Ummm... what? What the Hell (haha) was that?? I've read Dante's Inferno, none of that happens. In fact, none of it could have happened because Dante Alighieri lived a full century after Richard the Lionhearted's Crusade! I could go for hours about how much is wrong here! Its everything wrong with God of War, all over again! And the sad part is, nobody cares. Nothing about anything this game has shows any real knowledge or respect for the classic poem its "based on". And nobody cares about that either. Instead game developers and their consumers say: "Huh, firey pits of Hell sounds cool, wouldn't it be awesome to bash a demon's skull in? And let's add lots of breasts for no particular reason!" Was this game made by fifth graders?
Most offensive of all is that Beatrice Portinari, Dante's beloved symbol of all purity and his "salvation", is made into a sex object for no reason other than the fact that she's female in a God of War rip-off. The "queen of virtue" is made into turned into a constantly-nude object lusted after by pure masculine id, with more rape symbolism than I dare examine. What is wrong with these game developers?
Its amazing. You could make a video game out of any epic poem you want for your God of War clone, and you decide to go with the ONE that doesn't involve mass conflict as a central plot point. Why not use the Iliad? The Odyssey has lots of monsters. Paradise Lost takes place in the underworld and has an epic celestial conflict. Why this one? Because it has the coolest name, most likely.
Clearly to video game producers deeper significance and artistic merit mean nothing as long as there is blood and tits. Hey, if you want a game full of blood and tits, be my guest. But don't trample the literary classics because you're too lazy to come up with an original background. If you can't add anything significant to the story other than this sophomoric nonsense and pretensions to real human emotion, then you're just embarrassing yourself and infuriating anyone who ever enjoyed the original works.
PS: Why the Hell did he sew a cross on his chest?