PS3

Devil May Cry HD Collection

Hack and slash/Beat 'em upAdventure

Space needed: About 10.4 GB
Time to beat: about 23.1 hours
Plays offline: Yes

Overview

Devil May Cry is an action-adventure game franchise created by Hideki Kamiya, and succeeded by Hideaki Itsuno for every game after the first until Devil May Cry 5. The hack and slash series introduced the new subgenre of character action games that ranked style used in combat. It is primarily developed and published by Capcom. The series centers on the demon hunter Dante and his efforts to thwart various demon invasions of Earth. Its gameplay consists of combat scenarios in which the player must attempt to extend long chains of attacks, avoid damage, utilise taunts and exhibit stylised combat by varying their attacks to express creative, freestyled action choreography in real time; this combat, along with time and the number of currencies collected and consumables used, are considered in grading the player's performance from rank D to S.

The series alludes to Italian poet Dante's Divine Comedy. Hideki Kamiya created Devil May Cry after a failed attempt to develop a Resident Evil game, with the first game originally being conceived as Resident Evil 4. Kamiya wanted to create a game with more action features, which Capcom felt the series did not need, but still showed confidence in the end product as standalone. The later games were directed by Hideaki Itsuno and writer Bingo Morihashi.

In 2010, Capcom announced a new game, DmC: Devil May Cry (developed by Ninja Theory and supervised by Capcom), during the Tokyo Game Show that year. A high-definition remastering of the three PlayStation 2 titles was compiled in the Devil May Cry HD Collection and released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2012, and in 2018 for the PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One. The remasters were released as standalone titles for Nintendo Switch between 2019 and 2020, with Devil May Cry 3 receiving exclusive new modes on the platform to modernize it. The latest game is Devil May Cry 5, released on March 8, 2019.