10 Best Spectacle Fighter Video Games Of All Time

3. Devil May Cry 3

The former best of the best where Devil May Cry is concerned, this prequel third instalment introduced us to the youngest Dante yet; a stylish, shirtless warrior who'd just as much down a slice of pizza while punching his jukebox into life, as ride an enemy through the crowds, spinning and firing pistols as he went.

In short, Devil May Cry 3 is action games perfected, as they were in the mid-2000s. DMC 5 took all the base foundations and mechanical evolutions on offer to do something altogether more crazy, but DMC 3 deciding to flesh Dante's moveset out with unique "Styles" was a godsend.

Now we had a character that could specialise in Swordmaster, Gunslinger, Trickster and Royal Guard, giving you a dedicated button for melee specials, firearms, evasion or blocking respectively. DMC 4 would bring these together under a tapping of the D-pad to switch on the fly, but that game's story is paced atrociously, and Dante was left running through the same areas other character Nero had already completed.

In DMC 3, everything became streamlined to a mirror sheen. Cutscenes had Platinum upping their game in regards to choreography and sheer inventiveness, and controlling Dante finally felt on par to the sorts of stunts and ridiculous stuff he was doing outside of gameplay.