"In summary, gameplay was lame, Dante's a moron, In summary, gameplay was lame, Dante's a moron, "

From EA's very own forums:

From the opening sequence of the demo where Dante is stitching a cross into his skin to the nude Beatrice, I pretty much felt like I was being baptized in oily, filthy water... In summary, gameplay was lame, Dante's a moron, Beatrice is a *, camera movement was obnoxious, premise is embarrassing while pretending to be literary and historically informed, and I'd rather get Bayonetta than this crap. Apparently In summary, gameplay was lame, Dante's a moron.....

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/15/349953.page

jonathan kinght's dante's inferno a "wanna be GOWIII"

from:

http://www.psu.com/Images-of-Dantes-Inferno-bring-back-memories--a006522-p0.php

Hmm, a worse-looking God of War...

The book was great, so this will be good if it goes along with the story. Unfortunantly, Dante didn't actually fight anyone in the book, so this already strays away from what the main focus should be. Oh well...

Sorry, but this positively REEKS of plagiarism. Pretty blatant, if you ask me. EA, you 5uck!

http://www.psu.com/Images-of-Dantes-Inferno-bring-back-memories--a006522-p0.php

Jonathan Knight: Dante’s Inferno “Bastardization” of Epic Poem

http://www.gamekicker.com/Gaming-News/Jonathan-Knight-Dante-s-Inferno-Bastardization-of-Epic-Poem

And in a particularly interesting turn of events, Knight was kind enough to divulge his thoughts on the criticism surrounding the video game adaptation, admitting that the game is a “bastardization” of the original poem,

http://www.gamekicker.com/Gaming-News/Jonathan-Knight-Dante-s-Inferno-Bastardization-of-Epic-Poem

I tried the demo. And I didn't finish it. I thought it was that bad. --http://kotaku.com/5459616/hell-hath-no-fury-like-video-games-take-on-dantes-inf

I tried the demo. And I didn't finish it. I thought it was that bad. Reply
--http://kotaku.com/5459616/hell-hath-no-fury-like-video-games-take-on-dantes-inferno


"When I spoke with the developers in the past, they said that narrative would draw from the real Dante Alighieri's real-life experiences. That doesn't really happen."

Don't you remember the part where a giant Cleopatra spews henchmen from her breasts? Oh wait...
--http://kotaku.com/5459616/hell-hath-no-fury-like-video-games-take-on-dantes-inferno
lolzlzlzlz zl zozlzlzozl zl zozlzlzozl lozlzlo lzozzl llzozolzll zlzlzzozozlzlzl!!!!

lolz jonathan knight hypes his inferno gamesuck but kokatu concludes "When I spoke with the developers in the past, they said that narrative would dr"

lolz jonathan knight hypes his inferno gamesuck but kokatu concludes "When I spoke with the developers in the past, they said that narrative would draw from the real Dante Alighieri's real-life experiences. That doesn't really happen."

http://kotaku.com/5459616/hell-hath-no-fury-like-video-games-take-on-dantes-inferno

But Inferno is a game that will inevitably be pulled down by its Achilles Heel: It plays like God of War. --http://kotaku.com/5459616/hell-hath-no-fury-like-video-games-take-on-dantes-inferno

lolz lolzlzzozozlzozlzllzlzlzl!!!!!

THE NEW YORK TIMES ON JONATHAN KNIGHT'S EPIC EA DANTE'S INFERNO FAIL: "“It’s just a gross misrepresentation of the original work,” said Rob Bricken

THE NEW YORK TIMES ON JONATHAN KNIGHT'S EPIC EA DANTE'S INFERNO GAME FAIL: "“It’s just a gross misrepresentation of the original work,” said Rob Bricken, editor of the ge"

“It’s just a gross misrepresentation of the original work,” said Rob Bricken,
editor of the geek-culture blog ToplessRobot.com. “They’re not interested in getting kids into literature — they’re not looking to do anything except sell some books to dumb kids.”

Abandon All Poetry, but Enter Hell With an Attitude

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/arts/television/30inferno.html?pagewanted=2 LOLZ BOOBIESS!!! --JONATHAN KNIGHT Abandon All Poetry, but Enter Hell With an Attitude

“The story line is not Dante’s, period,” said Teodolinda Barolini, the Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian at Columbia University and a former president of the Dante Society of America. “It’s kind of a mishmash of current popular ideas, projected back into the Middle Ages.” --http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/arts/television/30inferno.html?pagewanted=2

Christopher M. McDonough, an associate professor of classical languages at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., was skeptical that the game would encourage more players to read Dante’s work.

