Infamous 2
It's been about 2 years since I killed my future self and saved Empire City.
As he/you is dying he prophesised that the Beast was coming..
He was right. Infamous 2 starts with you facing off against a HUMUNGOUS red giant who is destroying Empire City.
You get your ass kicked and barely escape to New Marais a New Orleans style town in the deep south.
The local militia don't take kindly to you presence, Monsters are roaming the streets and the Beast is slowly making it's way south towards you.
Time to roam the open world killing bad guys, collecting blast shards to increase your health, doing tricks to gain powers and doing story and up to 60 side missions to gain as much power to fight the beast.
Gameplay
While there has not been a huge amount of changes to the gameplay it has given you enough new powers and a whole new setting in which to go mental.
Infamous 2 remains one of the best open world action games on the market the movement is fluid and exciting as you clamber up buildings, surf along electic wires and fly through the air. The combat has remained tight with new melee options and a range of new weapons from the standard electic shock to cluster grenades and sticky rockets.
You are mostly stuck to the electric man powers of the first game, but you can transfer the powers of one of the two new sidekicks to gain ice or fire powers later in the game depoending on your morale choice.
It also throws in new ionic powers that have to be seen to be believed. Sending a giant tornado down a street seeing it pick up all the cars and throw them at the enemies is always fun.
Verdict
Initially I thought this got off to a slow start as the game starts with a huge battle and then dumps you in a quiet new city with limited powers. However once I started to explore the game got addictive as hell. Searching the city for every last blast shard, message drop and completing all the side missions became so much fun.
The powers are a blast to use, the bigger titan monsters take some beatings and it's a loooong game. I think I must have put about 30 hours into it.
I collected all the collectibles and all the PS3 trophies with the exception of the evil missions as I was playing as a good guy. Now I need to go back and kill some street performers and get my evil on.
Brilliant.
9/10
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