Showing posts with label Devil May Cry 3 for PlayStation 2 Print Ad (2005). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Devil May Cry 3 for PlayStation 2 Print Ad (2005). Show all posts

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Devil May Cry 3 for PlayStation 2 (2005)

Original ad published in the April 2005 edition 

of Electronic Gaming Monthly (no. 190). 

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Style and fury from the page to the screen


Back in the day, Devil May Cry was called the 3-D game series Castlevania should have been. Although that title has been supplanted by the Souls series, DMC still managed to capture casual and hardcore gamers alike with incredible production values and tight gameplay. Following that same tone, the printed advertisement campaign of the video game gave the reader a clear idea of the final product.

Dante, Capcom’s coolest new franchise of the 2000s, achieved its coolness thanks to a snappy attitude, black humor, and creative writing embedded into the three games that appeared on the PlayStation 2. But that same attitude tended to grate a lot of players that found the games too hard. Repeating the same funny dialogue for ten times looses some of its luster. Still, Dante even managed to appear in his own anime series during the height of his popularity. You can watch the series on Netflix, but, in all honesty, they leave a lot to be desired in regards to character development and cohesiveness.