By Aaron Walters aka ROK Soldier
I remember when I first met Dante. He was a flashy demon hunter and I was a showgirl at the Copa Cabana�
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His name was Dante, he is a devil.
With silver colored hair and a sword strapped down his back.
He would maim and he would kill things.
And when he grabbed a devil star, he would watch his life bar.
The devil trigger would heal, enemies would be his meal.
Ebony and Ivory, BOOM BOOM BOOM.
Who could ask for more?
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Ahhhh, the Devil May Cry was such a treat to play. I felt like I won a prize went I started playing the game. It had action, women, guns, bad guys, Uber Bad guys and a surprisingly good story. It was a high octane action game that lasted to the very end. Huh? Oh�OHHHHHHHH. I see. You want me to tell you about Devil May Cry 2.
Devil May Cry 2 sucks.
This is the best way to describe the game. Everything that made DMC great is absent in DMC2. One of the greatest things about DMC was the abundance of enemies, sweet gameplay, fantastic environments and the great story. There was a good cut scene after every few levels. There is none of this in DMC2. If this were a beta, then I would say yes, it�s great, now fix this and that and come back to me in a few months. Unfortunately this was not the case because the levels are too big, the enemies are too few too weak, the story is irrelevant and the fun is all gone.
The levels are very large. This is not good for a fast paced action game. Sure the levels look nice and the sound is what I expect, but it�s as if all the attention was spent on how the game was presented and not on the gameplay. You want short levels jam-packed with enemies to keep the action level high. Nothing is worse than having to run around with nothing but sparsely placed enemies for the next 20 minutes. When you do fight enemies you find that there are only a few different varieties of the same 4 types of monsters.
You want the story to DMC2? I can sum it up in one sentence. Dante goes to stop a human from becoming a god. Very simple and nothing I would call a plot twist. Oh, yeah there is a second disc where you play as some chick Dante meets, Lucia. That disc suffers from the same problems as the one where you play as Dante.
Fun left this game a long time ago. He just decided to pack up and move on to other games, like DOAXBV. The best way to describe why DMC2 sucks is the fact that DMC was created by a Japanese company under the guidance of Shinji Mikami (God of Resident Evil), DMC2 was created by Osama Bin Laden to reduce moral and prepare the U.S. for invasion. It worked.