15 years ago, in February 2010, Visceral Games released what seemed to be their next surefire hit after 2008's Dead Space with Dante's Inferno, a brutal third-person hack-and-slash game based on the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century poem The Divine Comedy.
Here, players embodied a King Templar called Dante during the Third Crusade as he fought Death and through the nine Circles of Hell with Death's scythe and his fiancée Beatrice's holy cross to rescue the soul of Beatrice from the clutches of Lucifer.
Despite featuring hauntingly enthralling creature designs and a fairly prominent marketing campaign, which included a cinematic commercial aired during Super Bowl XLIV, Dante's Inferno was only moderately successful and a sequel to resolve its "To Be Continued" cliffhanger was shut down early on in production.
Now, just over 15 years after Dante's Inferno's initial launch, IGN has officially unveiled never-before-seen concept art, storyboards, and plot details of not just Inferno's planned sequel, Dante's Purgatorio, but also a proposed third game to conclude the trilogy called Dante's Paradiso from former Visceral staff.
Dante's Continued Journey to Rescue Beatrice
At the end of Dante's Inferno, Dante is shown to...