OMG! EA fail's lead fanboy Jonathan Knight sentences Dante's Beatrice to Nuidity!! OMG!! What an EPIC FAIL FANBOY!!! LOLZ!!!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/entertainment/blogs/infernal-machines/3240030/Dantes-Inferno-Gates-of-Hell-demo

Dante's Inferno follows the poet warrior as he hacks and slashes his way through the demons of hell to save his girlfriend from the Devil.

Are you just screwing with me, Visceral?

Surely this is a joke. Surely a developer would be too crippled with embarrassment to put so much money, time and effort into something so ridiculous - turning a literary allegory on the nature of good and evil into a blood spattered God of War clone.

As you might have heard, it IS basically a clone. A carbon copy of Sony's successful massacring of Greek myth. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Plenty of fantastic games are shameless copies. Bioshock is System Shock plus Fallout; Saint's Row is Grand Theft Auto minus brains. If you can make a good game that resembles one people already love, then why not?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/entertainment/blogs/infernal-machines/3240030/Dantes-Inferno-Gates-of-Hell-demo

LOLZZZZ THEY RIPPED OFF GOD OF WAR LOLZZZ!!!

But Dante's Inferno isn't just a clone - it IS God of War. The attacks are the same, the plot elements are the same, the quick-time events are the same, the health bar is the same. There are God of War orbs to collect so you can unlock more God of War moves to use on God of War enemies so you can get to giant, powerful God of War bosses.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/entertainment/blogs/infernal-machines/3240030/Dantes-Inferno-Gates-of-Hell-demo


LOLLLLZLZLZ ZLZOZLZO LOZLLZOZ LZOZLZL!!! EA'S #1 EPIC FAIL FANBOY JONATHAN KNIGHT STITCHES A GIANT CROSS ON DANTE'S CHEST!!!

Overcome with a bad case of the sads, Dante does what any logical person would do: he stitches a fabric cross into the skin of his chest. That's how you know he's serious.
--http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/entertainment/blogs/infernal-machines/3240030/Dantes-Inferno-Gates-of-Hell-demo

LOLOLOZLZZOZZLZOZLZZOZOL LOZL O LOZZLLZ OMG OMG!!

EA'S #1 EPIC FAIL FANBOY JONATHAN KNIGHT GIVES BEATRICE HUGE BOOBIES LOLZ!!!!!!

Outside, he finds the dead body of his lover, Beatrice. In the poem, Beatrice represents love and maternal feeling. In the game, Beatrice is a hot, chesty woman with a craving for demon meat. She's lying dead and half-naked on the ground, then her spirit pops out, naked, to be groped by a cloud of smoke known to most as Satan.

She's naked because men buy video games and men loves breasts. So that will make them buy the game, right? RIGHT?! Look forward to the upcoming game adaptation of Othello where Desdemona is a pole-dancing hooker.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/entertainment/blogs/infernal-machines/3240030/Dantes-Inferno-Gates-of-Hell-demo

LOLZ LOLZ EPIC JONATHAN KNIGHT EA FAIL!!!!!!!

OMG! Even More Epic EA Fail #EAFAIL Jonathan Knight EA Inferno Suck!!

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/29/report-ea-buys-super-bowl-ad-time-for-dantes-inferno/

The game tries to be gratuitous, graphic, and controversial not because it
adds to the atmosphere or the story, but because they desperately want you to
ignore that the game just isn't very good compared to other God of War and Devil
May Cry knock offs. Spending money on a superbowl ad isn't going to change that.
Seems like with all the marketing around this game since it's very announcement
that there is more riding on it's success than we may know.

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/29/report-ea-buys-super-bowl-ad-time-for-dantes-inferno/

More Jonathan Knight Fanboy EA Dante's Inferno suck!!!! #EAFAIL !!! "ign.com: I was pretty blown away by how bad the demo is."

http://boards.ign.com/xbox_360_general_board/b8266/188389961/r188545612/

Dante's Inferno - are the developers not a bit embarrassed ...

.....My arguments have nothing to do with the game themself. Basic camera issues. Mediore graphics. Bland combat. Dozens of simple aspects of the genre that laymen like you dont understand and take for granted, but are easily apparent. Poor signaling of enemy attacks being one.

