With more news that continues to make Dante Alighieri cringe in the afterlife, Visceral Games announced that Europe will be receiving an exclusive special edition of Dante’s Inferno for the PS3 and Xbox 360. Entitled “Death Edition,” the collector’s item will include a DVD packed with all sorts of documentary and behind-the-scenes goodies.
But the biggest and most awesome of surprises comes with the extra costume that Dante gets when you buy the exclusive special edition: Issac Clarke of Dead Space fame! Now, not only can we massacre demons (and literature) through the nine circles of hell, we can murder them as a spaceman from a thousand or so years from the future! Read on for full details on all thats included with the “Death Edition” of Dante’s Inferno.
In addition to the extra costume, “Death Edition” will include a DVD packed with:
- Making-of Documentary
- “Dante in History” Documentary
- Soundtrack
- Creation of music and other audio effects Documentary
- Digital Artbook edited by Visual Designer Wayne Barlowe
- Over 10 minutes of scenes of “Dante’s Inferno: An Animate Epic”
- Digital reprint of the original poem
I really think their marketing department needs to go back to marketing 101….
A Europe-only special edition for PS3 and Xbox 360? A PS3 only special edition for US?
For a game that is basically a ripoff of God of War, you would think they would target the right audience with these incentives.
I enjoyed the demo but I really find their marketing to be childish and confusing.
I do not understand why the marketing team is excluding the US xbox360 owners. This is equivalent to publishing a message to US 360 owners that reads, “F” and “U”.
I agree, but I think they see things like this:
The Divine Comedy has deep roots (obviously) in Europe, specifically Italy. Though it is a widely known epic poem, I’m sure if you asked the common gamer what the Divine Comedy is, you’ll be hard pressed to find someone to tell you that it’s Dante Alighieri’s masterpiece. I’m not 100% on this, but I would think that Europeans would know of the Divine Comedy more so than their American counterparts, just through secondary schooling alone. Besides us English majors, that is.
I also wouldn’t be surprised to see a “last minute” per-order bonus or special edition for the stateside release.
In response to Chris
You’re absolutely right that the divine comedy has deep roots in Europe, but it’s very surprisingly well known in the US. I read somewhere that over 80% of people have heard of it, but i doubt people who actually have read it and understand it is far less. How much less is a toss up though, since the poem is a standard in high school and college literature (as you mentioned) and since the target audience is high schoolers and college students the game will be easily recognizable, albeit maybe easier to adapt to and more exciting (in the game Dante is a hardcore badass who basically gives the finger to the demons of hell, in the book he passes out almost after every canto). All that being said, i think that it’s understandable, although disappointing, that they’re not releasing a special edition to the 360 in the US. I would’ve definitely dropped money on it, and i’m willing to bet a lot of other customers would too. Hopefully you’re right about the last minute deals!
I agree, it was only going to be on X360 to begin with (was also done a good while ago for 360 and we had to wait because of Sony) and now American X360 gamers are getting screwed big time… Sony paid big money to get the SE. and $$$$$ talks unfortunetly