Infamous Second Son has the best graphics I've seen on a console game, but a pretty looking piece of shit is still a piece of shit.
The first two games were great and playing through the first few missions I expected that Infamous Second Son would live up to the first two titles, but once reaching Seattle the majority of the missions are running from point a to b to c. The mission's are set up like this, before you can do missions in each area, you'll destroy a UDP truck in each area which will unlock the mission or missions in that location, then 99% of the missions are constantly pressing o to dash with whatever power you have to get from checkpoint to checkpoint. I'm sure you've heard people bitching about how smnoke is the worst power because of how it takes much longer to get across the map. This is the reason. When you get neon and Video you've got new powers, you'll be able to run through the city faster, but just about every mission is just that. Travel point a to b.
There are 12 districts in Second Son and within each district there are three side missions. You either need to destroy a camera that's viewing a small location, walk around a small area until one of the random pedestrians turn into an enemy and kill him before he escapes, and use your phone to track an a small location to download data from. The side missions just feel like yet another collectible, while their are hundreds of other collectibles around the city. Compare it to the first game which had 89 and the second game that had 70 side missions with a large amount of variety.
If the limited missions weren't enough, then imagine my disappointment finding out about the enemy variety while playing through the game, and how few skills you've received for each power, the marginal difference between good and evil Delsin, and how enemies were ridiculous bullet sponges. I had to force myself to play through most of the game. Luckily the game is so damn short I didn't have to suffer too much.
4/10
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