inFamous Review

By Tom Bramwell Published 20 May, 2009

Current funs.

Version tested: PlayStation 3

With the two games arriving within weeks of each other, comparisons between the superhero open-worlds of Sucker Punch's PS3-exclusive inFamous and Radical's multiformat Prototype are inevitable, but with the former now a thoroughly known quantity, there are more precise points of reference, and one of them is another game released this month - Bionic Commando. Equipped with unfussy free-climbing controls and the ability to rail-grind overhead power-cables, inFamous hero Cole McGrath has more in common with Capcom's Nathan Spencer than just his surly disposition and sandpaper larynx: he travels in style, if not with the same difficulty.

Elaborating on Sly Raccoon's lock-on equilibrium, inFamous allows Cole to clamber almost freely across the surfaces of buildings, perch on fences and spikes, run on all fours up the side of girders and pipes, and sprint over tightropes, beams and cables. If you make a jump for something, the game makes sure you connect over the last few feet, anchoring your purchase to appropriate contact and never threatening to drop you to the ground. If anything, it's rather difficult to descend, and Cole's other attributes cushion any actual fall from distance, providing it's not into deadly water.

Deadly, because the crumbling city beneath Cole's rooftop highways has been freshly downtrodden by a massive explosion, which has thrown the masonry into a slouch, the neighbourhoods of Neon, the Warren and the Historic District to murderous gangs, and, most pertinently, the laws of nature off Cole's axis. Infused with electrical powers, he's Force Lightning sieved into a non-linear progression system, firing electricity from his palms and tossing cars into the air on a shockwave to begin with, developing electricity grenades and slow-motion precision shots over time, and ultimately calling bolts from the heavens. Stay away from the water, and make sure to keep an eye out for anything connected to the mains, which rebuilds the all-purpose electricity ammo meter with a tug of the left trigger.

'inFamous' Screenshot 1

Empire City is vast and vastly detailed, but there isn't all that much to distinguish particular areas. When I arrived on the second island, I only realised when Moya pointed it out on the phone.

For all this though, Cole is hardly invincible, and the initial Reaper and Dustmen enemies can tear him apart with their machineguns, which is bad news in a city overrun by them, and where traditional methods of open-world travel are not available. Cars are off-limits (Cole says he fries them when he gets inside), and while you can sprint tirelessly over open ground to escape, it's a better idea to look to the rooftops for protection and navigation.

After an introduction that establishes Cole's basic skills and a few of the key players, including his girlfriend Trish, his best friend Zeke and a Fed called Moya, inFamous settles into a comfortable rhythm, highlighting story missions on your mini-map with blue icons and side missions with yellow. Unable to rely on high-speed car chases and exotic machinery, instead you're invited to rescue civilians from a train that the local baddies are using as a prison, but you evacuate it not by blasting your way from end to end but by perching on the top of the first carriage and driving it down the line, which you can do because, as Moya points out, you're a human third rail. There are frantic rooftop pursuits that take in the whole broad platform vocabulary, and pitched street battles that call on all your various zaps and waves.

'inFamous' Screenshot 2

Cole's girlfriend Trish goes off him pretty quickly when she realises that he's responsible for something rather horrible. Frankly I would have left her to it based on her rather snide dialogue.

Side missions follow similar lines, and completion of these liberates a particular sector, clearing it of enemies and so making it easier to get around unmolested. It's also worth taking the time to complete them for the extra experience points, which allow you to upgrade your abilities. Some of the more enjoyable side missions recall Crackdown's point-to-point races across the skyline, and there are fringe benefits to unlock, like extra respawn points for defending medical centres.

After an interesting start, however, inFamous loses its way considerably in the middle third, and certain things begin to dawn on you. If you rub away the labels, for instance, most of the abilities Cole can deploy in attack are just analogues for traditional third-person weaponry. The default zap attack is a rifle round, the heavier one is a rocket launcher, the grenade is a grenade, and the precision shot is a sniper scope with slow-motion.

Against this, it's left up to your enemies and the level design to keep things interesting, but neither does a good job. You often simply trawl through typical locations (warehouses, tunnels, and mazes of shipping containers) blasting bad-guys from behind the cover system until there are no more. Basic enemies have guns, others have tremor attacks, and there are scuttling, crab-like enemies, Serious Sam-style suicide bombers, and turret guns. Loads of them.

Despite the fact your adversaries are identified as former addicts and tramps, they also have dead-eyed projectile skill from vast distance, and often require more than one headshot. The adequate checkpointing is little comfort as you bounce off the kind of run-and-gun scenarios that Gears of War and others have done a lot better, along with torturous protect-the-bus or protect-the-engineer sieges, which are not only weighted heavily against you, but repetitive and overlong. The need to find new sources of electricity to rearm means you're too often left with the zap attack and nothing else, and there's none of the invention you might expect from the electrical context: you seldom get to use the conductivity of your surroundings to your advantage, and nobody on the other side ever thinks to pick up a Super Soaker.

One place you do get to do this is in the one-off sewer levels, where enemies sometimes fall into the water where you can fry them by zapping the surface. You head down a manhole occasionally over the course of the game to bring power back to new sections of the city, and these levels play out more like the linear platform-and-combat challenges of Sly Raccoon, introducing and focusing the design on a new ability each time (hovering, or an energy shield, for instance), and it's within these gloomy depths that Sucker Punch showcases its most confident work.

'inFamous' Screenshot 3

Chaining hops, skips, rail-grinds and free-climbing feels loose and fluid, although it feels more like hard work when the mission quality nosedives in the middle.

But just as the trouble on the surface threatens to wear you down, inFamous finds a second wind, and begins to throw up a variety of interesting and engaging missions that reign in the turret guns and enemies spammed into corridors, and focus on more dramatic encounters that make use of the superior platforming alongside a few more impressive new powers. There's a massive tower ascent, a dramatic prison break that puts you up against colossal robotic energy monsters, and some interesting pursuits - helicopters and hot-air balloons best among them.

It's by this stage that the previously stumbling narrative also regains your attention, as key players reveal themselves, and double-cross one another, and the mystery of the initial explosion is made plainer. All along you have been making good-or-bad decisions that feed into the karma system, conferring particular ranks (with a few different powers available at either extreme), and although it's rather forced, it also comes good in the end, finally evolving beyond save-myself-or-save-everyone junctions informed more by your preferred upgrade path than morals, and asking you to choose between a couple of clear and personal rights and wrongs. The beautiful, hand-painted story sequences thrown across the screen to bookend the more dramatic narrative pivots and confrontations take on greater resonance as Sucker Punch plays its final hand beyond an admittedly rubbish final boss battle.

'inFamous' Screenshot 4

There are a few good baddies in inFamous, although only Alden manages a decent boss fight - formulaic, but relatively satisfying.

With plenty of hours behind you at that point, you may even be encouraged to start again and explore the other face of the moral divide, or to return to the city in search of more of its secrets. Along with the many side missions, there are 32 'dead drops' to locate - audio recordings that fill in more of the back-story, which you can fish for with your mini-map and GPS - and hundreds of blast shards that boost your power bar. As a material benefit it falls some way short of Crackdown's agility orbs, but as with Assassin's Creed, there is always something tempting about a shiny object lurking at the other end of an interesting climb.

But then you may also have had enough. There is more charm to inFamous than Cole's face and voice suggest, but basking in the glow of the end credits, there are also a lot of painful memories to recall; of too many missions that funnel you into shooting galleries, of difficulty spikes and enemy-spamming, and of staring at the upgrades page rather glumly, aware that for the most part you're only being invited to make things strike harder or across a broader range. But most of all, there is the realisation that by the end of the game you feel like more than a man, and the power is arresting, and yet for much of Cole's quest, you have been running out of ammo, hiding, and firing back with a popgun. The flaw is that inFamous overcomes Cole's lack of invention, but, damningly for a story about an electrical superhero, it never quite overcomes his lack of power.

7 / 10

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  • onyxbox #1 3 years ago

    not as good as halo then

  • Gaol #2 3 years ago

    Was on the fence before this review and I'm still on the fence now! Maybe one to grab at a lower price.

  • PrivateFloyd #3 3 years ago

    good review

    thought i would get that in before the rabble arrives


  • onyxbox #4 3 years ago

    still going to get this... there's not much around at the mo' (on any platform).

  • RedSparrows #5 3 years ago

    I was wondering what EG'd give this. IGN gave it a 9, but then IGN are mongoloids.

  • muscleblade #6 3 years ago

    So the same reviewer gave this and Bionic Commando the same score. A good score nevertheless. Heres hoping Prototype can get a fantastic score like 9 or 10. I doubt it. But we need a really fantasic game soon.

