**** Official Infamous: Second Son ****
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I have done about 2 hours and it's good but tbh nothing amazing. It feels like it is trying hard to push the PS4 graphically but at the same time lacks the little touches that make games stand out. Once the wow factor passes you really start noticing the lack of detail and it becomes a bit annoying tbh.
I would so far give it a 6.5/10 but that's only based on the first 2 hours.
I only like what you're saying as I try not to spend £50 on games these days. Keep us updated after hour 4 please.
makes me glad I cancelled my preorder, I knew graphically it be good, but the gameplay would be dull as dishwater, let me guess go here, follow this guy, kill these guys rinse and repeat, same old infamous
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Sounds just like the review in the Metro
http://metro.co.uk/2014/03/20/infamous-second-son-review-hero-and-villain-4667828/
I was hoping this would be good enough to entice me to get a PS4, guess it can wait a bit more now.
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makes me glad I cancelled my preorder, I knew graphically it be good, but the gameplay would be dull as dishwater, let me guess go here, follow this guy, kill these guys rinse and repeat, same old infamous
So just like any other game of this type, all games are just like this now, go there, do that, come back and repeat till game finished
I may b ok with this. Like having a super hot but not exciting girlfriend. You get bored but then you look at her again and it doesn't seem all that bad again.
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So the downsides of an Infamous game is that it plays like an Infamous game?
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Don't look at the puddles or bushes...
What about the powers? Do any of them make you go "wow"? If there's one thing I've always felt with the previous 2 Infamous games, it's that none of the powers ever gave me that factor!
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The graphics in general make you go wow and when using the powers there is some environmental interaction. It's then you notice the lack of the finer details. If you walk into a cone you stop, Chairs stop you dead, no movement of water, bushes and shrubs when you walk through etc etc. It just feels a bit dated in that respect.
It's by no means bad but it feels it's style over substance. It reminds me of the film Battleship tbh.
You get the feeling the main aim of the game is to showcase the graphics power of the PS4.
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I'm about 4 hours in now and tbh bored with it. So far all I have done is move from point to point taking control of things with the same fights over and over again.
I have no idea how this got such good reviews. I think I'm either doing something very wrong or this is just not my type of game although I did enjoy the last two.
I have no idea how this got such good reviews. I think I'm either doing something very wrong or this is just not my type of game although I did enjoy the last two.
Thanks for the honest feedback, it's what I feared from the previews I'd seen, it looks lovely but it's style over substance and what's underneath is pretty average.
Hopefully the next one will move things on a bit as the formula is pretty much unchanged since the first game. I'm sure it'll sell well anyway, similar to how Titanfall has fared very well because of the lack of much else exciting being released (Titanfall does at least bring a few new things to the table but it's not as good as I had hoped).