The sequel also benefits from a more varied, more consistent and simply more playful world. Instead, you start with a great working base level, and just build and build from there.
Thanks goodness, too, that inFamous 2 doesn’t do the traditional sequel thing of removing all your powers from the original game and forcing you to start from scratch. It’s hard to think of another open-world game that covers close combat, high-speed skirmishing and Gears-style, cover-based shooting with such skill, and as you reach the halfway stage, blasting scores of militia one minute, hurling impressively destructive mini typhoons the next, it’s a fabulous super-powered spectacle. The fighting itself is much improved, with improved melee combat based around “the amp” - an electrified club - and a strong selection of lightning bolt, kinesis and shockwave moves that gets more powerful and more exciting as you unlock new powers. The pleasures of inFamous 2 are very much those of inFamous 1: the thrilling display of super-powers in combat, and the joy of travelling through and over the city using a combination of sprinting, gliding, clambering and grinding. There’s a solid core of story-based missions to pull you through the plot, some with good or evil options that will hasten your movement towards guardianship or notoriety, These are backed up by a range of achievements, collectible and side-quests, all of which work to boost your powers and unlock whole new ones. Cole’s efforts are complicated, however, by the activities of a brutal, gun-toting militia that has taken power in New Marais, and by growing numbers of monstrous mutants attacking the swamplands and graveyards that surround the city. The action takes Cole to a new location - a fictionalised New Orleans called New Marais - with our hero on a mission to build up the powers he needs to confront a demonic being - the Beast - that is on his trail, ravaging the East coast as it goes. Now inFamous 2 continues in exactly the same vein. Take heed of your conscience, however, and Cole become the champion of the oppressed, bringing justice against evil, healing the sick and rescuing those in direst need. His new abilities can lead him to the dark side, preying on the weak and slaying anything and anyone that gets in the way of greater power. Combine these with Cole’s existing climbing and parkour skills - now supercharged - and you have a hero capable of battling the various gangs and mutants now at loose on the streets. Instead of dying, however, Cole becomes imbued with a range of electrical super powers, enabling him to blast foes with lightning bolts, survive huge drops, knock enemies flying with shockwaves and grind along electric cables. If you didn't play it, inFamous took place in the fictionalised New York of Empire City, and featured a rebellious young courier, Cole, who finds himself hired to transport a mysterious device which promptly explodes, resulting in the catastrophic near-destruction of his hometown. inFamous could, and inFamous 2 does it even better. Original ideas? Maybe not, but not every game can steal ideas from GTA, Prince of Persia, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Gears of War and make them all work together. Why? Well, if you’d played it for any length of time, you’d know that Sucker Punch’s open-world superhero epic is one of the unsung heroes of the current console generation a richer, deeper and more enjoyable game than rivals like Prototype or Crackdown, and packed with brilliant ideas. (Pocket-lint) - It might seem strange to complain that a game that sold over one million copies and has a Metacritic score of 85% never had the sales or the acclaim that it deserved, but when that game is inFamous, it’s a valid point.
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