Abstract: There's no question that video games can teach us things, but they mostly teach us things like “how to take cover when someone's shooting at you” or “whenever you hear radio static, the zombies are coming”. Rarely do they take on something as heavy ...
Abstract: Can you imagine your soul laid bare, every sin and broken promise shown in grim detail to the one you love above all others? "You don't know what it was like!" Dante screams, anguished, as his beloved witnesses a particularly heinous act from his pas...
Published: 2010-02-05, Author: Tom , review by: cnet.com
Abstract: While Dante slices through the belly of an undead beast with his razor-sharp scythe, traverses a crumbling bridge with a quick-time event, and overthrows the ruler of a damned land with vicious determination, a burst of familiarity might flash through ...
Dante’s Inferno takes a bold, visually impressive take on a literary classic and adds in an intriguing action focus to create a different kind of action title. Unfortunately, some derivative combat sequences and a shallow combo system prevent the ti...
Abstract: When people refer to a game like Conan or Heavenly Sword as a "God of War clone," they typically mean it's in the third-person hack-n-slash genre and shares a few features like the button-pressing minigames or camerawork or giant bosses. So for the sak...
Worthwhile combat sequences and excellent level design are the highlights in this devilish tale
It doesn't carry the emotional or moral weight that it should, for a game set in Hell it is surprisingly bland
Just a few days ago Dante's Inferno didn't have much more to show for itself outside of an expensive marketing campaign. But we found EA's Hell-based brawler to be a well-structured hack 'n' slash with some memorable levels, inventive enemies, and a worth...
Abstract: There are a few reasons why Dante's Inferno isn't a great game, but plenty of reasons it's a good one. By Visceral Games and distributed by EA, this decent, unpretentious hack n' slash adventure isn't going to set 2010's big names trembling, but it sti...
Abstract: Gameplanet is by no means an ivory tower occupied by tweed-coated academics, prone to choking on their figs and prosciutto upon learning of the debasement of a prized cultural heirloom, but it must be said that we picked up Dante's Inferno with some tr...
