INFAMOUS

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A massive explosion rips through six square blocks of Empire City, leveling everything and everyone in its path. At the center of the blast crater a lone man has survived the event and has been changed forever. From the creators of the award-winning Sly Cooper series, Sucker Punch brings you inFamous, the first open-world action-adventure title exclusively for the PlayStation 3 system.


Players will experience what happens when a real person suddenly starts developing super powers. Will they exact revenge, protect the innocent or do little of both? These are the situations gamers will face when immersed inside a richly interactive and organic living city. A place where actions create broader reactions in the citizens and landscape around them. inFamous lets players unravel an evolving mystery, experience fame and/or infamy and battle powerful, iconic villains…all the while feeling what it is like to become a modern day superhero.
Genre: Third-Person Action

Exclusively on PlayStation 3
Release Date: December 31, 2009




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General Features

Be a Hero: Take on the role of Cole, an everyday guy and urban explorer, who develops a wide range of electricity-based powers. Learn how to adapt to Cole’s evolving powers in an attempt to save Empire City and its people.
Super Powers: Feel what it is like to discover, grow and use a wide range of electricity-based super powers (good or bad); and grasp the responsibility that comes from being so powerful.
Epic Battles: Experience what it is like to be a true hero, taking responsibility for every action, as players battle against powerful iconic villains.
Open Dynamic World: Coupling rich powers with a reactive environment and population, experience complete freedom to explore a deep, open interactive city. Players will be challenged to decide if they choose to save or destroy Empire City.
Urban exploration: Scale the cityscape to discover new vantage points and employ a vertical combat system. Utilize Cole’s climbing skills to go where most people can not, opening up a variety of offensive and defensive combat options.
Organic, City Ecology: Watch the citizens and city react and evolve depending on players’ actions. Events will unfold based on the role players take in them, creating broader reactions in the city’s people and environment.

[Ocelot]

Has anyone played this Demo? It's surprisingly good. Made by the same folks that gave us the Sly Cooper series.

The reviews have been pretty positive as well.

Gametrailers review:
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Kotaku Review:


http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2009/05/custom_1243221973152_Infamous-1.jpgInFamous (http://kotaku.com/tag/infamous/) is supposed to be super-hero gaming done right. It's also the PlayStation 3 debut of one of the PlayStation 2's most ambitious development studios. Nothing could go wrong, right?
A PlayStation 3 exclusive from development studio Sucker Punch (http://kotaku.com/tag/sucker-punch/), InFamous charges that something besides the ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound or to unsheathe Adamantium claws from the back of one's hands is the ultimate video game super-power: electricity. Infused into a hero's body, that crackling force can be shot at enemies or used to enhance grinding and hover movements that turn a city's skyline into a skate park.
Everyman protagonist Cole begins the game dazed by an explosion that has turned the fictional Empire City into a riotous ruin, its electric lines frazzled, its parked cars smashed and burning, its citizens terrorized by gangs. The developers have walled off the three-island city, setting in motion a plot that allows the player to receive a new electricity-based super-power about once an hour as friends are made, hundreds of buildings are scaled, streets are cleansed of gangs, and the player's actions fork toward one of two moral paths. Those paths alter the plot, the reactions of Empire's citizens to Cole and the powers he can improve.
But some might wonder if it's safe to mix your KOTOR with your Crackdown.
Loved
Playing With Power: Rockstar taught us that open-world games should be full of mayhem. DC and Marvel taught us that every super-hero battle must leave at least one city-block shredded. InFamous (http://kotaku.com/tag/infamous/) arms and preps the player to over-satisfy those needs. Blasting this much electricity and sending so many citizens, cars and giant-sized enemies flying all at once should hobble Sony's machine. Or turn the gameplay to a mess. Neither happens. By the game's final third, the level of power under the player's command feels almost dangerous.
Raccoon in Cole's Clothing: Screenshots and interviews will tell you that this game is a departure from Sucker Punch's kid-friendly, PlayStation 2 platforming trilogy, Sly Cooper. But the deeper one plays, the clearer it becomes how much Sly is here. This isn't a Crackdown clone, despite the feel in the game's first third that that Xbox 360 game's over-charged guns have simply been ported to the PS3 and turned into electricity-charged hands. By that point, the player has learned that, like Sly's adventures, this game is designed for easy but deft character movement. It's a game for a hero who hops from rooftop to rooftop, runs across power lines, can commit big-scale actions via controls whose responsiveness and simplicity belies the acrobatic magnificence of what's on screen. Yeah, this feels like Sly.
The Sights, the Sounds: Empire City is that rare architecturally memorable video game city, with some great facades and dramatic skyscraper crowns. It's coated with grimy but attractive detail, and scored with Hollywood mood music. This is made possible because Sucker Punch breaks a major rule of open-world adventure: It retains much control. The color of the sky and time of day are fixed, changing only when programmed to shift, allowing the studio to set moods with visuals and audio. The developers know which moments deserve bright sun and which are best coated in darkness or fog.
Stuff Rockstar Didn't Do: Sucker Punch smartly tries some things the Grand Theft Auto makers haven't executed in their open worlds. Chiefly, inFamous' world reacts. Play as a classy hero and the people love you. Play as a rogue and they throw rocks. But the improved reactions of the citizenry illuminate the uncanny valley of non-player-character behavior. Surely, these people should react even more convincingly? Sucker Punch also distinguishes itself from Rockstar with — thank goodness — several new open-world mission types: wall-crawling challenges set on the sides of skyscrapers, some inspired activities set on train tracks, a macabre bunch of death-march missions and even a batch involving public hangings.
Hated
Moral Confusion: Developers, beware your morality plays. Cole can gain more destructive powers or more benevolent ones depending on how a player steers him through clearly-identified karmic crossroad moments. The game's cut-scenes adapt. Plus, 15 good missions are locked off from evil players (and vice versa). But while all these mechanics work, the story strains to allow such moral range. It's hard to buy that a guy established with Cole's clean origins and care for his friends would go rogue or still be friends with said people if he did. InFamous is advertised to present its players with the quandary of how to wield great power, but, early on there's no quandary at all of what a guy like Cole would do, given the nature of his relationships and the low intensity of his starter powers. InFamous feels less like an opportunity to explore a range of behaviors than it does a game that can either be played a true way or in a way that disconnects player motivation from that of the on-screen character.
Bad Drop: Cole is a better-controlling wall-crawler than Spider-Man or Assassin's Creed's Altair — when he's on his way up. Clambering up the side of any building is an enjoyable cinch. Jumping off of them to the ground without fear of death is fun too. But collection and combat challenges often have the player wanting to lower Cole down the side of a building handhold by handhold, and that action — along with some infrequent platforming glitches — often feels clumsy and imprecise, costing the game some of its gymnastic grace.
Sucker Punch's previous game, Sly 3, was a laboratory of experiments. More than just a platformer, it was a playground for 3D-glasses gameplay and even fit a set of pirate ship battles staged across a grand map of the sea. As a follow-up, inFamous couldn't be anything other than more streamlined. It benefits from being a game of grand action without being a game trying to pack in too many things.
Whether it's the best super-hero game ever made, though, depends on your desire to play as a super-hero who has never starred in movies or decades of comics. For those who don't require a famous cape or claws, this is strong stuff. Cole's adventure is bombastic and constantly exciting, ready at its end for a sequel. It is a game of satisfyingly powerful action, one of the best showcases for climbing and shooting yet set in an open world, even if it stumbles in provoking the player to feel the moral weight of the actions they perpetrate.
InFamous was developed by Sucker Punch and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America exclusively for the PlayStation 3, released on May 26th. Retails for $59.99. Played through the game's 40 core missions, and more than 30 side missions. Was as evil as possible, though dabbled with a little bit of the goody-two-shoes style as well.

[tormenta]

I didn´t invest too much time on the Demo, I have to catch up later. But I am wondering which game will deliver the most fun, infamous or prototype?? Lets wait to see.

[The_SoC]

I bought this game today and spent a good 3 or 4 hours playing it, and I've got to say, I absolutely love it so far. Playing aroud with the powers is a hell of a good time, and all of the positive points made in that reveiw are completely true. Even the negatives aren't really that bad. Dropping to a lower ledge does take some getting used to, but once you've mastered it, it's a no brainer. Similarly, the comments made about the dissconnct between being evil and not is a little exaggerated, at least so far. The choices that i've been able to make aren't "save this person or kill them" it's...well, it sort of makes sense.
One of the first choices you make in the game has to do with a food drop. food is dropped into the city, and your character contemplates whether to share them with everyone in the city, or scare people off so that he and his best friend and girlfriend will be sure to have food for the next few weeks. It's not a matter of "help people or kill them" it's more "help everyone and risk my friends, or fuck everyone else and just worry about me and the people I care about".
At least, so far. THis might change. Either way, this game was definitely worth the money.

[craziej]

I liked the game I got pretty far but then starting playing fifa for some reason and then fight night but I will go back to this game and try and beat it. I have to say the game is really hard to play tho and I had to go online and follow the walk thru, I don't think I would have been able to get as far as I have without it.

[splinter]

i like this game. It's pretty entertaining, but games are so damn expensive