If it's good then more people will think it's alright do so.
Mythological influences are fine, as are superstitious and religious ones, but I'd rather leave the butchering of classical literary works out of the picture, especially considering the fact that Dante's Inferno at a cursory glance would make an absolutely boring game .(Look, there's some nasty stuff, don't want that to happen to you! Moving on!)
As he said, it wouldn't be so bad if the game was to be accurate to the source material, but the only possible way for it to accomplish such a feat is for it to be an adventure game, and a look at the trailer and the current state of the adventure game genre in the mainstream market says otherwise.
So if it's not true to the notable poet's words then what is it? A cash in on the title, on the name, a pathetic use of something considered "cool" by the mainstream audience because it has to do with hell and demons and Italian writers and what not.

I don't mind people using previous works to influence their own, they aren't making a new Dante's Inferno and saying "This is what they ment in the novel" They are just using influences from it. My only problem is the marketing team slapping the name on it, but what can you do it make it sell more so they are doing their jobs right. I don't like EA anyway, they gobble up other companies, tear get teams of creators apart, and ruin series.

Dante Alighieri is not amused. At all.

Hehe, he hardly looks like a comedy writer, huh? :-D

he actually is, some of his early works were satiric poems =P

I know. The Divine Comedy is supposedly also, uhm, supposed to be a comedy, yes? ;-)

aye if you're a bit sadist the Divine comedy will be the best laugh of your life ;)

I've come across the same thing with the Handbook to the Zombie Apocalypse.
It's supposed to be a comedy because it takes itself so seriously.
I didn't find it funny, I found it useful.
I live in Arizona.

The Divine Comedy is named as such because it utilizes the Italian language rather than Latin, poetic works were classified by their linguistic methods as comedies or tragedies and so on in this period.

Fantastic. That's like classifying computer games after what sort of wrapping they're in. "Is it in a box? Then it's an RTS. If it's in a DVD cover, then it's an FPS, and if it's in a jewel case it's an RPG" :-/

Excuse me, did I create this system? Was it my intention to fabricate a web of classification for literary works that existed hundreds of years before I was even born?
I am just stating facts, no need to get uppity, it's a comedy because it uses "low" language, the Italian language, rather than a "high" language such as Latin, actually, only Latin to be precise.

Hey, hey, hey! Where did I say any of that was aimed at you? It was aimed at the tosspots who invented that bloody system, sometime in twelve hundred and mighty mouse. I thank you for the information you gave, why on earth would I berate you for it?

if i recall correctly (maybe i'm just plain wrong) it worked this way:
-bad start, good ending -> comedy
-good start, bad end -> tragedy
then there was something else i've forgot too
latin was used for poems and scientific purposes, but after dante poems and similar are mostly written in "low" language

To be honest, it's just as sad as when movie companies make travesties of other original creative works.
EA already butchered The Godfather. I will never forgive them for it. And now, The Godfather II which is basically going to be a GTA beat-em-up. Nothing short of criminal.
In the end, it all goes down to marketing. If EA makes a fancy mobster game called "EA Sports BIG Mobster Game" it's not going to turn as many heads as "The Godfather". So "Demon Slasher XXII" is not as attractive as "Dante's Infierno" even if in both cases the final products are hideous deviations of nature.
If they called it anything else I wouldn't have a problem, but if they called it anything else they wouldn't get half the sales.

a rose by any other name...