Great game for a great price means you won't go wrong picking up this title.

User Rating: 8.8 | Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition PS2
The original Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening was an excellent game to begin with except it's difficulty curve was way too steep for it's own good. The Special Edition fixes this by putting the difficulty levels back to the way they were originally implemented in the Japanese version. For example the North American release of DMC 3 had the difficulty levels changed. The NA version's Normal Mode was equivalent to the Japanese version's Hard Mode. The continue system has also been changed so that you can continue at your last past checkpoint instead of having to start the whole level again. This is known as Gold. The option to still play with the old continue system is available and called Yellow. The Gold mode also allows you to buy Gold orbs that will automatically refill your health so that you can continue fighting.

Graphically this is a pretty good looking game. The characters and enemies are nicely detailed and creepy looking. The environment is just as detailed and the destruction is well represented with debris. One level in particular really stands out. In one of the missions you are inside the body of a giant beast. The designers did an excellent job here bringing the environment to life and giving it a disturbingly organic feeling.

The sound is well represented with a grinding metal soundtrack complete with low gutteral lyrics. The sound effects are really well done with metal on metal when weapons collide to enemies laughing when they appear and screaming when you dispatch them. The voice actors do an excellent job with the dialog also with my favourite being Vergil's.

As for the extras there are quite a few such as playing the game as Vergil, a 9,999 level dungeon of just purely fighting enemies from one level to the next getting progressively harder, extra costumes, artwork and video clips. They are all quite good except when playing as Vergil there is no story from his perspective nor does he have an ending. This is probably the only real disappointment with the game other then that it's a great game and one you should pick up if you enjoyed previous DMC games or similar titles like God of War and Ninja Gaiden.