Difficulty:

Just Right

Time Spent:

20 to 40 Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Highly addictive"

The 1st Devil may cry was one of the greatest action games ever made with a lot of action, a lot of enemies and a lot of moves and weapons, the second devil may cry was a total let down with a confusing history and a completely diferent surrounding, letting being all the gothic stuff that worked so good at the 1st devil may cry. In the third installment the series came back with all its glory, with action like we haven't seen before, a lot of movements, a lot of weapons and a great flashback in Dante's history. So far we had the story being told this way: DMC3, DMC1 and than DMC2.
In DMC 4 the story takes place between DMC1 and DMC2 (I think they wanted to forget about DMC2 so nothing in DMC4 its related to DMC2), I was afraid of another let down, but I was wrong and capcom delivered another great DMC that lives up to the standarts of the series.

Gameplay:

In DMC4 we are able to control 2 characters, Dante of course, and we also control Nero (we can say nero its the main character). They are quite diferent from each other and that makes the player not to get sick from nero or dante, you play with nero like 2/3 of the game and than you play with dante and than with nero again at the end. Nero as what they call a devil arm, the arm its pretty usefull and there are gorgeous animations when you use the arm, when you play 2/3 of the game using the arm and you switch char for dante you will certainly miss it, with the arm you can grab enemies, grab enemies in the air, smash them to the ground... a lot of things and combos can be done with it, the bad thing about nero its that you don't have any more weapons, you only have 1 gun, but with dante you will have some more and all the styles from DMC3, with dante you'll have a very uncommon weapon that its both a grenade launcher, a minigun and can also transform into something that remembers a TANK!
Anyway the gameplay its pretty solid and really enjoyable, there are just a few games where mastering the gameplay can feel so rewardable.
8. (Because everything its solid and works great but there's nothing really new aside of nero's arm).

Graphics:

The environments are a decisive factor in the devil may cry franchise, at the beggining I was a bit worried about this because you start of in more like an industrial setting than in a gothic like setting, but this changes and even when your in the forest (that as nothing to do with the game original environments) it feels cool, the variety of environments in my opinion its pretty cool because we are not always fighting monsters in a castle or a dungeon.
The graphics in the game are really good, its a really next-gen game and devil may cry characters look better than ever. It doesn't matter where you're playing (castle, forest, city) everything looks pretty cool, in the forest levels the shadows and rock textures are really amazing, also the animations are flashy and pretty, smashing fruit can be really fun to watch.
9.

Music:

All of that rock style music in battles are back, and the themes differ from place to place depending where you're playing, also soundeffects of the environment are pretty cool.
8.

Lifetime:

Anyone who have played previous DMC games know what makes this games have a long lifetime, you have something like a 12-15 hours of play, but then you unlock more dificulty levels and a lot more things that keep you going on playing in other dificulty settings, the gameplay its so rewardable to master that makes you really play the game at least 3 times, you also don't unlock everything at the 1st time you play, so you need more to upgrade weapons to their max and unlock every single picture and stuff like that.
9.5

Overall:

Devil may cry 4 its one of the best action games out for the ps3, it has good graphics, great gameplay, the music its pretty cool and a lot of things to do in the game. DMC4 its a game that deserves to be picked up.
Final: 8.5.