So I've sadly been living in the stone age recently and have been without anything approaching a proper internet connection for about two months. But I'm back! And the game that has caught my attention most in this interim period has been a rare beast of a PS3 exclusive, inFAMOUS. At first, it seemed to be a fairly generic sandbox adventure game, with echoes of Crackdown etc. Once I played on however, and the game drew me in, I started to realise that inFAMOUS is, despite it's silly capitalising, a bit of a masterpiece. It plays almost like a greatest hits set of the best games from recent years, with the acrobatics of Prince of Persia and Assassin's Creed, the open world mission based gameplay of GTA and the range of superpowers from The Force Unleashed. But it becomes more than the sum of it's parts. What it reveals to you is a broken city, destroyed by an apocalyptic explosion, which only you can help save. The feeling of taking back parts of the city and watching it regenerate, is genuinely satisfying.
There are a couple of problems, there probably isn't enough variety in the missions, and some of the powers are a little pointless, but none of that really matters when you are gliding along a power cable between two islands of the city, hurling bolts of electricity at baddies. This is a fun game.
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