wow, 6 pages and over 200 replies. let me just read through each and- no, fuck it, i have a billion other sites to visit before the work day ends.
Just wanted to toss in a humble opinion that Dante's graphics are noticably better than GoW2, and GoW3 will not be coming to the xbox360 - so if you only have an xbox360 you will probably love the shit out of this game.
I'm stunned by everyone saying it brutally rips of god of war like that's a bad thing. I am unaware of any "like god of war" game i can enjoy on the xbox360 that is half as good as this. wtf?
It's like reviewing Dead Space and saying it's a brutal Resident Evil 4 rip off with some extra bullshit, so just wait for the next RE game. - Actually, no, Dead Space is a pretty sweet game that chooses polish and mood instead of innovation.
I haven't completed iDante yet, admitted, but so far I've found it ridiculously hard to put down. At no point have I felt bored. It moves along exceedingly well.
my question for Yahtzee would be:
If God of War didn't exist, wouldn't Dante's Inferno be a good game?
i think the marketing department fucked this game. If it'd been handled differently we'd all be laughing our asses off at the huge balls on these fuckers who took a classic epic poem and turned it into 13 year old heavy metal fantasy. Everyone would want it. We'd all be high fiving and saying snarky shit like "have you read the divine comedy?" "no, but I have beaten it."
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I mean - when you die, it quotes the poem while loading. THAT IS HILARIOUSLY AWESOME.