  • #7 3 years ago

    who listens to EG anyways after DARKFALL!!!!

    /yes went there.

  • kinky_mong #8 3 years ago

    "If anything, it's rather difficult to descend, and Cole's other attributes cushion any actual fall from distance, providing it's not into deadly water."

    I know it makes sense within the context of the main character being a big electric pylon, but I hate it when games use killer water to stop you exploring (earlier GTA games in particular).




  • MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #9 3 years ago

    the initial Reaper and Dustmen enemies can tear him apart with their machineguns

    My old man's one of them. He wears one of their caps.

  • shotgun44 #10 3 years ago

    I was expecting a bit higher for this. No cars in a sandbox game always seems a bit of a cop out though. Crackdowns driving was terrible but at least the choice was there. I'll still pick this up as a priority as reviews so far have been good!

  • menage #11 3 years ago

    Wow, 2 ignore posters already, keep it up.

    I like the demo.But also got annoyed by it sometimes. I hate waves of enemy spamming. The climbing and flying was fun though. i will pick this up at some point, if Prototypes fails miserably I will get this instead, otherwise it's bound to get cheaper soon.

  • Tyranix #12 3 years ago

    Better than Darkfall then.

  • shotgun44 #13 3 years ago

    There's a demo? Need...

  • SuperSonic1305 #14 3 years ago

    So predictable. Well someone has to keep the PS3 hate alive.

  • Nemesis #15 3 years ago

    Oooooh a 7; definitely a Try Demo First game, then.

  • thefjk #16 3 years ago

    8/10!

  • Yossarian #17 3 years ago

    Just when you think Sony are getting out of their several-year rut, another exclusive flops on its belly.

    When will it end!!

  • sneetch #18 3 years ago

    @Mentalist(air)
    My old man's one of them. He wears one of their caps.

    I think I know him, does he wear cor-blimey trousers and live in a council flat?

  • the_dudefather #19 3 years ago

    Sounds good, shame about the mission quality in the middle, but I enjoyed the demo so I'm giving this a go (hey, it should as good as Dead Space at any rate ;) )

    'there are 32 'dead drops' to locate - audio recordings that fill in more of the back-story'

    That sounds pretty cool, better than the motivation for collectables in -most- of these sandboxy games (ie: none)

  • Paulanator #20 3 years ago

    I was quite interested in this until the comments in the review about the tedious and repetitive missions. The lack of imagination concerning Cole's powers is also pretty dissapointing, as you'd think that playing as a character infused with and powered by electricity would result in something a bit more exciting and different.

    Let's hope Prototype delivers.

  • GamesConnoisseur #21 3 years ago

    Pluuuaasssee!! Just cos EG gives score of 7/10 which is although much lower than I expected, doesnt mean they are rabid Xbox fanboys!

    Have YOU played the game?!

    We all have been here before, it wont stop me getting the game but now I ll reassess my expectations and lower expectation would mean I ll appreciate the game more than expecting an outright AAA classic!

    Resident Evil 5 got some average score inc here at EG, I still ruddy well enjoyed the game!

    ign.com is just populist gaming site and I always give EG and Edge's reviews serious considerations.

  • Eraysor #22 3 years ago

    I was hoping this would turn me towards the PS3, but I'm not going to go near it until more exclusives get 9's :(

  • menage #23 3 years ago

    @shothun44

    yeah, I got a code from Sony (for some reason I always get picked for the demo's, which is nice), but it should be here soon for everyone, maybe even this week.

    @eryaysor

    Well Dead Space got a 7 indeed and it kicked several 9/10 games ass. I would rather play thsi or Uncharted than something as lame as Killzone 2, so numbers aren't everything.
    Edited by 1 at 20/05/09 @ 17:41

  • lavalant #24 3 years ago

    Crackdown's driving wasn't terrible, it had slightly better physics than GTA Vice City's driving and was one of the main elements of the game.....along with online co-op

  • Gearskin #25 3 years ago

    Prototype! Prototype!

  • Hermiod #26 3 years ago

    Canceled my pre-order for this. Get health by draining electricity from phone booths and cars ? No thanks. Health is an outdated game mechanic that I thought we'd seen the end of when the original Halo came out.

  • menage #27 3 years ago

    @Hermiod

    What I could tell form the demo it does auto generate (takes a long while), sucking up electricity does it faster that's all. Could be wrong though, been a week:p

    I don't think health is outdated, as long as it's used in the right way. The game has electricity all around you, just push L1 are you're there. It's not like health packs.
    Edited by 1 at 20/05/09 @ 17:45

  • Hermiod #28 3 years ago

    @menage - I was picking on one of the many seemingly old fashioned game mechanics this game uses.

  • ShakaCarnage #29 3 years ago

    That IGN score doesn't look so credible now...

  • menage #30 3 years ago

    Ok, fair enough I guess

  • patchbox360 #31 3 years ago

    Eurogamer is the new Edge - the reviews are well written though.

  • the_dudefather #32 3 years ago

    @ShakaCarnage

    Opinions void other opinions?

  • JDub #33 3 years ago

    Oooh, I just read a more glowing review on Ars - and now this. Hmmm...perhaps waiting for Prototype might be the answer here before deciding...
    Edited by 1 at 20/05/09 @ 17:49

  • Hermiod #34 3 years ago

    @menage - maybe I'm being picky, but I don't even believe in health bars anymore. If games like Mirror's Edge and Portal can do without them, so can anything else.

  • makeamazing #35 3 years ago

    From what ive seen, i would say 7-8 is probably a fair scale. I cant see Prototype fairing any better (well except unless its reviewed by someone else who finds the game amazing...)... so i Hope Tom reviews that game also for a fair reflection.

    Not sure if I will get this straight away or leave it a couple of weeks.

  • Rirekon #36 3 years ago

    Damn, I was really hoping for this to turn into Crackdown with lightning :(
    Might still pick this up, but the review has grabbed me less than my initial impressions

  • DrDamn #37 3 years ago

    @Hermiod
    It really does depend on how the game uses the system. The replenishing health system is pretty good in a lot of games, but is it automatically a natural evolution? No. Simply because in too many of those game you end up in a shoot without fear and then go for cover to replenish cycle. Some games nail it, but others don't. Other games benefit from a health bar when balanced well with the other elements.

    There is room for both because they produce different gameplay. Every game shouldn't use the same method just because it is your personal preference.

  • Hermiod #38 3 years ago

    @DrDamn - no, of course games shouldn't just change to suit me but it's not unreasonable for it to influence whether or not I want to spend my money on it.

    The influence of the health system can be minimised just by getting the difficulty settings right, adapting to the player as he or she progresses.

  • Waldo #39 3 years ago

    A 7/10 score is good, but if you thought the Darkfall fans were bad just wait until this review is linked to on N4G. ;)

  • betahoven #40 3 years ago

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  • Dave52 #41 3 years ago

    Downloading the demo tonight... Joystiq and IGN were all over this, so I'll reserve judgement and see for myself...

  • rotmm #42 3 years ago

    @Dave52,

    a 7 here at EG is a good score and I've enjoyed many games that have scored 7/10 on this site.

    However, I'd be wary of putting too much faith in the IGN scores. A couple of things go against it for me, the first being that they were given exclusivity and I suspect they give a better score for that.

    However, what is true at IGN is that they score PS3 exclusive titles higher than for other platforms. Whether they are PS3 "fanboys" or whether they just prefer the types of games that end up exclusive on the PS3 I don't know, but it's a pretty consistant 4-5 points about the eventual Metacritic average for the PS3, whereas 360 exclusives are pretty much marked in line with the Metacritic average.

  • Plewt #43 3 years ago

    @Coin-Op

    Why are you still here? You don't like the site and nobody likes you.

  • shotgun44 #44 3 years ago

    Let's not forget that most sites go rabid over xbox exclusives anyway, though. I love my xbox but I honestly don't think gears or halo are any better than uncharted or killzone. I enjoyed uncharted much more than I did Gears. Both awesome games though. I do seem to see many xbox exclusives getting an easy ride just because it's the next game in the Halo series... Just my opinion. This game could be awful for all I know!

  • ekko #45 3 years ago

    Disappointed, was hoping this game might have been the excuse I needed to finally get a PS3. I love the past games Sucker Punch as created, both Rocket: Robot on Wheels and the Sly Cooper series.

  • #46 3 years ago

    well done. A cookie is on its way.

    Whens the demo due?

  • Beano #47 3 years ago

    7 is lower than I expected, but I loved the demo and still buying it since it reminds me of Crackdown which was great but flawed. Not expecting a genre-defining game or originality - just pure entertainment :)

  • El-Dev #48 3 years ago

    Another PS3 doesn't save the world...shame.

    Was gonna get this after my exams, still will.

