I recently 100%ed the storymode on the good path. I had fun and now I'll go for the evil path on hard mode.
This game really feels like a product of it's time: A big open map with stuff scattered for you to collect. You're free to attack anyone and you traverse the map by doing parkour. I wonder what came first...Infamous, Assassin creed, Prototype... the bionic commando reboot? The graphics look good but it slightly has "that filter" from that era.
Then there's Cole. Storywise he's fine but take one look at him... he's just a bald white dude wearing casual clothes. Cole has to be the most generic looking whitest videogame protagonist ever.
The actual story is alright. It has some moments that hit but most of the time I felt that scenes just happened. The more (intended) powerful moments just didn't hit for me because of the the morality system. Everything is so black and white is hilarious. For example, the very first moral choice is: either you power a bridge so you can cross a big gap, or you overcharge it and burn a settlement full of innocent people.
So you have the obvious good choice or the comically evil one, and the game has the courtesy to point these "opportunities" on the map. Oh you want to to be eeeeevil? There are some cops for you to kill right here! and a random street musician across the street, look!
You wanna be a good boy? Here, some injured civilians for you to heal! Also, can you deactivate the bomb over here?
Eventually the good choices are personified by Kuo and the bad choices by Nix (a...lightly dressed black girl...🤔).
Well whatever. Juvenile story aside the gameplay is good. Moving around the map is not as fun as in spiderman or prototype but things get better when you get more powers.
The combat is mostly button mashing on close quarters but ranged combat is more like a 3rd person shooter, and there's more varied stuff you can do; like grab and throw anything close to you like cars, push enemies, deflect projectiles, shoot lightning bullets and grenades.
I'll see if the evil playthrough changes enough stuff for me, but for now I feel that Infamous 2 is in the good but not great category.
This game really feels like a product of it's time: A big open map with stuff scattered for you to collect. You're free to attack anyone and you traverse the map by doing parkour. I wonder what came first...Infamous, Assassin creed, Prototype... the bionic commando reboot? The graphics look good but it slightly has "that filter" from that era.
Then there's Cole. Storywise he's fine but take one look at him... he's just a bald white dude wearing casual clothes. Cole has to be the most generic looking whitest videogame protagonist ever.
The actual story is alright. It has some moments that hit but most of the time I felt that scenes just happened. The more (intended) powerful moments just didn't hit for me because of the the morality system. Everything is so black and white is hilarious. For example, the very first moral choice is: either you power a bridge so you can cross a big gap, or you overcharge it and burn a settlement full of innocent people.
So you have the obvious good choice or the comically evil one, and the game has the courtesy to point these "opportunities" on the map. Oh you want to to be eeeeevil? There are some cops for you to kill right here! and a random street musician across the street, look!
You wanna be a good boy? Here, some injured civilians for you to heal! Also, can you deactivate the bomb over here?
Eventually the good choices are personified by Kuo and the bad choices by Nix (a...lightly dressed black girl...🤔).
Well whatever. Juvenile story aside the gameplay is good. Moving around the map is not as fun as in spiderman or prototype but things get better when you get more powers.
The combat is mostly button mashing on close quarters but ranged combat is more like a 3rd person shooter, and there's more varied stuff you can do; like grab and throw anything close to you like cars, push enemies, deflect projectiles, shoot lightning bullets and grenades.
I'll see if the evil playthrough changes enough stuff for me, but for now I feel that Infamous 2 is in the good but not great category.