inFAMOUS Reveiw

To kick off my new video game review blog I'll start by reveiwing the last game I've beaten - inFAMOUS.

InFAMOUS is a superhero game by Sucker Punch! productions. (You know, those dudes that made that PS2 game about that fox with a staff?) It stands strong, priding itself as being one of the first and best games for PS3, written well and utilizing a creative and new fighting system. This game also features a karma system, governing the flow of the story.

Let's begin.

I'll start with the karma system. First of all, although the game would lose a large portion of it's story and gameplay, inFAMOUS really could have stood without it. Too many free form, RPG's and sandboxes are built with karma systems these days, and they never are that realistic or live up to expectations that they set. Although this feature gives you a want to play the game twice, it is also flawed. It seems to be based on a false truth that horrible and bad things happen to good people, and it's very easy and rewarding to be bad. In real life, if you return a lost puppy, you get a reward, not the owners to call you a jerk and punch you in the face. The choices are also very obvious. I have yet to see a game that gives you choices in a shade of gray that you have to make instantly, rewarding you if you figure it out quickly enough to see the right choice.

The fighting system is...wonderful. It's refreshing to see a very new fighting system in a game that works well. Although at first it's hard to get into and figure out, it also gives room to do some really cool tricks and stunts (ex. slide on a train track or wire and use precision strike to kill someone - Ride the Lightning) and gives freedom on how to destroy enemies with your cool electric powers.

The writing of the story is really great. Sucker Punch! delivers a great new superhero story that looks and feels as if it fell straight off the pages of a marvel or dark horse comic (I hate DC comics). It's full of twists and turns and new ideas that rock the I-fell-in-toxic-acid-and-now-I'm-a-superhero world. It gives explanation to Cole's powers that seem as if they would work in real life. It also shows that even if you gain powers and beat the living hell of some baddies, you still will be called a freak and an evil person until you can prove that you're not bad.

Bottom line is, inFAMOUS is a great game. I give it 8 overcharged transformers out of 10.

SuburbanRiot signing off, until next time.