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The only reason this game doesn't deserve a 7.5 is because the first one deserved that score and I'm hoping Infamous 2 is a lot better than the first.



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There is nothing funnier to me than people who take bad reviews of a game personally, except when the people in question haven't even played the game. If inFamous 2 isn't SUBSTANTIALLY better than the first one in every conceivable regard, then a 7.5 is probably generous.



Dgc1808 said:
geddesmond2 said:
Dgc1808 said:
blkfish92 said:

Seriously though that reviewer must be retarded, the beta and the demo are amazing, superior to part 1 as a matter as fact. Why, just why did that reviewer give infamous 2 a 7.5?


You can't just the morality system from the demo.
You can't judge the pacing of a game from a demo.
You can't judge just how balanced a 20 hour game's combat will be from a the length offered int he demo.


Yeah you won't get the full extent of what the morality system has to offer and you definitley won't get a feel of how balanced the whole game will be but both the Demo and the Beta gives you a fairly good idea on what the games gonna be like and yes just like Bikfish92, I think the demo and beta are amazing. Anyone who played the first game will tell you number 2 is far superior to the original. I mean right off the bat you can feel how much smoother cole can climb up buildings, latch onto poles and controll the static thrusters with more ease. They even added a height booster to the thruster which gives you even more controll while travel through the city.

As for the games pacing. I'm sure missions work the exact same way as the first game because thats the impression the demo has given.


Dude, the demo had 3 missions. This is a 20 hour game. No way can someone make a decent impression on the entire game from that. In this review they straight out said that it won't feel like the first game and there's no way to refute them from 3 random missions in the demo...

As with your navigation comments they said in the review that navigation is fun and much smoother in this game. The only problem is when you're try to do some precise movements on say a certain part of a building to say get a blash shard in a wierd place. This was in the first game and I've seen how it can happen in inF 2 because just like in inF 1 cole has a mind of his own where he'll latch on to the most obvious thing to latch onto instead of what you want him to. In my opinion, it's not really much of a complaint because you wouldn't expect to collectible to be a cake walk to obtain but actually require a little work. His only real complaint about navigation was that near the end of the game you get a power that makes it all so much smoother and more fun and that just seems wierd to have something so great so close to the end.

I've beaten the first game 4 times on hard mode and still play it fairly often today. It's my 2nd favorite PS3 game. I enjoyed it the demo for inF2 but will hold my judgement and actually play inF2 before I start declaring it better than the first because of a demo. Straight of the bat I notice the camera is very annoying in inF2. It's way to close to Cole and zooms in even closer when doing melee combat which makes it hard to keep track of what's going on around you and because a big problem in smaller areas and walk ways or in really crowded fights. This shouldn't be the case in a third person action game where there's a lot of platforming involved. 

Also, everything just seemed so much easier in this game... For the big enemies there was a clear answer to kill them. L1 + Triangle made short work of anything. I also noticed you ALWAYS had access to those moves. You can spam them like crazy and completely deplete your guage and still keep spamming them. That made no sense to me. Why the hell do they effect your guage anyway if that's the case? EDIT: And I did make sure to fight these enemies with the demo set on hard. It made no difference. Still a cake walk.


All I'm saying is the story and morality system is only half the game. The demo gives you a fairly good idea on what you'll be doing in the whole game. Yeah you won't get an idea of what the stories about from the demo and you won't see any karma choices until retail version but everything else the demo gives you a fairly good taste of.

As for the reviewers whole movement controll hasn't changed from the first game comment he made. When PSN was down I did a run through of Infamous 1 on both Karma sides and booted up the Infamous beta in between to see what I could create. You can tell straight away how improved the movement is and not just by a bit, by a lot.

He also complained about the black and white screen the game switches to when your in need of health. The first game had that too (you know that game he gave a 9/10) and its there as a warning to the player that you need health and you get health from sucking electricity out of the thousands of power points around the city. When you do that the screen goes back to normal. It literally takes me 10 seconds to replenish. Screen goes black and white telling me I'm in danger, I duck and roll by pressing the circle button to a place thats out of enemy fire and I hold R2 near an outside light or generator, Black screen goes away. Very simple and it works.

Also the power he is talking about that you get near the end for navigation is the power shown in one of the trailers where you fly through the air like a bird and its unlocked towards the end of the game because if you had it earlier on you could get to places only intented for the last parts of the game like accross the swamp parts.

Lets face it many of this reviewers cons are not cons at all and have undertanding to them. I still can't believe he says the games pacing is bad and his reason for it was in Infamous 1 you had a routine. Go into a sewers get a new power rinse and repeat. That was the main issue reviewers had with the first game. That the game was too repetitive. So what now they want that repetitiveness back.

As for your last 2 paragraphs. I've no problems with the camera at all. I think its improved drasticly from the first game which had camera issues of its own. I know some people have issues with the camera but are they really that game breaking and so bad that it drops the games score down?? The melle camera zooms in when attacking but it zooms straight back out 1 second later when your not attacking.

In the demo your power gauge doesn't deplete and it regenerates. Thats why you could spam away with rockets and kill enemies easily. In the retail game this won't be a problem. If the first game is anything to go by rockets take up 4 or 5 power segments so you won't be able to spam rockets and the iconic powers don't regenerate either like in the demo. Enemies drop purple orbs for iconic powers and you can only carry 3 at a time.



Not after that awesome demo.



spenderzz said:
There is nothing funnier to me than people who take bad reviews of a game personally, except when the people in question haven't even played the game. If inFamous 2 isn't SUBSTANTIALLY better than the first one in every conceivable regard, then a 7.5 is probably generous.


There is nothing funnier to me than people who think their personal taste determine the quality of something.



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LOL!!! now I cant wait how ppl would react if GEARS 3 or Uncharted 3 gets the same treatment.



XxXProphecyXxX said:
LOL!!! now I cant wait how ppl would react if GEARS 3 or Uncharted 3 gets the same treatment.


I'll put money on gears get 9s and 10s all over the board and from what I've seen of that game so far they will be rightly deserved however I guarantee Uncharted 3 will fail to score what its predecessor did and it will be open to major criticism.



geddesmond2 said:
XxXProphecyXxX said:
LOL!!! now I cant wait how ppl would react if GEARS 3 or Uncharted 3 gets the same treatment.


I'll put money on gears get 9s and 10s all over the board and from what I've seen of that game so far they will be rightly deserved however I guarantee Uncharted 3 will fail to score what its predecessor did and it will be open to major criticism.

I highly doubt that.



Mad55 said:
geddesmond2 said:
XxXProphecyXxX said:
LOL!!! now I cant wait how ppl would react if GEARS 3 or Uncharted 3 gets the same treatment.


I'll put money on gears get 9s and 10s all over the board and from what I've seen of that game so far they will be rightly deserved however I guarantee Uncharted 3 will fail to score what its predecessor did and it will be open to major criticism.

I highly doubt that.


Only time will tell brother.



geddesmond2 said:
XxXProphecyXxX said:
LOL!!! now I cant wait how ppl would react if GEARS 3 or Uncharted 3 gets the same treatment.


I'll put money on gears get 9s and 10s all over the board and from what I've seen of that game so far they will be rightly deserved however I guarantee Uncharted 3 will fail to score what its predecessor did and it will be open to major criticism.


LOL my bet is both will get nitpicked to death while the same shit every year(MW3)  will get 10's all across the board! =D