The Only Real Way To Tell Where You Are

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The inFamous franchise focuses on Cole McGrath, a bike courier who, in the first game, unwittingly sets off an experimental device known as the “Ray Sphere.” Acting as a kind of bomb, the Ray Sphere kills thousands of people and imbues Cole with electrical superpowers. InFamous tells the story of Cole’s acceptance of and adaptation to these powers in the fictional setting of Empire City, a city under quarantine. inFamous 2 sees Cole travel to the equally fictional town of New Marais, located in the south of the USA.

The narrative of the second game lightly continues that of the first, but it is by no means necessary to be familiar with Cole’s story before jumping in. Festival of Blood, on the other hand, is an almost entirely separate story from the first two games, and can almost (for reasons discussed later) be described as a spin-off.Both of the main entries in the InFamous series are played in an open-world environment, and perhaps the closest comparisons that can be made to the games are Prototype and Crackdown. The main similarity to Prototype is the inclusion of superpowers, though Cole’s electricity ...
... comes from a slightly different school than Alex Mercer’s biological abilities. InFamous does enough to stand separate from Radical Entertainment’s game, however, as Cole is able to decide whether or not to be viewed as a hero or a villain by the public, by way of his actions.

As with most of these types of adventures, once Cole is perceived as good or evil you’ll notice a change in how the general populous interacts with him. If Cole is deemed a hero, NPCs will praise him, take his picture – treating him much like a celebrity. Alternatively, if you go the evil route, you’re an outcast and NPCs will throw stones at you (among other things). In terms of Crackdown, inFamous comes close as, in a similar manner to the experience orbs scattered around Pacific City, both Empire City and New Marais have a number of blast shards located within them. These lack the varying bonuses of Crackdown’s orbs, but do serve to increase the capacity of Cole’s powers, once you collect a set amount.

Cole is a quasi-superhero in both Empire City and New Marais, and whilst there are some NPCs who exhibit a similar level of power to our protagonist, most of the game is spent squaring off against weaker foes in large numbers, using Cole’s wide variety of electrical superpowers to dispatch them. Both cities are broken down into a number of sections that gradually unlock as you play through the main story. In inFamous 2 these environments are fairly distinct from each other, with the main city, the swamps, and Floodtown all instantly recognisable. The original inFamous, however, doesn’t fare so well, with repeated buildings and textures leaving Empire City looking fairly bland.

The only real way to tell where you are, aside from looking at the map, is by who you are fighting, as each cheap fifa 14 coins area of the city is populated by a different gang. There are three main enemy groups in each of the games, and similarly to the environments, inFamous 2’s foes are more varied than those in the first game, in terms of type, appearance, and attacks.As is understandable from games released two years apart, there is a large difference in terms of visual quality when comparing the two titles. The visuals in inFamous look a little choppy, even considering its age, and there are times when characters are talking that it’s quite obvious that the audio doesn’t match up with the visual feedback.