Dante’s Inferno is an epic release player, third-person action adventure game inspired by “Inferno”, part one of Dante Alighieri’s classic Italian poem, “The Divine Comedy.” Featuring nonstop action rendered at 60 frames-per-second, signature and upgradable weapons, attack combos and mana-fueled spells and the choice of punishing or absolving the souls of defeated enemies, it is a classic Medieval tale of the eternal conflict with sin and the resulting horrors of hell, adapted for a new generation and a new medium.
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Tale
The Italian mercenary Dante returns home from the bloodletting that was the Third Crusade to two pieces of soul-crushing news. The first is that although he was poised that he was absolved of mortal sins committed in the form of wartime atrocities in the name of the churches interests in the Holy Land, that is not in fact the case and his immortal soul is in grave peril. The second and more terrible is that his beloved Beatrice has been murdered, and her soul pulled down into hell by a dark force. Vowing not to accept the damnation of either souls, he gives chase, vows to get Beatrice back and descends into the infamous nine circles of hell. For weapons, he wields Death’s soul-reaping scythe, and commands holy powers of the cross, given to him by Beatrice.
Go to hell with Dante’s Inferno.
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Scythe Combat
To vanquish the foes you encounter on your journey owing to the hell of Dante’s Inferno, you must learn to wield Death’s Scythe with precision and deadly force. Mix light attacks with heavy attacks to make combos, then incorporate jumps and grabs to add another layer to your combat. With dodging and Holy Cross moves thrown into the mix, you can truly become a force to be reckoned with. Without using all of your combative skills and techniques, there is no hope of ever reaching Beatrice.
Holy Powers
During your journey, you may collect magic abilities for use against the legions of hell. When you go the Honest Path potential you make a dash attack and leave a trail of icy shards in your wake. With Martyrdom you sacrifice shape and mana to deal a heavy amount of hurt to surrounding enemies. Divine Armor regenerates your shape and protects you from hurt. Add these and other powers to your arsenal to vanquish all who stand in your way and when you need to replenish your mana-fueled abilities, visit the Holy Fountains scattered throughout the gameplay area.
Creature Taming
As powerful as weapons and magic are, sometimes surviving the perils of hell requires brute force. With the potential of Death’s Scythe, you are able to mount the beasts of hell and use them against your enemies. All of this, but, requires ridding the beast of its contemporary rider first. If flourishing, you will become the beast’s new master. Now use its awesome potential to pulverize enemies and complete tasks that require a beast’s strength.
Key Game Features
- Epic tale adapted from the first book of the Medieval Italian classic The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri.
- Nonstop action as you fight owing to Dante’s allegorical nine circles of hell.
- Wield the potential of Death’s soul-reaping scythe.
- Gorgeous quick-paced action and intense combat rendered at 60 frames-per-second.
- Choice-based finishes with enemies that allow players to punish the damned, or absolve them as they are defeated.
- Over 60 weapons, magic and combo upgrades and modifications.
- Huge destructive, ridable mounts that can be taken from defeated enemies.
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Extremely frustrating in small repetitive tasks. Mediocre visual impact
Whoever was responsible for choice of hitting a button fifty times in the middle of the battle to get a shape boost must be fired and never EVER get close to designing videogames.
Stay away from this game. Darksiders is so much better, and God of War 3 is on the horizon. Dante’s inferno will only frustrate you. Don’t make the same mistake I did…
Rating: 1 / 5
Dante’s goes to hell to find his wife Beatrice. This is a sick and twisted game not meant for kids.
Pros: The 3D game art is by far and away, the best I ever seen in a video game. The Levels of Hell are intrepeted to Seven Deadly Sins. The sound blends well with the video. The production standard is set so high I am not sure if another game will be better. The fights against the bosses are the best things about the game. As you play the game, the game also has the making of.
Cons: The gameplay is not the strong point for me, because I don’t like puzzles and the advanture part did not work well for me. The 2D art that reveals the storyline is not really excellent.
Rating: 3 / 5
I chose to rent this game as opposed to paying the 60 dollar cover price, and I can say I’m glad i did. I thought that it would be a fun game and an simple platinum trophy, and it was for the most part. It has a lot of similarities to god of war but that’s not all that terrible it is in fact a fun game with a lot of action. But there is one thing that place the axe on this game for me, and that is a glitch on the Greed circle. If you backtrack to save your game at a certain point (trust me you will, because if you die you will have to recollect the two items hidden in the room) the game will not allow you to progress any further because a vital switch will refuse to reactivate and trap you in the room. I tried reloading the game but it didn’t make any difference so it looks like the only fix is to start from square one and replay half the game.
So to sum it up, this is a excellent game but that one glitch was a total death blow to me and I don’t reflect I’ll be playing owing to again. I also want to add that I looked forward to this game from the minute i heard of it and something like this really disappoints me.
UPDATE: Wow, I chose to give this one one more shot and was more careful about the glitch, and all I can say is this game is awesome! I finally beat it at one oclock on the morning and I had a blast playing it. It’s definately not for the kids but its got a ton of action and an awesome ending movie. At the very least this is a exact way to tide yourself over until GoW III comes out.
Rating: 5 / 5
Small Version: Unpleasant cartoon cutscenes, starts excellent then gets weaker, takes 6-8hrs to end
Pros: Starts out with huge action, bosses, and generally a lot of fun.
You don’t control the camera, but in most parts it gives you a excellent angle.
Controls are simple to figure out and to use
Cons: Crappy Anime (Unpleasant cartoon) cut-scenes
When the camera angle doesn’t work you are screwed
If you find hidden things and then die you have to go get the hidden things again, which are sometimes very tedious to get to, and if you forget, there is no going back
I never need to block attacks the whole game.
Some places you can not fall off the edges, other places you can with no discernable difference
Things that I thought would matter throughout the game, are for not anything.
It took me 6-7hrs on release day to end the game, probably could do it in 4 if I played again, which I won’t.
Rating: 2 / 5
One thing I give immense credit to the development team is how well they handle the fund material and how unafraid of political/social correctness they were when handling the ‘controversial’ thematic elements of Dante’s Inferno. I mean… Without giving much away, in Limbo you’re attacked by small toddlers who “Were damned by God because they weren’t baptized”. These are small babies that you not only slaughter but are rewarded with a trophy for killing them. That and the fact you can exact final judgment on the guy that ordered the death of Jesus. Splendid stuff…But what I get from it is that as the make pleased evolves I really felt I’d be pissed if I was Christian because I reflect what it really does well is illustrate how cruel Christianity really is. How rotten to the core, for God to punish small newborns with eternal damnation and cast them into purgatory just because, to no fault of their own, weren’t baptized by their parents. This truly is a mainstream way to expose Christianity for what it is and for this I give huge-time credit to the developers.
So in tale it gets an A++ but what about graphics and game play?
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Graphics, as I’m sure you all have seen, are sick… Hell looks and feels about as real as you want it to. But what really sells the illusion here is the score. That combined with polished visuals and art really ’send you there’. This game is all about atmosphere. An atmosphere of dread and oppression. So and A+ here as well…
About the only thing I can criticize the game on is on it’s fixed camera. With today’s game engines and memory storage capacities there really is no need for fixed cameras. But does it take away from the by and large experience? It doesn’t. It took me about 5 minutes to stop whining about the fixed camera because this game really engrosses you in Dante’s Hell..
Oh yeah, and superb voice acting and gorgeous cinematics.
So, in conclusion, we have a game….scratch that, experience, that’s truly worth experiencing several times over…Told in a unapologetic way…Kudos to Gut.
Rating: 4 / 5