Devil May Cry

I liked how the story started out, and I liked the character of Dante right away. A dude with a big sword and dual guns, what isn't there to like? The fighting was rather fast and furious too, so what exactly are my complaints exactly? Well I did not care for the setting for one thing. The game starts out in a regular city, in a back alley and almost immediately shifts to an old castle. I don't know, Dante fit the city better, I would have enjoyed fighting in a more urban environment instead of the old Gothic one. Then there are the enemy characters...they are not all that different from one another. You have maybe four or five types you fight throughout the game and then the bosses. I need a bit more variety to be honest. Then there are the pointless underwater scenes I did not care for either. The game is also hard, so hard I had to play on easy which was to easy. Still, the game was fun as controlling Dante was fun and the fighting fun. I loved getting the grenade launcher late in the game. The story was okay, like I said I would have rather used this character in the city, granted there it would have been a bit like "Constantine", but hey that would be good in my book. So it is a good enough challenge and rather fun, I just hope the sequels are better.

Devil May Cry is as much as a stylish thriller as it is an intense action game. There are many graphical nuances that enhance the experience as well, such as entering a mirror and having this alternate world appear blurry. Numerous attacks are portrayed with ultra fast and smooth animations, contributing if nothing else to how much fun the game is to play and how much fun these battles are to be involved in. Dante can also hover in the air after a jump and fire his handguns, gaining even more bonus points in the 'damn that's really cool' category.

Unfortunately the game ends a bit quickly. The game can easily be completed in under ten hours, longer only if the player wants to complete the game on all the difficulty settings and earn the highest ranking on each mission. Otherwise, you're looking at a game that will satisfy most with only a rental. However, it's the type of game everyone should have in their collection. It's one of the few elite games that have graced the PS2 so far.

Devil May Cry Rocks. 10/10

Apart from the voice acting so bad it's perfect,the simple but effective combat,the bosses either being unfair or pretty good and the camera but overall dmc 1 is a classic that should be remembered fondly for years. Although a remake would be nice. Without getting into spoilers the story is pretty good it's simple and is barely the focus. The main focus is the gameplay which is the main gimmick. As a revolutionary hack and slash it features a mixture of melee and guns combat. For the time it was simple and great but there is one problem,the camera is sometimes painful. Also the music is perfect. Tldr 8/10 I recommend.

This marks the beginning of a great series of slashers, which was originally conceived as another installment of Resident Evil. And to be honest, when the game really reminds you in places that it was conceived as Resident Evil, you realize how ridiculous it is and how it wasn't mature enough to be considered a great slasher game to the core. The boss battles here are not as difficult as the battle with the camera, and the story itself is just a token addition that develops into segments that only make you cringe. But in terms of design and its unusual approach to gameplay at the time of its release, it was truly an outstanding work of art, but nowadays it looks radically outdated and unnecessary against the backdrop of the subsequent parts of the series, which showed in true form how Devil May Cry should feel in all its glory... And no, I'm not talking about the second installment (although we'll get to that).

MANY video game movies have failed, as mentioned before. But it is only because they are picking the wrong games. This is a MUST for movie consideration. But another thing about video game movies is they just dont cast the right people, so I'm hoping if they DO make DMC a movie, cast the right actors!