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Dante's Inferno
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Traverse the nine circles of hell in Visceral's action game named after the first cycle of Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy.
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"That Dante's Inferno is almost proudly derivative of Sony's God of War series isn't inherently a bad thing, but its lack of unique accomplishments makes for a hollow experience."
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Hellish level design

Visuals - Dante's Inferno has an imaginative albeit grim aesthetic, which greatly sets the tone for the mindless hack n slash game-play to come. Grotesque backdrops filled with horrible imagery of hel… Read more

Extremely imitative but interesting in its own ways

Dante’s Inferno places you in the shoes of Dante, reimagined as a warrior from the Crusades instead of the author of the Divine Comedy (why they didn’t just rename the character...?) on which the game… Read more

Straightforward but fun

There's a certain gleeful abandon in Dante's Inferno. Throughout the whole game, I got this feeling that this game was developed by a committee of executives who really hate folks like Joseph Lieberma… Read more

Copycat it might be, but it's a pretty good one.

I know nothing of The Divine Comedy, but I have to assume that the poem never had Cleopatra excreting unbaptized children from her mouth-nipples that have tongues. Or maybe it does. I don't know. But… Read more

A trip to the underworld that is worth seeing.

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One Hell of A Game

Dante’s Inferno is one hell of an interesting game. Based on the first part of a fourteenth century of a set of poems by Dante Alighieri called The Divine Comedy, the poem follows Dante’s journey thro… Read more

A Missed Opportunity

I find it very interesting that many reviewers panned Dante’s Inferno for its “gratuitous” nudity and sexuality, while at the same praising the “creative,” extreme, and often misogynistic violence. Ap… Read more

Dante's Inferno Review: Welcome to Hell

Dante's Inferno is an action game which can charitably be described as being similar to God of War. The game places you in the role of a crusader named Dante as he returns home to find his love murder… Read more

Dante's Inferno Review: Go to hell

Dante's Inferno is an action game which can charitably be described as being similar to God of War. The game places you in the role of a crusader named Dante as he returns home to find his love murder… Read more

The End is Nigh...

February 25, 2010 - Dante's Inferno is a third-person action adventure title produced by the videogame industry's top grossing company, Electronic Arts. It is their 1st successful entry into the genre… Read more

early highs lead to slow fizzles

Making a game about hell it self is a large undertaking. Making a game supposedly influenced by the most respected work of literature on the subject of hell is an even bigger more daunting task. Dante… Read more

A Very Fun Ripoff

You've heard it a million times - Dante's Infero is a ripoff of God of War. But is this really a bad thing? The latter has brought us hours of super-fun combat mixed with engaging cinematics and an ad… Read more

Dante's Inferno Review

By - Craig H. Dante’s Inferno follows the first part of Dante Alighieri’s poem, The Divine Comedy. The source material for Dante’s Inferno was almost tailor made for a video game. The Divine Comedy is… Read more

Dante's Inferno is a great rental.

Dante's Inferno is a game that I have many feelings over. Some of those feelings are good, others are simply just not at all. The story starts and finishes strong, though I am a little confused at exa… Read more

Hella Rad

The Third Crusade's Kratos God of War took the third person action brawler and made it something new. Dante's Inferno takes God of War and... that's about it. It's not as polished as God of War, the f… Read more

Twas a good game...

The thing was ridiculously short though. As I have read the divine comedy though I found it terribly dissatisfying as it bore little to no resemblance to the actual story. But I suppose that's to be e… Read more

Wonderful!

This game is "Bad to the Bone" and for once I don't mean that in a bad way. I keep hearing everyone stomp a mud hole into this game because it reminds people too much of another game. Well, as long as… Read more

Late Bird Reviews: Dante's Inferno

Okay, so if you know anything about this game and what it’s like, then you know that it is a mimic of God of War . I was anticipating the games to be similar but the gameplay mechanics are so close th… Read more

Dante's Inferno

The Divine Comedy, composed with thoughtful consideration over thirteen years, is wholly abused and exploited to make a video game full of tits and demons—but as long as you don’t try to take it too s… Read more

Good start however weak second half

Dante’s inferno is the second game to come from Dead space creators Visceral games. The game loosely follows the 14 century poem the Divine Comedy. In this the poem follows the tale of a crusade solid… Read more

Dante's Inferno Review - PS3

Visceral Games' latest release, Dante's Inferno, is most certainly a work of inspiration and borrowed ideas. The plot of the game, based loosely on the 14th century poem of the same name, sees Dante d… Read more

It's a God of War clone but it's an excellent clone.

