Dante's Inferno

 

Dante's Inferno made by EA and Visceral Games is a disturbing action adventure game that sends you on a disturbing descent down Dante's eight layers of hell. You battle through progressively harder levels and enemies all the way to the eighth layer all in the name of...love. That's right, that is what warrants this rampage through hell, love and an unhealthy need to be absolved for all the people you've killed. This game is fun and addicting as you meet new enemies and solve new sin-themed puzzles all the way to the devil himself to save your dear loving Beatrice.

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Pros: Constant action, Highly detialed enviroments, compelling story, fun combat system, Amazing boss battles, tons of gore and intense and emotionally powerful landscapes 

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Cons: main character is uninteresting and overall is depicted as a real jerk, the constant change of enemies and environments makes the learning curve spike randomly, many special attacks seem to lack any real punch and enemy glitches can make some fights seem dull or just plain aggravating.
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Dante's Inferno is a great game, if not significantly disturbed in almost every sense of the word. The depiction of hell is exciting and provides a unique videogame experience that is both fun and challenging. While many players might find it hard to slaughter a hoarde of unbaptized babies or may feel sick seeing the lust goddess constantly flail giant tongues out of her breast, once you get passed the openly demented game you'll find a pretty bad ass hack and slash game.

While many might argue that it's a lot more than a hack and slash it really isn't, you may learn new ways to hack and slash and occasionally may have to time blocks and counters just right it doesn't change the fact that every level you have to find a new way hack through your enemies and slash them to pieces.

However this never takes away from the game. In fact it actually adds to it. You play as Dante, a pissed off and heart-broken crusader whose one true love has been stolen by the devil himself to be his queen of hell. This is all because she made a deal with the devil that Dante would stay faithful during the crusades. Spoiler: he doesn't. So her soul becomes Lucifers and it's Dante's job to kill every damned soul, demon, and guardian to get the soul of his beloved wife back. Many of the figures you fight or see in the game were real historic figures who messed up enough in life to find themselves in hell. Some of these you get a chance to "absolve" or give their soul a pardons, this is strongly recommended for late game strategy.

You're constantly faced with new enemies and new puzzles. Most are incredibly hard to fight or solve without knowing the specific tactic to defeat each. But I once you learn every enemy's Achilles heel it becomes incredibly easy to just mow through enemies. If you find yourself running really low on health half way through battles try to max out your health bar and grab the last perk on the holy side. Dante's inferno is huge on collectible items, so search every square inch of the map and solve every puzzle to get every coin and item, it not only drags the play time out but it helps give you that little extra boost you may be looking for.

Overall once you get past a lot of the horrifyingly disturbing images that'll make you want to bathe every time you play Inferno is one hell of a game. Definitely worth the $15 it now cost. If nothing else it's great to crank up the difficulty and give yourself a little bit of a challenge between your other video games. Inferno takes about 20-35 hours to complete depending on your play style and need for achievements, I love achievements so it took me a little around 40. Definitely worth checking out but I'd give replay value a 6/10 it's really a one and done kind of game.