+ Smooth, fast and intense action. Fun and with a loads of cool combos. SOLID and heavy action.
+ Good blend of puzzles and action to keep it from getting repetative.
+ Over the top cool, spectacular and awesome cutscenes. Coolness factor 10.0. Take every cool move, slow motion moment and camera angle and mix it up to one intense, slowmotionpacked and cool drink and you have DMC3´s cutscenes. Matrixfans will scream with happiness. Expect alot of "woosh" sounds and guns going off in slow-mo.
+ Overall good voiceacting to go with the overall excellent characters wich truly manage to submit alot of emotions and feelings to the cutscenes.
+ Incredibly fun bossfights. And there are ALOT of them. Lots of bosses, all of them great fun to battle and all of them looks really cool. Bosses are oldschool gaming. I want more bosses in newer games!
+ Good TechoCore Metal soundtrack. heavy guitars with some kind of techobeats and synths that blends perfecly with boss fights and cutscenes. Adrenalinepumping ! The standard combatmusic that kicks in in every standard battle gets old quick tho since its the exact same track everytime and its nowhere as good as the rest of the soundtrack.
+ The Special Edition adds ALOT of value to the game. THIS is the edition to buy if youre going to buy DMC3. An extra campaign covering Vergils side of the story, perfect difficuly settings made so that everyone (and i mean EVERYONE) can enjoy this game without finding it to hard or to easy. You can watch cutscenes again and there are some more goodies that i havent even digged into yet.
+ Maybe not the best of stories but how it evolves are very nice.
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- The Playstation 2. Ive been sitting with the Xbox 360 on an HDTV for almost 1 year now and this really marks how bad the Ps2 looks now, close to 2007. The console is getting OLD and the graphics are REALLY starting to feel outdated. You have to be very ignorant of the graphics to truly enjoy a ps2 game when Gears of War is soon to be released.
- Boring leveldesign and extremely boring envorinments. Brown, grey and dark gothic halls and small rooms with some short outdoor exceptions. Grey walls with ugly textures in every room. Not much creativity when it comes to the layout either.
- Story involving demons, hell and portals to demon planes. Yaaawn. Theres some demon named Sparda, who had 2 sons..yadda yadda. It might make more sense if you have played the other 2 games first wich i have not so i will not be so harsh on this point but the background of everything going on and to the characters is nonexistant if you jump right into DMC3.
- Some backtracking through boring locations you have already visited. No thanks!
- The typical japanese static camera is often irritating and positioned so that you cant see what you´re shooting at or where you´re running to.
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Final Score: 8.7
The coolest Actiongame I´ve played in a great while. You get TONS of content and many many hours of gameplay for an extremely small amount of money in the Special Edition. The Action is smack on and the cutscenes are maybe the coolest Ive ever seen in an Actiongame.
Tested On: PsTwo, 8mb Memory Card, Standard controller, Standard cables, HDTV 26"