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Great Game!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 16
Date: February 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you enjoyed the original Devil May Cry or Devil May Cry 3, you will love DMC4. The graphics and gameplay are awesome. Need I say more?

Amazing.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: February 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is my first Devil May Cry game and god damn this is one sweet game. I have played through Ninja Gaiden on Normal and Hard, and after playing the demo of the game on the marketplace I went out and bought this game today. Lets have a look.

STORY:
This is a little confusing for me as none of the previous games are explained. Basically theres a church session going on and Dante crashes the party by killing the priest. Everyone is like what the heck and Nero and Dante get in a huge fight. You go from the town into a HUGE castle and you try to uncover the mysteries of what is going on in the city.

CONTROLS:
Honestly they are very tight except for the lock-on button. They should have made it right trigger instead of right bumper for ease of use. You will have to learn to quickly lock-on/off in order to succeed in this game as well as switch styles back and forth with Dante (you play as him halfway through the game). Also dodge is a little ehhhhhhhhh too.

GAMEPLAY:
Extremely intense. Boss battles are loads of fun and the puzzles aren't mind-bogglingly hard. Some of the platforming is tedious (the waterfall cavern thing after the city level comes to mind, Mission 03 I think?). The Devil Bringer grappling parts where you have to do it back to back 7 or 8 times gets very tricky and irritating when combined with the pretty irritating static camera angles. The combat is visceral and intense and your jaw will drop to the floor at some of the moves you can pull off (especially as Dante... @_@). If you liked Ninja Gaiden on the PS3 or the XBOX, you will LOVE the gameplay of this game. You can buy items with the red orbs you find scattered around the castle, or learn new abilities/skills by using the Pride Souls you earn by getting good ratings on missions and stuff. A lot of moves to learn here. Combos are very fun to make and it is very easy to learn how to string combos from devil bringer to guns to swords and back and forth again, but it is very hard to master doing so.

GRAPHICS/PERFORMANCE:
Very very good texture work both indoors and outdoors, in combat and out of combat. Runs at a very smooth 60fps and this game looks jaw-dropping on an HDTV. Very consistent. Never saw any visual lag at all whatsoever.

SOUND:
Voiceovers are a little pathetic. The voice of the researcher guy in Mission 06 was pretty melodramatic. Also some of Nero's one-liners are cheesy ("SLAM DUNK!!" comes to mind). The slashing and gunshots and footsteps and roars are all very well done though and I salute the developer for that.

REPLAYABILITY:
There are hidden missions scattered ALL over the game and there are hidden life gems and stuff around the castle. There is also the Devil Hunter difficulty which is more difficult but I hear you get to play around more with Dante so I will check that out when I get there. The achievements are difficult to get so if you are looking for a game to get an easy 1000 gamerscore on you are looking at the wrong game. Levels are replayable to get better ratings on them (and Devil Hunter points to submit to the Capcom servers and stuff). There is a lot of stuff to do here after you beat the game.

VERDICT:
If you are an action game fan or another person like me waiting for a game to tide you over till Ninja Gaiden II comes out in April, do yourself a favor and buy this game, you will love it. If you like any kind of hack-n-slash games or any action game at all you will like this game.

I will post updates soon on the game as I am not completely done with it yet.

The best Devil May Cry To Date? I believe So

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: February 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

As i bought my PS2 with Devil may cry i couldn't believe how good it was. I played DMC maybe five times throughout my PS2 days. Not in a row but when a game got me going back you know it's good. So of course i was hyped for Devil May Cry 2...sad of course. It wasn't nearly as good as it could of been. Then Devil May cry 3 comes along, and i had doubt, but quickly went away. It was a knockout and a easy 9/10 for me. So here comes Devil may Cry 4. New characters, new adventure, and on a next gen system!

Story - 9 - The story is anything special. No it's not going to change your world and as a book it would suck. But guess what? With the great fight scenes the story becomes very entertaining and keeps you glued to your seat. I actually enjoyed the story of this one a bit more then 3 and more then 2 and 1.

Graphics - 10 - Outstanding. With each Devil May Cry they keep pushing the graphics and this one is no exception. With it's effects, models, and design it's all here. The graphics are top notch and work very well. If you don't like the designs well it's your lost. The graphics still shine and even better in HD.

Gameplay - 9 - Why not a perfect 10? Well Nero is a great new edition. Really makes the gameplay change up but the problem i had with it is it becomes a bit to easy at times. But once Dante comes in and the old devil may cry gameplay feeling along with it you get right back into it. Nero is fun but Dante is where it's at. So a 9 in total, 5/5 for Dante and 4/5 for Nero.

