Players can create trials using an in-game editor to customize arenas, enemies, obstacles, and combat objectives. Trials can be single player or two-play co-op experiences and shared with players from around the world who can download and play them for leaderboard scores. For players that are looking for new challenges right out of the box, Trials of St. Lucia includes 40 increasingly difficult Trials designed by the Dante’s Inferno team at Visceral Games. With this game-extending pack, players will also receive an all-new playable character – St. Lucia of Syracuse – Dante’s guardian angel who flies and is equipped with all-new moves and combos. Dante’s Inferno Trials of St. Lucia is available worldwide via the in-game Downloadable Content menu as well as on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace at a cost of 800 Microsoft points and on the PlayStation Network Store for $9.99.

Key Features Include:

• Online Co-Operative Play – Choose Dante or St. Lucia and play co-operatively online; combine battle tactics to defeat other players Trials and earn a ranking on the Inferno leaderboards.
• Create Combat Trials – Create your own Trials with a full-featured combat editor. Pick from new locations, create waves featuring new and existing Dante’s Inferno enemies, tune and script characters, add traps and obstacles, then upload and share your creations online with players across the globe.
• St. Lucia – A New Playable Character – Play as the beautiful and deadly St. Lucia of Syracuse, the battle-ready angel that flies and possesses all-new moves and combos
• Challenge Yourself & Other Players– Download and play other players’ Trials or try your hand at beating EA’s increasingly dangerous single and two-player Trials. Challenge yourself to win medals, achievements and rank up leaderboard scores.
• Rate Trials – Provide a 1 to 5 star rating for Trials that you play. The online community will help the best Trials rise to the top!
• Rank on the Worldwide Leaderboards – Compare your worldwide standings as Player and/or Creator.

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There was a huge response to this but all the correct entries have been thrown into the hat and a winner has been drawn.

The answer that we were looking for was:-

1. Limbo

2. Lust

3. Gluttony

4. Avarice and Prodigality

5. Wrath and Sullenness

6. Heresy

7. Violence

8. Fraud

9. Betrayal

I hope you enjoyed looking up the answer and also enjoyed getting the old grey matter working.

And the winner is ……..  Gary moore!

Congratulations and we will be contacting you in the next 24 hours for your postal details.

Again, thank you for everyone who entered and not to worry as there will be another competition very soon.

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1. Competition: Win a copy of Dante’s Inferno

Dante’s Inferno, published by EA, was released earlier in the year and was well received by critics and gamers alike, including ourselves.  For you chance to win a copy on Xbox 360 for yourself you will need to answer the following question:-

According to the 14th century poem by Dante Alighieri called The Divine Comedy, what are the names of the nine circles of hell?

Please e-mail your answer along with your name and contact number by the closing date which is Sunday April 18th to the following address – dantecomp@mature-gaming.com

Rules

1. The competition is open to U.K and EU residents only.
2. The minimum age for entries due to the rating on the title is 18 (if you’re under 18, you shouldn’t be here you naughty kids!)
3. I.D. checks may be carried out to verify your age and if found to be unsatisfactory you maybe excluded from the competition.
4. People with the correct answers will be drawn from a hat at random and contacted after the closing date and within 2 days.
5. The judges decision is final.
6. Any suspected breaking of these rules will result in your entry being disqualified.
7. Only one entry per person.
8. Mature-gaming.com reserves the right to withdraw the competition at any time.

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It all sounds a bit grim but that is how the game has been designed and nothing shows this better than Visceral’s depiction of hell as described in the famous story.  Every element of each circle of hell’s visual style has been given a mature depiction of the sins derived from the book.  From Limbo to Lust to Guttony, the look for each sin gives a creepy, edgy and dirty feel.  From gratuitous sexual imagery to blood lust and severe violence, it is all here in droves and the game is definitely worthy of the 18 certification afforded to it.

Remember this is not meant to be a game for children, it is not even a game that has been created to provoke a reaction from the media.  To do that would be to damn the very classic poem that has spawned this game in the first place and it lays out its stall almost immediately to brutal effect.

All good hack and slash adventures need to have a solid foundation to build from in terms of control and Dante’s Inferno delivers it pretty well.  Based on the standard moves of most games in this genre you have your power attacks, your normal attacks which you can attach combo moves to.  The face buttons feel responsive when pressed and the battles appear fluid.  There are also certain points when a pre determined button combination appears for special moves and actions which when pressed at the correct time will unleash a slow motion action scene.  You can also upgrade your attacks and magic via a nice little character enhancer where the souls you have collected will go towards more abilities.  Pretty standard fare but it does work quite well.  When in the middle of a fight there are chances to grab your foe to absolve them or to punish them for your sins by pressing the R trigger.  If you are in a fiendish mood the punishment option will open up a horrific death move where absolution for all you saintly people will allow you to collect their souls.  This element works well but does have a flaw in that the other demons and monsters will back away while you decide what to do.  In a world so chaotic I feel it would have been wiser to let them attack whilst this is going on.

As you are aware, any game in this genre bases itself around running through areas, killing enemies in the most brutal way possible, solving a few puzzles and playing a few mini games.  Dante’s Inferno is no difference at all and breaks these components down in nice bite size chunks that differentiate enough that you won’t get bored with the dynamics of the game immediately.  Move crates around to get to other areas, time your moves and jumps at certain points to stop yourself falling off of crashing floor and kill as many enemies as you can as brutally as you can.  There are also certain famous people from history where you get to decide their fate.  People like Pontius Pilot and Orpheaus make their back stories heard and you decide their fate.  Punish them will enter into your standard death moves but to absolve them enters you into a mini game.  It feels like a rhythm game without the music to collect bonus souls, tap the right face buttons as the souls come in over a given period of time and you will gain extra souls for use to power up.  Although fun for the first few occasions you do tire from this quickly so I personally opted for death moves after a while for the fun factor.

Overall, Dante’s Inferno is a solid game, built on the foundations of a classic poem that depicts its environment in the brutal and hellish way that you would imagine.  The howling, crying of babies and lost souls adds an eerie atmosphere to the game but where perhaps the game shines in visual style and mechanic it slightly falls short on originality.  It is standard hack and slash fare that has been seen before and although there is replay value there, I think after completion the game will really shine again when the first scheduled piece of DLC arrives in April.

Don’t get me wrong, I have had a lot of fun with the game and will continue to do so.  It has done nothing wrong where Dante’s Inferno is concerned but feel that PS3 owners will wait to see what the next big game in this genre delivers.  If you are 360 though and want something that will deliver a similar experience to its Sony counterpart and love this genre then I would recommend it to you.

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User content will be rated on how good it is and your name put on a leaderboard.  Sounds like LittleBigPlanet to me but with more restriction.  This can only be a good thing as we see many games now following the same trend to allow this kind of customisation for an unlimited gameplay experience.

Look for our review of Dante’s Inferno very soon.  It does all depend though if the postie decides to pop it through the door today as it should have been here yesterday.  Got to love em – right?

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