Contrary to what many reviewers have said, I found the game extremely fun and enjoyable. It's a GoW clone for sure but it's an excellent clone. The game has pretty tight controls and some really fun p… Read more

Dante's Inferno Review

There's no shortage of hack 'n' slash games that have already appeared on the market this year but none have been quite as shocking as Dante's Inferno, both in build up and in content. It's not the bi… Read more

Dante's isn't so bad.

OK, firstly. I'd like to say this won't be an in-depth look into Dante's but just a quick summery of the games pro's and con's. I rented this game a couple of weeks back when it was just released. Eve… Read more

Decent, But Not Worth the Money

Dante was a poet who wrote a long piece on Hell. However, in Visceral Games' newest title, Dante is not so much a poet but, instead, is a brutish thug who can slaughter the minions of Hell with few pr… Read more

Dante's Inferno Review

“Derivative” is a term that’s perhaps used too often in reviews. I would argue that a good 90% or more of modern day video games are derivative of something that came before. Rare is the truly origina… Read more

Trapped in purgatory

First and foremost, if you are an avid fan of The Divine Comedy, you are going to hate what EA has done to their Dante’s Inferno game. It is as blistered and altered and transformed from the original… Read more

Review: Dante's Inferno

I was looking forward to Dante's Inferno. Having been a big fan of Visceral 's previous game, Dead Space , I was anxious to see what they threw at us next. I had followed all the video previews and tr… Read more

god of war? not really

Thing about Dante's inferno, i've never read the divine comedy that this game is suppose to be based on prior to playing the game after playing the game i read the poem, biggest problem for anyone who… Read more

The 9 Circles of Hell

Dante's Inferno is a game by the same guys who made dead space. I think they should have really stuck to making survival horror games. The game has a lot of problems. If your going to make a God of Wa… Read more

If you like God Of War you should like this game

When talking about this game you need to understand that I love God of War, but God of War is a series was a PS2 game and this game feels like an HD version of a PS2 game. That is not a gripe, I actua… Read more

Review - Dante's Inferno

Gamers are incredibly attached to their favorite video game franchises and are quick to defend them at a moment’s notice on some unknown discussion forum. So when video game journalists start comparin… Read more

A not so scortching good time

Review Taken From: http://numbthumb.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/dantes-inferno-review/ DANTES INFERNO REVIEW DANTE’S INFERNO REVIEW PS3 & 360 You might think it’s strange to base a game on a poem, bu… Read more

With Great Vengeance and Furious Anger...

Many cinema-goers may recall a little-known film called “Pulp Fiction”. In it, Samuel L. Jackson’s character, Jules, often repeats a made-up bible verse; a real showstopper, talking about “the weak” b… Read more

Go to Hell.

No really, that’s the driving plot point behind the new EA/Visceral Games title Dante’s Inferno ! Based on the original epic poem “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri, we traverse the nine circles o… Read more

And then there was this

Dante's inferno is a game that kinda takes you to hell if your religious you will kinda be horrified or...angry at the game which is sad because well its a game oh and if your italian and hate this ga… Read more

Review: Dante's Inferno

(Read the original review on my blog ) Yet another game that I am glad I rented from GameFly, because I ended up not playing it nearly as much as I wanted to. But it's not that I ran out of time, rath… Read more

Dante's Inferno Review

Dante’s Inferno: Review This game has been called an obvious clone of the infamous God of War series, taking a different perspective on a famous, half millennium old story about a man who delves into… Read more

God of Emptiness

Let's clear this out of the way now: yes, this game is almost a wholesale imitator of God of War. OK, then. Let's move on So like most games based on fourteenth century literature, Dante's Inferno tak… Read more

Dante's Inferno Video Review

A much bigger shadow looms over what could have been a great game if it wasn’t for some frustrating moments and an anticlimactic ending. It is hard to take Dante's Inferno as a new IP as right from th… Read more

One way ticket to Hell

It’s rare for video games to look to the literary world for direct inspiration, and you can guarantee there were plenty of eyebrows raised with the announcement of Visceral Games’ brutal action title,… Read more

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