Violent Video Game Versions of Literary Classics?

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Dante's Divine Comedy: the video game. So this is a real thing. Sadly. From the blog post:

If you took some college lit you're probably familiar with the Divine Comedy, or at least its Cliff's Notes. So you'll remember well that the author/narrator Dante was a musclebound rageaholic who slaughtered demons with his trusty, powered-up scythe, and it's only natural that the upcoming Electronic Arts video game — set for release in 2010 — would tell it like it was.

...when Dante is traipsing through the limbo level, he fights unbaptized infants who were relegated into darkness when they died...


...One of the freakiest parts of the demo came when babies with glowing eyes and blade arms jumped out of a hell crib and started attacking. Dante's guide, Virgil, explains that these unbaptized babies are stuck in limbo...
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What literary classic would you most like to see turned into a violent videogame? Give me you best quick pitch for it too!

Here's mine: Jurgis is fed up with the meat-packing plants of Chicago mistreating him and the other employees. Armed only with his trusty machete, he must navigate the treacherous underworld of the windy city, cutting down capitalist swine and spreading the fierce fist of socialism. Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, coming soon to the PS3.
 
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Just gotta say... Divine Comedy as a video game?! Frickin' awesome. It's great source material - SO visual.

Anyway, I could see Cyrano de Bergerac as a great violent video game as-is (just expand a few off-stage scenes...)

I could also see Hester Prynne as a masked vigilante, branding hypocritical townsfolk with her signature "A."
 
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JoNightshade said:
Just gotta say... Divine Comedy as a video game?! Frickin' awesome. It's great source material - SO visual.
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I don't know if I remember Dante meeting blade-armed babies in Limbo, though. I must've been absent from class the day we covered it.
 
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Cybernaught said:
I don't know if I remember Dante meeting blade-armed babies in Limbo, though. I must've been absent from class the day we covered it.
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True, yeah... not sure about the Limbo part. But the circles of hell? That book scared the crap out of me.
 

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JoNightshade said:
Just gotta say... Divine Comedy as a video game?! Frickin' awesome. It's great source material - SO visual.
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Word...

Though I am kinda disappointed that EA is already planning to recycle the "monster infants attack!" idea from Dead Space. ¡híjole!
 
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WTF? Killer dead babies? That's just...icky.

Sorry I don't have my own violent literary classic to offer (though I'm sure Robinson Caruso or perhaps something based on the Trojan War -with demons and such, natch- would be interesting).
 
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Can anybody help? I'd like to come up with a violent video game version of the comics Henry or Nancy. (Kids! Ask your grandparents!)
 
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He started as a pickpocket on the streets working for a gangsta called Fagin. But he knew he was meant to be the boss. You better watch out when the poor little orphan boy comes calling. Please may I have some more, beeyotch! Grand Theft Auto: Oliver's Twisted. Rated E for Everyone.
 
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They all went after the farmer's wife.
So now, it's her turn.
SHE CUT OFF THEIR TAILS WITH A CARVING KNIFE.

THREE. BLIND. MICE.​

Rated "E" for Everyone!

See how they run! See how they run!
 
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Napoleon Bonapart wages battle by day and preys uopn the people of a small town with a meat axe at night in: War and Pieces: Rated PG13.
 
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The Scarlet Pimpernel. Chauvelin is a demon, of course. And so is Sir Percy! He doesn't stop at rescuing aristocrats--he turns them into demonic warriors as Chauvelin creates a sans-culotte zombie army led by Madame Defarge. The goal: battle around the guillotine. Severed heads SPLAT! Knitting needles impale! And if Chauvelin reaches the guillotine, he'll activate a powerful spell that brings it to life. Beware the maniacally laughing National Razor!
 
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Before them...a bright new future of domination.

Behind them...a wide swath of pestilence and famine cut across a poor, defenseless country.

Men fear them.

Women desire them.

Together they are...THE JOADS.

Together they have sown...THE GRAPES OF WRATH.
 
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The Bible - Beat the Devil Back to Hell :D

I can see it now. You can play as Jesus or one of his disciples (each with their own set of skills, weapons and attacks) battling through hordes of demons, performing exorcisms, killing unbelievers :p until you get to the end where the final showdown is with Beeelzebub himself.

I am actually no one has come up with this already - unless they have and it just didn't take off :p
 
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