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An abducted soul, a lifetime of sins, a journey
to the depths of despair. Electronic Arts Inc.
(NASDAQ: ERTS) announced today that EA Redwood
Shores, the studio behind hit horror game Dead
Space™, is making Dante’s Inferno™ – a
third-person action adventure adaptation of the
medieval epic poem The Divine Comedy by Dante
Alighieri. The dark fiction gave birth to the
Tuscan Italian dialect and is widely considered
to have defined the western world’s contemporary
conception of hell and purgatory. The poem tells
the tale of Dante who journeys through the
twisted, menacing nine circles of hell in
pursuit of his beloved Beatrice.
Written in the 14th Century, The Divine Comedy
was published and read aloud in Italian (unlike
the Bible), thereby making the poem accessible
to the mass public. The poem delivers a striking
and allegorical vision of the Christian
afterlife and the punishments of hell. In part
one, known as Dante’s Inferno, Dante traverses
all nine circles of hell; limbo, lust, gluttony,
greed, wrath, heresy, violence, fraud and
treachery.
“The time is right for the world of interactive
entertainment to adapt this literary
masterpiece, and to re-introduce Dante to an
audience that, until now, may have been
unfamiliar with the remarkable details of this
great work of art,” said Jonathan Knight,
executive producer for Dante’s Inferno. “It’s
the perfect opportunity to fuse great gameplay
with great story.”
For more information on Dante’s Inferno, please
visit
www.dantesinferno.com
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