So, what's the verdict? Do these clips have you pumped for 2009? Or are you holding out judgment until you can see a little more gameplay and fewer cinematics?
VGA 2008: See Dante's Inferno, Watchmen, Terminator Salvation and more
by Justin McElroy 
on Dec 15th 2008 11:15AM
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So, what's the verdict? Do these clips have you pumped for 2009? Or are you holding out judgment until you can see a little more gameplay and fewer cinematics?
Reader Comments (58)
Posted: Dec 15th 2008 11:34AM (Unverified) said
I liked the Mafia II trailer, but not my type of game. Dante's Inferno looks interesting though. I really want to know more about what you, the player, do and see some gameplay. I'll be keeping an eye on it.
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Posted: Dec 15th 2008 11:33AM Rax Dakkar said
Wow, that Dante's Inferno games is going to be pissing a lot of people off. And you thought the Catholic Church had a problem with Resistance...
Then again, maybe they like the idea of kids pretending to destroy demons?
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Then again, maybe they like the idea of kids pretending to destroy demons?
Posted: Dec 15th 2008 12:05PM cuteSAVAGE said
It was the Church of England (Anglican) that had the Resistance Problem.
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Posted: Dec 15th 2008 1:17PM Misfit Toy said
I liked Dead Space, but I'm going to stay clear of this one. I probably WOULD get offended by it. Fine with me. Plenty of games in the world to play that I could skip one.
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Posted: Dec 15th 2008 2:37PM (Unverified) said
I read the Comedy and thought it was one of the best things I've ever read.
That being said, the game is "based" on the stories, so I can't complain to much. It doesn't look like the kind of game I would be interested in playing anyways.
The only thing that annoys me is the fact that a lot of kids will play this game and get an incredibly fucked up idea of what the Inferno is actually about.
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That being said, the game is "based" on the stories, so I can't complain to much. It doesn't look like the kind of game I would be interested in playing anyways.
The only thing that annoys me is the fact that a lot of kids will play this game and get an incredibly fucked up idea of what the Inferno is actually about.
Posted: Dec 16th 2008 9:14PM (Unverified) said
I read the condensed version of Dante's Inferno in High School. That was years ago so I don't remember too many details. But I do remember really enjoying it. I can remember the basics of a few levels of hell and that's all. Maybe I should pick the whole book up and give it a read. Either way I'll gamefly this game. Looks good enough for that at the least
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Posted: Dec 15th 2008 11:33AM FernandoRocker said
Wow... Dante's Inferno looks very interesting.
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Posted: Dec 15th 2008 4:39PM Spunky Monkey 190906 said
Dante won't be very pleased :) They should battle it out :O
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Posted: Dec 15th 2008 11:48AM baby sea tuna said
That doesn't make "firsting" any more excusable.
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Posted: Dec 15th 2008 11:50AM (Unverified) said
[If you're not first, you're last!]
Also, DI looks good, though if it turns out like Jericho I'll be kicking puppies... in hell.
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Also, DI looks good, though if it turns out like Jericho I'll be kicking puppies... in hell.
Posted: Dec 15th 2008 3:10PM (Unverified) said
well i was first when i looked and when i submitted i wasn't. oh well
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Posted: Dec 15th 2008 12:03PM AwesomeTown said
It is on Amazon.com for only $11.99. I just got it recently and read it for the first time. So just get it, you won't regret it.
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Posted: Dec 15th 2008 1:31PM TheDarkWayne said
you could have been reading someone elses books that whole time!
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Posted: Dec 15th 2008 1:59PM Vegeta has a ps3 said
Psh. David Moore was awesome. Alan Moore only got where he was by copying off of David's epic graphic novel, Watchmex.
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Posted: Dec 15th 2008 4:37PM Spunky Monkey 190906 said
Watchmex? Whats that? Is that better then Watchmen?
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Posted: Dec 15th 2008 11:47AM AwesomeTown said
Hopefully the combat has some good depth for the Watchmen, because it's looking pretty good.
I'll reiterate the sentiment here that Dante's Inferno does look extremely interesting.
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I'll reiterate the sentiment here that Dante's Inferno does look extremely interesting.
Posted: Dec 15th 2008 12:02PM (Unverified) said
Mafia 2 looks as awesome as mafia 1.
Watchmen... well, i love the franchise, and it looks pretty good for a download only game... though the comic wasn't really about action. Would have made a better adventure game imho.
Terminator: well, they could release Carebears adventures with the terminator music and i'd get sucked in... doubt it'll live up to Future Shock though...
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Watchmen... well, i love the franchise, and it looks pretty good for a download only game... though the comic wasn't really about action. Would have made a better adventure game imho.
Terminator: well, they could release Carebears adventures with the terminator music and i'd get sucked in... doubt it'll live up to Future Shock though...
Posted: Dec 15th 2008 12:18PM Vegeta has a ps3 said
Game takes place before the events in the comic, also it's kind of plausible that it's a beat em up since, you know, they fought crime.
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Posted: Dec 15th 2008 12:35PM (Unverified) said
yeah i know, and it could be good. I'm definitely not writing it off.
But the focus of the comics was never really on the fighting or the action.
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But the focus of the comics was never really on the fighting or the action.
Posted: Dec 15th 2008 12:26PM Bouillestfu said
First off i'd like to clarify that I am an aethiest. Yet, I found that Dante's Divine Comedy was a VERY interesting read. Now they're turning this into a your super hero Virgil or Dante and your going to clense hell? Come on!
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Posted: Dec 15th 2008 12:49PM ThornedVenom said
From Dante's Inferno, wasn't Limbo supposed to be for non-believers and was like all of the greatness of Earth, except lacking a divine touch (as if something was always missing)?
I wasn't expecting babies with crab appendages.
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I wasn't expecting babies with crab appendages.
Posted: Dec 15th 2008 1:06PM FernandoRocker said
According to the book, the limbo is also the place where babies who have died without baptism spend eternity in a state of happiness but not in the presence of God.
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Posted: Dec 15th 2008 1:11PM ThornedVenom said
Sooo... where does the crab part kick in? You're supposed to hit weak spots for massive damage or something?
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Posted: Dec 15th 2008 1:33PM TheDarkWayne said
If I remember from English class a long time ago, Lingo was like the waiting room for heaven, but instead of filling out forms and applications, they would burn away your sin through a series of tests and trials. Idk I only read the Hell one, this is just what I was told a long time ago
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Posted: Dec 15th 2008 3:26PM (Unverified) said
Dante's Inferno never mentions purgatory, that's Dante's Purgatorio.
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Posted: Dec 15th 2008 12:56PM imaginarythomas said
Wow, they hammed Dante's infero up to 11. What started as a poet being guided through the underworld is now all muscular and "IN YOUR FACE"...
This had so much potential why not just have Master chief throwing energy drink cans at Lucifer?
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This had so much potential why not just have Master chief throwing energy drink cans at Lucifer?
Posted: Dec 15th 2008 2:55PM Haggard said
I think I'd rather play the latter - wait, they already made it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painkiller_(video_game)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painkiller_(video_game)
Posted: Dec 15th 2008 1:15PM (Unverified) said
They all looked interesting except for Watchmen. That just looked bland.
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Posted: Dec 15th 2008 1:37PM TheDarkWayne said
the watchmen one doesnt look that bad. I mean I'm a huge fan of the comic so ill buy it either way but I mean, nobody expected this to be ground breaking world changing GOTY stuff did they?
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