....The demo is awful. And its reputation is pretty much that at this point.

.....My arguments have nothing to do with the game themself. Basic camera issues. Mediore graphics. Bland combat. Dozens of simple aspects of the genre that laymen like you dont understand and take for granted, but are easily apparent. Poor signaling of enemy attacks being one.

I was excited by the game. I have been a proponent of it before it came out. I thought the idea was hilariously awesome. ...I was pretty blown away by how bad the demo is.

http://boards.ign.com/xbox_360_general_board/b8266/188389961/r188545612/

More Jonathan Knight Fanboy EA Dante's Inferno suck!!!! #EAFAIL !!! "ign.com: I was pretty blown away by how bad the demo is."

Epic Ea Fail! Jonathan Knight Kills Dante's Inferno & EA's Profit Margins

Epic Ea Fail! Jonathan Knight Kills Dante's Inferno & EA's Profit Margins

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/29/report-ea-buys-super-bowl-ad-time-for-dantes-inferno/

Haha, the whole hell thing is cool, but after playing the demo, I've determined
what game really deserves my money. March 16 can't come soon enough. ...

...I've heard people saying they're sending that game off to die against God of War 3. If they're willing to lay the money down for a Super Bowl ad, I'm not so sure.

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/29/report-ea-buys-super-bowl-ad-time-for-dantes-inferno/

Jonathan Knight & EA Desecrate Dante's Inferno: "i played the demo of dante's inferno and there were so many boobs in that demo that i didnt know if "

http://forums.g4tv.com/showthread.php?t=143732

"do i played the demo of dante's inferno and there were so many boobs in that
demo that i didnt know if this game was a freking porno or a a videogame.... "

http://forums.g4tv.com/showthread.php?t=143732

Jonathan Knight & EA getting Desparate Regarding Their Epic EAFAIL Dante's Inferno Game Suck: A superbowl ad won't save the literary abortion

Jonathan Knight & EA getting Desparate Regarding Their Epic EAFAIL Dante's Inferno Game Suck: A superbowl ad won't save the literary abortion

http://www.destructoid.com/ea-drops-mad-dime-on-dante-s-inferno-super-bowl-ad-161765.phtml
Jonathan Knight & EA getting Desparate Regarding Their Epic EAFAIL Dante's Inferno Game Suck

Thanks EA. It was not enough that the internet knew about the very skewed
interpretation of the poem you are making, now the whole fucking world will know
that gamers enjoy dumbed down version of literature work where a dude kills his
way through Hell. ... ROFLMAO...now I'm -hoping- that this game bombs. EA's stockholders will be asking for the CEO's head if this game doesn't immediately make bank...wtf are they -thinking-?! Anyone wanna start placing bets?

--http://www.destructoid.com/ea-drops-mad-dime-on-dante-s-inferno-super-bowl-ad-161765.phtml




Jonathan Knight & EA getting Desparate Regarding Their Epic EAFAIL Dante's Inferno Game Suck
http://www.destructoid.com/ea-drops-mad-dime-on-dante-s-inferno-super-bowl-ad-161765.phtml

And yet even more EA Jonathan Knight Dante's Inferno Suckage!!!

http://www.destructoid.com/dante-s-inferno-demo-now-available-on-xbox-live-158721.phtml

I found the demo to be completely uninspiring.

Not having actually played any GoW, but always feeling attracted to the storyline and the hype around the series, I was looking forward to the third installment. But if DI's a "blatant ripoff", I'm not sure I'm that excited about it anymore.

(From what I got in the demo) DI is just a series of small and restrictive areas where you have to kill everyone by button mashing (in a specified sequence for more powerful combos... such skill...), followed by a story-developing cut-scene (which unnecessarily contain boobs to irk the ESRB, but I'm not complaining), followed by a big and angry boss fight, ad nauseam.