  • rotmm #49 3 years ago

    @eviil, "Anyway, predictable score for a PS3 exclusive on EG."

    Spot on. Good Work.

    Oh, but:

    Demon's Souls 9/10
    Noby Noby Boy 9/10
    White Knight Chronicles 8/10
    Flower 8/10
    Killzone 2 9/10
    Resistance 2 9/10
    Valkyria Chronicles 8/10
    Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice 8/10
    Wipeout HD 9/10

    etc.

    All predictable scores for PS3 exclusives here at EG.

  • Dizzy #50 3 years ago

    Looks like it is up to Prototype to deliver the Crackdown goods now.

  • El-Dev #51 3 years ago

    Prototype is a cert to get an 8 now, it's the EG way.

  • SAH1977 #52 3 years ago

    'That IGN score doesn't look so credible now... '

    IGN have regular podcasts from which you can gage what type of games they enjoy, seemingly their tastes match mine. EG, Edge, Gamecentral, I find myself disagreeing with most of their reviews, most of the time.

    I bought Noby Noby Boy based on an EG review, turns out it's pretencious crap, but some how more credible than a straight up, fun, game.
    Edited by 2 at 20/05/09 @ 19:02

  • McFly55 #53 3 years ago

    7 is decent from an EG review, Ill be picking this up. Itll be interesting to see how well prototype does now.

  • El-Dev #54 3 years ago

    If you use Edge as your basis for buying games then you'll be lacking some seriously good games.

  • crispyduckman #55 3 years ago

    @Confounder - Wow, that CVG opening vid looks ace.

  • originalthinking #56 3 years ago

    Oh Eurogamer, always wanting to be different! I don't take any gaming sites review as gospel as i've seen some bizarre scoring on a lot of games from different publications and for all the criticism of its existence and importance to the games industry i'll be taking my lead from Metacritic, which will generally round out the overly positive reviews (IGN normally) and the overly negative reviews (typically Eurogamer/Edge) giving me a better idea of whether a game is good or not. Given that Infamous is still sitting at 86/100 i'm pretty confident i'm gonna enjoy this. On that note Dead Space (another 7/10 game from Eurogamer) was easily one of my favourite games of last year.
    Edited by 3 at 20/05/09 @ 19:27

  • juuken #57 3 years ago

    Fuck you Eurolamer.

    This is by far the shittiest review you have ever written. Keep hating on PS3 exclusives.

  • zisssou #58 3 years ago

    its a review of someones opinion. im still going to buy it regardless because it looks FUN AND THATS WHY I PLAY GAMES.

    some of the comments go beyond geek....sad times.

  • shotgun44 #59 3 years ago

    I believe the demo is out 2mo...

  • dominalien #60 3 years ago

    Interesting. After reading what IGN wrote, I was on the verge of preordering it. Can't wait to try the demo tomorrow and make up my own mind :-)

    Ironically for me, EG's "great" games like KZ2, NNB, Flower, etc, (note that I'm only talking about games which I can play; I do not feel entitled to comment on Halo 3 or Gears, since I've not played them due to lack of access to a 360), hold no interest for me whatsoever. On the other hand, since I enjoyed immensely the EG7-ish Dead Space and the EG7-ish Heavenly Sword, I'm pretty sure I'm going to enjoy the 7-ish inFamous as well. :-D

  • toa_boa #61 3 years ago

    Good read!

  • Law07 #62 3 years ago

    rotmm

    +1

    Have any of you's thought that maybe this game DOESN'T deserve a 9 or 10??
    Edited by 1 at 20/05/09 @ 20:05

  • Mugwum Verified Operations Director, Eurogamer Network #63 3 years ago

    N@:
    "Um, does this game have an easy mode? I want to get it but that 'do anything for Trish' video looked a bloody nightmare."

    Yep, there's an easy mode. I played it on normal. There's also a harder level. I think you can adjust it mid-game. Oh, and the Trish mission isn't actually as hard as I made it look - that was my first go, and I managed a lot better on subsequent ones.

    Coin-Op:
    "I know the reviewer is having a bad hair day and is going to be as hard as possible on the game"

    Heh, it was quite the opposite with inFamous actually. I was hating it on Friday when I was stuck into some of the weaker middle missions, but by the time I finished it over the weekend I was much more upbeat about it.
    Edited by 1 at 20/05/09 @ 20:09

  • #64 3 years ago

    In response to Law07...Well DeadSpace didnt deserve a 7 for is for sure. Sleeper hit of last summer imo. Stunning game.
    Edited by 1 at 20/05/09 @ 20:10

  • Quint2020 #65 3 years ago

    "It's left up to your enemies and the level design to keep things interesting, but neither does a good job. You often simply trawl through typical locations (warehouses, tunnels, and mazes of shipping containers) blasting bad-guys from behind the cover system until there are no more". I'd love to know how this differs AT ALL to GTA IV and yet that franchise is constantly hailed as the second coming.

  • spliffhead #66 3 years ago

    7/10 = 6 weeks @ £14.99

  • local_celebrity #67 3 years ago

    @originalthinking

    Here's an idea. Instead of poring over a load of ultimately meaningless numbers, how about you actually read the review and see whether you're persuaded by the reviewer's logic? Ask yourself, does this person look at games the same way I do? Do we share the same aesthetic criteria?

    Oh no, that would involve thinking for yourself. Forget it.

  • Hermiod #68 3 years ago

    @Mugwum - is the easy mode actually easy ?

    Lots of video games have difficulty settings that make absolutely no difference to how difficult the game actually is.

  • miiiguel #69 3 years ago

    Yes, rotmm miss out all the rest ;) Convinient.
    Yes, he missed LBP GOTY.

  • clean515 #70 3 years ago

    Demo is pretty good... Make up your mind playing the demo because it's better than a 7 judging from that and all the other reviews


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    GameDaily: InFamous Review - 9/10
    Kikizo: InFamous Review - 8.5/10
    Level7: InFamous Review - 9/10
    Meristation: InFamous Review - 8.5/10
    GameReactor SE: InFamous Review - 8/10
    Gamereactor FI : 9/10
    Gamereactor NO : 9/10
    GameReactor DK: InFamous Review - 9/10
    Spong: InFamous Review - 96/100
    Videogamer: InFamous Review - 8/10 [Video Review]
    CVG: InFamous Review - 8.5/10
    Gaming Age: InFamous Review - A-/A+
    1UP: InFamous Review - A-
    Eurogamer: InFamous Review - 7/10
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  • nf8686 #71 3 years ago

    Huh, pity. I was hoping this would be alright. I'm tempted to get this anyway, but seeing as EG was spot on about Dead Space, I won't. I bought into the hype and the craptastic IGN review then and learned my lesson.

    Here is to hoping Prototype manages better.

  • Reihn #72 3 years ago

    @ Plewt

    Second that!

  • originalthinking #73 3 years ago

    @local celebrity

    Angry much? I did read the review text! As it happens i've been interested in this game way before the reviews, and had it pre-ordered at Shop.To for a wee while now. Not sure what your point is, but for me i was simply making the point that i don't look at reviews in singular fashion. Normally for me a 7/10 game, wouldn't be enough to part with £40 pounds so i like to get a second opinion, so i visit Metacritic check the overall rating they have and read a cross sample of the reviews. In this case i've read the IGN, 1up, Eurogamer and CVG reviews. As per my earlier point if i'd just read the Eurogamer Dead Space review and it's criticisms of the game i might have changed my mind on it, but having read plenty elsewhere i bought the game and feel that Eurogamer was unfairly harsh giving it a 7/10. I especially disagree with the pacing comments/tension in the review text or the fact that elements of the game were 'a chore'. That was not my experience of the game at all. Given that once again Eurogamer is so different from the 'norm' in terms of it's criticisms of the game and the review score i feel that once again they may have erred on the harsh side. Time will tell when i have copy of the game myself in a week and a half.

  • Spekingur #74 3 years ago

    Well, it has been said both here on EG and Gametrailers that sites often give better scores that a game deserves to 'keep in the publishers good graces', etc.

    I shall wait for Prototype and its review and compare the texts. My vote still goes out for a no2 of Crackdown.

  • Reihn #75 3 years ago

    @ shotgun44

    You mentioned earlier about not feeling that Gears or Halo were any better than Uncharted or Killzone. Now, fair enough - different games are going to click with different people, and if you're enjoying it, it doesn't matter what the blue number says.