Enjoyment - 8 - A short adventure but plenty of difficulties. Theres a few problems though, mostly just nitpicking. I disliked that Dante had less missions and i know Nero is now the new main but Dante should of had the same amount. Also they don't explain how Nero and "Vergil" dante's brother are related. They leave a few to many answers unanswered and although i love capcom i can't see em explaining them in future games.

Final Score - 9.2 - Really the best there is at the moment. I love 1 and 3 but 4 is the best if you ask me. So you can't lose with this one, devil may cry 4 is indeed a winner on both PS3 and XBOX360.

A hack 'n slash masterclass

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The Devil May Cry series is one of those franchises which provoke awe and irritation in almost equal measure. Fantastic to look at, to control, and with a panache that few other games are simply too afraid to match, the DMC games also have detracting points like annoying spikes in difficulty and awful dialogue.
So how does DMC 4 match up to its legendary original predecessor, which made it debut on the PS2? Bringing back the original producer of the series provokes comparisons with this first game rather than the disappointing DMC 2 and overly difficult third instalment. And generally, DMC 4 succeeds in recalling the glory days when Dante first sprang onto consoles in 2001.

PROs: Fantastic graphics; Formulaic but effective industrial metal/Morricone lite soundtrack; great boss battles; control of the two characters is as intuitive as ever, which encourages replaying the game on harder difficulty levels.

CONs: Repetition of gameplay elements during the second half of the game, where the player finally gets to control Dante rather than young upstart Nero; graphical glitches (including slowdown and faulty mapping of shadow) during the jungle levels; poor dialogue and cliched characters (especially Agnus).

AMAZING

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: February 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

To be totally honest this is my first DMC game i played
In short:
Great graphics
Awesome story
Entertaining through the game

*one thing i love is that instead of constant button mashing, u actually have to think about what u r pressing

great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: March 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

am waiting for this game for an while! when I first play ths game, she give a lot impress!!great movie!I love!

Devil may cry 360 style....Oh man!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: February 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

To be quiet honest, this is the first time I played devil may cry. Never played the previous ones before but was interested. So I just purchased this for my xbox 360 and man oh man is it fun. The graphics are wonderful, especially on my sony dlp 1080p hdtv. The combos are nasty in this game and I love the whole matrix movement in the air while reloading some clips into a hellish monster. After I beat this game I shall purchase a the other previous ones for my ps3. Always supporting xbox 360 first.

An Amazing Game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Gameplay 9.5/10

The gameplay in DMC 4 is sensational. It has extrmely responsive controls which react promptly to you input. There are well over 50 different combos you can buy using "credits" and thats not even includin gall the possibilities you have through stringing combos together. The gameplay is essentially the same formula as the previous DMC's but it basically looks better. SPOILER: You also get to play as newcomer Nero who has many different abilities including the notable Devil Bringer, Nero's demonic arm.

Graphics 9.5/10

This look spectacular! Running at a silky-smooth 60 frames per second and superior lightning effects make this game an eye-melter. Also the particle and special effects are vibrant and brilliant. Higly detailed cahracters and super crisp textures bring this game to life. Boss characters also look excellent accompanying the amzing animation present in the game.

Presentation 7/10

This game has a decent presentation. The menus are average but saving can be a pain. In a nutshell, theres special about the menus. However the ending credits is very creative and awesome.

Lasting Appeal 8/10

After completing the game you can try again in devil hunter (hard) diffulculty. You can also attempt to recieve an SSS (highest) rank on every mission. Other than that there's not much else. Plus, there are online leaderboards so you can see where you stack up amongst the best of the best.

Overall: 9.2/10 (not an average)

This game is awarded 9.2 out of 10 for a job well done. Everything is neatly in a $59.99 package and when opened supplys over 5 hours of of Excellent action!!!

NOTE: If your still skeptical about this game, then download the demo off of the Xbox 360 Marketplace or if your lost, the Playstation Network.

WOW!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've been a devil may cry fan since the beginning and have played them all and this is by far the best in the series... the best cutscenes to date and the new character Nero gives Dante a run for his money... gameplay was tight and the controlls easy to learn... of course the camera angles are still off but that's forgivable... give it a try... you won't regret it... DMC 4 Rocks harder than the music that's in it... \m/!

Awsome!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is crazy addictive and a ton of fun to play. Nice long story as well. Only complaint is that you see the same settings a little too much.

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