This is especially obvious when the second area of Flood Town opens up. New Marais looks like a city deep in the dwang, even before Cole and all the freaks show up. Beyond that, the aesthetic look and feel is just spot on. Battles are now much more fascinating and spectacular in there own right, thus ensuring not only great fun but also a sweet satisfaction for the eyes. A technical improvement on the first game, inFamous 2 has a great level of environmental destructibility not seen in the first game. Which is saying a lot, since inFamous 1 was a good-looking piece of work. The first thing you’ll notice about inFamous 2 is how much better it looks than the original game. If only that high level of story-telling permeated the whole narrative. It’s a welcome move that will really encourage you to replay using a different alignment in your second go round. The unexpected plot development will make you really wonder about whether you have been good or evil in the first place. The journey towards the game’s ending is not as gripping as it could be, with the initial portions being rather badly paced and then getting a sudden, though believable, level of character development toward the game’s climactic finale. While the choice to be good or evil is pretty binary when it comes to your available powers, it carries way more weight when it comes to the story, though it doesn’t seem so at first. In either case though, Cole eventually develops into a being literally bristling with power. Whereas being good offers powers that have great focus, meaning it’s easier to keep civilians safe by picking off your enemies. Being evil means not caring about collateral damage when in combat, so a lot of those powers have splash damage effects. What’s interesting about the “good” and “evil” paths in the game is that each path offers both advantages and disadvantages to the player and do alter your playing style. How Cole goes about doing that is entirely up to the player since Cole can use less than scrupulous means to achieve that goal. Not enough on his plate? Add the fact that the New Marais has also suddenly been invaded by insect-like freaks. Who has a limited amount of time to improve his powers to be capable of battling this threat. People like Cole.Īt this point, it comes to light that the Beast is slowly making his way to New Marais to battle Cole. In New Marais, an obvious stand-in for the Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, Cole meets Dr Wolfe, a scientist that specialises in Conduits, people that are able to absorb Ray Sphere energy and develop super powers. It goes without saying that Cole gets his ass handed to him and, along with his buddy Zeke and an NSA Agent name Kuo, flees to the city of New Marais, leaving Empire City to be completely destroyed. inFamous 2 starts with this very encounter, playing out as a tutorial to familiarize you with the games basic controls and starting the game off with a helluva bang. In the closing moments of the first inFamous we learn that as the game’s hero (or villain), Cole McGrath is destined to battle a global threat know as the Beast. Cole McGrath is a bicycle courier, who gets caught in a mysterious and unusual explosion caused by a Ray Sphere device that destroyed an entire block of Empire City, leaving him miraculously unhurt and with electric based super powers. If you haven’t played the first game, inFamous2 makes only the slightest effort to fill you in. Taking all the originals goodness and optimizing it, rather than doing a wholesale revamp, inFamous 2 is very much a better game than the first one. When they make a sequel they make sure it’s better, as can be seen with their wholly under-appreciated Sly Cooper series. Thankfully the development house, Sucker Punch, doesn’t roll that way. The inevitable follow-up could easily have been a cut and paste job and still be considered a good game. Beyond that, it was also a good game in its own right, with tight gameplay and a reasonably good story.
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Review: The first inFamous for PS3 was a great showcase for the power of the PS3 that showed off the machines capabilities brilliantly.