    Buuuut . . . (and this may be the wrong place to start up this conversation, so I hope people don't come after me with torches and pitchforks) . . I felt that Halo 3 absolutely deserved it's 10. Halo 3 brought so much to the table, all on one disc, for the same price as any other major game. In addition to a great, satisfying single-player, and world class balanced multipalyer, everything it offers in terms of fostering the community - playlists, robust matchmaking, save films, film/screenshot sharing, and user created content in The Forge (!), I feel you can make a strong case for Halo 3 being a stand out game. Which doesn't mean that you aren't allowed to enjoy a game with a lower number more - but its depth of content and overall polish have to come into play where reviews and scoring are concerned.

    But yes - I think I'm a little off topic. ; )
    Edited by 1 at 20/05/09 @ 22:40

  • MrDurandPierre #76 3 years ago

    Tom,

    Did you play through the good or evil path? Just curious as I'm rather indecisive myself. Thierry Nguyen at 1up.com played through on the evil path and loved the game, calling the ending "grandiose and awesome," and I'm curious if the playing through the "good" way makes it any more or less so.
    Edited by 1 at 20/05/09 @ 23:32

  • Reihn #77 3 years ago

    @ Quint2020

    I'd love to know how this differs AT ALL to GTA IV and yet that franchise is constantly hailed as the second coming.

    Have you played a GTA IV?? Have you taken a stroll or a drive around Liberty City? Yes, there are numerous sections of the game where you shoot enemies on docks and in warehouses. But, if you're not completely blind, surely you'd have noticed that there is an incredible amount more to the game..

    Dozens of distinct, incredibly fun vehicles, compelling characters who you can befriend, date and betray . . culturally savvy writing and satire, 16 or so radio stations - each brimming with killer music and wry celebrity DJs, dynamic weather, traffic, population behaviors, hours and hours of side missions and secondary objectives in addition to the main plotlines . . all up, GTA IV's triumph is that it creates a living, breathing city, and lets you explore it on your own terms, through the eyes of a compelling, flawed protagonist.

    If you truly think, as your comment above suggests, that two radically different games sharing one or two similar properties makes them completely on par with each other, then you sir are misguided indeed.
    Edited by 1 at 20/05/09 @ 22:37

  • Retroid #78 3 years ago

    Confounder: "CVG have been around for a long time."

    Yes, they have. Or were. What passes for C&VG is just an umbrella name for a magazine group these days.

    :(

  • Les #79 3 years ago

    "I'd love to know how this differs AT ALL to GTA IV and yet that franchise is constantly hailed as the second coming."

    That was because of reviewer group think. Once in a while some magazines score an 'exclusive' review for a big new sequel, getting the pretty much guaranteed 10/10s on the net in no time and then the rest follows suit, all on the magnificent but fickle wave of hype.

    A few months later they realise how wrong they were and they take some of their praise back, in general in other articles/reviews rather than do a proper 'after-the-hype re-review', keeping that ridiculous 98% metacritic rating intact...

    Haven't decided yet about this game. In general I don't like sandbox games. Especially not sandbox games that sacrifice proper gameplay so that you waste time on meaningless distractions in a setting that is mindblowing on first sight, impressive the next 5 minutes and falls apart after that...
    Edited by 1 at 20/05/09 @ 22:50

  • #80 3 years ago

    Demo is pretty good... Make up your mind playing the demo because it's better than a 7 judging from that and all the other reviews


    Vandal: InFamous Review - 8.8/10
    GameDaily: InFamous Review - 9/10
    Kikizo: InFamous Review - 8.5/10
    Level7: InFamous Review - 9/10
    Meristation: InFamous Review - 8.5/10
    GameReactor SE: InFamous Review - 8/10
    Gamereactor FI : 9/10
    Gamereactor NO : 9/10
    GameReactor DK: InFamous Review - 9/10
    Spong: InFamous Review - 96/100
    Videogamer: InFamous Review - 8/10 [Video Review]
    CVG: InFamous Review - 8.5/10
    Gaming Age: InFamous Review - A-/A+
    1UP: InFamous Review - A-
    Eurogamer: InFamous Review - 7/10
    Gameplayer: InFamous Review - 8.5/10
    Game of Honor: InFamous Review - 9.2/10
    IGN: InFamous Review - 9.2/10
    IGN UK: InFamous Review - 9.0/10
    IGN AU: InFamous Review - 8.6/10


    Spot the outlier. Confirmation bias? How you work that out? Majority of scores are the same. I think Im reading your post wrong lol.
    Edited by 1 at 20/05/09 @ 23:11

  • GamesConnoisseur #81 3 years ago

    I POSIT that I cannot CONFIRM or DENY EG score until I ACTUALLY played the game and FORMED my own JUDGEMENT.

    NUFF SAID!

    Those arguing pro and against the SCORE without EVEN playing the game are MENTALS! Even if relying on other reviewers, HOW heck do we know who is nearly right, mostly right or abject way off the mark?!

    People crying about 7/10 are actually upset that this will pulls down Metacritic/gameranking more than anything. I know cos I was one of those!

  • shotgun44 #82 3 years ago

    @Reihn

    Fair enough. There's a big enough fan base out there that says it is awesome. I really enjoyed the original and never played the second. I just started Halo 3 the other day and it just didn't grab me as instantly as I would've liked given all the praise. I'll give it a proper go after my exams when I won't feel guilty! I put Mass Effect down for a month cos and picked up again3 days ago and completed it in 2. I might be viewing Halo harshly since I have only gotten about 25 mins into it!

  • rotmm #83 3 years ago

    @evilfoxhound, "Yes, rotmm miss out all the rest ;) Convinient."

    The rest of what? By stating that 7 is a predictable score for a PS3 exclusive here, then there would have to be a track record of most PS3 games scoring, shock-horror, 7/10. That is clearly not the case.

    However, what you have shown is that you actually expected the game to be worth nothing more than 7/10 and in that you were spot-on.

    Congratulations.

  • Dave52 #84 3 years ago

    Downloaded and played the demo this evening (got a code ages ago for an early taster - finally got round to it a day before it's available anyway). I have to say that the small amount of inFamous that I've played has really impressed me. It really does look like an excellent game! Any doubts - download the demo and have a play... Sucker Punch have a pretty good pedigree imho.

  • smelly #85 3 years ago

    Man you guys are getting predictable:

    1. PS3 or wii game gets good review.. Cue lots of 360 owners slagging off ps3/wii
    2. PS3 or wii game gets bad review... Cue lots of 360 owners slagging off ps3/wii
    3. Exclusive game gets a good review of a 7 or an 8 score, owners of said machine (who HAVENT EVEN PLAYED THE GAME YET!!?!!?!?!) cry that the game should've gotten 1 point higher - as if it matters jack shit to them.. And as PROOF the website is biased against their machine.


    SMelly: Comes in, tells you all this stuff... everyone starts on smelly - everyone hates me.
    Edited by 1 at 20/05/09 @ 23:33

  • Diomedes #86 3 years ago

    Congratulations EG ,you have given Infamous the worse score yet ,as you did with MGS4 and other PS3 exclusives.

    You guys are really a bunch of haters arent you ?

  • feistycheese #87 3 years ago

    Heres a novel concept guys, instead of looking at the 7/10, then walking away with a tear in your eye, why not look at a bunch of reviews from other sites, take an average, and then figure out what the game might actually be like. 7 out of 10's not even a bad score, does everybody only play games now that have 9/10? You were all born with a brain gents, how about we all learn to use it for ourselves and stop letting a 7/10 make our mind up for us.

  • dirigiblebill #88 3 years ago

    "I POSIT that I cannot CONFIRM or DENY EG score until I ACTUALLY played the game and FORMED my own JUDGEMENT."

    OMG TEH LOGICS

  • smelly #89 3 years ago

    I'll fix this for you

    >Heres a novel concept guys, instead of looking at the 7/10,

    READ THE FUCKING WORDS!
    Edited by 1 at 21/05/09 @ 00:59

  • Law07 #90 3 years ago

    Score is bad times.

    I do think to say EG is biased against PS3 games is stupid. They gave overrated games such as Resistance 2 a 9 which is clearly doesn't deserve.

    However, MGS4 an 8/10 is retarded imo.

  • Plewt #91 3 years ago

    However, MGS4 an 8/10 is retarded imo.

    No, 2/10 would be retarded (or Darkfall). 1 point different than you want it to be is not.

  • Plewt #92 3 years ago

    Congratulations EG ,you have given Infamous the worse score yet ,as you did with MGS4 and other PS3 exclusives.

    You guys are really a bunch of haters arent you ?

    Seeing as the PS3 is black one can only conclude that they are in fact racist, you should really take this hate-crime to court.

  • Spekingur #93 3 years ago

    You know, I have never enjoyed the MGS world. I highly doubt that I would enjoy MGS4 as much as people say that I would.

