Check out this wicked trailer of the animated feature being made to flesh out the world of EA’s Dante’s Inferno
Witness a different take on Dante’s descent into the underworld! From the creative teams behind some of the boldest animated films of all time, including Ghost in the Shell, Samurai Champloo, Blood the Last Vampire and others, experience Dante’s Inferno in an all-new form. In this new trailer, Dante descends into the depths of Hell and encounters many gruesome forms of evil while pursuing the soul of his beloved lost love, Beatrice. This animated feature will release in February 2010, the same month Visceral Games’ Dante’s Inferno is unleashed upon the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and the Sony PSP.
Let me know what you think of it when you get a chance.
This is one of those games that I may have to play with blinders on. I love the fighting style, the inevitable harkening back to God of War, but I also loved the source material, and to be honest, EA is brutalizing that with a capital brutal.
The devs really lost me when they walked into E3, and assumed that a crowd of geeks not only didn't read, but didn't care to read the actual Divine Comedy. I laughed when everyone raised their hands who had read it.
Cerebus as a crazy mouth/tongue monster and people being extruded from breasts might not be completely my thing, but if it keeps looking polished, I might have to rent it.
@LarcenousLaugh What do you think of games like this and Assassin's Creed 2 using short movies to expand the game's world and market the game?
If marketing sells games than this game should be a hot item. I've only heard news stories about it and I don't actually know much about the game
@Ray – More lore, more lore, more lore. I saw the first of the shorts for AC2 on the G4 site and I was really impressed. I haven't had a chance to watch this one yet, mainly due to the firewall at work and the no-flash iPhone (FFS apple, really? Still?) but from what I have seen, anything they can use to explain to me why I should care about their version of Dante is going to be a plus in my book.
@Shockwave562 It's basically God of War gameplay with an reimagining of Dante's Inferno.