| forevercloud3000 said: Infamous is one of my most favored video game series. I love comic book superheroes so it is right up my ally. Most who did not like the series was because you aren't a GOD from the ouset of the first game. You are pretty human, with a zappy gun finger at the beginning. Cole's GOD like status doesn't come into fruition until close to the end of inFamous 1. Infamous 2 let you keep all your abilities from the first, just added even more to make you a BEAST! If you didn't like the first for the reasons stated, play the second(free with Plus). And how the hell is I2's story bad? Its a direct continuation from the first game. Given, Alden/Sasha/Kessler were far better villains, ill give you that. Yet the lofty goal of stopping what your future self couldn't gave the game a strong motive. Especially after getting your ass handed to you, even with your godly powers in the very begining, really makes this notion set in. Plus....the ending of the 2nd kind of blows all other game's in the genre out the water. One of the most epic final moments in a game I have every experienced. |
Escalation is one of my favorite parts of Infamous. Like you said it doesn't give you everything you kinda feel powerless at the start. I love the upward swing your power takes all the way to the end of 2 instead of resetting everything for the start of that game. In the beginning you're trying to clumsily run or climb to your goals and by the end you're zipping on electric lines before launching off and flying through the air with the static thrusters. Then in 2 you practically start to fly (upgraded thrusters) and those ionic powers feel even more destructive than the thunderstorm in the first game. It really gives you that sense of progression and I love how the city adapts to your choices and advances and the people show the condition of it.
SP really nails the open world genre and taking down the government bases sounds like a blast especially if there's stealth and improved melee (a non existent and weak point of previous games respectively).
It's one of the few series I can't answer which is my favorite because while 2 is definitely more refined I love the origin story of 1 and the villain more. Also it had some major surprises (the ending blew my mind and I can normally predict movies/TV/games endings coming from a mile away) while 2 had such incredible powers and gameplay variety (love the fire and ice mechanics). They're really awesome in different ways but top notch all around (minus some nit picking like melee combat). Hopefully Second Son can take the top spot now.
