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Category: Video Games
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 2274
Platform: Sony PSP
Genre: Action_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
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Number Of Items: 1
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Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Sony PSP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.1 x 0.6
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MPN: 19369
Model: 19369
UPC: 014633193695
EAN: 0014633193695
ASIN: B0029ZUPYK
Publication Date: January 31, 2010
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| • | Over 60 weapons, magic and combo upgrades and modifications, and huge destructive, ridable mounts that can be taken from defeated enemies. | | • | An epic story adapted from the first book of the Medieval Italian classic The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri featuring non-stop action as you fight through Dante's allegorical nine circles of hell. | | • | The awesome power of Death's soul-reaping scythe. | | • | Beautiful rendered fast-paced action and intense combat. | | • | Choice-based finishes with enemies that allow players to punish the damned, or absolve them as they are defeated. |
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Product Description
Dante's Inferno PSP
Amazon.com Product Description
Dante’s Inferno is an epic single player, third-person action adventure game inspired by "Inferno", part one of Dante Alighieri’s classic Italian poem, "The Divine Comedy." Featuring beautifully rendered nonstop action, signature and upgradable weapons, attack combos and mana-fueled spells and the choice of punishing or absolving the souls of defeated enemies, it is a classic Medieval tale of the eternal conflict with sin and the resulting horrors of hell, adapted for a new generation and a new medium. Story
The Italian mercenary Dante returns home from the bloodletting that was the Third Crusade to two pieces of soul-crushing news. The first is that although he was assured that he was absolved of mortal sins committed in the form of wartime atrocities in the name of the churches interests in the Holy Land, that is not actually the case and his immortal soul is in grave peril. The second and more terrible is that his beloved Beatrice has been murdered, and her soul pulled down into hell by a dark force. Vowing not to accept the damnation of either souls, he gives chase, vows to get Beatrice back and descends into the infamous nine circles of hell. For weapons, he wields Death's soul-reaping scythe, and commands holy powers of the cross, given to him by Beatrice. 
Go to hell on your PSP with Dante's Inferno.
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To vanquish the foes you encounter on your journey through the hell of Dante's Inferno, you must learn to wield Death's Scythe with precision and deadly force. Mix light attacks with heavy attacks to create combos, then incorporate jumps and grabs to add another layer to your combat. With dodging and Holy Cross moves thrown into the mix, you can truly become a force to be reckoned with. Without using all of your combative skills and techniques, there is no hope of ever reaching Beatrice. Holy Powers
During your journey, you may collect magic abilities for use against the legions of hell. When you perform the Righteous Path power you make a dash attack and leave a trail of icy shards in your wake. With Martyrdom you sacrifice health and mana to deal a heavy amount of damage to surrounding enemies. Divine Armor regenerates your health and protects you from damage. Add these and other powers to your arsenal to vanquish all who stand in your way and when you need to replenish your mana-fueled abilities, visit the Holy Fountains scattered throughout the gameplay area. Creature Taming
As powerful as weapons and magic are, sometimes surviving the perils of hell requires brute force. With the power of Death's Scythe, you are able to mount the beasts of hell and use them against your enemies. All of this, however, requires ridding the beast of its current rider first. If successful, you will become the beast’s new master. Now use its awesome power to pulverize enemies and complete tasks that require a beast's strength. Key Game Features - Epic story adapted from the first book of the Medieval Italian classic The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri.
- Nonstop action as you fight through Dante's allegorical nine circles of hell.
- Wield the power of Death's soul-reaping scythe.
- Choice-based finishes with enemies that allow players to punish the damned, or absolve them as they are defeated.
- A wealth of weapons, magic and combo upgrades and modifications.
- Huge destructive, ridable mounts that can be taken from defeated enemies.
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Experience the 9 circles of hell.
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Wield the Scythe of Death.
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As well as Holy Powers.
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Engage in epic boss battles.
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 God of War meets... a different storyline! March 11, 2010
Natacon (North Carolina, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I picked up Dante's Inferno earlier in the week. Very good game. It's almost exactly like God of War except with a different storyline. Just as bloody, just as much destruction and a story of redemption. There's a few differences (mainly more nudity than GOW), but overall, a very good game. My only complaint has been a few glitches during the cutscenes, not enough to turn anyone off though. My advice? Pick this one up. Rent it first if you want to get a feel for the game, but it's good. Very fun and you can't get better stress relief than smashing through ten demons.
Great game!! March 8, 2010
K. Cassada
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This game reminds me of God of War, which is never a bad thing. I love the game and I am addicted to it already. It's definitely one of those games you could play over and over. Not one time and that's it.
Must Buy It!! March 9, 2010
Edward W. Yu (USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I just got this game last week. I played for couple hours and love it!!! The graphic is very good (for PSP wise) and story line is not bad. The only thing is my right thumb gets tired all the time. It's not a bad game if you love God of War. The control is easy, so you should be able to pickup in few seconds.
