The Dante’s Inferno Video Game
THE Divine Comedy video game - nothing is sacred:
“Rome, December 18 - Dante’s Inferno, the first book of the Divine Comedy, is soon to be released as an action-adventure video game by the company better known for its FIFA Football and James Bond game series. The new game developed by America’s Electronic Arts (EA) follows the structure of Dante’s 14th-century masterpiece, turning his nine circles of hell - limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery - into levels that players must travel through, killing demons as they go. ‘It was the right moment to adapt this masterpiece of world literature for the universe of interactive gaming and to introduce Dante to a public who isn’t very familiar with his work of art,” the game’s executive producer Jonathan Knight told French newspaper Liberation (Gah - and I missed it. C)
”The tormented universe of the Italian poet represents an ideal basis for a third-person action-adventure game”.
Posted: 19th, December 2008 | In: Tech Focus, Technology Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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January 23rd, 2009 at 10:02 pm
December 19th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Wahey! A whole game consisting of one long escort mission! I can just see the onscreen alerts now…
‘Virgil has blundered blindly over the edge and into the abyss. Reload level? Yes/No’
‘You have 153 saved games on the Sodomite’s Lair level. Delete some? Yes/No’
‘Virgil has blundered over the edge…again. Reload level? Yes/No’
‘You are in a maze of twisty passages, all different.’
‘Virgil has…oh, you know what to do.’
‘New downloadable content is available. Pay 1200 Microsoft Points for an extra canto by Andrew Motion? No/No’