Dante\'s Inferno Gets Online Co-op Today

by Peter Eykemans, posted on 29 April 2010 / 1,260 Views

Dante's Inferno just dropped a new downloadable expansion called The Trials of St. Lucia on XBL and PSN for 800 Microsoft or $9.99 respectively.

With the new pack, you can now play as the additional character St. Lucia and team up with Dante to wreak some online cooperative chaos.

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The "Trial" portion of the DLC is a new combat arena in which you can design a trial with waves of enemies in different locations, with different difficulties and timed events. You can then share the Trials with your friends and rank those of strangers.

The official key features are as follow:

Online Co-Operative Play – Choose Dante or St. Lucia and play co-operatively online; combine battle tactics to defeat other players Trials and earn a ranking on the Inferno leaderboards.
Create Combat Trials – Create your own Trials with a full-featured combat editor. Pick from new locations, create waves featuring new and existing Dante’s Inferno enemies, tune and script characters, add traps and obstacles, then upload and share your creations online with players across the globe.
St. Lucia – A New Playable Character – Play as the beautiful and deadly St. Lucia of Syracuse, the battle-ready angel that flies and possesses all-new moves and combos.
Challenge Yourself & Other Players– Download and play other players’ Trials or try your hand at beating EA’s increasingly dangerous single and two-player Trials. Challenge yourself to win medals, achievements and rank up leaderboard scores.
Rate Trials – Provide a 1 to 5 star rating for Trials that you play. The online community will help the best Trials rise to the top!
Rank on the Worldwide Leaderboards – Compare your worldwide standings as Player and/or Creator.

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It sounds like an intriguing feature. But then again it all depends on how in-depth the Trial creation mode is and the announcement is also unclear if the online co-op also applies to the original game or just the new Trials.

As mentioned, the DLC is now available for download.