inFamous 2 is such a great game that took all of the good things from the original, carried it over, and improved on all the lackluster aspects of the original. This game, minus some of the collection efforts and pacing, is great with tons of replayability and really good fun.
Gameplay:
The gameplay loop involves you exploring a New Orelans inspired city with electric powers that have a ton of different variety depending on your karma level. You do side quests, main quests, and collect things throughout the game while fighting bad guys all over. The game has a lot of parkour included with it, climbing up on buildings, riding telephone polls, and more. I think it is quite impressive honestly for the time and still holds up well today. The combat is fun, cycling through your different powers and modifiers in order to have maximum carnage, fighting a lot of unique enemies and leaning more towards the sci-fi aspects of the superhero/supervillain genre.
Story:*
The story involves the destruction of Empire City and The Beast almost killing your character, Cole. Losing almost all of his powers, he escapes to New Marais, inspired by New Orelans. There, he meets up with an FBI agent who helps him get into contact with someone who can help him locate Blast Cores to gain back his powers and then some, all the prepare to fight the best. During the game you run into other conduits, and you can actually kind of gain some of their powers depending on your choices. And choices are important for this game, deciding between evil and good actions. For my playthrough I did an evil playthrough which I really enjoyed, as it gave somewhat of a justification for why he needed to be evil other than 'I like it' which was really good. The good karma ending was awesome too, and I think the game has a really strong story if a little one-dimensional.
Artstyle:
Artstyle is decent in this game but a big improvement compared to the original. More color, more flashy attractions and more varied areas. The graphics are almost exactly the same as the original but polished, with lots of improvements to animations and extra little details that sets it slightly above the original. There were a couple of areas I wasn't a fan of like the flooded part of town, but I think it really fits the gritty theme of that time they were trying to go for.
Music:
I don't really focus on music myself honestly, and I'll admit that I can't really remember much about the soundtrack. It is decent, it does the job, but nothing really stuck out that I remember and went 'wow, this is great'. It is serviceable, which is all I need honestly.
Overall:
I love the game, and had a lot of fun 100%'ing it which I normally don't do with games (helps it was super easy for this game). I also played on the hardest difficulty, which felt much more balanced compared to the first one. A bit of a rarity for me as well, but I liked the challenge and felt it was fair. Definitely would recommend picking up this game and I would love a remaster that gets it on modern consoles!
Gameplay:
The gameplay loop involves you exploring a New Orelans inspired city with electric powers that have a ton of different variety depending on your karma level. You do side quests, main quests, and collect things throughout the game while fighting bad guys all over. The game has a lot of parkour included with it, climbing up on buildings, riding telephone polls, and more. I think it is quite impressive honestly for the time and still holds up well today. The combat is fun, cycling through your different powers and modifiers in order to have maximum carnage, fighting a lot of unique enemies and leaning more towards the sci-fi aspects of the superhero/supervillain genre.
Story:*
The story involves the destruction of Empire City and The Beast almost killing your character, Cole. Losing almost all of his powers, he escapes to New Marais, inspired by New Orelans. There, he meets up with an FBI agent who helps him get into contact with someone who can help him locate Blast Cores to gain back his powers and then some, all the prepare to fight the best. During the game you run into other conduits, and you can actually kind of gain some of their powers depending on your choices. And choices are important for this game, deciding between evil and good actions. For my playthrough I did an evil playthrough which I really enjoyed, as it gave somewhat of a justification for why he needed to be evil other than 'I like it' which was really good. The good karma ending was awesome too, and I think the game has a really strong story if a little one-dimensional.
Artstyle:
Artstyle is decent in this game but a big improvement compared to the original. More color, more flashy attractions and more varied areas. The graphics are almost exactly the same as the original but polished, with lots of improvements to animations and extra little details that sets it slightly above the original. There were a couple of areas I wasn't a fan of like the flooded part of town, but I think it really fits the gritty theme of that time they were trying to go for.
Music:
I don't really focus on music myself honestly, and I'll admit that I can't really remember much about the soundtrack. It is decent, it does the job, but nothing really stuck out that I remember and went 'wow, this is great'. It is serviceable, which is all I need honestly.
Overall:
I love the game, and had a lot of fun 100%'ing it which I normally don't do with games (helps it was super easy for this game). I also played on the hardest difficulty, which felt much more balanced compared to the first one. A bit of a rarity for me as well, but I liked the challenge and felt it was fair. Definitely would recommend picking up this game and I would love a remaster that gets it on modern consoles!