I fail to see the long-term fun in this. Sure, the graphics are nice, and the story might be interesting ("might", meaning it wasn't in the demo, although the Reaper fight was mildly amusing), but the gaming experience is severely lacking for me personally.



http://www.destructoid.com/dante-s-inferno-demo-now-available-on-xbox-live-158721.phtml

And Even More Jonathan Knight EA Inferno Suck-Suckage

http://www.destructoid.com/dante-s-inferno-demo-now-available-on-xbox-live-158721.phtml


This game is like a god of war rip off, but this game isn't fun... --Jeff

Dante Inferno = GOW absolute rip off...

meh. Topless ghosts and self-mutilation; sounds like the wet dream of a 13 year old Marilyn Manson fan. If they wanted to add tits to a famous piece of literature I don't know why they didn't just make "Paradise Lost: The Game" or "Lady Chatterly's Lover".


http://www.destructoid.com/dante-s-inferno-demo-now-available-on-xbox-live-158721.phtml

destructoid: "Dante's Inferno managed to break my stupid-o-meter. " "another heaping helping of dumb"

More Jonathan Knight EA Inferno Suck!

http://www.destructoid.com/dante-s-inferno-demo-now-available-on-xbox-live-158721.phtml

I love big, dumb action games as much as anyone else; but somehow Dante's Inferno managed to break my stupid-o-meter. The fact that it tries to look smart just gives it another heaping helping of dumb.

http://www.destructoid.com/dante-s-inferno-demo-now-available-on-xbox-live-158721.phtml

it looks as if EA is looking to deliver another fomulaic... It just seemed like the camera was always so far away from the action in the game.

more eafail dante's inferno suck!! rock on!!!

http://www.411mania.com/games/previews/127602

it looks as if EA is looking to deliver another fomulaic... It just seemed like the camera was always so far away from the action in the game.

One thing I would like to see improved is the camera angles. It just seemed like the camera was always so far away from the action in the game. I hope this is something they are able to fix before the game launches later this year. It tends to suck you out of the action with the drawn back camera. I'm not against fixed camera angles, but I think the game would definitely benefit from closing the distance with the camera.

Other than the camera, it looks as if EA is looking to deliver another fomulaic, yet solid game for us all to enjoy. Be sure to check it out when the game drops next month.

http://www.411mania.com/games/previews/127602

EA's & Jonathan Knights Dante's Inferno shits all over classical literature." & the gameplay sucks

http://eg365.net/Forum/index.php?action=printpage;topic=5194.0

Title: Re: Dante's Inferno Demo
Post by: nemy on December 11, 2009, 09:53:55 PM

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Personally I'm more hyped about Darksiders than this.

Not to mention that I'm a fan of good classic literature, and this pretty much shits all over it.

Title: Re: Dante's Inferno Demo
Post by: patrick5152003 on December 11, 2009, 06:41:14 PM

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this game sucks

Title: Re: Dante's Inferno Demo
Post by: eband on December 12, 2009, 01:24:36 AM

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Just played it, and I prefer GoW, this game seemed too stiff, whereas God of War it felt smooth and responsive, also God of Wars set pieces (from what i've seen look better). The graphics on Dantes Inferno actual gameplay parts look rough, but it's a demo so i'll give it the benefit of the doubt. The CG cutscenes look good, and from a comment said eariler, I think the quality remains good through all the cutscenes. Having said all of this I will not be picking up this game next year.

http://eg365.net/Forum/index.php?action=printpage;topic=5194.0

Jonathan Knight the fanboy hyper states, "Knight said the team did their best to stick to the source, but weren't afraid to diverge from Aligheri's w"

Jonathan Knight the fanboy hyper states, "Knight said the team did their best to stick to the source, but weren't afraid to diverge from Aligheri's work."

Hahahah ahaha!! They put Beatrice in Hell and tehy made fun of Dante's religion!!!! Hahahahahahhahahahha ahahahah!!!

And sounds like the gameplay sucks too!!!

"it's a compliment to be mentioned in the same sentence as that storied franchise"

Please... when you make a game that feels and plays damn close (even the way the camera moves!) to what God of War does... its only natural to be compared to it... When I played the demo, all I could think was "wow, this feels like GOW..." Unsurprisingly my friends made the same comment.

