Dante's Inferno Gets Detailed

[modeps]

CVG (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=207880) has word that the latest issue of PSM3 has laid out some of the first actual details from EA's game, Dante's Inferno. Described as God of War meets Devil May Cry, you'll have plenty of big boss fights, and quick time events.

"Button-for-button the controls are identical to GOW's - from using the right stick to evade, to regular and heavy attacks being mapped to Square and Triangle," says PSM3.

"Holding R1 and pressing Square lets you knock enemies into the air Devil May Cry-style and keep them hovering with a volley of rapid, light attacks," it adds.

Combos are "easily strung together by simple presses of the light and heavy attack buttons".

Strange, but even without any details, this is exactly the direction I thought they were going in with it.

[Cutter99]

Wow. "God of War meets Devil May Cry" is kind of blowing my mind. I guess I can only barely appreciate the distinction between them that I can't grasp what mashing them together produces.
It's like "Call of Duty meets Medal of Honor" or "Command and Conquer meets Warcraft".

[7ofswords]

I'm still a little hung up on how EA proposes to create an action game based on a politically charged epic poem about hell in which the main character participates in no combat.

[Mr.Green]

and quick time events.

http://vanishdoomblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/facepalm2ly3.jpg

[riposte101]

I'm still a little hung up on how EA proposes to create an action game based on a politically charged epic poem about hell in which the main character participates in no combat.

Hah! My thoughts exactly.

[Meatgortex]

I'm still a little hung up on how EA proposes to create an action game based on a politically charged epic poem about hell in which the main character participates in no combat.

What you don't see the inherent GoW style bloody combo combat in having chats with Homer, Socrates, Aristotle and Julius Caesar in the fields of Limbo?

[biosc1]

Well, just remember, if this does well, it has two sequels:

Purgatorio - help roll that rock up that hill!

Paradiso - Kick some angel butt!

[atariv8]

http://vanishdoomblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/facepalm2ly3.jpg

Ha! My thoughts exactly.

[Virtuoso]

Wow. "God of War meets Devil May Cry" is kind of blowing my mind. I guess I can only barely appreciate the distinction between them that I can't grasp what mashing them together produces.
It's like "Call of Duty meets Medal of Honor" or "Command and Conquer meets Warcraft".

Yeah, pretty much.

While I do like the new direction EA has headed in with new IPs and such, the fact of the matter is that they are taking a great poem and reducing it to garbage. This game will have nothing to do with DI, unless I misread Dante and he is actually supposed to be 10 foot tall person-destroyer.

They should have called it 'the seventh circle" or something, because the fact of the matter is that only aspects of DI that the game has to do with are the various levels of hell.

[Flatpicker]

Meh.
I was hoping they would have gone a slower more adventure route. Base it off the Dead Space engine and go for creepy enemy avoidance.

[Zurik]

I'm sorry, but the quote makes it sound like it is just Devil May Cry, not anything new. Also, I can't wait until we get over the obsession with quick-time events. They aren't really fun, and for the most part I dislike replaying any game with them in it.

[ElektroDragon]

I have to buy any game named after my cat.