• Publisher: SCEA
  • Release Date: May 26, 2009
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 98 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 726 Ratings

  • Summary: A massive explosion rips through six square blocks of Empire City, leveling everything and everyone in its path. At the center of the blast crater a lone man stands up miraculously unharmed... gifted with incredible powers. From the creators of the award-winning Sly Cooper series, Sucker Punch brings you inFAMOUS, the first open-world action/adventure title by SCEA for the PS3. Players experience what happens when a real person suddenly starts developing super powers. Exact revenge? Protect the innocent? Maybe a little of both? These are the situations you'll face as you play inside of a richly interactive and organic living city. A place where your actions create broader reactions in the citizens and landscape around you. inFAMOUS lets you unravel an evolving mystery, experience fame and/or infamy and battle powerful, iconic villains... all the while giving you the feeling of becoming a modern day superhero. [Sony] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 84 out of 98
  2. Negative: 0 out of 98
  1. 100
    With a strong storyline, a stunning and expansive world, inspired level and mission design and a hefty amount of time required to see it through to completion, inFAMOUS is an essential PS3 release.
  2. This is simply a superb genre defining experience with two unforgettable endings.
  3. InFamous makes a lot of smart and entertaining game design decisions topped off with a high level of presentation values.
  4. Much like with Assassin's Creed, people will herald inFamous as great about 5 minutes before they realize that the game gets just plain boring after you've done it all once or twice.

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Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 9 out of 220
  1. JonsonL.
    9
    I see plenty of people bashing this game for minor technical glitches. If you focus on technical glitches, many games this gen are littered with them. Take a close look at the heavily praised Gears Of War games for example. They have their fair share of technical glitches, especially online, but they are good games so people look past it. If you have a strong focus on the negative when reviewing games then that is what you will find. Obviously there are visual glitches such as jagged lines and pop-in throughout the game. Glitches aside, I play on a 46" Sony Bravia HDTV and this is a very good looking game in full HD. The lighting effects and the textures are particularly well done. Also, the story is interesting and the comic book style cut scenes are beautifully done. While traversing Empire City what struck me is how fluid and intuitive scaling the entire city is. Cole can climb the way I wished that Altair could in Assassin's Creed. One thing I love is that I can jump off a tall building and land on a powerline far below if I aim correctly. I also like the fact that Cole can engage in a shoot out no matter what his position is. You can be hanging from the ledge of a building and still shooting reapers down below. The fact is, if Sucker Punch had created a game that was entirely derived from market research then we would have the same crap we have seen repeatedly over this current console generation. while playing Infamous I feel that I am playing a game that was designed first and foremost to be fun to play. I know that Sucker Punch designed this game, just as the Sly Cooper franchise, from the ground up with a fun gameplay experience being the main objective. They have achieved this admirably. This game plain and simple is fun as hell to play. That in my book is the most important factor in gaming. A job well done for Sucker Punch. I look forward to playing any future titles they release as well. Expand
  2. 8
    Great game here, you can spend all your playtime just rampaging through the city or just follow the excellent story quests. This is one of the few games that actually pull the GTA style openness while managing to remain fun and engaging. Expand
  3. Pretty much a shooter disguised as a superhero game, and tons of fun because of it. Unique abilities and upgrades are plentiful and finding strategic ways to use and combine them is a blast. So is roaming around the gorgeously rendered city and collecting all manner of junk. However the morality system doesn't really serve as anything more than a gameplay device because looking any into what constitutes good and evil behavior in inFamous will only serve to help lower your IQ. The main characters are the most irritating I've encountered in a while. Zeke is an unfunny George W. Bush but equally conniving, Trish is a **** period. and Cole is about as blank of a character as you can create, with the unnecessarily gravely voice you'd expect from Jason Statham or his ilk. Good fun but not a lot of substance. Expand
  4. Bad game with bad story, worst graphics ever... The characters dont make sense.
    In portuguese i hate the dubbing, so horrible. I cant believe
    so many people like this game. Expand

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