Steffen_Shook October 9, 2009 Industry, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 240 views Comments Print This Post  Email This Post

Today Visceral Games announced the writer for their upcoming game Dante’s Inferno is Academy Award nominated writer Will Rokos. Rokos penned the screenplay for 2001’s Monster’s Ball. Dante’s Inferno is an adaptation of part one of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem “The Divine Comedy” and is slated for release on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Nintendo Wii in February of 2010.

On the undertaking of creating Dante’s Inferno, Jonathan Knight, the executive producer of Dante’s Inferno said “The task of adapting a revered and classic piece of literature for the gaming medium was a tremendous challenge. Dante Alighieri’s masterpiece forms the foundation of the game’s plot, but Will’s take on the Dante/Beatrice story brought the necessary conflict and action that made the material really work dramatically.  It was an enormous thrill to partner on the script with someone as creative and talented as Will.”

“Taking such a naturally rich and deep universe and adapting for the video game has been one of the most interesting and challenging projects I’ve worked on,” added Will Rokos.  “I really got into re-imagining Dante as a flawed hero with a dark past, and his determination to save the love of his life from a terrible fate.  It was a truly unique experience to re-create one man’s hell, one circle at a time.”

In Dante’s Inferno, players will take on the role of Dante in fighting through Dante Alighieri’s nine circles of hell – limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery. Each circle features epic themes drawn from the original poem filtered into the environments, creatures and demons, bosses and sub-bosses, unique gameplay scenarios, and specific story elements built to tell the sins of Dante’s past.

For more information on Dante’s Inferno, visit the game’s homepage at www.dantesinferno.com. More info can be found at the Visceral team’s Twitter at www.twitter.com/danteteam.