Dante’s Inferno // Divine Comedy
Dante’s Inferno is an upcoming third-person Hack and Slash video game to be published by Electronic Arts and in development by Visceral Games (formerly EA Redwood Shores).
Release date: January 30, 2010
Official site: www.dantesinferno.com
More info, pics and video after the jump.
The game is loosely based on the canticle of the same name from Dante Aligheri’s epic poem Divine Comedy. In Dante’s Inferno you battle through the 9 circles of Hell facing fierce and hideous monsters, your own sins, and a dark past of unforgivable war crimes. Its gameplay, thematic and methodologies are looking strikingly similar to the immensely popular God of War series.
about the “Divine Comedy”:
The dark fiction gave birth to the Tuscan Italian dialect and is widely considered the work that has defined the western world’s contemporary conception of hell and purgatory. The poem tells the tale of Dante who journeys through the twisted, menacing nine circles of hell in pursuit of his beloved Beatrice. Written in the 14th Century, The Divine Comedy was published and read aloud in Italian (unlike the Bible), thereby making the poem accessible to the mass public. The poem delivers a striking and allegorical vision of the Christian afterlife and the punishments of hell. In part one, known as Dante’s Inferno, Dante traverses all nine circles of hell; limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, wrath, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.
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