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ARRRRRGH! I’M SO HOOKED ONTO IT AND BLOODY HELL I CAN’T

I JUST CAN’T STOP PLAYING IT.

That’s what they all say, can we give our ratings.

YES! WE CAN. OH MY GOD THE POWERS, THE STORIES, THE GAMEPLAY, THE CONTROLS, THE CHOICES. IT’S ALL AMAZING. I’M RATING IT A SOLID 9/10.

Well as much as you rate it a 9, I’m giving it an 8.

After months of waiting the first ”good” Playstation 4 exclusive has finally hit store shelves. I personally wasn’t expecting very much of inFamous: Second Son, and was afraid that after the franchise had basically ended with inFamous 2 this would be a cheap effort to make a quick profit off of the success of the previous installments. These fears we’re apparently pointless as Second Son almost instantly changed my mind with outstanding graphics, a deep, meaningful and overall enticing story and smooth gameplay. The city of Seattle makes for an expansive and enthralling sandbox, with many side missions to play through, and of course enough D.U.P. Bases to keep the action flowing all through your playthrough. Something that especially stood out for me were all the cool new powers including… Well you can go find that out for yourself. If I could make anything about my review stick with whoever is reading it, it would be that inFamous: Second Son is definetely worth buying for any PS4 owner. And is almost worth getting the whole console for altogether.

Second Son looks fantastic and from a technical perspective, it’s a pretty impressive feat especially given that the game is out less than six months from the release of the Playstation 4. Unfortunately the gameplay isn’t up to par with the light show. Like the neon that Delsin channels, it’s all light and no heat. What I can say for sure is the graphical leap from the last generation on display in this game is spectacular and I also absolutely loved the music. however there are some significant problems with the AI in this game and things tend to get rather repetitive towards the latter half. also the story is nothing to write home about. I suppose when a game joins the elite games of any generation every one of these elements have to be polished. I am very much looking forward to what this development team can do with the sequel to this game.

Gorgeous art, rendering, environment design, great character models, and animation, but the story is a royal piece of turd. No joke, the story is eye rolling bad it made me sick to my stomach it was so stupid. How the main character comes into his powers and gains new powers doesn’t make any sense, and what you’re doing feels totally random and clueless. It’s like they gave up trying. This would be forgivable if these sacrifices in story made the gameplay better, but no, most of the time these illogical jumps in no way improve or actually make the game worse. For example, some reason the main character gains a power in the middle of no where that requires cars in order to jump high into the air…. ? WTF. How does this improve the story or gameplay? 8/10 from me.

Infamous Second Son is a must have for your Playstation 4. Its beautiful graphics and extremely smooth gameplay. (I won’t spoil the game and will only talk about Delsin)

The main protagonist Delsin Rowe who is played by the terrific actor in Troy Baker is known to what he calls himself a “power sponge” who can absorb powers from other conduits which adds more choices as to how you can play this game in an awesome, fun and kick ass way and the colours you see from these new powers are spectacular to see and make Cole’s electricity seem boring. The story does seem a tad weak but it is interesting enough to keep you intrigued and there are some good emotional moments found at the latter stages of the game.

I found the main protagonist, Delsin to be a funny and awesome character who at times can get on your nerves but overall is a great character because unlike Cole he embraces his powers (although not at first) and loves the things you can do similar to you, the player.

Moving on to the side missions on this game they have new and interesting missions not seen in previous games and though some are very cool and i loved the stencil missions which uses the controller in an awesome and new way, most do tend to get very repetitive but they are not particularly frustrating so i personally didn’t mind them.

Summary:
The brilliant and cool new powers in this game awesome and extremely fun and kept me wanting to play the game into early hours of the morning but the much more intelligent AI make this game still very challenging at times especially in the boss fights which i felt was important for balancing reasons, story is good enough for your to enjoy and invest yourself in, The new side mission are cool but somewhat repetitive, the graphics and location and something new and awesome that your eyes will have never seen before and flying round the city and beating challenging enemies with your powers and with spectacular colour has never been so fun. Overall 9/10
Negatives: (Slightly lacking story, repetitive side missions)