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Dante Same Old Gameplay
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| Dante's back with his high flying acrobatic sword slashing this time with an emo twist. |
Capcom’s popular hack-in-slash action game Devil May Cry
series debuted back in 2001. This DMC is made by Ninja Theory instead of
Capcom, but fans worried that the series will be tarnished shouldn’t be as this
game is in good hands. The last Devil May Cry game came out back in 2008 and the
newest edition to the franchise is a reboot and has a new story of Dante and
Virgil in a Punk-Emo world. You play as Dante a Nephilim a half demon half
human who is on a mission to kill all demons in the world. Dante looks
completely different in this game as he has brown instead of white hair and he
wears clothes that look like he’s going to a heavy metal concert. This DMC is
different from the other DMC games as it is made by a new developer Ninja
Theory. The series is known for its badass weapons and insane kills and that
hasn’t changed here, but this game is compatible with keyboard and mouse, a
good controller like Xbox 360’s is a must.
Like previous titles, the game puts gamers in a closed world
for each mission and has you killing waves of enemies and along the way it
mixes in some platforming. Devil May Cry also gives you a variety of weapons to
kill the barrages of demons you will face. You’ll receive Souls and Red Orbs
for killing demons and you’ll get more of these as your kill streaks get larger.
The Souls you collect can then be used to purchase skill upgrades while the Red
Orbs can be used to buy item such as health bars and revival orbs. At the end
of the each mission you are given upgrade points for the amount of Souls you
have collected and you can spend them on upgrading your weapons and abilities.
Like the other games, you’re armed with your trusty
Rebellion sword and pistols Ebony and Ivory. As you progress through the game
you’ll pick up more weapons along the way. These weapons are badass and you’ll
have the option of upgrading them via Souls as you accumulate them from killing
enemies and completing missions. We liked the Osiris the best a large blue demonic
scythe that allowed us to kill multiple enemies with ease and we liked killing
them with our Prop move which allowed us to throw our enemies into the air and
spin the Osiris to chop them up like they were in a meat shredder. The Eryx is
also one of our favorites and gives Dante flaming demon fists which you can use
to uppercut enemies and smash them into the ground. These demonic fists also
made it very easy to juggle multiple enemies at once which made control large
crowds quick and easy.
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| There's plenty of platforming to do in DMC just like in previous games. |
The game took us 11 hours to complete which is above average
compared to most games coming out these days. Once you complete the campaign
you’ll unlock a harder difficulty called Devil Trigger mode. Like previous
iterations, DMC also lets you go back through the story with all of your
upgrades intact. Devil May Cry also has secret keys that you can find to open
special doors. The doors challenge you to kill a group of enemies quickly and
reward you with bonus souls for doing so. The game gets a little boring through
the last the last half because you just fight mobs of the same enemies over and
over. Unfortunately the game also doesn’t offer much replay value after you’ve
beaten it as DMC is a very linear game and you usually have only two path
options to choose from. DMC also doesn’t have multiple endings to see or
alternate choices to make in its’ story that make you want to replay the game.
The Devil May Cry series is known to be tough as hell, but
this iteration wasn’t very hard and we found ourselves blazing through it,
while you will die a few times it’s not frustrating. The game actually had a
good balance of difficulty.
The sound in Devil May Cry is fantastic and we enjoyed
everything in it from its’ voice acting to the its’ Dubstep and heavy metal
soundtracks. The sound effects were crisp and clean as we tore our enemies to
shreds and well executed.
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| The Osiris was by far our favorite weapon in the game as it demolished enemies quickly and easily. |
Devil May Cry is a game that it needs to be played with a
controller which we didn’t like because we prefer gaming with a mouse and
keyboard. For the most part the controls were alright on mouse and keyboard,
but half way through the game we got to a boss battle where they were way to
cumbersome. We found ourselves have to run with WASD and having to press E and
F and space bar all at the same time which was frustrating to say the
least.
Visually, the graphics in Devil May Cry do a good job of
setting up the Punk-Emo vibe the game is going for. The enemies look great as
they are all done up in gold, black, and gray color schemes and they stand out
against Dante’s black and red attire. We didn’t like its heavy amount of the
motion blur the game uses and there is no way to disable it and it makes the
game not look as good as result. Luckily the game runs pretty well. We were
able to max it out at 1080p on our overclocked Sandy Bridge system with a Geforce
660Ti with framerates around the 180FPS mark.
Devil May Cry is a game that we loved, but be ready to
invest some money into a PC controller if you don’t already have one. Because
you’re often fighting the same hordes of enemies, its’ combat can get
repetitive. Regardless, we still highly recommend it as it is one of the best
third-person action games on the PC we’ve played in a long time.
-Chris Zele
Verdict: 8
(+) Killer weapons; Great difficulty balance, Fantastic
sound.
(-) Bad keyboard and mouse controls; Annoying motion blur,
Very linear.
