Hell excites the minds of people from the time of the early Middle Ages – take at least the “divine comedy” of Dante Aligieri, the Italian poet of the 13th century, where the underworld is described in such detail as if the author saw her with his own eyes. In the future, the creators did not cease to fantasize on the topic, and the idea of the container of sinful souls changed in accordance with the era.
In both classical and mass culture, you can find thousands of different options for fiery standards: some of them scare, some mix, while others cause nausea. We have made for you a list of the most atmospheric and entourage versions of hell in the gaming industry; And even if the hordes of demons are waiting there, they should definitely look in them!
Doom (2016)
At first glance, underworld in Doom – Banal classic: Flame, sulfur and raging demons everywhere. But if you look closely, ID Software I managed to come up with hell, inspired by the usual paintings, but at the same time perfectly inscribed in the futuristic plot of the game.
Geenna in Doom is assembled from shreds of civilizations destroyed by demons. Like a living organism, local hell digests enslaved worlds and sucks all energy from them. In the end, they dry out and become almost indistinguishable from the joyless space that absorbed them. Only small details remind that these places were once alive.
The local hell is like a Mister X Casino cattle -beam rather than the monastery of sinners. Most of the people who meet the hero are brutally killed: planted on peaks, gnawed to the bones alive or bleeded by blood suspended above the pentagram. This spectacle prompted to grab the gun and break through the hordes of devils as well: I don’t want to finish the life of the same carcass in agony!
Saints Row: Gat out of Hell
Hell in Saints Row: Gat out of Hell call "New Hades", and it looks like a metropolis after the apocalypse. Here and there, rivers of lava flow between skyscrapers, somewhere in the distance the flame is raging … And everywhere horned red-skinned people are walking up, ready to pounce on strangers at any moment.
The underworld is not in the best condition: Satan is more preoccupied with the search for a profitable passion for his daughter than the effective management of his kingdom, and therefore the cheeky demons and sinners create that they want. What is one William Shakespeare, expelled from the underworld for flirting with his daughter Luci: suffering from the lack of attention to his person, the famous playwright dared to open his own disco bar right under the nose of the Dark Prince! In addition, this is almost the most insane version of Tartar on our list: where else do you ride in a chair with rotary machine guns in the armrests and shoot in devils toads of bazuka?
Devil May Cry 5
For five parts Devil May Cry The main characters are fighting with demons, but they bring them to hell only by the end of the last (at the moment) – and it looks like a dry plant, which is eaten by blood instead of water and cannot be saturated in any way. The root of the clipot, which grew up in the middle of the Redgrave City, allows you to remotely imagine the world of demons, where there is neither fire nor cloud crystals: only darkness, decline and stink of decomposition.
This gray and lifeless hell does not cause any feelings except hopeless. It resembles a dungeon where the prisoners will have to either fight endlessly for the right to life, or become a fertilizer for a huge terrible organism. It is not surprising that the path to power over this world lies through the courses of the gardener-organized man, where they teach to grow demonic apples.
Darksiders
Where without the underworld in the story of the riders of the Apocalypse? Here, blood pressure is not a metaphysical container of vicious human souls, but another world, inhabited by hell, which does not care about sinful people: there are enough sins.
Series Darksiders demonstrates the underground kingdom during periods of heyday and decline, and the second option went much more atmospheric and worse. It is one thing when you see just an alien universe living in its life: let the kingdom of darkness be full of fire, deserts and internecine wars, it looks whole and organic. Completely different – when this strange world is broken into pieces.
After the Apocalypse described in the license plates of the franchise, hell was destroyed. The end between the forces of light and darkness came to an end, and the underworld began to delay into the abyss in parts. Demons left her like rats – a sinking ship, and in the end the world of demons became a fragment of eternity, drifting on the air. He makes a depressing and oppressive impression: as a ghost city or alienation zone, local hell is full of memory of those who once lived there. When looking at these joyless expanses, it becomes clear that the bright future for them and their inhabitants is hopelessly lost – even in the specific understanding of demons.
Dante’s Inferno
Despite the fact that Visceral Games Stubbornly calls his brainchild a game based on the "Divine Comedy", in common with the primary source of Dante’s Inferno A little. Nevertheless, the local hell was still sketched from the legendary poem, and you can describe it with only one short phrase: like Dante, only worse.
The developers did not skimp on grotesque images in which something is visible from Jerome Bosch. Then the anus spitting with fire blocked the hero, then greedy and trancerers attack him, grown into the ugly semblance of Siamese twins, then they are trying to kill the revived torture machines. The ubiquitous blood, dirt and rust evict associations with the ax of the lazy executioner: every day they are killed by people, but they did not bother to wipe and clean at least once.
