Devil May Cry 2

Played this game when it first came out, thought it was extremely boring. The combat is ok but not really refined, mostly resorting to just shooting everything with your guns. THe maps are bigger but empty. Enemies are bland, from gorillas to these metal skeleton looking things. Boss battles are terrible, from tanks with eyeballs to helicopters with eyeballs. Just stay back and shoot, shoot, shoot.

What i hate is the level up system. Not only does it take a lot of red orbs to upgrade your weapons, you gain no new attacks and it just raises the attack power. You get so much weapons that is becomes annoying when you spent all your orbs upgrading a weapon then you find a new weapon which is stronger and realized you wasted your red orbs on the previously weapon (which you will never use again).

Lastly Dante is now a mute for some reason. Dude barely talks, and the ending is horrible.

Anyways, the only good thing I can say about this is the character model for Dante is great. This is my favorite Dante look.

5/10 Capcom pretty much erased this game from history, similar to WWE and Chris Benoit.

Action comes fairly easy in to the mind of the videogamer since it is all about timing. Much like tetris is action in the sense that you have to time it. This is much more advanced and less complete working from the frames of movies.

Camera is a core concept in action. You can either approch it with editing (e.g. Once Upon a Time in Mexico) or without (e.g. video games where the edit is impossible, or as we say in these circuits "Tarkovsky-ish", we are still waiting for this to be done great!). Devil May Cry was the first game to explore the camera issue that has been the biggest problem of videogaming since it's been compromising the artistic view. Say; if a director of a film doesn't have the money or people to make a big parade scene he can use objects to block the view so that 30 people look like 300, that cannot be done in videogames since you can "swoop" the camera yourself. Devil May Cry actually tries to capture the directors vision of action, Devil May Cry 2 does this aswell but since the new director only tries to mimic Hideki Kamiya the vision is not original.

However, this game is good. It's entertainment. It's that simple. It's premiss is simple it's execution is simple the controls and camera are responsive and does what they're told.

To comment on the plot would be to lower myself to a degree unworthy of a serious critic and is not of essence to the gameplay.

8/10 - Worthy of your time if you like videogames for videogames and not for interactive movies.

One of the best shooters of DMC that I ever play.

Just go to a corner, keep pressed the guns button and enjoy this amazing experience.

Dante is more mature and serious than other versions. Bravo! We are not childs anymore.

Lucia also is perfect for fans of TIM Burton.

Her desing is inspired in Sally from Nightmare before Christmas but also she want to die, and that makes more deep, mature and gothic than other titles.

The Lore is amazing, maybe you will think that everything is happing without a reason but keep thinking... This game require that out investigate conspiracy theories in Internet. Dark souls copied this in the their games.

Devil May Cry 2, in comparison to Devil May Cry 1, is somewhat of a disappointment. The levels are MUCH larger, but that is somewhat of a bad thing, as it is more about exploring rather than just demon slaying, like the first. The one true thing that makes this game disappointing, is it's difficulty. Devil May Cry 2 is the easiest game I have ever played in my entire life. But still, DMC2 is a good game, and worth a rent.

There's lots wrong with this game, but honestly it just takes the complete mickey out of anyone wanting to play it - let alone enjoy it!

End game becomes absolute garbage, bloody palace is just a spam fest of goats who hover extremely high in the air shooting at you constantly.. All while the ground enemies also attack you (and you auto aim at them, instead of the bigger threat looming in the skies). Dante doesn't feel like Dante, he's underpowered and every time you're knocked down, movement is extremely slow.

So what else? Let's see. The story is trash, and also you don't ever unlock any new movesets! Yup, that's right, no progression bonus except having to buy upgrades for your weapons... Which all suck by the way. Guns are overpowered in this game.

Save yourself a total snooze fest and pass. DMC1 is a brilliant game, and so is 3. This one belongs in the bin.

PS: This game was made in 4 months.. Says a lot about how bad it is.