Now I am not saying that GOW was not influenced by other action games, but I am saying that of all the action games out there none feel like GOW besides this one. GOW did not feel like a knock off of anothers and took its own original steps. Anyhow... I am sure this will be tested by all that reads this... but that is my 2cents...
I completely agreed after playing the demo the only difference is the story line and the moral decsion making parts of the game i also found the fact that i could not control the camer really annonying coz at certain pints in the game u cant really see and you really want to move the camera

http://360.kombo.com/article.php?artid=18334

more on how fanboy jonathan knight fanboyized, debauched, and killed dante's inferno

http://community.livejournal.com/intelligamers/11739.html

Dragging Beatrice down into hell, and having it be because she lost faith
with Dante, is in a way one of the biggest slaps in the face of this game.
Beatrice was the epitome of purity, and the game in a way defiled her--and if
nothing else, Dante's image of her--by having her taken to Hell in the way she
was. They took away her saintliness (whether it was real or imagined by Dante
for his own poetic reasons I leave to y'all; Dante himself referred to her as
"the glorious lady of my mind") and the things that made her special to the real
Dante, all for the sake of creating a MacGuffin--game!Dante needed a reason to
fight his way through Hell, and hey, Beatrice is the woman Dante loved (...will
refrain from going off on just what "courtly love" is and why EA is failing so
hard at groking that "courtly love" and "love" as we see it are not the same
thing), so she'll do! Drag her down into Hell! And make it so she chose to
go!

--http://community.livejournal.com/intelligamers/11739.html

Jonathan Knight & Dante's Inferno: "#EAFail is a total clusterfuck of misogyny and pandering to the lowest common denominator. "

http://whilenotfinished.theirisnetwork.org/tag/dantes-inferno/

#EAFail is a total clusterfuck of misogyny and pandering to the lowest common denominator. Here are a bunch of resources on it. (Last updated August 3 at 10:00 PM EST.)
IRIS Forums Thread
This post on Digg
GayGamer’s PixelPoet entered the contest with a photo of himself and a “booth bear” in order to make a point. He ended up being selected as a runner-up winner and sending an amazing letter explaining exactly why he was declining the prize, pointing out the heteronormativity and sexism of the contest and giving suggestions for what to do with the prize instead. Read it, seriously!
Acid for Blood: Convention Sexual Harassment and #EAFail — in-depth analysis by Brinstar

http://whilenotfinished.theirisnetwork.org/tag/dantes-inferno/

From cracked.com: "Dante's Inferno (A clusterfuck of creepy) (Read 8168 times) "

Dante's Inferno (A clusterfuck of creepy) (Read 8168 times)
http://www.cracked.com/forums/topic/52573/dantes-inferno-a-clusterfuck-creepy

No. No it is not. First off, the poem itself is called "The Comedy",
Inferno is one of the canticles. Secondly, the entire poem is an excuse for
Dante to rant about politics. Under no possible understanding of the work is
this game adapted from the source material. Yes, it takes place in Hell, but
Dante's structure of Hell and the demarcations of different sins relative to
each other borrows heavily from Ovid's work, so you could just as easily call
this game "Ovid's Metamorphosis" and be just as right!

http://www.cracked.com/forums/topic/52573/dantes-inferno-a-clusterfuck-creepy

more on jonathan knight's EA fanboy suckage: "serious issues with pretty much everything having to do with EA's "Dante's Inferno.""

serious issues with pretty much everything having to do with EA's "Dante's Inferno."

http://community.livejournal.com/intelligamers/11739.html

I have serious issues with pretty much everything having to do with EA's "Dante's Inferno." And for the sake of my sanity, I'm going to refer to the game as "DI" and the actually poem as Dante's Inferno or The Inferno, for the sake of cutting down on confusion and because it almost physically pains me to attach Dante to EA's travesty.

There's a lot about DI I hate that I could write a tome about, including its marketing, but this post is very specifically about the imagery of women in the game, focusing on Beatrice (and oh, man, I'm seriously wishing I had my notes from college from the class on Dante I took--part of my hate of this game stems from the fact that I love The Divine Comedy, and EA has turned it into a pathetic God of War clone) and all the things they've done so wrong with her.

http://community.livejournal.com/intelligamers/11739.html

jonathan knight and ea should be banned from both the videogames industry and culture in general.

