A Review Of The Dante’s Inferno Videogame And Everything It Has To Offer

Released only a few weeks ago, the Dante’s Inferno videogame has triggered quite a stir within the videogame society. The subject material, which is loosely inspired by the titular poem, has led to disdain by some and certain countries even refused to promote it. Nevertheless, this kind of notoriety is typically a good factor, as it gets buyers focused on what could possibly be causing such an uproar.

The Dante’s Inferno videogame plot tracks Dante as he journeys through the assorted circles of hell on a journey to reclaim his darling Beatrice. But as he delves further into the pit, worse secrets are exposed and the reality about his quest becomes known. Dante has to battle his way through employing Death’s scythe, which he took from the phantom having bested him in single battle!

Right, I’ll get this out of the way early- the Dante’s Inferno videogame has been blamed of being a rip off of the God of War series, to the point at which the combat system is allegedly virtually identical. Well, this is really dependant on your point of view. God of War certainly didn’t start the hack and slash style, it just does it best, and therefore all succeeding titles shall be measured against it. If a game can come close to emulating God of War surely that is a very good claim?

And the Dante’s Inferno videogame is doubtless its own master. The combat system is actually an intricately fashioned tree of potentialities as you utilize Dante’s dual methods of assault; his scythe and holy cross. These weapons can each be levelled up as you move forward through hell. Throughout the Dante’s Inferno videogame, Dante will discover lost souls both in battle and non-battle conditions, and the user can choose to either punish or absolve them. This will level up either weapons correspondingly.

Hell itself has been nicely designed with the Dante’s Inferno videogame, and there are certainly echoes of EA’s previous horror offering- Dead Space. The landscape is crawling with writhing damned, impaled captives and rivers of blood, whilst the different circles will provide their own take on things. Journeying through Lust will unveil mutated phallic symbols and darkly sexual enemies, whilst Greed will house unfortunates sheathed in precious metals.

The Dante’s Inferno Videogame has had a rough ride by the hands of all of the God of War fanboys, but is certainly a great game in its own right. Of course, there are a few drawbacks- the game is a little too short and some of the environments start to look over familiar, but these problems are cancelled out by an empowering combat system and imaginative boss battles and imagery. The Dante’s Inferno Videogame ought to be heralded as a great effort from EA, and I encourage you to check it out.

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