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I'm having a ton of fun with Dead Nation. Good ol' fashioned arcade stuff...kinda like Gauntlet.

Infamous...a little less so. It's enjoyable enough, but I'm not really seeing how it earned the scores that it did. The aiming is annoying me...it requires precision, but the aiming controls seem off. It's hard to hone in on a target, let alone line up a headshot. You also can't hit visible targets that are a certain distance away. When freerunning, Cole also has an annoying tendency to "cling" to nearby objects when you don't want him to. It's definitely not as good a system as Assassin's Creed's.

Also, the karma system is poorly implemented. Abilities are only given for going towards one of the poles, good or evil, so there's no incentive to consider the situation whenever you need to make a decision. You simply make your choice based on whichever way you decided to go at the game's onset. I decided to be evil, so now I just pick the evil option no matter what, in order to get the associated abilities.

I don't think it's a bad game, just...so-so. I'd give it a C+ so far. Happy to have it for free, but I think I probably should have gone with LBP.

PS: What's with the rental movies they offered? Bad Boys, FF: The Spirits Within, and Ghostbusters?? Who actually watched any of them?

Edited, Jun 5th 2011 3:11pm by Eske

Peter Venkman owns your face.

Funny enough I had that same issue with AC, and not problems with InFamous.

Oh, it's a good movie. I even liked Bad Boys, too (FF:TSW, not so much). It's just that those two are both pretty goddamned old movies. You could probably own both of them for about $2.50 if you wanted. And to me, FF:TSW was more of a tech demo than a movie.



That's...strange. Objectively, it happens more in InFamous. There are more "cling-able" objects, and there's a serious "drift" effect on Cole to suck him towards those objects, which, if it's even in AC, is much more subtle. It's really not even close.



I'm a pretty hardcore FPS'er, and I'm having quite a few problems with it. Perhaps there's a sensitivity adjuster somewhere in the menus that could help things for me. I also don't like the crosshair, which is just a circle. Personally, I'd prefer something that touched on the very small dot in the center of that where all your attacks land. As far as the attack distance goes, it annoys me for a few reasons. First, the distance from which your attacks do nothing is just a fraction of the way in from the game's actual draw distance. To me, it's counterintuitive. At X distance, you can't see the enemy. A couple steps forward, and he comes into view but doesn't see you, but you can't attack him. A couple more steps, and you can attack him. When the windows are that close together, why not make it so that if you can see it, you can hit it? It's an annoyance for me, albeit a minor one.

I'm enjoying the game well enough. It has its strengths. It's just that the 'shooting' aspects aren't one of them.

So a few things about the range...

For one, as you go further in the game, the ability to strike at a target that is inside blast range but outside aggro range is going to get very useful, because fights turn into clusterf*cks and being able to take out the guy with the rocket launcher before the fight is going to help a lot.

Also, you will eventually get a sniping power, which literally is visible=dead. But it'll actually cost you energy to use (unlike the normal lightning, which returns energy when it hits and costs nothing). When sniping, your cross-hairs is still a circle, but a much smaller one. And you zoom way in.

Agreed. I'd give it a 7/10.

I thought Prototype was a significantly better 'made' game. The way it handled felt a lot more fluid to me, not to mention it seemed way cooler. But it got a lower metacritic score.

Don't get me wrong I will give inFamous a fair chance. Ive only played a few hours of it so far, since my karma choice was not one my kid could watch haha.

"Why are you hurting all those people?"

/poweroff