Devil May Cry (video game)

Devil May Cry is a 2001 action-adventure game developed and published by Capcom. Released from August to December, originally for the PlayStation 2, it is the first installment in the Devil May Cry series. Set in modern times on the fictional Mallet Island, the story centers on Dante, a demon hunter who uses his business to carry out a lifelong vendetta against all demons. He meets a woman named Trish who takes him on a journey to defeat the demon lord Mundus, who is responsible for the deaths of Dante's brother and mother. The story is told primarily through a mixture of cutscenes, which use the game engine and several pre-rendered full motion videos. The game is very loosely based on the Italian poem Divine Comedy by the use of allusions, including the game's protagonist Dante (named after Dante Alighieri) and other characters like Trish (Beatrice Portinari) and Vergil (Virgil).

This article is about the 2001 game. For the 2013 game, see DmC: Devil May Cry.

Devil May Cry
North American PlayStation 2 box art
Developer(s)Capcom Production Studio 4
Publisher(s)Capcom
Director(s)Hideki Kamiya
Producer(s)Hiroyuki Kobayashi
Artist(s)
  • Makoto Tsuchibayashi
  • Yoshinori Matsushita
  • Sawaki Takeyasu
Writer(s)
  • Hideki Kamiya
  • Noboru Sugimura
Composer(s)
  • Masami Ueda
  • Masato Kohda
  • Misao Senbongi
SeriesDevil May Cry
Platform(s)
  • PlayStation 2
  • PlayStation 3
  • Xbox 360
  • PlayStation 4
  • Windows
  • Xbox One
  • Nintendo Switch
Release
August 23, 2001
  • PlayStation 2
    • JP: August 23, 2001
    • NA: October 17, 2001
    • PAL: December 7, 2001
    HD Collection
  • PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
    • JP: March 22, 2012
    • NA: March 29, 2012
    • EU: April 3, 2012
    • AU: April 5, 2012
    PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One
    • WW: March 13, 2018
    Nintendo Switch
    • WW: June 25, 2019
    • JP: June 27, 2019
Genre(s)Action-adventure, hack and slash
Mode(s)Single-player

The game was originally conceived by Capcom developers as Resident Evil 4. Due to the staff feeling it would not fit the Resident Evil franchise, the project became its own title. Several gameplay elements were also inspired by a bug found in Onimusha: Warlords. Devil May Cry received prominent coverage in the video game media due to the impact it had in the action-adventure genre, its high difficulty, and the high overall scores given to it by professional reviewers. The game has sold more than three million copies, spawned multiple sequels and a prequel, and is considered among the greatest video games of all time.

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