Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening

Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
North American box art
Developer(s)	Capcom
Publisher(s)	Capcom
Distributor(s)	Special Edition Ubisoft (PC) EU: CentreSoft (PS2)
Director(s)	Hideaki Itsuno
Producer(s)	Tsuyoshi Tanaka
Artist(s)	Daigo Ikeno
Writer(s)	Bingo Morihashi Takayasu Yanagihara
Composer(s)	Tetsuya Shibata Kento Hasegawa
Series	Devil May Cry
Platform(s)	PlayStation 2 Microsoft Windows (Special Edition) PlayStation 3 (HD) Xbox 360 (HD)
Release date(s)	February 17, 2005 Dante's Awakening PlayStation 2 JP: February 17, 2005 NA: March 1, 2005 AU: March 22, 2005 EU: March 24, 2005 Special Edition PlayStation 2 NA: January 24, 2006 JP: February 23, 2006 EU: September 25, 2006 Microsoft Windows EU: June 28, 2006 JP: June 30, 2006 NA: October 16, 2006 HD Collection PlayStation 3 & Xbox 360 JP: March 22, 2012 NA: March 29, 2012 EU: April 3, 2012 AU: April 5, 2012
Genre(s)	Action-adventure, hack and slash
Mode(s)	Single-player

Aggregate scores
Aggregator	Score
GameRankings	(PS2) 84.11% (PC) 70.87% (Special) 88%
Metacritic	(PS2) 84/100 (PC) 66/100 (Special) 87/100
Review scores
Publication	Score
1UP.com	9/10
Eurogamer	8/10
Game Informer	9/10
GamePro
GameSpot	8.6/10
GameSpy
GameTrailers	9/10
GameZone	9/10
IGN	9.6/10

Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, released in Japan as Devil May Cry 3 (Japanese: デビル メイ クライ 3, Hepburn: Debiru Mei Kurai Surī^?), is an action-adventure hack and slash video game developed and published by Capcom, released in 2005 for the PlayStation 2 and ported to Microsoft Windows in 2006. The game is a prequel to the original Devil May Cry, with a younger Dante. It retains elements from the two previous games, expanding its combat system with a number of fighting styles. The story is told primarily in cutscenes using the game's engine, with several pre-rendered full motion videos.

Set several years before the events of the first Devil May Cry in an enchanted tower, Temen-ni-gru, the story centers on the dysfunctional relationship between Dante and his brother Vergil.

Although Devil May Cry 3 was criticized for its degree of difficulty, it was also praised for returning to the challenging gameplay of Devil May Cry. The game was re‐released in 2006 as Devil May Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening, Special Edition (デビル メイ クライ 3 Special Edition^?) with a recalibrated difficulty curve and Vergil as a playable character. Combined sales of both versions were over four million, and a 2005 manga prequel to the game was published in Japan.