GameRecoil -> -> Dante's Inferno Being Adapted Into Game

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  And you never thought that high school lit class would do you any good.

  Electronic Arts Inc. recently announced that EA Redwood Shores (the geniuses behind Dead Space) are making a Dante's Inferno game. Just to be extremely clear, this will be a third-person action adventure adaptation of the epic poem The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.

  Now, if you slept through all of your classes in high school you may want to pay attention to this next bit- this poem formed the contemporary conception of hell and purgatory. This literary masterpiece tells the tale of Dante who journeys through the completely fucked up nine circles of hell in pursuit of his beloved Beatrice.

  Those of who you aren't intellectuals may not realize how messed up hell is:

  The eighth circle of hell is reserved for fraud and treachery. "Flatterers are steeped in human excrement. This is because their flatteries on earth were nothing but "a load of excrement" (Canto XVIII)." Having sinners buried in shit is just one part of hell, by the way. There is whipping, tearing, gnashing and so on.

  I have full confidence in EA Redwood Shores; I think that it is possible that this game could be scary, sick and beautiful all at once. I just hope they don't pussy out.

  "The time is right for the world of interactive entertainment to adapt this literary masterpiece, and to re-introduce Dante to an audience that, until now, may have been unfamiliar with the remarkable details of this great work of art," said Jonathan Knight, executive producer for Dante's Inferno. "It's the perfect opportunity to fuse great gameplay with great story."
  
  For more information on Dante's Inferno, please visit www.dantesinferno.com

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  Posted December 15th, 2008

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