New Devil May Cry details leaked

A forum user over at IGN says he’s got some new details about Ninja Theory developed Devil May Cry from an internal source who’s apparently got his hands on the playable demo for the game which Capcom intends to put up at E3 this year.

He says that both Capcom and Ninja Theory took the criticism by the series fans’ very seriously and wants to ensure that the game’s polished to the core before showing anything about it and hence they’ve have revealed very little to no information since its announcement.

Here are the new details which the source mentions:

• Apparently, the demo has been “finished” for a while now, since back in February at least. Capcom employees have played it and say that it feels just like other DMC games, although no one can vouch for their level of DMC expertise. The reason NT hasn’t revealed anything yet is apparently because they were only four months into development when they announced the game, and obviously the fan backlash has made them wary of showing anything that isn’t polished to absolute brilliance.
• The leak believes he/she knows why they went with UE3 instead of MT Framework. He/She says it was because MT Framework is usually handled by a small team and is written in Japanese, and it was just better for NT to use an engine they had worked with before.
• As for the demo itself, the leak says that NT apparently has not dumbed down the difficulty, and that it has a fairly steep learning curve like past DMC games. Also, the combat appears very, very fluid (no comparisons given here), and appears to be running at a locked 30 fps. Of course, we don’t know if that will hold with tons of enemies on screen.
• Leak says that the “highlight” of the demo, or possibly game, is Dino’s morphing weapon shown in the trailer. No word on how it works but apparently it looks awesome.
• It is confirmed that NT has added a cooldown period to firearms so they can’t be spammed like in the past games. I don’t know if this is good or bad.
• He/She confirmed that Dino’s look hasn’t changed, although they only played the demo and they admit they know nothing about the story. So I don’t think this is a confirmation of anything except NT not caving to the demands of fans and changing the base design.
• Overall, they say that the gameplay is pretty solid for the build that they played. Again, they know nothing of the story, and they don’t particularly like anything else about the game, but that’s how it is. Gameplay enthusiasts should be happy.

The guy says he was told about these by the internal source and can’t vouch for these himself, so take this with a small pinch of salt.

Expect more details to be revealed about the game at E3. We’ll send Capcom an email and see if they’ve anything to say.