I'm questioning its lack of originality in Gameplay. I too am getting it, but not until its cheap.

@ coolbeans

Dante's Inferno could have been an AAA game and it hasn't got much reviews yet.  I predicted it would get a score somewhere in the low 80s...

So true!  How many games out there duplicate others...but we still play them...example with all the FPS games....fallout & borderlands but the point is we still play them...this is the same situation

You guys know that DI is a copy of GoW down to the smallest things right ?

I have never seen reviewers say that "Its hard to believe this game wasn't called Dante's Infernof War" or something similar when comparing games of the same genre.

Reviewers never said Borderlands should be called - Borderout or anything....

Well, hopefully DI will keep me until the release of GOW

It will...I'm getting the GoW Collection cz I haven't played it yet.

Rock Band was still fun even though it was a huge copy of Guitar Hero.

I don't see how being a copy makes it bad.

Guitar hero had no drums...or vocals

and no reviewer called it something like "Dante's Infernof War "

Well. Haven't EA just bought God of War in disguise to the XBox 360? How is that in any way a bad thing? Actually EA probably deserves bonus points for it. And in that respect Santa Monica and Sony should be greatful because 360 players who really dig the gameplay of Dante's Inferno might just feel the need to go get themselves a PS3 to continue the blood lust with GoW III. It's a win-win situation.

Imagine a review of the 360 version of Dante's Inferno banging on about how like God of War it is. Somone who's only ever owned XBox consoles isn't going to have a clue what the reviewer is on about, and unless the actual gameplay points are described the reader is going to leave not knowing enough about whether the game is for them.

Same for a 360 Darksiders review saying "it's not like God of War". Yeah thanks, real informative there dude.

In my book being highly derivative of another game is worth about 0.2 points off for not being original. If the game is worth playing on it's own merits (I thought the demo was good) then score it on it's own merits (at least for 95% of the score). You wanna make God of War your benchmark for excellence, that's fine, and probably a reasonable thing to do given you are working in the same genre you need some high, medium and low banchmarks to work from to pitch the review score right. But don't make the mere fact of similarity a significant point.

Besides, it has it's own points of originality, the absolution / condemnation thing is a good addition to the game play dynamic that has no parallel in GoW.

I'm no EA fan. The only EA games I'm contemplating getting are the Bioware games. But Dante's Inferno also looks to be an EA game I'd like. I do plan to get it eventually. But I do agree with the reviewers overall on 2 counts: I prefer God of War and Darksiders over DI. But not by as much as they seem to.

I liked it. Not as awesome as God of War but still good. Ill pick it up for the story more than anything.

Visceral still rulz in my book, but I agree the demo was exactly like gOW. I will probably play this game after GOW3, bayonetta and many other games. Hopefully anyone who plays this and never played god of war will think it is original at all. The monsters still look freaky enough and are probably sadistic, scary, cool!