Exclusive: Dante's Inferno - Trailer

Published 23 February, 2009 Duration 1:55

Games are based on many things: historical battles, TV series, outlandish fantasy realms. Basing one on a 700 hundred year old book about an allegorical journey to and through Hell does seem a bit bold, but this trailer does a lot to justify the decision.

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  • the_dudefather #1 3 years ago

    THIS CHRISTMAS, TELL YOUR FOLKS BUY ME DANTE'S INFERNO OR GO TO HELL!!

  • Monkey_Puncher #2 3 years ago

    Seems a bit sad that they turned a literary classic into a God of War ripoff. Still, the subject matter is very interesting so it could be good and Dead Space shows that this lot know what they're doing when it comes to games.

  • Postumo #3 3 years ago

    Ninja Gaiden? anyone?

    I hoped to see a game truly based on the novel, this is another ninja gaiden / god of war rip off with oniric backgrounds and stuff...

    Not instabuy, maybe ********* it

  • guernican #4 3 years ago

    If you can kill enemies with a cross, I'm not buying it on principle.

    There's probably no God. So stop worrying and enjoy your gaming.

  • kangarootoo #5 3 years ago

    "If you can kill enemies with a cross, I'm not buying it on principle"

    Lol. Why exactly? Does it offend your religious beliefs?


    signed, a rational aetheist


    And for the record, that whole "There's probably no God. So stop worrying" bus ad campaign was the sorriest thing I have seen in some while. Strikes me that the only people "worrying" were those who felt the need to stick ads on the side of a bus.

  • muscleblade #6 3 years ago

    Looks very promising. And its from the makers of Dead Space so its on my def buy list for now.

  • Zanuah #7 3 years ago

    Promising... up to the "Go to hell" part. They should have left that out.

  • Eurolamer #8 3 years ago

    "Take a look at Dis."

    Very good ;-)

  • TeeHee #9 3 years ago

    Fvck you too EA.

    meh, should have been a survival horror

  • Skeletor #10 3 years ago

    Looks promising. Nice artdirection.

  • merkdot #11 3 years ago

    this just looks like a load of random bullshit

  • haowan #12 3 years ago

    sad face

  • oxymoron #13 3 years ago

    hell reminded me of that terrible film 'constantine'. similar art direction especially with the souls.

    Newcastle.

  • BigE0n #14 3 years ago

    WOW 1 minuite its your standard demons / god of war type monsters then its like something out of Bettlejuice!!!!

  • guernican #15 3 years ago

    Well, just briefly, as you've decided to wave your tiny little member around.

    Because I love the Divine Comedy, and there's no fucking demon-slaying in it, much less any that involve holy crosses.

    And I rather liked the bus campaign, partly because it was phrased in an elegant and open-ended way, and partly because it was itself a response to a hysterical and wingy Christian bus campaign.

    Finally, I'm sure you are, indeed, a rational atheist. But I suspect your arguments may carry more force if you resist the temptation to use txt-spk. Tch. Children.

  • hiddenranbir #16 3 years ago

    Looks more interesting than GoW. Probably because I don't think I can take more Greek mythology.

  • Giobbi #17 3 years ago

    Che roba ridicola.

    Magari come gioco manco brutto eh..

    Ma visto da un punto di vista italiano fa sganasciare..

    Ah ah yankees buffoni :) e pure fanno i furbi recuperando letteratura senza pił diritti.

    Prossimo suggerisco un gioco Nascar basato su Romeo and Juliet.

  • kangarootoo #18 3 years ago

    "phrased in an elegant and open-ended way"

    We may have to fundamentally agree to disagree on that one. I found the inherrent suggestion that people who believe in God are "worrying" about it to be a feeble strawman and a little purile as a result. The whole "calm down" attack is a variant of ad hominem, which is neither elegant nor "open-ended" (whatever that means).

    "and partly because it was itself a response to a hysterical and wingy Christian bus campaign"

    Sounds to me like a religous version of a fanboy fight. A hysterical and wingy bus ad campaign as a response to a hysterical and wingy bus ad campaign. Hmmm.


    "if you resist the temptation to use txt-spk. Tch. Children."

    I assume you are referring to my use of "lol". Man, you have high standards. How on earth do you survive regular contact with the internet?

    Anyway, I'm not trying to start a fight (or maybe I was and now I've thought it through a bit and decided I was just being rude to a poster I don't really know, who knows).

    I just found the "if you can kill things will a cross, I'm not buying it on principle" comment kind of amusing. You must admit, reading it in isolation it sounds a bit odd. It could almost work as a line out of an episode of Blackadder.

  • JaysonG #19 3 years ago

    "If you can kill enemies with a cross, I'm not buying it on principle."

    How can a game literally about "going to hell" take an atheist stance on the universe...

    Jesus.

  • kangarootoo #20 3 years ago

    @Giobbi

    What do "sganasciare" and "recuperando" mean?

    Google doesn't know, and my Italian extends about as far as letting me know it was Italian I was reading (but not really knowing what the words meant).

  • guernican #21 3 years ago

    "How can a game literally about "going to hell" take an atheist stance on the universe...

    Jesus."

    To be fair, that strikes me as a perfectly reasonable question. Assuming you've never read the work on which the game is based.

  • guernican #22 3 years ago

    Well, kangathing, I'm an amusing kind of guy.

  • kangarootoo #23 3 years ago

    clearly ;)

  • Razorus #24 3 years ago

    This looks good. Perhaps a bit God of Warry or Ninja Gaideny but EA have impressed me recently so count me interested. I do hope however, that we will be able to do things in the actual game like what we've seen in this lovely FMV.

    Oh, and about the cross weapon. My only problem with that is the idea that a cross is better than any other religious symbol. How do you think non-Christians deal with vampires? Star of David shurikens and Crescent Moon boomerangs maybe?

  • MasterControlProgram #25 3 years ago

    @kangarootoo: sganasciare = to lough out loud, nearly self-breaking one's jaws ;)
    recuperando is easier, really O:-)

    Obviously the game will be 10 million miles from even scraping a tiny little bit of the poem complexity, and will use it as a mere backdrop. But it looks like serious fun, nonetheless.

  • Fat_Pigeon #26 3 years ago

    always thought the divine comedy could have made a deamon slaying beaut of a game with a little tweaking obviously, if it had stuck to the original idea really wouldn't have been much of a game and a little boring to play. plus if it is a bit God of war come ninja gaiden is this really a bad thing 2 amazing games crossed with a good story with deamon slaying surely got to be good

  • loatheme #27 3 years ago

    "If you can kill enemies with a cross, I'm not buying it on principle."

    so I guess you're not allowed to play any Castlevania games either?

    organized religion will start crumbling any minute now against rebellions like this!
    Edited by loatheme at 24/02/09 @ 22:01

  • the_mtfr #28 3 years ago

    @CountFapula, that guer"whatever" thing is a famous (at least for the rest of us) painting of Picasso's. Although ugly as fvck.

  • adfegg #29 3 years ago

    "If you can kill enemies with a cross, I'm not buying it on principle."

    guernican, I'm trying to work out whether you are being ironic here.

  • SFG_Clan #30 3 years ago

    What....The.....Fuck?!