    Also note, that all reviewers are biased (maybe towards a console, a genre or a certain game). Because they are humans and have opinions about this and that. That's why we enjoy (or hate) to read their reviews. Otherwise we might as well just get AIs to compare graphics to a certain standard, storyline to a standard, etc etc. Which would in turn be turned into something about the programmer being biased towards something or the other.

    Heck, I enjoyed Just Cause. It generally didn't get super great scores but I enjoyed it alot. I have always wondered when scores have become the main issue (and when 7 or 8 became bad scores) instead of the actual text the reviewer writes. That is almost like seeing a review and a score for a Harry Potter book and then shouting wildly whilst flailing your arms like a limp banana-monkey because the score wasn't the highest possible score ever instead of just reading what the reviewer didn't like (or did like) about the book.

    As for Tom's review, let me sum it up. It's like going for a drink in a bar and having a good time to start with, a really good time. Then when you get to a certain point you start to feel bad and by end of this middle point you puke you guts out. Afterwards everything is dandy and good but you still have the foul taste of your earlier puking. And when you get home at last you find that you had a fairly good time but all the damn puking makes it not the greatest night. So yeah, lots of drinking, fun times, the puking, then some good times again because you aren't puking but it still leaves a bad taste in your mouth after the whole experience.

  • DarthMorbus #94 3 years ago

    "(and when 7 or 8 became bad scores)"

    They started becoming bad scores when lots of magazines/websites/reviewers/etc started to use 7 to represent a truly average game rather than 5.

    A 7 isn't a bad score though and if I've had a long time interest in a game and EDGE or EG give the game 6 or higher then it won't stop me buying it, in fact I usually enjoy games that I like the look of that they score 6.

    You basically have to get to know the publication's review scheme now to judge what is considered a good or bad score rather than just taking it that a 5 is average (well other than the two I've mentioned as they work on 5 as average, at least in my opinion). Having said that, as people have already pointed out, review text is always more important than the score. In some reviews (and I think all publications are guilty of this to some extent), the text does not match up to the score I expect.

    In this review for instance I was expecting a 6 from the text but as we all know it was actually a 7. This means one of two things, either the reviewer didn't emphasise some of the good points as much as could have been done or, alternatively, the frame of mind I was in at the time of reading made the bad points stand out to me more. The laughable ones are when you read a long list of errors that really should result in a low score and then the review finishes with a 9 or 10 at the end of it (something I have never seen EG be guilty of).

  • UncleLou #95 3 years ago

    Impressive. This thread makes the Darkfall community, who at least defended a game they had all played (and that got a 2), look like an intellectual powerhouse in comparison.

  • Waldo #96 3 years ago

    Congratulations EG ,you have given Infamous the worse score yet ,as you did with MGS4 and other PS3 exclusives.

    You guys are really a bunch of haters arent you ?

    Without looking, I'm pretty sure EG gave 9s to the likes of Resistance 2, Killzone 2, Demon's Souls and LittleBigPlanet.

  • Kirone #97 3 years ago

    Have not played the full game, have spent time on the demo. The article seems well written but definetely from the "cup is half empty" perspective. Seems like a bit part of this game is the climbing and the good vs evil which was touched upon but not really really given a lot of weight. There are about 10 reviews out for this game and the is 10 below the lowest of those 10. If you look at the authors history by clicking on his name you will see that he has never given a game a score higher than 8 so I guess a 7 is an average score. I tend to distrust this, it seems like it is a dis service when an individual grades games on his own scale and not that of the site. It makes reviews seem random and scores more about who is grading the game and not the content. I am definetely going to buy this game and if it is a "7" I will apologize and repost but after playing the demo I am pretty confident I am going to enjoy this product.

  • toa_boa #98 3 years ago

    Les wrote:

    "That was because of reviewer group think. Once in a while some magazines score an 'exclusive' review for a big new sequel, getting the pretty much guaranteed 10/10s on the net in no time and then the rest follows suit, all on the magnificent but fickle wave of hype."

    IGN exclusive inFamous review early on 9.2 -> see a pattern here :-)

  • GotChewZ #99 3 years ago

    FUCK YOU EUROGAMER. I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THIS BULLSHIT OF A WEBSITE. HOW CAN YOU RATE YET ANOTHER PS3 GAME DOWN? ISN'T IT OBVIOUS BY NOW? I MEAN I LOOK AT METACRITIC AND YOUR SCORE IS THE ONLY ONE THAT STANDS OUT.

    YEAH I AM USING CAPLSOCK, BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT. I MADE AN ACCOUNT JUST FOR THIS ONE COMMENT. AFTER THIS I AM HEADING BACK TO GAMESPOT, GAMETRAILERS AND IGN: THE ONLY GAMING SITES ON THE INTERNET THAT MATTERS.

    THIS SITE STINKS, FULL OF BIAS FANBOYS. GO SCREW YOURSELF GUYS. OH AND BY THE WAY FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU AND FUCK YOU!!!!

  • Sulphur #100 3 years ago

    Uncontrollable rage issues ITCT.

    For fuck's sake people, read the review first. This knee-jerkery to the score at the end is ridiculous. If there was some intelligent criticism here it'd be grand, but no, it's just more bile and vitriol and foaming at the mouth.

    And play the game first before you jump to logic-shattering conclusions about a review. Jesus, the vast majority of you need help.

  • Vixremento #101 3 years ago

    "Simply put, InFamous is the kind of game that when I'm not playing it, I'm constantly thinking about doing so. Heck, I already know what's going to happen right after I finish this sentence: I'm going to go back and play more as "superhero lightning cop" Cole."

    Sells it for me! Still funny as hell watching the constant fanboy battles...IT"S ABOUT THE GAMING YOU FOOLS - who cares which console it's on!

  • creepylizard #102 3 years ago

    I like Eurogamers reviews...

  • Moz #103 3 years ago

    Interesting review, though from looking at Metacritic i'm guessing it just didn't gel with Tom for some reason as EG is currently the lowest score for it!

  • mikeck #104 3 years ago

    I got my copy last night and have thoroughly enjoyed the first few hours, more than anything it's just great fun - likeable main character (Zeke however, is annoying as hell), really fun and intuitive combat and a really good art style.

    I've also only done a few main missions, and spent most of my time doing side missions, collecting shards and loking for the dead drops. It is a lot like Crackdown, but for reasons I cannot really explain (it's hard to fathom exactly why) I think it's much more fun (maybe that's just me though).

  • Dismiss #105 3 years ago

    Well, if the game is as similar to Crackdown as many people here make it to be, then it shouldn't be worth more than a 7.

  • penhalion #106 3 years ago

    So who was it who told me I was wrong to think that the hero was woefully underpowered?

    I rest my case...still buying it though.

  • penhalion #107 3 years ago

    @mikeck

    Where the heck did you get a copy from already?

  • mikeck #108 3 years ago

    @penhalion

    Don't worry it was not via nefarious ways, all perfectly above board ;)

  • Eurogamerbiased #109 3 years ago

    EG sucks, 1.5 less than the average. I'd like to know why is it that every fucking Sony game it's underrated by you guys, while a shit like Fable 2, so dissapointing that took me a lot of effort to finish it, scores a perfect 10.
    You and Edge are serious contenders to de most biased media ever. Congrats and enjoy M$ cash.

  • Reihn #110 3 years ago

    @ Kirone, and also many others:

    I am definitely going to buy this game and if it is a "7" I will apologize and repost but after playing the demo I am pretty confident I am going to enjoy this product.

    Great! I hope you do buy it, and I hope you enjoy it - but that won't mean this review has lied in any way. A game being enjoyable, and scoring a seven out of ten are not mutually exclusive!

    The review reads like a seven, the gameplay sounds like a seven, and the score is a seven. I'm completely baffled as to why people are getting upset by this! InFamous sounds fun! It also sounds like a game that deserves its score. Seven is a good score, generally awarded to games which are good but unspectacular - i.e. they're fun, but slightly flawed, or they're fun but formulaic, or they're fun. . but maybe lacking in spectacular, groundbreaking, breathtaking qualities. Shadow of the Colossus, GTA IV, Little Big Planet and yes, Halo 3 all deserved high scores. They pushed the boundaries and took us to new places in gaming.

    If you think that Tom should have stuck a higher number on the bottom of his inFamous review, then you really need to go and read Eurogamer's scoring policy. Or maybe go and read the fluff on Gamespot instead.

    On that note, I've bought many games which only netted a seven from EG, and I've had a blast with them - fully informed of the fact that they were good without being great. Obscure - a really fun multiplayer PS2 horror game. I loved it. It deserved it's seven. Conan - a violent action romp filled with gore and nudity. I played it through twice, grinning. But would I have 'scored' it more than seven? No. That doesn't mean I wasn't allowed to love it, though!

