It's not often that an epic poem that has spanned the past 700 years can be made into a bloody video game. However, Visceral games has made that game with the release of Dante's Inferno, based on the Divine Comedy written by Dante Alighieri's. With stunning and graphic details, an amazing story, and the most vivid description and picture of hell every depicted, this game has beaten the odds and become a hit video game.
Set during the Crusades, Dante is a fierce warrior, who comes home from the war to find his wife, Beatrice, murdered. She appears to him as a spirit, and she knows of his sins and betrayal while at war. Before he can apologize, she is taken by Lucifer himself, and Dante must chase after her and straight into hell to find her so that she does not have to spend an eternity in hell. Traveling the 9 circles of hell, Dante must fight hoards of demons to save his beloved Beatrice.
Set as a third-person action game, players have two different weapons for an attack: the Grim Reapers Scythe and a blessed and holy Cross, which represent both the dark and light sides of Dante's personality. Players also get an option to either save the souls that have been turned into demons, or you can damn their souls even further into hell. These choices will have an outcome on how the game ends, and determine how Dante's soul will play out. Filled with famous people from history and literature, including the temptress Cleopatra and her lover Marc Antony, whom guard the Lust circles of hell. With all of this amazing gameplay an intricate story, I must give this game an 8 out of 10, for it is a great game, but has a lot of touchy and brutal language and scenes, which include a lot of sexual themes, especially in the lust level, (any heavily religious people or people who are especially uncomfortable with those types of situations, viewer discretion is advised for this game).
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