More Jonathan Knight EA FAIL: "We talked about the absurdity of Dante's Inferno becoming a game"

http://www.craveonline.com/gaming/article/three-literary-epics-that-deserve-game-remakes-94737

We talked about the absurdity of Dante's Inferno becoming a game and then earning a new cover because of said game during last week's Next Gen News (check that, by the way). Then, Penny Arcade went ahead and took it to a whole new level with their comic featuring the most epic cover of Moby Dick I've ever seen.


http://www.craveonline.com/gaming/article/three-literary-epics-that-deserve-game-remakes-94737

Former EA Exec Predicts Dante's Inferno Game Will Epic #EAFAIL!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2010/jan/14/games-controversy

"But by far the greatest failure of Riccitiello's strategy has been the EA Games
division. JR bet his tenure on EA's ability to "grow their way through the
transition" to digital/online with hit packaged goods titles. They honestly
believed that they had a decade to make this transition (I think it's more like
2-3 years). Since the recurring-revenue sports titles were already "booked"
(i.e., fully accounted for in the Wall Street estimates) it fell to EA Games to
make hits that could move the needle. It's been a very ugly scene, indeed. From
Spore, to Dead Space, to Mirror's Edge, to Need for Speed: Undercover, it's been
one expensive commercial disappointment for EA Games after another. Not to
mention the shut-down of Pandemic, half of the justification for EA's $850MM
acquisition of Bioware-Pandemic. And don't think that Dante's Inferno, or
Knights of the Old Republic, is going to make it all better. It's a bankrupt
strategy."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2010/jan/14/games-controversy

EPIC EA INFERNO FAIL!!! FROM AN INSIDER!!! WAHOO!!!

Maybe this game (Jonathan Knight's Dante's Inferno) sucks so much for most o ...

http://www.destructoid.com/visceral-true-poetry-fans-love-dante-s-inferno-game-155879.phtml

"because some of you are playing it on Classic."


Please play it on fanboy!

Fans Call Bullshit on EA's Jonathan Knight's Bastardization of Dante's Inferno

http://www.destructoid.com/visceral-true-poetry-fans-love-dante-s-inferno-game-155879.phtml

@TheOrgangeFellow: I don't see him calling anyone pretentious. But maybe I'm
misunderstanding you. ---------------------------- I call bullshit on this story
though. I read The Inferno a long time ago, and this guy presumes to tell me
that I'm over the moon with this game? Fuck you. That's like me saying true
Final Fantasy fans love FF7 because it's the greatest. That's ridiculous!
Granted I'm not one of the people that is pitching a bitch, I just saw an
Inferno game going in a different direction.

http://www.destructoid.com/visceral-true-poetry-fans-love-dante-s-inferno-game-155879.phtml

For someone with a degree an English and Creative Writing degree, the soul existence of this game makes my head feel like it is going to explode. I digress, though. If Doobles is right, and it will serve as a tool to introduce people to The Divine Comedy, then ok. I still think it looks more like a bastardization of the original material than an honest adaptation; especially the Lust level. I really hope Dante comes back from the dead and wreaks havoc on the Visceral Games office.

Fans Call Bullshit on EA's Jonathan Knight's Bastardization of Dante's Inferno

--http://www.destructoid.com/visceral-true-poetry-fans-love-dante-s-inferno-game-155879.phtml

EA's Lead "Ridiculous" Fanboy Jonathan Knight is Killing Dante's Inferno

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/01/16/dantes-inferno-rebranded-as-video-game-novelization/

Since adapting "Dante's Inferno" into a video game, and then adapting that video game into a comic book wasn't ridiculous
enough, EA will be releasing a new "novelization" in bookstores next week. While
that initially sounded like they'd commissioned an original work of fiction
based on the first cantica of Dante Alighieri's 14th century epic poem "The
Divine Comedy," that's not exactly it, although it's just as nuts.

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/01/16/dantes-inferno-rebranded-as-video-game-novelization/

They're actually just republishing Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's existing
translation, but completely rebranding it as a video game tie-in, complete with
cover art featuring a "300"-esque warrior and a giant scythe that's like 8-feet
tall and straight out of "Final Fantasy." Basically, if there were a commercial
for this book, it would have a nu-metal soundtrack, and this (actual) back cover
copy would be read by the guy who does spooky voiceovers for movie
trailers:

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/01/16/dantes-inferno-rebranded-as-video-game-novelization/

The Fanboyz are Killing Dante's Inferno!!!

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/01/dantes-inferno-reprint/

Kohler says: This reminds me of something I saw at a bookstore the other
day. Indeed, the top result on Amazon for Wuthering Heights is this
ambitious bit of marketing that disguises it as an entry in the Twilight
series. In other words, you’re right, Gus; this is an old trick, but it’s hard
to argue against stealth culture bombing.
Read More http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/01/dantes-inferno-reprint/#ixzz0cytviIUW