Dante's Inferno (PS3)

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Graham McTavish and Vanessa Branch voiced Dante and Beatrice respectively both in the video game and in the tie-in movie Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic. United States NPD Group sales data showed that the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Dante's Inferno sold 242,500 and 224,700 copies respectively on February 2010, its first month of release. Along with the standard copy of the game, the Death Edition was packaged in a fold out card packaging depicting each circle of hell as well as a second bonus disc that featured a making-of documentary, the documentary "Dante in History", the full soundtrack, a documentary on the creation of the music and audio, a digital art book ( Barlowe's Inferno) edited by visual designer Wayne Barlowe, over 10 minutes of scenes from Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic, and a digital reprint of the complete original poem in English by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. There are some gimmicky boss fights involving puzzles, and some annoying QTE sequences, but I can excuse them as being an artifact of games that were released during that time. It sold over one million copies worldwide and spawned a comic book miniseries and an animated movie, Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic, which was released direct-to-DVD simultaneously with the game.

PlayStation Official Magazine – UK also echoed this view, saying that the game was "just going through motions for the last three or four hours", despite what it considered to have a "robust fighting system" and being "visually strong". Dante's Inferno was a third person action-adventure game published by Electronic Arts and developed by Visceral Games.

Other reviews of the game include similar comments from professors regarding the characters: "Beatrice saves Dante.

Dante's Inferno received "generally favorable reviews" for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions and "mixed or average reviews" for PlayStation Portable version from critics, according to review aggregator Metacritic. In the game, Dante's primary weapon is a scythe that can be used in a series of combination attacks and finishing moves. One of the most praised aspects was the game's depiction of Hell, considered creative yet graphic in nature.As the removed tapestry floats down to the ground, it transforms into a snake and slithers away while Lucifer's haunting laugh echoes for the final time before the screen reads "To be continued. The numerous advertisements highlighted certain sins associated with the circles of hell, at times promoting fake services before accusing the viewer of the sin linked to it.