S.T.A.G.E. said:
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Fair enough, and I agree with you that both games are fun mainly because they're over the top and pretty absurd.
But for me, playing a Spartan in anceint Greece, surrounded by Greek mythology, which has a very brutal and violent element to it, is lot more natural of a step than what they've done in Dante's Inferno. (The Greek epics are super violent, after all. The Iliad is a war story about the destruction of a civilization, and in the end of the Odyssey a bunch of guys trying to sleep with Odyseus' wife are butchered by him on the day returns home after many years spent away at war.)
Dante's Inferno, on the other hand, is a story about a poet about walking down into the depths of hell, along with his friend Virgil, also a writer, and seeing face to face the suffering of others, which they've brought upon themselves by sinning in life. It's a poem about morality and a kind of compassion beyond morality, even. If Dante had suddenly gotten to the 9th circle of hell and started beating the crap out of Judas because he had it coming, I think it might have kind of ruined the poem.
Anyway, the problem to me is that they've tried to make Dante like Kratos as a character, right down to the fact that he's using brute strength to destroy and have power over something that Dante never would have wanted to fight: Hell. A hell that Dante the poet created himself. What's the next game going to be, "Dante does Limbo?" And then we get a pissed off Dante raping and pillaging heaven and making the holy trinity his bitch? It seems like good comedy to me, but it doesn't really get my adrenaline going like God of War :)
