Game Title: Infamous
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Another to check off the list. Infamous, developed by SuckerPunch. This is a game that was released in 2009 so I'm a little behind the times with this one. My best friend Pat played it last year and raved about it. I found it entertaining but it didn't blow my mind. There were some cool things going on and electricity powers are always groovy.
You play as Cole MacGrath, who's just finished touring with Sugar Ray... or wait, that's Mark MacGrath. Anyway, Cole wakes up in the middle of a large crater in the remains of the Historic District of Empire City. He seems to be the epicenter of the explosion. How did he cause it? How did he even survive? Guess you'll kinda find out as you play.
Infamous is another open-world game that seems to be popular, though the three islands that comprise the entire map are a little bit more manageable than other games of these types. You have your story missions, side missions, stunts, and blast shards to collect.
The big selling point of Infamous is that there are two routes you can choose to take: good or evil. For example, during key points of the game you are given a choice, you can share food with the populace or, keep it for yourself. The developers have made it so that you really need to play the game twice to get all the trophies because there are trophies for both the good decisions along with the bad.
And, that brings me to the problem. Do I really want to play this game twice? It was a bit repetitive and the story not all that great due to the dialogue-less cut scenes. Plus, the audio is set up that you have to turn the camera towards the person talking to you. Perhaps this is a bug in my copy, but this sometimes effected the audio scenes when somebody was calling me over my radio. This made hearing mission objectives a pain. Plus, Cole is a pretty one-note character. He doesn't say much except to threaten the bad guys. Villains types are not very varied either.
Even with these quibbles, I enjoyed Infamous and look forward to the sequel, where according to SuckerPunch, they plan on making Cole a little more relatable. Which is good since with his powers I didn't find him very electric.
Next level: Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition.
I tried playing Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition, which I picked up to play the bonus content. You know what? RE5 just isn't fun by yourself so I put it back on the shelf.
