Dante's Inferno (PS3)

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la jouabilité y est très en retrait par rapport aux combats qui abusent d'ailleurs des QTE en tout genre. A 2D sidescroller mobile game based on Dante's Inferno was also in development by IronMonkey Studios, but was cancelled by EA after six months of work as the studio shifted its priorities to the emerging free-to-play mobile game market.

A playable demo was released for PlayStation 3 on December 10, 2009, and for Xbox 360 on December 24, 2009.Dante's Inferno generally used the same characters as in the original poem and the only truly new character was Beatrice's brother, Francesco Portinari. Summary Dante's Inferno tells an adapted story that focuses on delivering a blockbuster 3rd person action game experience while bringing Alighieri's depiction of Hell to the medium. United States NPD Group sales data showed that the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Dante's Inferno sold 242,500 and 224,700 copies respectively on February 2010, its first month of release. not the other way around," [55] says Professor Arielle Saiber, an Italian literature professor at Bowdoin College. Even conspiring to stealeth thy best friend's soul mate is the worst kind of mortal offense imaginable.

Dante refuses to accept his fate, vows to redeem himself, and defeats Death while taking his scythe.The music could not be stopped through any means other than destroying the box using the hammer and goggles provided. At the beginning of the game, the skill tree is equal in power, but as Dante gains more Holy experience, more abilities become available for purchase. With such an appealing story and addictive gameplay, Dante's Inferno's only sin seems to be its shameless similarity to Sony's celebrated franchise. The INA asked the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) to omit the reward and elements of infant violence.

Beatrice, now broken-hearted by Dante's betrayals, willingly gives herself to Lucifer by eating three seeds of a pomegranate. One of the most praised aspects was the game's depiction of Hell, considered creative yet graphic in nature. The Dante's Inferno project had separate anime studios being tapped to create visuals of the nine levels of the Inferno. The game's story is loosely based on Inferno, the first canticle of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. It follows Dante, imagined as a Templar knight from The Crusades, who, guided by the spirit of the poet Virgil, must fight through the nine Circles of Hell to rescue his wife Beatrice from the clutches of Lucifer himself.Other critics like GameSpy even found some enemy and setting designs "shocking" yet still could "appreciate that this is Hell, and it's supposed to be disturbing".

The numerous advertisements highlighted certain sins associated with the circles of hell, at times promoting fake services before accusing the viewer of the sin linked to it. The game was first released in Australia on February 4, 2010, followed by releases in the United Kingdom on February 5 and the United States on February 9. With online co-op, a seemingly-enthusiastic community, and a suite of solid online features, the original game suddenly feels like it has some legs.Columbia University Professor Teodolinda Barolini, a former president of the Dante Society of America, criticized the game for its depiction of Beatrice, declaring, "Of all the things that are troubling, the sexualization and infantilization of Beatrice are the worst. Beatrice reminds him that he slaughtered the Saracen prisoners out of anger and that Francesco died taking the blame for it. Later in October 2009, EA sent a series of packages to Veronica Belmont at Qore, the PlayStation: The Official Magazine offices and Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw of the Escapist's Zero Punctuation column. Before the game's release, Dante's Inferno underwent a prominent, at times elaborate marketing campaign led by the game's publisher Electronic Arts.