Just completed this on the PS3

Wow so that’s 2 games in 3 days! Well I’d been playing this on and off for a while. What can I say? It adds very little to the series, it’s a cut ‘n paste job of DMC 1, 2 or 3. Now I guess Capcom reckon if it’s not broke, don’t fix it. But by the time you get to a forth game in a series you expect some innovation.

Well it’s very pretty, very, very pretty in fact; but all this eye candy comes at a price – interactability (I don’t even think that’s a word – but you get my drift). In gameplay terms 95% of the environents are basically box rooms and corridors, they don’t look like box rooms and corridors, they look like ultra detailed, epic pieces of gothic architecture, but you just glide through them, there is nothing to do in these places. The locations merely serve as a sumptuous backdrop to yet another demon slicing fest. OK maybe I’m being unfair, Devil May Cry doesn’t pretend to be anything other than a beat ‘em up with completely OOT sword and gunplay, and in those regards it’s fine. Special mention has to go to the cut scenes; these were gorgeous, well choreographed and even more OOT than the game, which is going some. Extra special mention for the cheap shot Capcom pulled making you fight through the same levels twice (once as Nero, once as Dante) you even get to fight all the bosses twice too, yay! actually some of the bosses you fight three times! Come on Capcom that’s really lame!

Still not a bad game. And defintily one to show off to your mates if you are looking for a true HD game that doesn’t just look like a PS2 game with extra varnish.