May 18 2012
Hands On: inFamous Amps Up Superhero Game Genre
It’s hard to write about Sony’s upcoming superhero videogame inFamous without mentioning Microsoft’s 2007 sleeper hit Crackdown. The two games feel awfully similar.
The comparison is intended as a compliment. Crackdown’s blend of Grand Theft Auto-style city sandbox gameplay and superpowers was an addictive combination. What’s more fun than simply driving through a teeming metropolis? Leaping and climbing through it. Scrabbling to the top of skyscrapers, then jumping from building to building. Forget jacking cars — how about throwing them around like Frisbees?
InFamous, scheduled for release next month on PlayStation 3, has the potential to be much more than just a tide-me-over title for gamers waiting for the inevitable Crackdown 2. It could surpass the competition and be the best game yet in the superhero open-world genre. (Especially since there aren’t very many of them that aren’t crappy, movie-licensed games.)
I played four missions from inFamous, and had a great [...]
Original post by Chris Kohler