Dante's Inferno - Game Review
Download Dante"s Inferno PSP/PSP Go Game For Free!Unlike in the original poem (where Dante plays his own role as a simple civilian who is tempted to commit suicide before being saved by the Roman poet Virgil), the main character is a warrior who returns home to his beloved Beatrice (in reality she was Dante"s secret mistress) to find out that she was taken away by Lucifer. Being worried that Dante would lose his life in the holy crusade, she deliberately decided to come to an agreement with Lucifer in which the devil will take care of her chosen one. If he does not remain faithful to Beatrice and falls for any woman, she has to give her soul to the devil.
The story is narrated through cut-scenes and cinematics but the back-story of Dante"s past actions is represented through animated cartoons. This is an original aspect which creates an interesting approach of delivering a secondary storyline which stands out to be much more interesting than the main story. Virgil (the same Roman poet from the original poem) is a ghostly companion used by the developers to further give details to the player regarding locations and major historical characters who pay their sins in one of the 9 circles of suffering: Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Avarice or Greed, Wrath and Sullenness, Heresy, Violence, Fraud, and Treason.
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The game starts on an epic scale showing how Dante enters from the earthly plane into the bowels of Hell. Each of his moves is condemned to drag him deeper and deeper into darkness by walking on fallen platforms and bridges and fighting against abominable creatures. Dante is slicing his way through hordes of hellish monsters with the Death"s scythe. Using a combat system similar to titles like God of War, Darksiders, or Devil May Cry, the developers achieved their goal of creating a brutal and gory experience involving fast combo action with instant-kill moves. But like most of the developers who tried to copy those enumerated games, Visceral Games partially failed in delivering something worth mentioning. For example, the recent Darksiders was nothing else but a compilation of numerous good aspects taken from worthy games which were recycled and combined in such a way that the final product was a pleasure to play. But Dante"s Inferno falls quickly into the abyss of mediocrity because of repetitive combat sequences, fixed camera system and wrong concept implementation.