Dante's Inferno Review

Dante's Inferno (X Box 360, PlayStation 3
Developers: Visceral Games
Publishers: EA Games
MSPR: $59.99

First Look:
The game was very promising. Cool story, great setting, and some cool weapons and characters, but the game doesn't work out in a lot of categories. First off most reviewers called the game a God Of War 3clone and not owning a PlayStation 3 you won't hear any complaints about that. Hearing this game is very similar to the God Of War series I was very anxious too try this game out.

Campaign:
The game already has a story that has been told for ages in literature classes,and everywhere else around the world. The story revolves around Dante who is a crusader and a very bad man, who cheats with slave girls on his wife or lover Beatrice. Well Beatrice gets sent down to hell after dying on Earth. Now Dante has come back for her and too see her die sends Dante on a quest to retrieve her from Lucifer himself.
The game play being very God Of war like in terms of game play makes it exciting for fans of the series. Being a hack and slash game usually means pressing the X button a thousand times, but this game lends it self to cool game play opportunities, and some interesting strategies. First off the game has an absolve or punish system where you can make fallen enemies being absolved into heaven or punish them. They put in a leveling system where you can either choose to be good or bad and it's all determined by if you absolve or punish your enemies.
The enemies and bosses you fight are very...boring. Besides seeing the interesting characters from the book and Roman and Greek cultures all the other enemies you fight are just very annoying. Boss battles happen often and don't do anything too special, besides fighting famous emperors or people from the past everything else is either repetitive or just boring.
The environments have very dark and scary like it should be. Most of the time it's just very disturbing, I mean they do stick to the book, but some stuff is over the top and not in a good way. With many male and female parts being revealed throughout the whole game it does get old. They do pull off some pretty stunning things like the tornado of lust, and some towers and bosses look exactly like you would think they would look like.

Final Thoughts:
The game had a lot of potential and a lot of awareness was built for this game through marketing, but this game did not follow through in the clutch. The game play and environments are done well to an extent, but the graphics aren't great, and fail miserably at other aspects of the game. If your looking for that God Of War warm up before the game release, or if you just wanna run though some cool environments, and experience cool game play check out this game.

Graphics: 7
Visuals: 10
Game play: 7.5
Campaign: 5

Overall: 6

Rent but be warned.