    Tom is an excellent writer and reviewer - one of the very best out there, and I love this site as it has proven again and again to have a whole lot more intelligence, depth and integrity than many other ([cough]mostly American[cough]) sites, which seem to consistently join in with publishers in hyping average (but fun!) games as The Next Big Amazing Must Have Thing.
    Edited by 2 at 21/05/09 @ 09:31

  • guernican #111 3 years ago

    I'd just like to congratulate EG on the emotional response they seem to be able to get from their readers.

    The Grauniad would kill for debate like this.

  • Les #112 3 years ago

    "IGN exclusive inFamous review early on 9.2 -> see a pattern here :-)"

    Exclusive reviews almost always result in inflated review scores but in general only in the case of a sequel the hype is massive enough to get the rest of the sheep to follow suit...

  • Les #113 3 years ago

    Must say that the scoreless (\o/) Ars review made the game sound very attractive. Wished other reviewers would follow in Ars' footsteps*. Would make for much nicer comments sections...

    * by ditching scores
    Edited by 1 at 21/05/09 @ 09:34

  • #114 3 years ago

    I do agree with some on this site and perhaps a little with those who regged to vent. EG reviews are inconsistent with the majority of sites. It really does make me wonder why they give some games, be it Ps3 or 360 certain scores that simply dont correlate with how other sites rate said games.

    Either way, I honestly dont think alot of people acutally listen and take on Eg reviews anymore, whats the point when you can use Metacritic and I think many readers are becoming tired of these stupid controvertisal scores, even if they are like a point or so less. A really well written review with no score at the end might be the way to go. Let the reader make the score in their mind.
    Edited by 2 at 21/05/09 @ 09:36

  • RedSparrows #115 3 years ago

    I much prefer EG's style than other sites, screw the score. IGN and Gamespot are idiocy-ridden sites, where scoring is paramount and totally off kilter. I lolz at teh fanboys here, it's really, really dull now.

    The stuff about Dead Space being a 7 etc - well, a number of times IGN have rated a game 9+ when I thought it was worthy of much less. WHO DO I TRUST?! WHAT DO I DO?! /weeples

    Get over it you fools. 'waa anti PS3 bias, waaa'. Oh shut up.
    Edited by 2 at 21/05/09 @ 09:50

  • rotmm #116 3 years ago

    As for all of the fantards saying "EG is teh biased against PS3", I just did a quick spreadsheet taking the top 25 rated exclusives for both PS3 and 360 (excluding arcade-type titles but including those that were console exclusive at the time of release) and matched them against the Metacritic scores.

    On average, PS3 titles score 4.84 points lower here at EG than the Metacritic scores.

    So EG clearly hates PS3!

    On average, 360 titles score 4.56 points lower here at EG than the Metacritic scores.

    So EG clearly hates 360!

  • Darren #117 3 years ago

    Well I don't care what score EG give games, if I'm interested in a game, the demo is good and other sites give positive reviews then I'll buy it. If I took EG's word only on games then I'd never have bought the "mediocre" Banjo-Kazooie or the decent, very enjoyable X-Men Origins Wolverine. Both those games have average Metacritic/GameRankings scores of 70%+ and that's good enough for me to risk buying that game. I use EG's scores as the de minimis limit, just as I do Edge magazines! :)

  • jack979 #118 3 years ago

    man, first mgs now this, i begining to lose faith in eurogamer

  • slivir #119 3 years ago

    Jesus, how old are some of you guys?

    I remember when I was younger I used to rant and rave on about how the megadrive was better than the snes. Now that I've grown up a bit I feel so unbelieveably stupid that I used to do stuff like that. I'm sure all of you rabid fanboy monkeys will feel equally stupid when you grow up too.

  • jimbo118 #120 3 years ago

    No mention of what changes when you play as a good or evil Cole? Was hoping to know more about that.

    *goes to watch Gametrailer's review.

  • Spekingur #121 3 years ago

    Wow. You might like a game, the reviewer might not. You might like a movie, a reviewer might not. You might like a book, a reviewer might not.
    It's all the same thing!
    Also, mentioning Fable 2 and comparing it to inFamous is pretty silly. You couldn't "fly" in Fable 2.

  • XanderFish #122 3 years ago

    lol

  • agparrot #123 3 years ago

    Perhaps it is just because I am getting a bit old, but it's gotten so I can't tell the difference between the comments containing actual rage and those that are posted just for the irony of it.

    Perhaps nobody is actually upset, and everyone is mocking everyone else's irony.

    Anyway the review sounds interesting, and it is definitely one of the games I shall be picking up second hand when I've convinced myself to get a PS3.

    I can't tell you how much fun I had with Ace Combat: Squadron Leader, but Eurogamer gave it 6/10!

    Teh bias!

  • Reihn #124 3 years ago

    Sigh . . will these inane, completely unfounded rantings on a eurogamer bias against the PS3 never end?

    I think one day I'll have ignored so many people, I'll wind up exchanging comments back and forth solely with Kangarootoo . .

    Oh the humanity - I don't want to be alone, but nor do I want to be surrounded by imbeciles! ; )
    Edited by 1 at 21/05/09 @ 10:52

  • zuljin #125 3 years ago

    @Spekingur
    "Also note, that all reviewers are biased (maybe towards a console, a genre or a certain game). Because they are humans and have opinions about this and that."

    Agh I don't like this. I mean its true to a certain extent, but I do think the mark of a good reviewer is to report/review a game without prejudice or bias.

    Having said that, I've played just a touch this morning and right now having a blast just running up buildings. My two cents, if you love sandbox games, pick this up (and prototype in 2 weeks).

  • zuljin #126 3 years ago

    @farticusmaximus
    "But I do find it hilarious that so many people are here complaining about the score purely based on it being a PS3 exclusive and not actually commenting on the content or execution of the game itself."

    So your reasoning for saying Prototype is much more awesome even though you've played neither isn't based on your preference for one console?

    That would be a first.

  • #127 3 years ago

    zuljin..."i dont believe it....its true to a certain extent"??!?

    Like it or not, its impossible for humans to be objective. We have areas in the brain that exlcusively influence perference and opinion. People talk about being ojective, but we can never be truely objective, its just not humanly possible as we are psychologyically and physiologically constructed to have opinions.

    Supressing a bias what ever it is; in my opinion, and from my studies is something we try, but are never fully successful in doing so either.

    And Farti... what if Prototype scores less than 7, you gonna admit your were wrong? ;)
    Edited by 1 at 21/05/09 @ 11:29

  • obscured021 #128 3 years ago

    I dont get this fan boy hate wars, i have both the 360 and the ps3 and and like them, one is not better than the other.

  • FladgeMangle #129 3 years ago

    Seems to me that EG really wanted to give the one an 8 as they made a whole lot of positive remarks on the front page.

    I believe they felt it necessary to drop the score to 7 because of the weak level design of the middle stint and reportedly rubbish final boss.

    So it's a good review and a fair score. Maybe all those higher scoring sites never played past the teeth and tits of the opening levels ?

  • #130 3 years ago

    Just watched the Gametrailers review. Im def getting this game. Looks amazingly good fun.

  • zuljin #131 3 years ago

    @DaemonB
    I'm confused... I'm agreeing with you! Hence why I said it is true to a certain extent (because like you say it is impossible to shake off all bias/prejudice).

    But people seem to give this excuse that reviewers will inherantly mark down a game because the reviewer has a natural preference for Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo consoles. I'm sure they do have a preference. I also hope they can put that to one side as much as possible and review a game for what it is.

    @farticusmaximus
    "When you discuss the game, not the platform, then we have a conversation. I'll not get into a platform argument with you."

    When you play the games before making judgement one will be better than the other, then I will have this discussion with you. As it stands, you don't have a PS3 and with your previous outspoken hatred for it, I doubt you'll ever even play inFamous. So maybe leave out the comparisons between the two.
    Edited by 1 at 21/05/09 @ 11:53

  • Bilbo_bobbins #132 3 years ago

    I think thats a good review. I think the score is pretty much right aswell. I can't see this game being anything outstanding or inventive.
    My suspicions were correct.

  • Rodchenko #133 3 years ago

    I second the motion to ditch scores altogether. That way people would actually have to READ the reviews instead of scrolling down to the number at the bottom right away and then comment on how the score was expected for a game they haven't even played yet.

    @Reihn
    For someone who feels the need to use a comments section of a totally unrelated game to fire off yet another instance of good old Halo 3 wanking, your patronizing remarks on your fellow posters' 'inaneness' seem a bit unfitting, imo. You know, you are free to leave this place anytime you feel your high horse surrounded by 'imbeciles'...?

  • mikeck #134 3 years ago

    I think thats a good review. I think the score is pretty much right aswell. I can't see this game being anything outstanding or inventive.
    My suspicions were correct.

