EA released a brand new Dante’s Infernotrailer today which shows off all the circles of Hell you’ll be visiting throughout the game. It’s an interesting trailer, only for the fact that you don’t really get an idea on what the other circles of Hell are like. They do a great job showing off Gluttony as one of those fat b*tches (that will vomit and shit attack at you by the way) is munching down on some poor soul. The rest though, not so much.
Everyone in Hell is angry, everyone there had to have committed some kind of heresy and there’s violence all over Hell. Are demons more violent in the violence level? How do you fight fraud? Is it going to be like a demon holding out candy to you and as you approach to get the candy, the demon quickly pulls away and yells “just kidding, tee hee!”? Man, f**k fraud demons. Give me some damn candy!
I really want some candy right now.
Dante’s Inferno will be out on February 12, 2010 and you can view the new trailer after the fold.
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This looks more awesome each time I see it. Don't worry about the GoW clone jibes. After all, many people liked Dead Space more than RE5. If you had told them that beforehand, they'd call you a liar.
When I read that Cleopatra was going to be the "boss"/guardian of the second circle, I face-palmed for Dante. Have you ever seen any of the video interviews with the team? To me, it usually sounds like someone left a pop-up bastardization of Inferno lying around at a frat house and the frat boys, unfortunately but surprisingly, read it. "Yeah, DUUUDE! Dante was some hardc0re sick shit br0. I nvr thought a poem culd be not gay. Some of the wurds r pretty tuff 2 understand, but if u can get past that, it's BADASS!" Fuck the world.
Im sorry but those newly released screen shots of GOW3 do more for me than this trailer did. You barley saw any unique design of the different circles of hell. I mean I know its suppose to be a teaser, but the cuts are so fast you end up not teasing at all. You become a cock tease at that point, and no one likes a cock tease.
I read the entire Divine Comedy. Personally, I'm all for making Dantes Inferno into a game, and I think that It's a great idea to make it an action game. But this game looks so unoriginal, seriously, are they even trying? Sigh.
I'm desperately hoping Limbo is training mode. Also, 7 deadly sins != Dante's 9 rings of hell, even though the 7 deadly have their own rings...ah, kinda like the feathers != chicken thing.. Ya gotta know thine enemy.
Looks like those 7 deadly are bosses, though. That could be pretty sweet, as long as the devels didn't take themselves too seriously.. or not seriously enough.
I just don't understand the hate-on people have for this game. Did you not like Dead Space? If not then I can understand your lack of enthusiasm. Otherwise, have some respect for what the designers are trying to attempt here. For Christ sakes, the artist who they hired to design the game's enemies was responsible for the creature design of Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy 2! That pedigree is not enough for you?
Visceral games could've just thrown Dante's descriptions of the circle out the window and said, "pfft. Treachery? What kind of sin is that? Ghey!" Or they could've randomly name-checked the book like DMC. Instead, they're trying to adapt Dante's vision of Hell AND make it an entertaining action-adventure. You don't think literate people found The Divine Comedy entertaining when it was first written? Then go jerk off to Braid or something.
Most of you haters act like you've got your MA in English Lit or something. No? Then quit knocking a game for not being true to a book you've probably never read and never will.
God of War 3 will be good in its own right, but that's also not a multiformat game. It will be interesting to see how this does.
No use waving that poem to game cry flag anymore. Wasn't Dead Space also very Alienesque, yet no one has ever cared about that, what matters is that the game was good and it sold. I just believe in judging a game on its merits, not those of another action game, but others don't.
Fraud Demon to Dante: Soooooo... you bought this game eh ! Expected a deep and profound view of life and death viewed through an inventive gameplay eh ! Well I got ya boy, I got ya good.
No, I don't have my MA in English Lit, but I'm getting there, you fucking cunt. Have you ever read the poem? Dante the Pilgrim is anything but a hero, in fact he faints on multiple occasions during Inferno, and he does so in front of his literary hero and guide, Virgil, no less. My problem is that the developers don't seem to have very much respect for the source material. Dante never went to hell to save his "girlfriend," Beatrice from Dis, and the themes of the commedia, both political and spiritual, seem to be completely missing from the game. It's simply EA turning another classic into something it was never meant to be (The Godfather). What's next, Gone With The Wind, farming sim? I know EA has the right to make the game, and I know that I have the right not to play it, which I most likely won't(I really didn't like Dead-Space), but I'll be damned if an uninformed idiot like you is going to tell me I shouldn't voice my opinion on it.
