It’s actually a lot of fun to stop what you’re doing and utilize the different powers to run around Seattle. Smoke allows travel from the bottom of a building to the top through vents, meanwhile Neon allows Delsin to run up the sides of buildings and dash through the streets for short periods of time. The different powers also affect the platforming, making it easier to travel over the vast landscape of Seattle. Neon is more like a sniper rifle, slowing down time to deliver more precise shots. Smoke acts similar to a pistol and shotgun delivering strong, single blasts. All four function differently and are equally useful.
There are a total of four powers Delsin gets in the game: Smoke, Neon and two others that I won’t spoil for you. However, the gameplay for the franchise has never been deeper.ĭelsin’s Conduit ability of absorbing other people’s powers opens up all new ways to play the game. It still functions like a third-person shooter with Delsin able to fire shots, missiles, grenades and bombs with a little bit of platforming mixed in. Fundamentally, the gameplay is very similar to the previous games. It’s is an addicting game to play that gives us a good look at what a next-gen open-world game can look and play like. What inFamous: Second Son gets wrong with its narrative it more than makes up for it in its design and gameplay. You don’t learn much about her until the very end of the game where her whole backstory is revealed. Augustine had the makings of being a great antagonist like Kessler and the Beast, but the game doesn’t give her time to develop.
Your two Conduit allies, however, are very interesting with their own tragic backgrounds plus they don’t fight as much as Nix and Kuo did in inFamous 2. Boring and over-serious, Reggie is a poor Zeke stand-in. This is in contrast to Cole, who had major character arcs in both inFamous and inFamous 2. Delsin doesn’t grow until he’s forced to at the very end. Arrogant, rude and always cracking lame jokes, he’s the type of character commonly seen in games, complete with poor execution. It also doesn’t help that Delsin just isn’t a good protagonist. Only two moments, both towards the end of the game, came close to capturing the best story elements of the first two games. It’s not bad, but it’s extremely simple with few twist-and-turns or emotional moments. S econd Son’s story is easily the weakest aspect of the game.
A series of events take place that sees him travelling to Seattle, Washington with his brother Reggie to hunt down the main antagonist, Brooke Augustine, and absorb her powers. He discovers that he himself is a Conduit after absorbing the Smoke powers of the escaped Conduit. The story picks up with Delsin Rowe, a delinquent Akomish Native American whose life is forever changed after meeting an escaped Conduit. To counteract this growing fear the government created the Department of Unified Protection (DUP) to hunt down and capture Conduits. Following the events of Cole McGrath’s sacrifice the people began turning against Conduits. InFamous: Second Son takes place seven years after the events of inFamous 2. With a new protagonist, setting and graphical capabilities, inFamous: Second Son is a delight to play from beginning to end. inFamous: Second Son, developed by Sucker Punch Studios, is the third entry in the franchise and a showcase for the power of the PS4.
The wait is over: the first big PS4 game of 2014 is here.