Dante's Inferno For PSP, One Of The Top Best Games For The Platform March 31, 2010
David Allen (USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Dante's Inferno, wow, what a great game. I came across this game by chance. I saw the ad's during the Super Bowl, and thought man that looks a bit tough, but never considered buying the game. At the time I was playing my way through another great game, God of War. But along comes my anniversary, and my lovely wife who knows me so well, gave me Dante's Inferno as a gift.
Getting started is quick and easy, just place the UMB disc into the drive on your PSP and press the power button. You will be prompted to Start a New Game, and given an opportunity to choose your difficulty level. The hardest level Inferno, its disabled until you complete the game on any other difficulty level first.
Dante's Inferno is a story about Dante straight from the poem Dante's Inferno. He has returned from the Crusades to find his true love, Beatrice. But she is not to be found. She has been murdered along with her father, and her soul has been sold into the infernal fires of hell.
Dante goes in after her. He must search, fight, puzzle solve, and climb his way to the inner circle and fight Lucifer himself and save not only the soul of his beloved Beatrice, but his own soul as well.
The art work and graphics are extremely well done, as are the animations, music and sound effects. There is a lot of nudity in the game, mainly women with bare breasts. No sex scenes however, and no genitals. All are perfectly done. Control of Dante walking and turning is very
smartly done by the joystick nub only. Dante has other moves he can make as well such as jumping, climbing, dodging, rope swinging and rappeling. Movement is generally very accurate and responsive. Save points are generally well placed throughout the game. You save when you
see and can approach a statue of Beatrice. These are hard save points. If you power down, you can reload these. As you play along however, the game is keeping secret save points. You cannot tell where they are, and as long as you continue to play, if you die, the game will place you at the last secret save point. But if you leave the game you will have to start from a hard save point. So keep that in mind while playing and your half way through a tough part, and have to leave for a while. You may want to keep the game in pause if you can, especially if you just beat a hard area or boss so you do not have to go through that area or boss again.
Some skills and accuracy is required in some areas. Game play was challenging enough for an advanced gamer, and thorough enough to keep you occupied. There are a few areas that are a bit difficult and could have been designed a bit better. Those that come to mind are an area with
a pit where there is a revolving set of gates. Your required to make your way to the opposite side of the pit jumping gaps and the moving gates. Not hard at all really, but on the other side your required to jump to an alcove to absolve or punish a damned soul, and you have to hit a very small spot that you cannot see or you fall to your death. Another is an area near the end of Limbo where you must climb down a post made of bones, cross hand over had across a rope then grab a rope and swing, and repeat, and repeat, and repeat. They designed the ropes to be as far apart as they could so you have to do a perfect jump to get to the next one. A frustrating area, the key is to use the joystick nub in the direction your jumping to to give you a little boost. Lastly is an area near the end of Heresy, where your required to run full tilt, avoid falling obstacles, jump gaps, run along a curved platform, jump off onto a platform that immediately starts to crumble, turn and run to another smaller platform that also starts immediately to crumble, run, jump and rappel to a wall. Then you can rest, but you cannot save, and they should have, but did not put a secret save point here. After you rest you have to jump across a gap to another ledge, move to one side and as it crumbles jump to a ramp. Proceed down the ramp until it crumbles, turn right slightly and jump to a tiny platform, turn left immediately run and jump to yet another small platform as as soon as it starts to crumble the wall in front of you falls and reveals a climbable wall you can jump to and climb up then you can save. You miss one move, or make one wrong step you go all the way back to the beginning.
Puzzles are not difficult, and the developers did include a lot of hints. Camera angles were generally very good, but in the case of a few hard frustrating areas as mentioned above, part of the problem is the camera was not keeping up so your view was partially a best guess. The
hardest puzzle was in the second half of Gluttony. This was probably the one place the camera angles were truly unhelpful. Grapple points, and/or climb points are noted by a small purple glow to help guide you. There are power ups along the way, and they are generally quite plentiful. These are in the form of fountains. Green fountains regenerate your health when broken open. Purple fountains regenerate your magic powers aka Mana when broken. You have a meter at the top left part of the screen showing your health and Mana levels. There are other important items you will need to collect while on your journey. One of these is souls. These are white orbs that you will find in red fountains, and you will also get some when certain battles are completed, and certain actions are taken. Collect as many as you can. Lastly, you will collect Judas Coins. These are also found in red fountains and some are well hidden. For each 5 of these you collect, you get a bonus boost of power, although I didn't seem to note any real improvements. There are 30 in total and there is no extra bonus for getting them all.
