This is a story of Hate, Love and Retribution. You mainly play as Nero,
a young, cool man working for an organisation called the Order of the
Sword. Everything is going well for him until a mysterious assassin
murders Sanctus the High Priest of the Order during a ceremony in front
of everyone in the Opera House. Now Nero is given the task of finding
this assassin and bringing him to justice. The story unravels further
on involving Kyrie (Nero's romantic interest), Dante, Credo (Kyrie's
brother and the Leader to the Orders Knights). The story is one of the
best i have seen from a game and has some fantastic cutscenes.
The gameplay is top notch as you would expect from a Devil May Cry
game. The way you can just string combos together effortlessly is
astounding and amidst all this sword fighting and gun shooting there is
a couple of puzzles to keep you thinking. There are plenty of secret
missions hidden in the 20 main missions throughout the game, these
require you to complete a certain task to pass the test. As you play as
the main character, Nero, you have many tools at your exposal, these
include: The Devil Bringer, the Yamato sword, the Red Queen sword and
the Blue Rose revolver. Nero is playable from mission 1 to 11, then
Dante is playable from mission 11 to 18 and you finish off the final
two missions with Nero. Dante has four different styles, these are
Trickster, Gunslinger, Sword Master and Royal Guard. Also he has his
dual pistols called Ebony and Ivory, his shotgun and the Rebellion
sword.
Graphics in DMC4 are outstanding, the attention to detail is
unbelievable and has to be challenging Gears of War, Bioshock and Mass
Effect.
There are some problems that let this game down, for instance, the
camera angle can become confusing at times when it can change when it
doesn't really need to and you can find yourself running the wrong way.
Also when you do get to play as Dante, you have to play all the same
levels as you did with Nero so it is pretty disappointing to see that
Capcom couldn't be bothered to design new levels especially for Dante.
But these aren't big problems to stop it becoming a great game.
Finally extra modes and options include a Survival mode, Theater mode,
Library mode and Leaderboards to view your ranking on Xbox Live.
So what can I call Devil May Cry 4?
BRILLIANT
