Infernal demo released

By Robert Purchese Published 31 January, 2007

"Not your standard WWII shooter".

If you fancy restoring the balance between Heaven and Hell, you'd better download the new demo for Infernal, a third-person PC shooter from Eidos.

In it you'll get a chance to play through an early mission that starts in the basement of a cloister, which also serves as a tutorial.

The game, developed by Polish studio Metropolis, tells the story of a battle for power between Etherlight, the Earthly representative of Heaven, and its counterpoint Abyss, representing Hell. Tsk, that old yarn.

You'll play as Ryan Lennox, who will use a mixture of stealth, supernatural powers, big booming weapons and dynamic environments to uncover what's going on in an engrossing storyline.

Its stunning graphics and Ageia PhysX support are what set it apart from other shooters on the market, apparently.

"It's not your standard run of the mill World War II shooter that you see lots of these days," a spokesperson from Eidos told Eurogamer. "It looks completely different with the Ageia PhysX in there. They've got all the lighting effects in there, the fire looks just unbelievable."

So, go and decide for yourself, by downloading the new demo. Then, while you leave it to "sinner", why not head over to the game's website for more information?

Infernal is due out on PC in Q1 2007.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (9) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • Rayn #1 5 years ago

    The official game homepage doesn't seem to work...

  • absolutezero #2 5 years ago

    Heh, I was just on my way to make a Forum post about this, getting it from Fileplanet. It looks quite good.

    Its very good! It plays alot like Psi Ops if anyone played that, it looks really nice and the game is very well optimized. Its a buy for me. Some of those sections are making me think that the devs played a hell of alot of RE4 though.

    Horrible acting though and its given away next to nothing about the storyline. Also im not sure about sucking the souls out of every single enemy you defeat.
    Edited by 2 at 31/01/07 @ 14:11

  • Royal Fool #3 5 years ago

    Am I the only one who got massively confused by the headline caption and that man's statement about it being a WWII shooter?

    Because from visiting the website, it becomes strikingly obvious that this certainly doesn't have anything to do with WWII.

  • Bezzy #4 5 years ago

    "the fire looks just unbelievable"

    Picture him saying this in a really dismissive tone. "Pff. The fire just looks unbelievable. Completely unconvincing. Go back to fire effects school, chumps"

    Made me laugh, anyway.

  • YourMessageHere #5 5 years ago

    No, Royal Fool, I was just about to say something to the same effect. Not your standard WWII shooter, in that it's not a WWII shooter at all.

    Animal Crossing: not your standard WWII shooter, etc.

  • jonsaan #6 5 years ago

    Tutorials SUCK ASS. If I need to know anything I'll check the manual thanks!

  • alithebull #7 5 years ago

    cant get the damn dowload to work.....

    i hate when they make you wait 20 mins for a dud download...... grrrrr

  • suzakuseven #8 5 years ago

    I just get an error pop up stating: 'Ageia PhysX SDK not installed. Please reinstall the game'. I have Ageia installed and working so, nah, I don't think i'll be dicking about with this.

  • rotmm #9 5 years ago

    *cant get the damn dowload to work*

    You could get it here http://www.infernaldemo. com/ or I got excellent speeds from the UK server here http://ww w.strategyinformer.com/pc/infer...