Shocking - The Games I've Played

After playing the first game in the Infamous series, I was sort of looking forward to #2, and honestly, it didn't disappoint. I was a bit worried, because my history with series doesn't go that well, so I was happy that they didn't do some of the more heinous crimes when it comes to creating a sequel, like stripping Cole of all of his powers so that you pretty much have to start from square one all over again (I'm looking at you God of War!).

The story starts off with Cole (the dude from the first one who can control electricity) getting his butt handed to him by a giant monster and having to run from fake New York, down to fake New Orleans. They have different names, but we're all pretty set on which city is what considering their general lay out and themes. We pick up with Cole trying to survive in the new city, making some new friends, and running into the same themes of good vs evil and making sure that he picks the right choices depending on which color you want him to glow. All the time he's buffing up and getting ready for some serious big bads all to get ready for the giant monster to shamble his way down to the fake New Orleans for the final face off.

-Spoiler Warning-

The best part of this game is the ending because no matter which way you're playing the game you've got some serious decision making to go through, and what's even better is that the series respects those choices and keeps Cole dead. Yeah, I know, big spoiler that he dies at the end, but oh well, I didn't ruin much more than that. I know it focuses a bit on the next game in the series, but it's a refreshing take on things when you kill off a main character, and they stay dead. (Looking at you Devil May Cry!)

Anyways, game play is your typical sandbox/quest based game. There's people running around with exclamation points over their heads and you do stuff for them.

Of course there's also the random shards that are scattered around the city, and all of the other random things you can run into but it's exactly what you would expect from the sequel to the first game. It's the exact same format, just more of it, a bit better polished and stream lined, and a slightly different environment.

One of the better parts of this game are the powers. Where last time we got to see a bit of Cole really tapping into some electricity mayhem while charging up the city, in Infamous 2 he gets super powered.

Of course he gets the things we loved like the tornados-

but then he gets all sorts of other toys that he gets to play around with to blow things up with 1,000,000 volts, and let's not forget your tuning fork of a melee weapon that is all sorts of awesome to bash your way through groups with.

The story line is great, the game play never gets too boring until you start really trying to max out things by having to hunt down all of the shards, but even in shard hunting you're jumping and flying around the city so fast and the game actually helps you find all of the shards, unlike the first which gave you no help at all, that even that boring section while 100%-ing the game isn't that boring. It's a good game and if you're a fan of super powers, crazy explosions, and sandboxing, then it's a good game for you.