Totaly overhyped, full of old jokes, hours of sensles buttonmashing.
Just to list simple facts:
-All other seires had some story, more or less consistant... some terribly stupid, others a little less than terribly stupid, but still - there was some sense and purpose and it was enaugh to keep you on playing to discover whats more behind whole this chaos.
-In all other series,Dante was a pro semi-bastard/semi-badass cruel tough anihilator of anal-hopes of your enemies, wo simply wished to survive the menace. Even Nero, was less hopless than Dante in DMC3.
-In all other games of the series the gimmicks are fresh and weapons are simple, usefull, efficient.
And DMC3 ruins all the aspects other games of the series have >.>
And I don't know what you people see in Raiden... baah, I mean Dante, because in DMC3! He is like Raiden in MGS series... childish A-hole who tries to impress you with his stupidity, like he was some 14-yo schoolboy that tosses the worst jokes you can imagine X_X
You know, all those one-liners that are suppose to finish off a scene, the bruce Willis-Die Hard-style... but he fails it, because people responsible for creating Dante's character for this game must have sucked a baseball bat through a firehose...
So... Dante stands in front of the main antagonist, receving a hard punch of some gaming wisedom:
"Well, son of Sparda, I guess you are destined to die..."
And Dante says:
"Well I gues... NOT!"
Are you f***ing serious?!
that's your rolemodel? Christ... Dante in DMC4, was a cool badass fella who knew exactly how to bust his enemies and nail someone like a John MacClain would, even when he's punched in face, he knows the cool way to 'fall on the bench' so that he looks like he planned it all. Damn! But dante from DMC3? It's not Dante, na-aaah! It is some idiot who shares the name with Dante from other releases, but he aint him!
Also, I'll spoilt a bit of story here... it's not like a big deal, but meh...
So DMC3 starts with dante sitting in his place, eating pizza... AND! All of the sudden! For NO PARTICULAR REASON! A huge Babel Tower springs up in the middle of the city and army of foul demons roam start to roam the hood... well... just because.
So our main hero, walks up the tower, like 2 kilometers up! Not knowing why or what for, killing thousands of mobs and trashing some bosses, just to stand on the top and face his brother there! They have a typical japanese sword fight, with jumping arround like monkeys insulting eachother honour, and just BECAUSE dane's bro jumps off the tower to land on the ground... so dante does the same, jumps off the tower, gets swallowed by giant flying whale, which he fights from inside and walks out of the fish by it's rectum, to fly down on the ground and find out that his brother, already walked up the tower AGAIN! So dante walks up a tower once more killing people, to face his brother again, and some other vilain, and as he is defeated, the game ends...
>.>
Yup... it's like that.
So I was "WTF did i just played?!"
Ah yeah, also people keep yapping about ooohh awesome weird weapons. Yes some are awesome, m fav was the Guitar ^^, but n the other hand, you use them so rarely, sticking mostly to one or two types for fast and slow battle, that the rest of arsenal remains pretty much useless.
Boring, schematic, clichee... with the greatest idiot as a protagonist as it can get.