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E3 2009 hasn't even started, and yet we already have a strong contender in the category "most bizarre press release of the year". Electronic Arts' announcement that Dante's Inferno is being converted to an action adventure with "a highly addictive combat system" made me think it had been clipped from The Onion.
Spoiler alert: Beatrice has been transformed from muse to damsel in distress.
Without further comment, and with apologies to Mr. Hintze, my high school English teacher, here is the release in full:
- From Visceral Games™, award-winning creators of last year’s critically-acclaimed Dead Space™, comes one of 2010’s most highly anticipated 3rd person action adventure games, Dante’s Inferno. Based on part one of Dante Alighierei’s classic poem “The Divine Comedy,” EA’s Dante’s Inferno takes gamers on an epic adventure through Dante’s nine circles of hell – limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery. The game features a highly responsive, addictive combat system, which players will need to take Dante through a gauntlet of unimaginable evils as he fights to recapture the soul of his beloved Beatrice.