    Your suspicions will be correct once YOU play the game - unless you have, and then I am mistaken ;)

    You can't think 'the score is pretty much right' if you haven't played it yourself. It plays like an 8/9 for me (but that is MY opinion and people can disagree with me and that's absolutely fine), more a 9 because it is SO much fun, but I've only played it for about 4 hours so far so my opinion may change once I finish the game. Unless it suddenly turns to shit halfway through I will run through this game again for the evil moral choices too, which is always a good sign for me wanting to play a game through again.

  • danathjo #135 3 years ago

    jesus what a bunch of whiny pommy bastards most of you are, seriously grow up and start reading reviews instead of speeding through to just the score

    it's a good game, my guess from the demo would of been a solid 8 but i haven't played whole game...and guess what, people have there own opinions which can't be wrong cause it's there own opinion

    if you don't agree with it you don't have to bitch and moan about it, go read the IGN score or whatever will make you feel better.
    better yet, have a read of a few reviews made up on different people opinions and see what bits stand out for YOU....the internet is a funny place which i wouldn't change for the world

  • mukki #136 3 years ago

    good review!!

    will wait till is cheaper and... see how prototype turns out!

  • Biggz #137 3 years ago

    "IGN exclusive inFamous review early on 9.2 -> see a pattern here :-)"

    SO HOW DO YOU ALL THE OTHER REVIEWS THAT GAVE IT A 9??? THEY GET EARLY COPIES AS WELL???

    "I think thats a good review. I think the score is pretty much right aswell. I can't see this game being anything outstanding or inventive.
    My suspicions were correct."

    NO you mean YOUR PRAYERS WERE ANSWERED!! This is the kind of comment that pisses people off. When it's so obvious you go in looking for something to fail.

    By the way for all saying: "the review reads like a 7, gameplay sounds like a 7 (just like I hoped for the ps3 exclusive) bla bla",

    The highest score this reviewer has given is an 8. Its right there oh dissilusioned ones, just click on his name :)

    By the way PS3 only players get Prototype too so we can actually PLAY AND COMPARE BOTH!! Makes you weep doesn't it? LOOOL!!!!

    Seriously its so obvious from 99% of people saying stuff like "this confirms my suspicions...7 is still fun not great...stop whining etc"

    Its OBVIOUS you don't have a PS3. Why else would you want or suspect the game to fail? Or believe purely that a single "7", out of like 13 reviews so far which gave it a minimum of 8.5 with quite a few 9 and overs, is the one that is right??? Especially when the reviewer has never given higher than a 8? And same score as Bionic Commando? Give me a break.

    Its OBVIOUS you are DESPERATE for it to fail, no matter how much you call people whiny, "read the review" etc.
    At least IGN gave it 3 pages and discussed the positives like the other sites who gave higher scores. What do we know about what the reviewer though of the karma moments beyond a one-liner? How the game changes when you play as bad or good cole? The graphics? How are the pop-ins frame rates?

    This was a kack review. Sorry
    Later EuroLamers.
    Edited by 2 at 21/05/09 @ 13:59

  • xXn00bXx #138 3 years ago

    Eurogamer == bunchof360fanboys

  • Yodzilla #139 3 years ago

    this game owns i can't wait for tuesday

  • Mooey #140 3 years ago

    Good job, Eurogamer.

    You actually did your job. You made me come here, read half the review, click page 2, read "Gears of War", stop reading the review, start reading the comments, and finally making me register for this shitty-ass site.

    You are very welcome for those +10 hits I just gave you. I have no idea whatsoever why this game was compared to Gears of War (actually - the only idea and theory from me and everyone else who has mentioned the Gears of War comparison points to hatred for the PS3).

    So I hope you look through your huge database and see my name some day with post count: 1 and a last login: May 21, 2009 because this is the last and ONLY time I take a look at this shitty-ass site.

  • mikeck #141 3 years ago

    ^
    So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye,
    Goodbye,
    Goodbye,
    Goodbye!

  • Reihn #142 3 years ago

    @ Rodchenko

    For someone who feels the need to use a comments section of a totally unrelated game to fire off yet another instance of good old Halo 3 wanking, your patronizing remarks on your fellow posters' 'inaneness' seem a bit unfitting, imo. You know, you are free to leave this place anytime you feel your high horse surrounded by 'imbeciles'...?

    Dude, that’s . . . that's a bit harsh! I know it’s just your opinion, but still, can you cut me some slack?

    I didn’t bring up Halo 3 in a totally unrelated fashion, much less ‘wank’ over it, and I haven't been acting like an ass.. I was having an engaging conversation with an earlier poster who was musing that they didn’t enjoy Halo any more than other games which hadn’t scored as well. We were having a back-and-forth conversation! It was nice!

    And regarding imbeciles, well . . there’s been a goodly number of them around these parts lately. C’mon, you’ve gotta at least give me that one! ; )

  • #143 3 years ago

    Talk about grovelling ;P

  • Zedux #144 3 years ago

    Why is Eurogamer reviewing a PS3 Exclusive title???
    The Eurogamer® Network Ltd.belongs to an American company by the name of Microsoft and I find anti-ethic to say the list Microsoft reviewing their competitor's product.
    Metacritic http://ww w.metacritic.com/games/platform... has got inFAMOUS averaging 88 base on 17 reviews so far and Microsoft owned The Eurogamer® Network Ltd. giving inFAMOUS score 70 when the second worse is 80 just shows how pathetic this Corporation has become.

  • rotmm #145 3 years ago

    It seems that the Playtards have been let out to play for the day.

    Good times.

  • pha #146 3 years ago

    Eurogamer® Network Ltd.belongs to an American company by the name of Microsoft

    Is this a fact? Because if it is, then no more reviews of PS3 exclusives from Eurogamer for me!

  • rotmm #147 3 years ago

    @pha,

    Yes, it's true. Some random fucktard just made it up and posted it on a forum, which of course makes it true straight away.

    I'm not sure what's more of a concern though. That you'd pretty much believe it, just like that.... or even if it was true you'd automatically assume bias against the PS3.


    And just to set your mind at rest, EG scores PS3 games equally well or badly as 360 games. Fact.

  • Templar-CRO #148 3 years ago

    ridiculous
    i mean 7/10 is a good score,but considering how much the other games have been getting it's just not fair
    the missions r a bit repetitive but not as nearly as much as in assassins creed, 9/10 at least.
    everything else is gr8 and the absence of weapons is GREAT,cuz its focused on electricity
    and considering that they review everything on 360...
    just not fair

  • Widge #149 3 years ago

    BETTER THAN HALO 2 VISTA

  • rarebit #150 3 years ago

    eurogamer is infact owned by a race of lizards who disguise themselves as humans who employ lizards who disguise themselves as grey aliens who employ the kkk (lolz u can se it rright there in there logoz) to dress up as lizards who employ a big brass band who.......gah

  • des #151 3 years ago

    Ah poor kids,this review is going to knock metacritic score down...

    Wait until Edge comes..hehe


  • comedian #152 3 years ago

    Just do away with scores, problem solved.

    Well one of them anyway, the idiots that just learnt to count would have to learn to read...

  • costa_k #153 3 years ago

    Crackdown rip-off.

  • makeamazing #154 3 years ago

    I played a game that Eurogamer scored 2/10 and if you ignore all the problems, I am enjoying it... so you shouldnt always take the scores as gospel, which obviously some people do. So EG score it 7, and others have scored it an 8 or 9. To me this would suggest that on the whole its a solid game but depending on the type of gamer you are you will find it between those numbers.

  • dirigiblebill #155 3 years ago

    This review is terrible because it has reminded me that the internet is full of delusional, barely literate walking scrotal sacks.

    To anybody bitching about the score - please kindly take a big step back, unzip your flies and fuck your own face.

  • JHuxley #156 3 years ago

    Enjoyed the demo a lot more than I thought I would. I'm still not sold on the aesthetics, but the game itself was fun. Reminded me a little of Crackdown, only slicker and with better controls. It seems to lack the flexibility and variety of that game, though.

    Maybe not a day 1, but I'll certainly be picking this up at some point.

  • Zedux #157 3 years ago

    @rotmm

    fucktard is your mother's you know what! Before you come insulting other people and talking BS which you know NOTHIN about better STFU (shut the fck up). Eurogamer does belongs to Microsoft Corporation and I ain't no fanboy I'm married man with children and who has got a life very different from a faggot like YOU. Undoubtedly you have no money to have both consoles fanboys classic!

    If you think your main rival can review your products that's fine but I don't agree with that!
    Edited by 2 at 22/05/09 @ 03:50

  • Charlie_Miso #158 3 years ago

    Not as good as Punch Out then...

