The forth Devil May Cry game from Capcom delivers a finely detailed Fantasy cross Shooter in the style of Japanese anime. From the very start you see Fast moving action cut scene’s with 'Matrix' style camera angles and exciting but physically impossible movements.
It's great to see games that involve slaying your opponents then be treated to a film-like cinematic. The storyline at times seems to be like a hyperactive child on a sugar high, at times making little sense with a special style of immaturity that Japanese cartoons makers seem to do best.
You control Nero or and Dante, fighting your opponents with guns, swords and Mortal Kombat style hyper-punches. You fight your way through the levels completing missions and puzzles. The levels are graded on time, style, and the amounts of red orbs collected, using an A, B, C or D grading system.
As Nero runs towards a cathedral, demons with patchwork skin crowd around as Nero's love interest sings an operatic tune. You rush in and find a seat, looking bored as Kyrie finishes her tune. As the high priest takes the stand Dante crashes thought the roof and slays the priest as everybody rushes out of the room. You now take the controls and start to learn almost impossible to remember keyboard combinations following the on screen prompts. You quickly start to realise that this would be alot easier with an Xbox or PSx controller.
Plenty of combo's and cut scenes later, Dante leaves thought the same way he comes in, and you sit through more movies until you take the controls again roaming around the city, trying to find the correct way destroying enemies and remembering the combo's you were just taught. As you enter various rooms, you find the exits are locked untill you've killed everything in sight.
The graphics are superb with fine detail everywhere you look. The sound is what you'd expect from Japanese amine. The type of gameplay and story might not suit some, but there is defiantly a certain genre of fans that will instantly love this. If you were fond of the previous Devil May Cry Titles, this is certainly an improvement on what you've seen, and a worthwhile investment.
The PC version includes exclusive features, faster speed, and DX9 and DX10 versions for XP or Vista PC's. The combinations are a challenge to remember when focusing on an enemy and looking at the keyboard at the same time.
The action is great in DMC4, the movements and camera angles create some great entertainment, mixed with the detail to presentation you'd have a brilliant game, but the gameplay can be frustrating trying to find your way around and remember the controls. The dialogue wasn't serious, and tried to hard to achieve an intense atmosphere. If you pick up this title, get yourself a game pad, or if possible, buy the console version.
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