Dante's Inferno (PS3)

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EA produced a commercial for the game that was shown during Super Bowl XLIV, a fast-paced cinematic of Dante's descent into hell, overplayed by what was considered an unusual use of Bill Withers' song " Ain't No Sunshine". The package contained a small wooden box which, when opened, played the Rick Astley song " Never Gonna Give You Up", thus " Rickrolling" the journalists that received it. Experience is collected through the game's "Absolve" system, where upon defeating enemies, Dante can absolve and save them with the Holy Cross.

At the beginning of the game, the skill tree is equal in power, but as Dante gains more Holy experience, more abilities become available for purchase. Another feature of the game was that Dante had the ability to condemn or absolve foes and Damned shades. GamePro found the unique designs of the circles of Hell to be "impressively constructed", getting "a lot of mileage out of the unique setting".It follows Dante, imagined as a Templar knight from The Crusades, who, guided by the spirit of the poet Virgil, must fight through the nine Circles of Hell to rescue his wife Beatrice from the clutches of Lucifer himself.

PlayStation Official Magazine – UK also echoed this view, saying that the game was "just going through motions for the last three or four hours", despite what it considered to have a "robust fighting system" and being "visually strong".

The Holy points increased the Holy Cross attack while the Unholy points increased the power of Dante's scythe. A playable demo was released for PlayStation 3 on December 10, 2009, and for Xbox 360 on December 24, 2009. Before the game's release, Dante's Inferno underwent a prominent, elaborate, and at times controversial marketing campaign led by the game's publisher Electronic Arts. V. Club gave the Xbox 360 version a C+, saying, "The game's rivers of blood, corpse-piles, and wailing souls make for a morbid, depression-inducing milieu.

The game's story is loosely based on Inferno, the first canticle of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. A few days later, it was officially confirmed by EA spokesman Tammy Scachter that they had hired people to protest the game and that there was no actual protest.Prior to Dante's Inferno 's release, in June 2009, a protest began during E3 2009 in Los Angeles to oppose the game. Overcoming this, Lucifer appears before Dante with Beatrice, revealing that she is damned because she made a bet with him that Dante would be faithful to her, and Dante's infidelity damned her soul to Lucifer.

Lucifer gleefully reveals that, now free, he will rise, overthrow God and eliminating all that is good from the universe forever. The application, created by Visceral Games lets users condemn their friends, groups, or photos to one of the nine circles of hell where they can then vote to punish or absolve them, or torment them with activities like "beast massage" or "succubus castration. As the removed tapestry floats down to the ground, it transforms into a snake and slithers away while Lucifer's haunting laugh echoes for the final time before the screen reads "To be continued. In the fifth circle, Anger, Dante begins to float across the vile River Styx on what appears to be a floating platform. In addition to the level, the download also includes an additional "Disco Inferno" costume, a novelty piece in the style of polyester disco fashion wear.In addition, there are numerous hidden passages where Biblical relics can be found and equipped to improve Dante's abilities. Echarpe-les tous, découpe-les tous, c'est de l'archi-méga-classique dans le genre, cet Enfer de Dante mais avec tout de même une maniabilité bien réglée, des graphismes dans l'ensemble corrects et surtout une ambiance fascinante.