Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | 07:42 GMT

Variety: EA developing Dante’s Inferno game

According to this Variety report, EA is currently working on a game based on Dante’s Inferno, the film rights to which are currently being fought over by US movie studios.

The game is to be released late next year, says the report, and is thought to be a modern interpretation of the classic poem.

No other details were given.

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5 comments

MesserWolf
31/10/08, 7:59 am

It could be somenthing interesting , but something tells me that they are going to stab Dante’s work by doing a crappy zombi game.

“Per me si va ne la città dolente/per me si va ne l’eterno dolore/per me si va tra la perduta gente./Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore:/fecemi la divina potestate,/ la somma sapienza e ‘l primo amore./ Dinanzi a me non fur cose crate/ se non eterne, e io eterna duro./Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate.”
(Inferno, Canto III, vv. 1-9)

(the iscriprion on the door of hell)

patlike
31/10/08, 8:03 am

I’ve never read it. I probably should.

Blerk
31/10/08, 8:48 am

Ooh! Now then…. this could be promising. If they do it right.

MesserWolf
31/10/08, 9:07 am

@pat
The inferno is really nice ( purgatorio , paradiso are harder to “digest”), but I don’t really know if translated keeps its poetry . Probably, but only if the translator is really really good.

thuko
31/10/08, 4:42 pm

Not that Lewis Caroll is on the same intellectual level as Dante Alighieri (or maybe it is), but still it looks like a job for American McGee. I really enjoyed his wicked version of Alice in Wonderland.