Well for me Infamous is a half-assed Assassin's Creed with electricity. And I mean the first Assassin's Creed (which is a very good game though).

I'm half through the 2nd island and so far the game has been a pain to play and not much fun at all.

The core gameplay mechanic is solid with the vertical movement controls and the electricity attacks. But the rest. The story and setting is, well it's just plain bad. It doesn't engage me the least and the presentation is cheap (the comics of say Dante's Inferno, that's how you do comic type cut-scenes). And the missions are even more repetitive than Assassin's Creed 1. Kill, fetch or race in its simplest form.

Enemy variation is horrible. I am so sick of reapers and their counterpart on the 2nd island. And I absolutely hate the game's "dungeons", those awful ugly sewers where you have to jump a frustrating repetitive course just to put the power on for every city block.

And finally even the graphics are poor.

-You don't have to do all of the side missions, pick the ones that appeal to you.

-Finish the second island before saying that the story is bad. Either way, what don't you like about the story?

-The comic scenes are there for the comic book nerds. I thought they look awesome. The splatter fit the style of the city really well, but thats opinionated.

-I agree that there is no enemy variety

-Those aren't dungeouns. They are parts in the game where you go "horray new power =D"

-It came out in 2009 and its an open world game. So the graphics are poor for what we are used to now. But back then, they were pretty good considering all of the special effects happening and all of Cole's animation.