Dante's Inferno Divine Comedy

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http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2009/09/16/pax-09-dantes-inferno/


it’s pretty much God of War, but instead of a fictional Spartan warrior they chose to make the main character a non-fictional poet.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t have any deep emotional connection with The Divine Comedy. I just wish game companies would have the confidence to come up with an original story and label it as such rather than coming up with a 90% original story and labeling it as the mostly unrelated source material.
It’s bad enough they ripped off God of War for the gameplay, couldn’t they add a story without ripping off something else?
What’s worse is that they didn’t even use an action story. They used a poem more about skewering political figures of the time than conflict, so they had to appropriate characters that, in the text, are either benign or helpful, and turn them into villains. In the PAX demo I decapitated who I believe was Phlegyas, who not only was turned into a villain but was turned from the ferryman into the actual, physical boat.
It’s like if they’d grabbed the Driving Miss Daisy license for Crazy Taxi.


http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2009/09/16/pax-09-dantes-inferno/