even touch.

 

[RebelRising]

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That's exactly why they did butcher the source material. Tell people that your new game is just a God of War clone in hell and people will probably ignore it. But when you have it based off of a famous piece of literature, then it will get a lot more attention. Everything in this game has been designed to create controversy.

And it's not even controversy that works with the poem either. Remember that whole "Sin to Win" thing a while ago? Dante, being the good Catholic that he was, would be rolling in his grave over such a barefaced contradiction of the themes and values that he wrote into that poem.

And, yes, the character design is way off the mark, Virgil is nowhere to be found, Beatrice is the victim damsel in distress, instead of Dante, and...I've already made a big ranty topic about this before, and I really don't want to go into it again.

Suffice it to say, I'm staying far away from this game.

 

[Internet Kraken]

This game seems more and more like it won't make the M rating. I've heard about trophies awarded for killing babies, but apparently the babies are falling from the exposed breasts of a giant demon lady that you stab the shit out of. Um. Should a game like this be able to get an M rating? Don't get me wrong, I'm totally buying this, but is it a bit much for an M

That made think about how awkward it would be to buy this game if the clerk had knowledge of it's contents.

Clerk:"What's this?"
Customer:"Dante's Inferno."
Clerk:"You mean the game that has you fight against babies that fall out a giant woman's breasts?"
*Cue long awkward pause*

Granted, I won't be getting it anyway because its published by EA. Fucking grow up people.

Oh the irony.

 

[Saucycarpdog]

Lust and Gluttony may somewhat explain themselves but I wonder the likes of Wrath and Envy will be handled.

Wrath= Anger So, maybe someone who fights with nothing but brute strength. His appearance kinda sounds easy enough to imagine.

Envy=Jealousy Probably another hot chick who can copy your abilities.

 

[The Rockerfly]

I really hope they actually do end up releasing this but I get the feeling it is going to be censored to Hell
I don't know if I should be disgusted or intrigued about some of the levels

 

[mattttherman3]

At the time this game is released, I'll likely be fully immersed in Mass Effect 2, but I'll have to give this game a go at some point.

 

[BlueInkAlchemist]

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, they say. If Dante's Inferno can duplicate the experience of God of War without verging into the realm of parody, somebody is likely doing something right.

I'm placing my faith in this.

Many will see it as a butchering of literature, but hopefully even 1% of the people that play it may read the poem.

If they do, I'll gladly accept its inaccuracies and blatant, outright offense mongering.

Also, this.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

you had me at giant naked Cleopatra, tho the humongous breasts are a bigger bonus to the game

i think i will have to get it, loved God of War

 

[traceur_]

This sounds absolutely awesome.

 

[traceur_]

It's a poem for gods sakes not your first born son. Just let it go.

Truth. Right. Here.

The literature freaks need to shut up, no one is butchering anything, your jizz-stained copy of the divine comedy is still just the same. I haven't heard anything about EA running around burning your books so shut up.

 

[Kilo24]

As someone who has read The Divine Comedy, this really pisses me off.

Butchering my fucking literature.

I don't care if it's a good hack 'n' slash game, it's pissing on the beauty of the poem.

Literature has been butchered, flagellated, mangled, mauled and shredded to far worse of a degree than this throughout the ages.

At least this is keeping some of the spirit of the original in depicting Hell luridly as a Nasty Place. The graphic aspects might be truer to the spirit of the original than the original is these days; back then it was a lot more shocking than our desensitized modern minds with zombie movies and horror flicks see it as. Cleopatra with babies spewing out of her naked breasts might just be at the level of disturbing that guys with burning feet and their heads in the sand were back then.

But I have difficulty justifying Dante redeeming souls by zapping enemies with his cross in one hand and hacking through suffering souls with Death's scythe in the other. At the very least, why the hell is the symbolism of him reaping the _already dead_ there?

 

[MysticnFm]

Sounds like there is no way in hell it will ever be released in Australia. So Giant, naked breasts or not a will probably not be playing it. Unless they censor the breasts to be man-boobs instead.

 

[The Austin]

That entire thing sounded incredibly disturbing.

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

It's a poem for gods sakes not your first born son. Just let it go.

Truth. Right. Here.

The literature freaks need to shut up, no one is butchering anything, your jizz-stained copy of the divine comedy is still just the same. I haven't heard anything about EA running around burning your books so shut up.

This, word-for-word. It doesn't matter if you've read the goddamn thing, you need to drop the elitist pretenses; nobody's impressed.

 

[mjhhiv]

God people need to get off their fucking high horse. If they made it closer to the real story it would be a fucking movie.

As if the Comedy is somehow off-limits. Get real.

It's a poem for gods sakes not your first born son. Just let it go.

Truth. Right. Here.

The literature freaks need to shut up, no one is butchering anything, your jizz-stained copy of the divine comedy is still just the same. I haven't heard anything about EA running around burning your books so shut up.

They've done everything else possible to be complete idiots.

I'm not sure if I speak for everyone, but I don't really care that they're butchering The Divine Comedy in particular. Well, I care, but my main issue is the idea of it. Paraphrasing from... somewhere that I can't remember: it's like a ten-year-old thought up the game. "OMG Theres this stupid poem we have to read for school and it sucks LETS MAKE IT WAY MORE BADASS!!!!!!!!11!!!!1!"

No. There's the right way to make a game "epic" and "badass" while not being completely idiotic. And there's the wrong way.

 

[GOATOFRAGE]

the thing is i wont buy both, so i have to see which one will be better
i suspect GOW3

 

[MarsProbe]

Lust and Gluttony may somewhat explain themselves but I wonder the likes of Wrath and Envy will be handled.

Wrath= Anger So, maybe someone who fights with nothing but brute strength. His appearance kinda sounds easy enough to imagine.

Envy=Jealousy Probably another hot chick who can copy your abilities.

I did briefly think of a berserker type individual for a wrath-based enemy, but thought that seemed a bit run of the mill, seeing that we're supposed to be in hell on this game. Hopefully they will come up with something more unique....have seen enough big angry enemies playing Arkham Asylum to last me a while...