Hi, I’m Greg Rizzer, lead designer on the Trials of St. Lucia. I’m really excited to launch this expansion pack for fans of Dante’s Inferno.
The Trials of St. Lucia is a unique DLC package. First off, we are introducing an entirely new playable character: St. Lucia. She has her own set of moves and features much more aerial style combat that Dante. Our character team did an amazing job with her. She looks amazing and adds new depth — also, I think her wings look amazing!
Second, we have added online cooperative play. The ability to be able to go online and fight hordes of creatures with a friend is really fun. I think the co-op feature is something that fans of this game genre will appreciate.
Also, with this new DLC, we’re shipping an entire Trial creation editor! This is a cool and easy-to-use tool that will let you create your own Trials, play them, and even upload them to the community so other people can rate them and attempt to beat your master creation.
That’s a lot of content for $10! But that’s not all: In addition to those big features, we are also shipping 40 Trials that were created and tuned here at EA. If you beat them all, you will be rewarded with Trophies. Lastly, the co-op mode includes Leaderboards so you can check to see the points you’ve earned as a player, and as a Trials creator, and track them against other Trials of St. Lucia players.
There’s literally hundreds of hours of gameplay here. Make sure you pick it up and get online to play. I’ll see you on the Leaderboards!
Sounds good. I’ve been wanting to try this game out. Now if they would do something like this with God Of War 3. Like adding Nariko from Heavenly Sword as the co-op character.
Can i go through story mode with the co-op feature or is it only for a combat arena type of mode?
Hi! Co-op is for the combat game – Trials of St. Lucia. Trust me, we would have LOVED to have tried co-op for story mode too. When we started making Trials of St. Lucia we didn’t know which exact character we would make. The single player game had pretty much been completed, and all of the puzzles, navigation, and combat were created for that solo journey… the descent into Hell in search of Beatrice. We think it’s a great story. Adding a second character, and one like St. Lucia that can fly, would have required a different set up entirely. So we (a separate offshoot team) put all of our focus on making a great co-op experience with this combat game, Trials of St. Lucia. We would love to explore more co-op experiences in the future if we get the chance!