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I just finished inFamous 2, and damn, Sucker Punch's good. Here's to hoping Second Son is awesome as well.

inFamous 1 and 2 tell the story of Cole MacGrath, a bike messenger who turned into a superhuman, AKA a Conduit. Your ability? Electrokinesis. You can absorb the energy from lightning strikes. Shit. You can strike people with lightning. How cool is this shit?

The series is pretty great. I enjoyed the fact that I can shoot small lightning bolts out of my hands and grind across charged cables like I'm surfing. MacGrath is an urban explorer, so you get to parkour around your environment like a baws. Jumping off a high building? Shit, charge up your fists and slam the floor for a shockwave. People shooting at you? Set up an electric shield. Absorb electricity out of light poles and charge them up again for more power to absorb. Destroy the city with your lightning grenades. Do whatever you like, just don't fall into the water like a punk and get shorted out (you are electricity itself!).

What made this game more than a simple "super-powered-character-destroys-shit", for me, are the choices found in the game. You either let loose and wreck everything thus becoming infamous, or you make the morally right choices and control your powers to become a hero. What's also nice is that depending on your alignment to good or evil, your powers grow differently and your character will look different too.

To be honest though, I felt that the choices in the first inFamous were harder to choose from. Save your girlfriend or let six doctors die, especially during a plague? Shit. Doing things for the greater good never made me more ambivalent.

In fact, the character design in inFamous 2 feels terrible. I liked Cole's jacket from the first game, what happened to it? Also, the voice actor for Cole for the second game is ASS. That bit pained me for almost throughout the playthrough. Do you know how terrible that feels?

Why am I writing about a game that's so old, people should not even care about whatever's being written about it now because there are tons of shit out there written about it? Because of complaints I've seen.

There are plotholes? Frankly, no, and I will fight you over this (not physically of course, I'll lose).

Inconsistency with characters in inFamous 2? I want you to imagine this. You almost died after suffering immense pain for a prolonged period. You survived, but you became what you think is an abomination. Dealing with that, you finally found the will to live and to help people with the powers you get from being a monster, even though people were afraid of you and hated you. At the end of the road, you discover that to make the right choice, you have to give up everything and to die, despite your struggles and your newfound will to live. TELL ME HOW ARE YOU NOT AFRAID TO DIE AND THAT WOULD FILL YOU WITH HESITATION. Some people. Too detached. Srs.

Sucker Punch really did a good job with this, and my advice to you as a gamer is - if you have a Playstation 3 and you have not played this, go get it. It is something that is worth your time. It was certainly worth my time. I'm willing to give it an 8.5 out of 10, shit, it's that fun to play.