Dante's Inferno Goes to Animation Hell

March 30, 2009 4:30 AM

EA continue their multimedia onslaught today by announcing an animated version of Dante's Inferno, its upcoming title loosely based upon Dante Alighieri's epic poem.

Minds behind this animated adventure include the producer of EA's 2008 video game tie-in Dead Space: Downfall and the director of Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron.

"The feature will explore aspects of the poem that the game does not," promises creative director Jonathan Knight, leaving one to wonder exactly which elements of the classic allegorical epic are overlooked by the brutal God of War-style hack 'em up.

You can go to Hell with Dante's Inferno the video game on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2010. EA has yet to announce when the cartoon will unleash its torment.

Alice O'Connor

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ryuuseki

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March 30, 2009 4:40 AM

Have you guys read this book? I'm not sure I understand how it translates into a violent video game. They may as well secure publishing rights to Jane Eyre as a Dead or Alive style fighting game.
- Alice O'Connor
  
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  March 30, 2009 4:47 AM
  
  I'm looking forward to North & South the god game.
  
  Balance the needs of the workers, the demands of capitalism and the thirst for the love of a good woman in the industrial revolution. Set working hours, upgrade your machinery, set trade routes and be sure to keep your mother happy in the interior decorating minigame!
  - logan
    
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    March 30, 2009 4:50 AM
    
    at least two generations of playability
  - qsylvr
    
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    March 30, 2009 4:50 AM
    
    You've got it all wrong, it's an FPS where you wake up in a factory and have to take down the government that kidnapped your fiancee.
    - Alice O'Connor
      
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      March 30, 2009 5:03 AM
      
      A trilogy! With each game told from a different perspective! It's fair to say that North & South--can we change that to North vs. South? it sounds cooler-- will be the single most innovative title in years. We'll blow the video game industry off its rusty hinges.
      - qsylvr
        
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        March 30, 2009 5:20 AM
        
        Black screen ... (beat) ... "Next summer" ... (beat) ... "The gaming industrial revolution begins" ... (beat) ... "North vs. South: Escape from Thornton's Mill"
        
        I smell a blockbuster! Dibs on the novelization rights.
      - SpaecKow
        
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        March 30, 2009 7:43 AM
        
        I said it before and I say it now again. Industrial revolution? Pish posh. What you want is the French Revolution -- they had blood flowing in the streets for gods sake.
        
        So, you adapt Tale of Two Cities into an FPS: you're Charles Darnay and you have to save Lucy cause the King has kidnapped her, and then the surprise twist in the middle of the game (just like Bioshock and Quake 4!) is the king takes of his mask off and it's like whoooa holy shit it was Robespierre all along and then all the sans culotes that were like your allies in the first part of the game Half-Life 2 resistance style are now the bad guys cause Robespierre goes "Get Charles Darnay!" and you have to fight them instead and a miniature guillotine is the melee weapon and then you ride out of the city on horseback as Paris fucking EXPLODES.
  - MamiyaOtaru
    
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    March 30, 2009 1:56 PM
    
    Or North and South, the RTS game. Grey vs Blue.
    
    Really though I'm pleasantly surprised to see the Shack default to the Gaskell novel instead of the John Jakes trilogy / Patrick Swayze miniseries
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