With the release of Dante's Inferno for PlayStation 3 and XBox 360 today, players can get a real taste of hell. A version for the PlayStation Portable will be released later during the month.

An offering from the house of Electronic Arts, Jonathan Knight of Visceral Games is the Creative Director and Executive Producer of the title.

While talking about the decision to turn Dante's Divine Comedy's first part, The Inferno, into a video game, Mr. Knight said, "I didn't feel like that had been done in a game before and not really even in a movie, in terms of trying to go right at it. So that was kind of the impetus. Reading (The Inferno, the first part of The Divine Comedy), it felt like a game's worth of material and rather than just borrow ideas here or there, we thought we should just go right at it and do a game that would be a loose adaptation".

While Dante is the main hero of the game, both Beatrice and Lucifer have been given bigger roles than have been awarded in the original poem, mainly to "inject drama and basically conflict".

Although no definite confirmations have been made yet, Mr. Knight did say that there might be come interesting Dante material added to the game.