10 Shameless Video Game Rip-Offs (That Were Actually Great)

10. Dante's Inferno

Let's kick things off with one of the most hilariously transparent-yet-awesome ripoffs of all time - Dante's Inferno.

Visceral Games' action-adventure game owes a debt to the earlier God of War titles that it can never repay, enough that you could quite reasonably call it a God of War clone.

From a design perspective, Dante's Inferno liberally imitates the series' combo-based combat, neat mythological monster enemies, heightened boss battles, and health replenishment system.

Really the key difference is that Dante's Inferno involves fighting through the nine Circles of Hell while God of War revolved around Greek mythology.

But it's tough to deny that Dante's Inferno is one hell of a fun game regardless, and in a gaming landscape crammed with listless remakes and remasters nobody asked for, why the hell hasn't it gotten the glossy re-do treatment?

Though critics were fair to ding the game for so shamelessly imitating God of War, it was also such a slick, compulsively entertaining experience in its own right, complete with perhaps gaming's best-ever depiction of Hell. All of this deserves to be celebrated.