Source: connectedconsoles.com

God Of War III game director Stig Asmussen has spoken about the potential competition to Kratos of Dante's Inferno, and also given his thoughts on Bayonetta and the Devil May Cry series. In an interview in the latest issue of PLAY magazine (Issue No. 188) Asmussen said;

"We always look at the Devil May Cry games or Bayonetta, which is a great game, and Ninja Gaiden"

"Those games in terms of nuts-and-bolts combat stuff offer a lot of inspiration to us. I just played the demo for Dante's Inferno and I thought the controls were really tight on it and I thought that was interesting. The Capcom, Devil May Cry games kind of do their own thing and they have their own language and it's fantastic as I said we've learnt a lot from it inspiring us right from the original game. There are other games that seem to be drawing inspiration directly from the language that we have built and Dante's Inferno is doing a really good job at that I think"

That was noble of him.

cheers to the director

Wow! Very nice words from a dev, even noble as slimebeast said. Just for that I may buy his game at full price. I wish more people would say things like this rather than talking crap **cough** Turn 10, Valve, Zipper **cough**

^^^ haha. agreed. people don't need to knock on another game just so they can make their game look better. god of war 3 can't come soon enough!!

i agree with him
in terms of "copying" GOW, Dantes Inferno does a really great job

The action game creators tend to be nicer to each other then most. I don't have the direct quote, but Itagaki talked about how he was looking forward to God of war 3, and things like that.

that's a great and respectful thing to say.

How do Sony choose their devs? The generally nicest people they can find that haven't been hired by Nintendo?

Most of their PR are very good in all areas. Its rare that we see anyone that work for Sony talking BS about the others.