- Joined: June 2000
- Post Count: 811
I recommend everyone at least try the demo, which is a lot of fun. I'm playing the full game now.
This, it seems to me, is the game Assassin's Creed should have been--a fun, mission-based, parkour, open-world action game. The electrically based superpowers are a lot of fun to wield, and there's good variety to the missions so far.
--Jefferson Morris
"If fakes, they were masterpieces."
--The New York Times commenting on Willis O'Brien's dinosaurs in The Lost World (1925).
"From the two trailers I've seen, the movie looks like AIDS."--Recent thread post on AICN
- Joined: August 2000
- Location: BritCol. North of a Black Hole and West of The Centre of the...
- Post Count: 3,849
Re: Infamous should make you glad to own a PS3
So this looks like a winner? I was thinking of picking it up....but 70 bucks is a lot of coin to drop if it turns out to be a dog. Right now HAZE comes to mind.
When you have to shoot...shoot. Don't talk!
- Joined: June 2000
- Post Count: 811
Re: Infamous should make you glad to own a PS3
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by JohnS
Cole has so much freedom in movement and jumping/leaping it's crazy.
I'm also playing the full game.
I'm playing through in good mode first, then will attempt evil mode later on.
|
Ditto here. I'm playing as a goodie-goodie on normal difficulty, then I'll probably ramp it to hard and do another run-through as a jerk. Which in and of itself is a testimony to the game's quality, because I
never replay games.
The game just strikes me as being very well balanced. There's a good variety of powers, but not so many that you feel overwhelmed and end up not using most of them. And just moving from place to place can be a blast--particularly after you get the static thrusters, and you're jumping between wire slides.
Edwin, I'd say it's definitely worth a look. But you can still try before buying--get the demo. The only drawback of the demo is that it starts you right off with a set of powers that you won't get in the full game until several hours in, so if you play the demo a lot first (like I did), you may miss those powers in the early stages.
--Jefferson Morris
"If fakes, they were masterpieces."
--The New York Times commenting on Willis O'Brien's dinosaurs in The Lost World (1925).
"From the two trailers I've seen, the movie looks like AIDS."--Recent thread post on AICN
- Joined: October 1997
- Location: Navesink, NJ
- Post Count: 4,663
Re: Infamous should make you glad to own a PS3
My GOTY so far and I'm only 25% in!
Blog: Navesink.net - My Flickr Stream is here - Click here to Email me - Updates at Twitter & FriendFeed
Information Technology Blog: Infotechbuzz - Save The Alamo - Join the HTF Flickr Pool or discuss the pool here
"Buncha Savages in this town"
- Joined: June 2000
- Post Count: 811
Re: Infamous should make you glad to own a PS3
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Sam Posten
My GOTY so far and I'm only 25% in!
|
QFT.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by MattCR
Let me say this: Hard in "inFamous" is the equivelent of God Mode.
|
I did my first playthrough on medium and now I'm doing my "evil" replay on hard. I'm not finding it that ridiculously difficult yet, but it's in the relatively early stages (I'm still on the first island and just unlocked wire slide).
Regarding the final boss...
Warning Spoiler! Click to showI discovered an odd quirk with Kessler--if I kept him on the other side of a modest hill, positioning myself near a current wire, so I could basically just see Kessler's upper body, he would tend to stay more or less where he was, and spam attacks that would always be blocked by the ground. After two or three of these attacks he would have to pause and recharge himself, at which point I'd run quickly to the top of the hill and zap him or throw shock grenades at him. Then I'd retreat back down. Repeat (with breaks every so often when he would dispatch drones and so forth)
--Jefferson Morris
"If fakes, they were masterpieces."
--The New York Times commenting on Willis O'Brien's dinosaurs in The Lost World (1925).
"From the two trailers I've seen, the movie looks like AIDS."--Recent thread post on AICN
- Joined: June 2000
- Post Count: 811
Re: Infamous should make you glad to own a PS3
MattCR,
I thought that maybe that future bad-ass was...
Warning Spoiler! Click to showJohn, after the ray sphere explosion
And yeah, I imagine that prison mission is going to be rough on hard. On medium it was my favorite mission.
Regarding stunts: I got stuck on stunt #14--Flying melee. Seems simple enough--finish an airborne attacker with a melee attack--but I just couldn't do it for some reason. It didn't apply to those flying drones--I took down a bunch of those with melee attacks and never got credited for the stunt.
To those who've done it--how did you do it? I've tried launching guys in the air with shockwave and then punching them again when they get close to the ground, but I never seem to be fast enough to get them, or they're already dead.
--Jefferson Morris
"If fakes, they were masterpieces."
--The New York Times commenting on Willis O'Brien's dinosaurs in The Lost World (1925).
"From the two trailers I've seen, the movie looks like AIDS."--Recent thread post on AICN
- Joined: June 2000
- Post Count: 811
Re: Infamous should make you glad to own a PS3
Finished my second playthrough--a first for me with a game of this length. Beating Kessler on hard was...well, hard. I had to look at some walkthroughs for strategy tips, and it still took me at least half an hour.
I've left one little quadrant of the Warren as enemy territory, in case I want to complete the stunts.
Having played as both good and evil, I'd say there is an advantage to being good--as a good character, I maxed out all my abilities by the time I got to Kessler. With my evil playthrough, I didn't have quite enough experience to do that, even though I was no less thorough in my approach.
--Jefferson Morris
"If fakes, they were masterpieces."
--The New York Times commenting on Willis O'Brien's dinosaurs in The Lost World (1925).
"From the two trailers I've seen, the movie looks like AIDS."--Recent thread post on AICN
- Joined: June 2000
- Post Count: 811
Re: Infamous should make you glad to own a PS3
True, but isn't it harder, just because enemies appear less frequently?
--Jefferson Morris
"If fakes, they were masterpieces."
--The New York Times commenting on Willis O'Brien's dinosaurs in The Lost World (1925).
"From the two trailers I've seen, the movie looks like AIDS."--Recent thread post on AICN