In hell Dante’s Inferno, you almost feel the smell of bowel movements, blood and metal, and involuntarily crooked. Its indigenous inhabitants cause no less disgust than the alien sinners – thanks to the developers that at least the idea of portraying lust in the form of a huge demonic phallus refused. However, naturalistic details like naked female charms, undisguised male advantages and columns of a suspicious form here is enough.
Agony
Announcing Agony, studio Madmind promised to shock players, but the sophisticated audience will no longer surprise the mountains of meat and blood oceans. Therefore, the developers decided to contact the same that their colleagues from Visceral Game flirted with – naked body and its metamorphoses.
The local hell is far from the ingenuity of Dante’s Inferno, but it is vile in its own way: this spectacle causes a desire to squeeze his head into the shoulders and squint. Geenna in Agony is a place where aborted babies fasten bricks, replacing cement; where you can meet a faun, turned inside out; where every second demon seems to be created by Dr. Frankenstein, who was condemned by eternity to sew ugly demons from pieces of human bodies. Having met a dozen or two of such monsters, you involuntarily begin to ask the question: “It is the developers are so crazy or I have such a wretched fantasy?". It’s even a pity that the flat boring plot is not worthy of the colorful scene on which it is played out.
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
The role of hell c Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice Helheim plays, the kingdom of the dead of the Scandinavian myths. It rarely scares with landscapes that chill blood, and in general it differs little from the usual world … Perhaps because it is born of the human mind. It was created not by a cruel god or devil, but by the madness of the main character – and therefore it seems especially terrible.
The underworld of the young warrior Senua, who has lost her beloved, is woven from painful memories, grief and hatred. This is an endless way to the goal, to get to which it is impossible. Helheim torments the heroine, leaving no place for hope – and in the end breaks her, forcing her to come to terms with the fact that she will never receive the desired. Senua can show its best qualities, overcome all fears and defeat all enemies, but this will not give anything even: what the girl was so striving for is inaccessible. And this torture is more terrible than bonfires and boilers.
However, people have long realized that souls are cleansed through suffering, and in Hellblade journey to hell brings a healing function. In addition, the recently announced the sequel: suddenly in it Senua will still be able to meet with a lover?
AFTERPARTY
Hell in AFTERPARTY – The most friendly of all of the above, which does not make it less sinister.
This version of the underworld is similar. In the afternoon, the local inhabitants work, and they will certain. Demons also need to relax in the breaks between torture and filling their invoices for the next batch of souls; And what could be better than brightening up evening with a couple of cocktails in the company of friends? The most devoid parties, of course, are arranging Satan, but any of them they are not allowed. Do you want to hang out with the cool demons of hell and begging your miserable life back? First earn a reputation, mortal!
The kingdom of darkness performed The Night School fascinates neon madness and vitality. It is difficult to distinguish from a party area of some metropolis (only this party is fraught with much more dangers). The demons, by the way, are painfully similar to us: they have the same problems, the same experiences, the same crises of identity and suffering because of broken hearts. Only the priorities are different – but it would be strange if the inhabitants of different worlds differed only externally.
Diablo
The creators of the universe Diablo We decided to recall that hell according to the canon is an underground kingdom, and turned it into a string of endless dungeons. Those who decide to stick into them will have a hard time: even a valiant nephalus, one left sour cream of devils from his journey, will sooner or later want to drink … well, or he just gets tired of whitening.
The underworld Blizzard It works on the principle of "not to let anyone in and not let anyone out". She is hostile to the look, which in fact: the paintings of recent sacrifices, flooded with blood torture and installations from human bones, completely beat off the desire to go deeper, even if you forget about the numerous guard. Here, anyone will surrender their nerves – and the demons will also punish the hero for disrespect for the beautiful, if the design of local interiors will not have to be moralized!
God of War 3
The afterlife, where the Spartan Kratos gets, looks like a state under the rule of a cruel tyrant. The gloomy kingdom of Hades in God of War 3 Endoic epic: it amazes the imagination with its scale, against which a person seems to be a grain of sand, and creates a deceptive impression that the possessions of the Olympic god of death are not at all a prison for souls.
The fact remains: Zeus’s brother, distraught from power, turned his monastery from the hospitable, albeit a joyless world into real hard labor. The deceased obey him in a voluntary-compulsory order: if they dare to disobey, they are waiting for inhuman torment. This is somewhat reminiscent of biblical hell-adjusted that in ancient Greek mythology there are nowhere else to go. They simply did not have a paradise.
Of course, you can recall many more games where the heroes are walking in hellish expanses. And although the paintings drawn by developers are very different in tone, atmosphere and details – whatever one may say, mostly the underworld represent a rather terrible place. It is not surprising.
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