Books into games often go really well, it's when they are movies into games that I get a little worried . .but it seems Dante's Inferno is a slice above the rest. No pun intended, but you v=can take it if you like, just don't loose your head over it.

Come check out the review, and by all accounts it sounds impressive, and the collectors edition of it isn't half bad either. The art is just spectacular, it's something I'd be getting - once I get all the other games of course.

When will it ever stop . . One thing is for sure, games 'should' be considered an art form, games like this speak a great deal about the love of art that goes into some games.

Dante’s Inferno is an arcade-style action game that works only because it doesn’t take itself too seriously. I mean, one of the early enemy types is the unbaptised baby…

The game is loosely based off the first cantica of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem The Divine Comedy, where the poet is escorted by the Roman poet Virgil through the nine circles of Hell.

The poem is an allegorical journey through the true nature of sin, populated by many historical figures and Alighieri’s contemporaries.

As far as adapting a 689-year-old manuscript into a video game, Visceral Games did a great job while taking tremendous liberties.

The literary work was a multilayered medieval masterpiece that dealt with such heavy concepts as religion, salvation, politics and science. From all of that rich source material, the elements best incorporated into the game is the imagery and architecture of Hell.

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