Wowee... Devil May Cry 4 on PS3

Published by: Capcom

Developed by: Capcom Production Studio 1

Genre: Action

Number of Players: 1


Release Date: US: TBA 2007


Japan: December 31, 2006























Read about the previews of DMC4 and other game facts here.

Devil May Cry 4 is the second sequel: Devil May Cry 3 being a prequel, to the Capcom horror-action series Devil May Cry, which according to Capcom's Hiroshi Kobayashi will be released for the upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusively. According to Capcom's fiscal year report at Jeux-France, Devil May Cry 4 is expected to be released before March 31, 2007, along with the Platstation 3, which will be released globally by then. The four games do not ocur one after another: DMC3 is the earliest, followed by DMC1, DMC4 then DMC2.

The protagonist this time won't be Dante but a young knight, Nero, who witnesses Sparda’s legendary son Dante slaughter his fellow warriors. He is part of the Kyōdan Kishi (Order of Knights) and has psychokinetic powers which are just awakening in the game (described by a developer as the "Devil Bringer"). "Nero does resemble Dante greatly, but his attire consists of blue jeans, a long blue coat, and a red vest (the TGS trailer shows Nero in a red coat like Dante's.) He also wields a revolver (the revolver with the distinctive under and over double barrel resembles the revolver than Dan Smith in the Capcom game Killer 7 acquires during the progress of that game) as opposed to pistols and his sword is a slightly more decorative and single-edged sword called the Red Queen. Nero's arm also seems to resemble a demon's and glows supernaturally. This is actually where his Devil Bringer power comes from. Nero hates Dante, as he killed the leader of the Order." (Wikipedia) Also like part 3, DMC4 will have its event scenes directed by movie director Yuji Shimomura. The story volume will be greater than that of the previous games. But apparently, Dante still does appear in this game, whether or not as a playable character, we shall find out.

"The reason we switched to Nero is, when you consider how we want to open up new avenues for the core user and that we're switching hardware to the PS3, the easiest way to have these new gameplay mechanics... was to introduce a new character," Kobayashi said. "If we gave Dante [Nero's abilities], in my opinion, it won't be Dante anymore."

Besides the usual guns and swords which will be definately used, Nero's arm, posessed by an evil force, is the new weaponary. This new tool will provide a much neede foucs on posistioning in addition to dealing damage, like grabbing enemies from a distance, push those monsters away or just slamming them. This concept works closely to DMC3's Vergil's teleportation fighting style, Dark Slayer, the arm reaches out to grab foes and brings them to you, rather than breaking a sweat and rushing headlong towards them. Devil May Cry is definately living up to its name!!

Check the DMC4 trailer out! It's proving to be quite an exciting game from the looks!

Dig the teaser.. I can't wait for PS3