"The story is complete bullshit(You get your first weapon in the tutorial, by defeating Death and taking his scythe)"

"Gamespot's Dante's Inferno hands-on. The story is complete bullshit(You get your first weapon in the tutorial, by defeating Death and taking his scythe), but it sounds like this could be really fun. I just wish they'd have created an original protagonist instead of ruining the book's characters..."

I'm simply interested in how the game uses the book as INSPIRATION.  I already know that they are going to fuck up certain story elements from the BOOK, but as long as they offer up a good story that I enjoy and can follow, then I'm fine.  I honestly don't care how they portray the characters and the order of things.  I just want a good game with a good story.

I think it should just be a point-and-click adventure game, would be much better. Its sad that they are kinda ruining it.

Don't worry, EA won't let you down  ;)

Do you also worry about the accuracy of the God of War games? I know they aren't called "Aeschylus's Oresteia" or "Bullfinch's Mythology: the Game" or anything, but it's essentially the same thing - just a  game based loosely on Christian myth & legend instead of Greek.

Granted, God of War owes more to Clash of the Titans than actual Greek myth, but this kind of redefinition of literature is nothing new. Look at movies like the Scarlet Letter. Even most comic book movies have a hard time sticking to the source.

The game's gonna own, if solely for the fact that the Dead Space guys are making it.  Dante's Inferno may be the namesake of the game, but it's also merely the INSPIRATION!  I mean, should Prince of Persia be more true to Arabian Nights?  Should licensed products be WORD-FOR-WORD and FRAME-FOR-FRAME the same as their movie/TV show counterparts?  NO!!!  Absolutely not.  When someone does a form of interpretive work, you can only judge it on two things:

"I'm simply interested in how the game uses the book as INSPIRATION.  I already know that they are going to fuck up certain story elements from the BOOK, but as long as they offer up a good story that I enjoy and can follow, then I'm fine.  I honestly don't care how they portray the characters and the order of things.  I just want a good game with a good story.

And this comes from someone who owns the book and reads it at least once a year:

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I do have to add that I think the current design for Dante is terrible I hope they change hiim. I wish he looked more like an Italian poet and less like a generic badass video game hero.