Devil May Cry (video game)
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| Developer(s) | Capcom |
| Publisher(s) | Capcom |
| Director(s) | Hideki Kamiya |
| Producer(s) | Hiroyuki Kobayashi |
| Writer(s) | Hideki Kamiya Noboru Sugimura |
| Composer(s) | Masami Ueda Masato Kohda Misao Senbongi |
| Series | Devil May Cry |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 PlayStation 3 (HD) Xbox 360 (HD) |
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| Genre(s) | Action-adventure, hack and slash |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Metacritic | 94/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Eurogamer | 9/10 |
| Famitsu | 34/40 |
| Game Informer | 9.5/10 |
| GamePro | 5/5 |
| GameSpot | 9.1/10 |
| GameSpy | 4.5/5 |
| IGN | 9.6/10 |
| The Electric Playground | 9/10 |
| GameCritics.com | 9/10 |
Devil May Cry (Japanese: デビル メイ クライ Hepburn: Debiru Mei Kurai?) is an hack and slash action-adventure video game developed and published by Capcom, released in 2001 for the PlayStation 2. While the game primarily focuses on sword fighting, the player gains new weapons after beating the game's bosses resulting in a variety of combos to perform.
Set in modern times on the fictional Mallet Island, the story centers on Dante, a demon hunter who uses his business to get his revenge on the demons after losing his brother and mother. He meets a woman named Trish who takes him on a journey to defeat the demon lord Mundus. The story is told primarily through a mixture of cutscenes, which use the game's engine and several pre-rendered full motion videos. The game is very loosely based on the Italian poem Divine Comedy by the use of allusions, including the game's protagonist Dante (named after Dante Alighieri) and other characters like Vergil (Virgil) and Trish (Beatrice Portinari).
The game was originally conceived in 1999 as Resident Evil 4. Due to the staff feeling it would not fit the Resident Evil franchise, the project dropped its ties to Resident Evil and was made into its own story instead. Devil May Cry received prominent coverage in the video game media due to the impact it had in the action game genre, its high difficulty and the high overall scores which many professional reviewers concluded to be one of the best and most innovative video games of all time. The game has sold more than three million copies, and spawned multiple Capcom-developed sequels and prequels.
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