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Dante's Inferno
Topic Started: Oct 27 2010, 06:14 PM (436 Views)
Tedyz
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Ultimate pwnage.
I wasn't really sure if I wanted to pick this game up or not; I heard mixed reviews everywhere. One thing was for sure; It was a God of War clone, and it was going to be bloody. I decided, "Why not? Could be entertaining, how could god of war go wrong?" Plus, the lady I was with wanted to try it out, so I decided to spend my 30$ gamestop credits on this. Of course, things can go wrong. No matter what copies what.

Storyline's pretty cliché, you're this crusader knight, really religious, you get killed, fight the Reaper, steal his scythe, and the next minute, you're in hell. Going through the 9 circles of hell. Generic, but it's a good background, and it has _ok_ plot twists.
So, the game starts. Complete God of War clone, but hey, it's playable, there's no glitches whatsoever, so let's not give up and carry on the game, right? Its fun, it's violent, it's brutal, enjoyable. Then you come to the first enemies. Oh boy. Just boring lost souls, nothing special. You ask yourself, "What is this shit?". But it only began.
You then meet unbaptized dead babies. Yes. Dead babies. In a videogame. Next? Dead prostitutes with tentacles coming out of their vaginas. Giant ladies with cut off nipples who happen to be mouths with tongues. They also spit unbaptized dead babies. You then come to the point where you fight some fat giant with big man boobs who puke and poop on you. Besides that, nothing too gross or disturbing. Nono. The bosses are pretty generic and boring.
So let's talk about the gameplay, shall we? First, you have your scythe, which has the most powerful attacks in the game. You gain souls, use them to gain combos, y'know, typical. You then have your crucifix, which... sucks. Just plain sucks. The blocking, well, you won't really need it. The dodging is fairly useful. Anddd you obviously have magic, but only one of those 4 magics is good, so forget about the rest.
The first few hours of the game (about.. 3) are fairly impressive, interesting, especially on the environment side. Everything's just.. so.. well. It's hell. I can't explain that more. It's disturbing, it's gruesome, it's satisfying. Then you get to the arenas. All you do is do mission based things, like kill these enemies in a certain amount of time, etc etc. And that's where the game dies. You do this for about an hour, and then fight the final boss. Oh my lord. This has to be one of the worse boss fights in video game history. Not that he's too easy, not that he's hard, no no. He's hard.. but only if you don't know the trick. Simple, yet cheap pattern. Get hit, lose lots of HP. Then you beat him. What do you get?

To be continued.

You guessed it.
So... verdict? Interesting, disturbing, entertaining game, that's for sure. But they just seemed to have needed more time; they just threw in random stuff that shouldn't have been there to make the game longer, like the arenas. They just needed more time to finish the game, polish it, make it better. Decent artistic design, decent controls, everything was promising, and I'll admit I did enjoy the game. As a God of War fan, you can't really expect to hate it. You just get dissapointed near the end is all.
I suggest a rental at most.. unless you really, really want to expand your game library. It's worth a 5$ rental, because you'll be beating it in 2 days at most if you play 3 hours a day.
I'd give this game a good 7/10 for its effort, disturbing images (remember the dead babies. They'll haunt you.)
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Fullmetal
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Moblin
So basically it has nothing to do with the books.
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Tedyz
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Ultimate pwnage.
Basically.
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i concur
>:E
Gerald was, is, and will always be better than Carlos

phuck carlos
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