

Several gameplay elements were also inspired by a bug found in Onimusha: Warlords. Due to the staff feeling it would not fit the Resident Evil franchise, the project became its own title. The game was originally conceived by Capcom developers as Resident Evil 4. 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 Trish ( Beatrice Portinari) and Vergil ( Virgil). The story is told primarily through a mixture of cutscenes, which use the game engine and several pre-rendered full motion videos. He meets a woman named Trish who takes him on a journey to defeat the demon lord Mundus, who is responsible for the deaths of Dante's brother and mother. Set in modern times on the fictional Mallet Island, the story centers on Dante, a demon hunter who uses his business to carry out a lifelong vendetta against all demons. Released from August to December, originally for the PlayStation 2, it is the first installment in the Devil May Cry series. This list has been updated to include more games that fans of DMC should enjoy.Devil May Cry is a 2001 action-adventure game developed and published by Capcom. Even though Dante was an iconic product of his time, the cool trenchcoated superbeing is the closest fans have come to a quality video game replicating movies like Blade and The Matrix.ĭante is still a great character that fans love today, thanks to the stylized empowering combat of the Devil May Cry series. Updated by Michael Llewellyn: The Devil May Cry Series is still viewed as the benchmark for stylish and cinematic action games. This opened the door for many modern-day classics that are still going or equally acclaimed as the Devil May Cryseries and solid recommendations for fans looking for something similar. Other studios followed suit with games that used the same power fantasy action-hero concept of their own. The primary difference is that games in the same genre as DMC are usually single-player affairs giving its players a sense of power.


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Despite being viewed as an action game sub-genre, the Devil May Cry series harked back to classic beat-em-ups like Golden Axe, Double Dragon, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade. What initially began as an early concept for Resident Evil 4 became the standard for a new sub-genre of hack-and-slash action-adventure games. The first Devil May Crygame was launched in 2001 on the PlayStation 2.
