Dante’s Inferno, which has been shipped to cus­tomers already, is a game very sim­i­lar to the God of War fran­chise. It has already received mixed reviews, cit­ing “repet­i­tive and/​or deriv­a­tive game­play”. Nev­er­the­less, it has been con­cluded that this is a game that fans of action shouldn’t miss. As of yet I’m still unde­cided whether to buy the Dante’s Inferno or not. I think I’ll stay with Kratos though. Today, I saw the story trailer for NIER. While it cer­tainly isn’t to my taste there surely are a few sim­i­lar­i­ties to God of War. Actu­ally, the offi­cial press release says that this is a unique Action-​​RPG fea­tur­ing twist­ing sto­ry­lines cou­pled with deep char­ac­ter devel­op­ment. NIER is being pub­lished by Square Enix and will be avail­able in North Amer­ica on April 27th, 2010. We Euro­peans will have NIER in stores almost a week ear­lier on April 23rd, 2010. Enjoy the story trailer: