Dante’s Inferno is a mythical shooter game being developed by Electronic Arts, with a morbid plot and game environment as you could image. You must trounce through the nine circles of hell as imagined by Dante Alighieri.

If you don’t know who Dante Alighieri is, and this will be the case for many of you, he was an Italian poet who between the years 1308 and 1321 (when he passed away) wrote what is known as The Divine Comedy, a collection of poems which are considered a literary masterpiece all over the world. The Divine Comedy “poem” consists of more than 14,000 lines, and is divided into three canticas – the one we are interested in is Inferno, or as we know it more commonly, Hell.

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The game takes the poem’s principle of progressing through the nine circles of Hell, with each circle representing a deadly sin or circumstance – and it’s within each of these circles the relevant sinners are punished in a manner of twisted ways.

In Dantes Inferno you begin your game in circle one, Limbo, where in almost no time at all you are greeted by a very young child barely of walking age – only this child is maniacally deformed, and has a fearsome looking blade embodied to it where it’s arm should be. Blink, and you find this one child has been joined by numorous others, and you have probably guessed they haven’t come to give you a warm welcome into Hell.

Divulging further details would serve only to spoil at this stage, and it would probably be in bad taste too as this does get a little sadistic and gruesome to a level that the age moderation here at Cheat Masters is not quite suitable at this time. Dantes Inferno is scheduled for release in early 2010, and promises to be a frightful, mind-meddling psychological title – certainly one to watch.