The idea of this game is a lot cooler than actually playing it.
Infamous is one of the ugliest first party PS3 games. This game dropped right in the middle of the brown and grey era. Though it may be unfair of me to criticize the colour choices in a post-apocalyptic city, other post-apocalyptic games managed to use colours other than brown and grey and were much less ugly as a result. The framerate also tanks hard every time you get into combat.
The comic book cutscenes, however, still look great, and I enjoyed the story.
The Sly Cooper inspired movement still holds up and traveling around Empire City is a blast once you have a few traversal powers. Unfortunately the combat, which is most of the game, is hit or miss. Being a guy with electric powers is an idea with enormous potential but it ends up playing like a typical third person shooter, with lightning instead of guns. Enemies are ridiculously accurate from massive range, making rooftop traversal a chore until you do generic side missions that clear them out. Some late game enemies are very annoying to fight, especially with the game's horrible framerate. This game also followed the annoying trend of many other seventh gen games, of making your screen go grey or lose colour upon taking damage, in place of a normal health bar. In a game already mostly grey and lacking colour this usually just made it more difficult to see anything.
I can see how Infamous was really impressive in 2009, but I was late to the party and it wasn't quite what I thought it was going to be. But it still kept me intrigued until the end, and I'm glad I tried Infamous 2 because that game became one of my favorite PS3 games.
Infamous is one of the ugliest first party PS3 games. This game dropped right in the middle of the brown and grey era. Though it may be unfair of me to criticize the colour choices in a post-apocalyptic city, other post-apocalyptic games managed to use colours other than brown and grey and were much less ugly as a result. The framerate also tanks hard every time you get into combat.
The comic book cutscenes, however, still look great, and I enjoyed the story.
The Sly Cooper inspired movement still holds up and traveling around Empire City is a blast once you have a few traversal powers. Unfortunately the combat, which is most of the game, is hit or miss. Being a guy with electric powers is an idea with enormous potential but it ends up playing like a typical third person shooter, with lightning instead of guns. Enemies are ridiculously accurate from massive range, making rooftop traversal a chore until you do generic side missions that clear them out. Some late game enemies are very annoying to fight, especially with the game's horrible framerate. This game also followed the annoying trend of many other seventh gen games, of making your screen go grey or lose colour upon taking damage, in place of a normal health bar. In a game already mostly grey and lacking colour this usually just made it more difficult to see anything.
I can see how Infamous was really impressive in 2009, but I was late to the party and it wasn't quite what I thought it was going to be. But it still kept me intrigued until the end, and I'm glad I tried Infamous 2 because that game became one of my favorite PS3 games.