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Gothic style: that's what Devil May Cry is all about. Featuring a silver-haired �ber goth called Dante in a flowing, blood-red velvet frockcoat - who can leap 20ft into the air then plummet headfirst towards the ground while emptying his antique pistols into monstrous hellions - Devil May Cry took the dirty business of hacking and slashing and turned it into a work of dark art, the delirious mixture of imaginative gunplay and epic sword slashing making every outrageous battle a joy to be part of. Sure, the story was paper thin, but with arcade action this intense, no one had time to notice.

Memorable for...
Overkill. Devil May Cry was unashamed in its celebration of violence, the game encouraging players to 'juggle' enemies in the air and generate higher and higher scores. Killing enemies wasn't enough: you had to do it into the most ostentatious way possible!

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