Yes, there are more goodies. When you first start out all you have for a weapon are some worn out swords from the Crusade. So you need something better. When you first talk to the spirit of Beatrice she will give you her Holy Cross for protection. This is a powerful weapon, use it often by pressing the O button on the symbols pad. After you learn of Beatrice's fate, but before you descend in to hell, you will fight Death, and this is where you will get your main weapon, Death's Sythe and discard the worn swords. Those are your weapons for the whole game. However, there are more tricks up your sleeve, but you have to earn them. They are magic powers. There are 4 powers in total, and each one has a different purpose and power. First you will earn Righteous Path which is controlled by the Left Arrow key. If you have Mana and invoke this spell you charge the enimie and inflict serious damage. The second power you will earn is Lust Storm which is controlled by the down arrow key. If you have Mana and invoke this spell a ball of purple energy surrounds you and protects you from most attacking enimies. The third power you will earn is Sins Of The Father which is controlled by the right arrow key. If you have Mana and invoke this spell you will throw a golden cross that chases the enimie and hits them. Lastly, the fourth power you will earn is very powerful, its called Martyrdom and is controlled by the up arrow key. If you have health and Mana and you invoke this you will sacrifice some of both but all enimies near you
will be risen on a beam of light and smashed to the ground inflicting massive damage. Last in the goodies section are not really powers, but some hints, but they are very cryptic. Along he way an old friend has been summoned to come back from the afterlife to help as your guide. His name is Virgil. Each time you see him you should talk to him and receive his advice, and in the end he offers souls for your salvation. Always talk to Virgil and take the souls.
Last but not least is general controls. Dante as mentioned previously is controlled by the joystick nub, and a big thank you to the designers for their wisdom for making the game control that way as it should be. X button makes Dante jump, double X makes a jump on a jump to make
Dante go higher. The O button normally makes Dante use the Beatrice Cross, but it is also used an the Interact key. For example, if you some across a fountain, to break it you press the R key then you are prompted to repeatedly press O to pry open the fountain. The R key is used
often as the action key. You will use it to grappel, and invoke a final sequence. Once a larger enimie receives so much damage, you will see a prompt to use the R key. Move closer to the enimie and press the R and it will start the final sequence. This can be two different things. It can be the beginning of specific key presses needed to complete a battle, or it will invoke the Absolve/Redeem sequence. You can Absolve or Redeem both larger enimies, or the Damned which you will cross paths with in your travels. You have a key selection choice Square to Condemn or Circle to Absolve. If you condemn a soul they are punished and you receive Evil credits, if you Absolve the persons soul is saved and you receive Holy credits. Both are needed and as you reach different milestones, you get strength and power increases, you will need both so choose wisely and evenly throughout the game. Last on the controls are yielding your weapons, Circle key invokes Beatrice's Cross, Square is a light hit, and Triangle is a heavy hit. Once you achieve your first strength power up, you will receive combinations ability. 3 quick Squares or 4 quick Triangles will invoke these advanced attacks.
Overall the story line is interesting, well told and fun to play through. Many compare this game to God of War, it is not God of War, its not even close. Then only similarities are the way you control the character for both walking and fighting. God of War does not have the grappel
or rope swing abilities either. The story lines are completely different, the artwork & scenes are completely different, and the enimies are completely different. They are in fact two separate games. One last bit of information is on the length of the game. I found the game more than long enough. Some levels are very long and drawn out. There are some who claim to have played this game in like 3 hours or 10 hours. Horsehockey, there is no possible way for even the best gamer to complete this game in less than 25 to 30 hours, and that's if your good and playing the easiest difficulty level. So game length is not a problem, you will definately get your moneys worth from Dante's Inferno. I would highly recommend this game to any PSP owners who are looking for a fantastic game that is challenging, yet winnable, and contains so many options, upgrades, enimies, weapons, a great story line, fantastic art work, excellent character controls, and incredible animations all in one neat package.
Dantes Medieval Vision of HELL March 27, 2010
Eric Jacobs (michigan)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Have you ever wondered what hell might look like? Dante's Inferno offers an incredibly vivid and detailed hypothesis. The game is based on the 14th-century Italian poem by Dante Alighieri, but Dante never could have imagined a hell this visually captivating. The walls themselves crawl with the bodies of the damned, other lost souls intermitently rain from the sky burning in torturous flames. In the distance, great columns of souls can be seen marching along monolithic causeways. The air is acrid with smoke and charred flesh, pierced by screams, fitful sparks and motes of ash. Each of the nine circles is here, along with the river Acheron and Limbo, and each setting is distinctive and fiendishly impressive. Through it all Vergil is your guide, just as in the poem.
The gameplay is fluid and satisfying, with Dante boasting an array of combos with either his scythe, stolen from Death himself, or his cross that Beatrice gave to him. There are a variety of trinkets to collect - from the 30 pieces of silver received in ramsom by Judas to dozens of relics that Dante can equip to enhance his abilities.
Dante attempts to rescue his lover Beatrice from the clutches of the Damned.along the way, Dante encounters many Lost Souls from various historical and mythological points in history,the player's interaction with these characters is not merely discourse, however, as Dante holds the power to either absolve these Lost Souls of the sins which condemned them to Hell, or hand down the ultimate Punishment instead. I consider this to be a brilliant mechanic that serves to immerse the player in a very personal manner, as it tends to compel the player to actually reflect on his/her own views of sin and punishment before deciding a Lost Soul's ultimate fate. Very well-executed.
I had very high hopes for this title, but it has far exceeded even those. This game is one of the best I have ever played.Do your self a favor and BUY DANTE'S INFERNO!!
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