21 March 2014

inFAMOUS: Second Son Review

Hello there, I'm Accel and this is my review on inFAMOUS: Second Son.I've always wondered what it would be like to be a mutant. And I've played plenty of video games that tried to let me feel like one.But few do it as effectively as Sony's Infamous: Second Son. The third game in Sony's anti-hero franchise (and the first on the PlayStation 4) seems stripped right from the world of the X-Men, driven by ideas of prejudice, and Big Brother, and a world that can't accept what it doesn't understand.

Game link:http://www.suckerpunch.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=68&Itemid=126



The game starts you off with a smoke-based ability, but it doesn't take long for a wider arsenal of powers to be at your disposal. In open-world games, I normally like to clear entire regions of side activities before moving on to the story content. In this game, I recommend playing through enough of the campaign to get the three primary power sets before hunting down secret agents and audio logs through the open streets of military-occupied Seattle.

Smoke, your first ability set, is great for clearing large groups of enemies at medium range. Dissolving into a puff of ashes and flowing into a vent, only to be launched like a chimney-propelled grenade and slam back down to the streets with a shockwave-inducing slam, is visually impressive and endlessly entertaining.

The Neon powers encourage more high-precision tactics. Sniping at enemies slows down time enough for you to vaporize them with headshots or disable them by going for the legs. The lightspeed ability, meanwhile, turns Second Son into the best video game interpretation of the comic-book character Flash that i never played, letting players blink through streets and run up walls.

The game has main, story-progressing missions that you'll need to complete, but the whole city is open to you right away. Seattle is broken up into districts, and the map tells you precisely how many collectable shards, breakable cameras, graffiti spots, and other side content is available in each district. Clearing out a district triggers a "takeover" mission where you have to fight off a handful of troops. Doing this clears out random patrols of enemy soldiers and enables fast travel to that zone... but since you have to travel to a fast travel point to actually fast travel, I think I used that twice throughout the entire game.

Overall, the game has a lot of great main missions, and though the side missions and collectables are very easy to handle, the side content isn't unique at all, and simply gets duplicated across every district in the game. It's a portion of the game that doesn't overstay its welcome, and I ended up completing 100% of the game right around the time I got tired of tracking down secret agents and engaging with the very simple graffiti stenciling mechanic.

The finest moments are when you run into groups of regular people protesting against Conduits, less because they dislike your kind and more because they know nothing about your kind. Do you leave them alone or stand up for yourself? These moments feel right, even if Reggie chimes in a bit too predictably here.

One of the biggest draws of Second Son has to be its graphics. This is a fantastic-looking game, from the character models to the animation to the world itself. Delsin and the other main characters are extremely well-animated, allowing the models to convey proper, subtle emotion. The world and its lighting really goes a long way, too, especially in the opening sequences and the game's larger setpieces. Even outside of cutscenes, the characters have a level of detail to them that you don't see in a lot of other games, and the whole thing runs at a good, stable frame rate. The entire city of Seattle looks splendid, too, complete with day and night and rain and sunshine.

The performances from the voice cast really come through in the visuals and the main characters are very well-performed, even if it occasionally feels like Sucker Punch went out and hired the most common and frequently used voice actors they could find..

By far I personally think that this is the best game that I played for this year. (although the year just start and I've not completed it yet) I would give this game a score 8.5 out of 10.I would highly recommend for those who had the PS4 to buy it right now. So what dou you guys think. Let me know in the comment section down below

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