Sorta, but it is the worst of the series.
The game has no story, they turned Dante into a brick with no personality (Though the DMC2 design is the character's best imo), the game requires no strategy, while the game did give improvements to the gameplay mechanics, the fact Dante only has 3 weapons, all of which are swords with the exact same moveset, just one's slow but strong, one's fast but weak, and Rebellion's a balance, kinda makes me prefer DMC1's gameplay (Least in that game the stronger sword also had new moves, and it also had a set of gauntlets, something only DMC2 lacks).