So I’ve finally managed to try out Infamous on the PS3, and I like the ending. It’s another sandbox game and it came out roughly around the same time as Prototype on the Xbox 360. Now I’ve played both and it seems that to me Infamous is a child-friendly, ball-and-chained game compared to what it could’ve been. I mean the main guy Cole, he suddenly gets superpowers (ie electricity) and he goes around shooting off these blasts from his hands at the bad guys trying to gun him down, but there’s no blood! there’s no violence in this game which would make you think about picking it up after finishing the story and you fancied frying some pixels.
Now the game itself, although being a sandbox game, felt very linear. It was all “Go here, listen to the brief and kill some crazies and/or other people with powers like you”. The side missions which I didn’t do too many were didn’t really add much to the game, the whole being good or bad thing didn’t seem to have a great impact on how you played the game I played as mostly good (picked a few bad choices just because I was getting annoyed at some sequences) and near the end of the game everyone has turned on you anyway. I really enjoyed the ending of this game, not because I was glad to see it finally finish (I really found the missions dragging), but it comes with a twist you could’ve see coming from some distance away, it does leave you intrigued as the final cutscene talks about the main bad guy’s (Kessler) nemesis. Which leaves this game open for a sequel. Another thing I enjoyed were the (although few) cutscenes for major story points which were done in a comic-book fashion, this I guess could lead to spin-offs of comics and books for this game if the guys at Sucker Punch ever wanted to make some more money out of this game.
Apart from needing to play it a few times to get all the trophies, I really don’t see the replay value of this game. If you enjoy sandbox games but want guts and blood I recommend Prototype which is available on the Xbox 360, PC and PS3
Now to wait for Final Fantasy XIII, once I get Heavy Rain back I’ll post what I think about the game which could save the PS3
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