/sigh and I wanted to have a deep conversation with Aristotle. However since it looks interesting and well has to do with hell of course I will be in. I just don't know how it will integrate the (epic) poem. Maybe Virgil will be speaking the lines to him?
I think I'm more curios to see how the integrate it then the hack and slash part.
@Saskatchewhoa
because it will be nothing like the epic poem. What's next, Dante having to fight his way up to heaven (haven't read that one of the trilogy so I have no clue on what goes on there btw) and when he meets god, they fight to the death. But right before god dies in this epic of all epic battles some 5 second speech of something that is suppose to be profane.
Fuck Timtheterrible, your a dipshit. Would you prefer the game to be exactly like the poem? Once big fucking conversation with people? WOW SIGN ME THE FUCK UP FOR THAT GAME!!!!
Timtheterrible,
we all know you are smart and sophisticiated as well as learned because you actually read the divine comedy, and are majoring in english lit. will you go away now that someone has stroked that ego of yours?
dantes version of hell is what christians now picture of as hell, so they took a cool setting, borrowed some names, and made a god of war clone. greek mythology had already been used, so they used some christian stuff. that is all, so there is no need to get upset when they game isnt the same as the book. some of you really sound like you want dantes inferno to be the most tedious point and click adventure game ever.
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It sounds like a Pokeball. Swear to God.
This is going to be a cracking game.
Looks like those 7 deadly are bosses, though. That could be pretty sweet, as long as the devels didn't take themselves too seriously.. or not seriously enough.
VAGUE COMMENT IS VAGUE.
I just don't understand the hate-on people have for this game. Did you not like Dead Space? If not then I can understand your lack of enthusiasm. Otherwise, have some respect for what the designers are trying to attempt here. For Christ sakes, the artist who they hired to design the game's enemies was responsible for the creature design of Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy 2! That pedigree is not enough for you?
Visceral games could've just thrown Dante's descriptions of the circle out the window and said, "pfft. Treachery? What kind of sin is that? Ghey!" Or they could've randomly name-checked the book like DMC. Instead, they're trying to adapt Dante's vision of Hell AND make it an entertaining action-adventure. You don't think literate people found The Divine Comedy entertaining when it was first written? Then go jerk off to Braid or something.
Most of you haters act like you've got your MA in English Lit or something. No? Then quit knocking a game for not being true to a book you've probably never read and never will.
No use waving that poem to game cry flag anymore. Wasn't Dead Space also very Alienesque, yet no one has ever cared about that, what matters is that the game was good and it sold. I just believe in judging a game on its merits, not those of another action game, but others don't.
No, I don't have my MA in English Lit, but I'm getting there, you fucking cunt. Have you ever read the poem? Dante the Pilgrim is anything but a hero, in fact he faints on multiple occasions during Inferno, and he does so in front of his literary hero and guide, Virgil, no less. My problem is that the developers don't seem to have very much respect for the source material. Dante never went to hell to save his "girlfriend," Beatrice from Dis, and the themes of the commedia, both political and spiritual, seem to be completely missing from the game. It's simply EA turning another classic into something it was never meant to be (The Godfather). What's next, Gone With The Wind, farming sim? I know EA has the right to make the game, and I know that I have the right not to play it, which I most likely won't(I really didn't like Dead-Space), but I'll be damned if an uninformed idiot like you is going to tell me I shouldn't voice my opinion on it.
They probably were like "oh hey, this idea of a 9 tiered hell in Dante's Inferno sounds pretty sweet, we should make a video game based around that".
I think I'm more curios to see how the integrate it then the hack and slash part.
@Saskatchewhoa
because it will be nothing like the epic poem. What's next, Dante having to fight his way up to heaven (haven't read that one of the trilogy so I have no clue on what goes on there btw) and when he meets god, they fight to the death. But right before god dies in this epic of all epic battles some 5 second speech of something that is suppose to be profane.
we all know you are smart and sophisticiated as well as learned because you actually read the divine comedy, and are majoring in english lit. will you go away now that someone has stroked that ego of yours?
dantes version of hell is what christians now picture of as hell, so they took a cool setting, borrowed some names, and made a god of war clone. greek mythology had already been used, so they used some christian stuff. that is all, so there is no need to get upset when they game isnt the same as the book. some of you really sound like you want dantes inferno to be the most tedious point and click adventure game ever.