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S.T.A.G.E. on 08 May 2011
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Akvod said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Slimebeast said:

Damn spoilers. I'm far from half way through of the first game.

So far I am disappointed with Infamous. It looked much better in the videos and everyone promised it would be a superb game. The missions are so banal, the story and presentation is stupid and there's a ton of other things I don't like. It's not much better than Crackdown. I like to play with electricity though.


Dont ever compare InFamous with Crackdown. Crackdown is a half-assed GTA with zombies. InFamous is a superhero game with multiple powers and a variety of amazingly created bosses. Crackdown is a sandbox shoot em up which actually isn't even as good as GTA as well.

He's right though. The story was sort of meh, and most of the optional missions felt repetitive like Assassin's Creed. However, the core gameplay mechanics were simply amazing. And it seems that the sequel isn't just going to put the story (?), graphics, animations, etc up on par with other games, but it's going to just fucking polish the core gameplay mechanic to perfection, and add a cherry on top of it (awesome powers) to top it off.

inFamous 2 was imperfect, but unlike other imperfect games, it had an absolutely solid foundation. Now's the time it  becomes a real AAA game. Only downside I can think of (before I actually play the game) is that there's no multiplayer.

Edit: Another guarunteed downside is the good/evil system. I vaguely remember them promissing that the choices would become more ambiguous, and now they show those two good/bad heroines (ugh, bad one is so fucking... bad) in the trailers... I really wish games would get rid of a karma system altogether, and allow you to judge if an action is bad or good.


Much like Assassins Creed it has the goods to stand the test of time. It also has a comic book about it so you can get back story. Second, why does there need to be multiplayer in this game? I understand everyones addicted to multiplayer but some games just do not need it. These are the same people freaking out about online when everyone knows the PS3 has more than enough offerings to hold us all off until PSN gets fixed. It's a compliment that compare InFamous to Assassins Creed when they are nothing alike aside from the sandbox aspect. They will be two great franchises while the Crackdown franchise, much like Too Human will remain just ok. Silicon Knights need to just give up and try something new.