I edited my previous post in regards to Free Roam. Here are the new things I mentioned, so you don't have to sift through it.
He can also catch the Capulet Express Train to certain points in the City.
Free-Roam will be on quite a large scale, because there's not just the City to explore; you get an equally huge underwater section and many different entrances into demonic Worlds, each one looking and feeling different to the other.
Dante won't just be the main person you can roam Capulet City with. Lady and Trish will have their own individual odd jobs also, and perhaps a few more characters will be playable too.
Missions will range from...Protecting and escorting people to various locations. Motorbike races to gain the respect of the bikers (Who will then offer you more jobs).
I agree, I think it would be fun. And my main aim is to make it a larger scaled game, so it adds some more replay value to it. Devil May Cry to me never really had a huge replay value. The only thing worth replaying DMC was completing the levels on a much harder difficulty and going through Bloody Palace. Both things had a challenging replay value, and nothing like a more relaxed/casual approach to the game. Now with this you have the option to go explore, complete the game on a harder difficulty, go through Bloody Palace, play through Devil's Brawl, replay story missions in Monster Mash-Up Mode. (Where you can also replay them on greater difficulties). So now you don't just have Dante to play the story missions with but a large range of demons, and you can select them to play as on harder difficulties also. So it's like you'd have the option to try and complete the game with a certain demon on the most hardest setting. And if there are forty demons to choose from, that's a huge number of demons to use and to try and beat the game on the hardest setting with. The replay value in my opinion is more tremendous with these features available, and should hopefully make the game more exciting and enjoyable.