New game takes players to Hell

[ryu2]

New game takes players to Hell
2009-10-12 14:14

San Francisco - US videogame titan Electronic Arts (EA) said on Friday that an acclaimed Hollywood screenwriter has tackled the story line for a videogame taking players into Dante's Inferno.

Visceral Games, the EA studio behind the Dead Space franchise, is having Will Rokos craft a videogame story from the first part of Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy.

"Taking such a naturally rich and deep universe and adapting for the video game has been one of the most interesting and challenging projects I've worked on," said Rokos, who co-wrote the 2001 film Monster's Ball.

"I really got into re-imagining Dante as a flawed hero with a dark past, and his determination to save the love of his life from a terrible fate. It was a truly unique experience to re-create one man's hell, one circle at a time."

The three-part poem written by the Italian author in the early 1300s tells of a journey through hell, purgatory, and heaven. Inferno is the first part.

"The task of adapting a revered and classic piece of literature for the gaming medium was a tremendous challenge," said Jonathan Knight, executive producer of Dante's Inferno videogame.

"Dante Alighieri's masterpiece forms the foundation of the game's plot, but Will's take on the Dante/Beatrice story brought the necessary conflict and action that made the material really work dramatically."

Players will assume the role of Dante as he fights through Alighieri's nine circles of hell - limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.

Inferno will be released in Europe and North America in February 2010, according to EA.

Game software will be tailored for play on Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3 consoles along with PlayStation PSP handheld devices

[Sgt]

I have seen a lot of vids for this it looks very.... interesting.

[Necuno]

Dante's Inferno - It's Time for Anger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJYnrkAzLZ8&hd=1

it is looking so awesome it would be a sin not go get... Goto Hell.

my old threads
Dante's Inferno Media Gallery
http://mygaming.co.za/forum/showthread.php?t=1408
Dante's Inferno Dated: February 9, 2010
http://mygaming.co.za/forum/showthread.php?t=2317

[Saruman]

Looks like a God of War clone to me, I suppose that's not necessarily a bad thing.

[Cyrus]

Wow...looks interesting

[FEARLESS]

Looks as good as god of war 3 but lets wait and see if it plays as well as gow 3

[Tsar]

If I had a ps3 I would play it.

[Malphas]

I have high hopes for Dante's Inferno...the only thing I'm weary of though is EA's involvement...all the games they publish have this "this game is better suited to renting than buying" vibe to them.

[matt]

Sounds awesome

[Neo]

I know I'll be looked down on for saying something like this; but games where they send the player to "hell" is a clear sign of the times. It's another example of a society crumbling whilst it's moral fibres are being torn away in small pieces, so small in fact that society doesn't notice that it's happening.

A lot of gamers may end up literally going to hell one day (not by my judgement of course) and believe me when I say, it's NOT going to be entertaining or "interesting".

Anyways...to each his own and we're all free to play the games that we want, but games where Hell is portrayed as a main character in a game is something I avoid like the plague.