  • Reihn #159 3 years ago

    Wow. Zedux, just wow. Such a shame Microsoft and Sony don't manufacture branded tinfoil hats, as people like you would clearly snap them up.. ; ) Now goodbye forever! [click]

  • rotmm #160 3 years ago

    @Zedux,

    Not sure which I find mose worrying, the fact that you are so adamant that EG is owned my MS, or the fact you actually have children. Surely you should be been identified as a prime case for sterilisation.

    However, as is so often the case, it's the "system" that has let us down again.

  • dirigiblebill #161 3 years ago

    What I love about his last post (other than the fact that he seems to think bolding something is a good substitute for, you know, proving it) is that Zedux actually stopped to explain what "STFU" stands for. Now that's considerate forum behaviour, kids.

  • Katsumoto #162 3 years ago

    Painfully embarrassing stuff everyone, good work.

  • mikeck #163 3 years ago

    This thread is getting better and better :D

  • maxnormal #164 3 years ago

    Christ on a bike kids. The review tells you someones opinion of a game. Just because you might have liked it to be higher doesn't mean that you cannot like the game yourselves.

    It is not like the PS3 is lacking quality exclusives. Find something important to get up in arms about. Sheesh !

  • rotmm #165 3 years ago

    @maxnormal,

    Indeed. Personally, I loved Assassin's Creed, yet that game scored 7/10 here. And I can understand why the reviewer scored it thus, as there was a lot fo repetition. However, I didn't sit and play it in a single session, but rather an hour or two a day and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The graphics, music, story, atmosphere, chanracter progression, everything. One of my favourite games of this generation.

  • Lea #166 3 years ago

    Played through inFamous myself and i share the same opinion as Tom. I don't want to go as far as saying the other reviewers only played the demo (because it only shows the really cool stuff you experience in inFamous..), but having to go through the same missions over and over again because inFamous only has like 5 missiontypes, is not what i expect from a 9..

    I loved inFamous at the beginning , was totally hyped from all the cool stuff you could do. But the problem is: This cool stuff won't last forever. Its like dating your new girlfriend. First everything feels fresh, exciting. You do this, do that, its awesome. Then after some weeks/months all the "exiting things" become normal. And in the end you get rid of her because she bores you...inFamous!

    P.S. i love my ps3, just for the record! :p
    Edited by 1 at 22/05/09 @ 11:05

  • xXn00bXx #167 3 years ago

    I just played the demo, this game is absolutely great. Don't believe this review, it's bullshit.

  • Brutos #168 3 years ago

    After playing the demo 7/10 seems generous if you ask me. Average graphics, crap AI, and repetitive gameplay makes me wonder how anyone gave this 9/10.

  • VicViper #169 3 years ago

    @xXn00bXx

    I'm going to try the demo(haven't got round to it), but you can't base the whole game experience on that. That is a selected piece of the game designed to make it awesome, the real game may take hours of repetition to get to that demo point. Look at assasins creed a demo of one of the hits would certainly not convey how repetitive that got, a game which I enjoy hugely.

  • Plewt #170 3 years ago

    I just played the demo, this game is absolutely great. Don't believe this review, it's bullshit.

    But we are to believe you who only played a small portion of the game?

    /facepalm

  • Vanmunt #171 3 years ago

    Its like dating your new girlfriend. First everything feels fresh, exciting. You do this, do that, its awesome. Then after some weeks/months all the "exiting things" become normal. And in the end you get rid of her because she bores you...inFamous!

    meeting up with new totty tonight for dinner... now you have ruined it.

    might blast her with electricty for a mix of dating/gaming... mind you I would only expect a 7 for my effort from EG.

  • onyxbox #172 3 years ago

    you're all forgetting that unless it's another generic 3rd party cross platform game that runs slightly better on 360... EG can't give it more than 7... you should all know that by now.

    Perhaps that's a little harsh... EG score things pretty well if you ask me but...

    Like most of the press, it seems to me that EG reviewers are invested in the whole Achievement / 360 Friends (community) thing and because of this there's an emotional attachment to the 360.

    This makes playing anything on PS3 an exercise in protecting that emotional investment by looking for the things they don't like... It's a natural human instinct that IMO has a subtle effect on how reviewer approach game on the PS3.

    Likewise, there are those who have invested in PS3 that can't see that the 360 version DOES look and run better ;-)

    Personally, I like games on both systems but there's definatley a feeling in me that there's a distorted view within the industry of PS3... and I think it's got something to do with the 1 year's worth of emotional investment the gamers (within the industry) have invested before the PS3 even came out (especially in light of all the hardware problems 360 had/has).

    Then again, I keep thinking to myself... bah... who care's... why am I writing this... iPhone and Wii will kill gaming as we know it anyway.

    :-)



  • Lea #173 3 years ago

    meeting up with new totty tonight for dinner... now you have ruined it.

    argh, sorry :p You know, if you get the feeling it starts to get boring, just buy different bags to put it on her head :p Ok, that was even more harsh :p

  • Plewt #174 3 years ago

    @onyxbox

    360: But what about us?
    Tom: We'll always have Halo.
    360: And I said I would never leave you.
    Tom: And you never will. But I've got a job to do too. Where I'm going you can't follow. What I've got to do you can't be any part of.

    360's lights swell up with RRoD. Tom puts his hands on its controller and raises it to meet his face.

    Tom: Here's looking at you, console.


  • rotmm #175 3 years ago

    @onlyxbox,

    While I see what you're trying to say (and in a far better thought out and presented way than other here), I'd just like to quote an earlier post of mine again:

    As for all of the fantards saying "EG is teh biased against PS3", I just did a quick spreadsheet taking the top 25 rated exclusives for both PS3 and 360 (excluding arcade-type titles but including those that were console exclusive at the time of release) and matched them against the Metacritic scores.

    On average, PS3 titles score 4.84 points lower here at EG than the Metacritic scores.

    So EG clearly hates PS3!

    On average, 360 titles score 4.56 points lower here at EG than the Metacritic scores.

    So EG clearly hates 360!

    I've always wondered where the whole impression that EG looks unfavourably on PS3 titles comes from, and the facts do nothing to dissuade me from that.

    All I can assume is that there is a very vocal minority of Playtards here that are so invested in their preferred product that they just cannot accept the scoring system in place, instead preferring to believe in bias. As we don't get the same complaints about 360 reviews, there must be another site where the rabid Xbots go to vent their anger and scream "GamesiteX hates XBox!!!"

  • M_of_the_sys #176 3 years ago

    @Lea

    I loved inFamous at the beginning , was totally hyped from all the cool stuff you could do. But the problem is: This cool stuff won't last forever. Its like dating your new girlfriend. First everything feels fresh, exciting. You do this, do that, its awesome. Then after some weeks/months all the "exiting things" become normal. And in the end you get rid of her because she bores you...inFamous!

    Surely that can be said of anything after a while and therefore would relate to all games? I agree that AC (for example) was repetitive but I never got bored of it. I think I have more staying power than most though... especially when it involves shankin' innocent people. >:)Anyway, I've downloaded the demo and will install it tonight to give it a spin. Doesn't really seem like my cup of tea but we'll see...

  • Lea #177 3 years ago

    @M_of_the_sys: It for sure has the same problems as Assassin's Creed when it comes to repetitve gameplay aspects :) And yeah, if you look it from that angle, you could say it about nearly every game. Diablo II for example. But in the end it comes down to "can i still have much fun doing the same stuff over and over again"? In inFamous its a 50/50-situation.

    I for example loved it in the beginning, when it still felt fresh, exciting etc. But after a while it put me through the same missiontypes over and over again. Destroy cameras across a building. follow a courier etc. And its not like you experience them just once or twice while you discover the 3 city-parts. You have to do them like at least 2 times in the first part of it.

    Btw: You can shake a lot of people in inFamous, you can even suck them dry :p Will be your type of a game i guess :)

  • M_of_the_sys #178 3 years ago

    @Lea

    But after a while it put me through the same missiontypes over and over again. Destroy cameras across a building. follow a courier etc.

    Much like GTA4 then? I really hope not.

  • JHuxley #179 3 years ago

    I for example loved it in the beginning, when it still felt fresh, exciting etc. But after a while it put me through the same missiontypes over and over again.

    It's funny you should say that, because Richard Leadbetter over at DF seem to think the opposite:

    despite minor issues and an initially uncompelling series of missions, the game manages to transform radically within a few hours of play and proved compelling enough for me to sit glued to the PS3 until it was completed

    Can I ask if you've completed it yet? I'm not saying you're wrong, but I'm considering buying the game at some point so I'd like to know what to expect. AC was far too repetitive for my liking, and GTA IV just about the right balance (for such a large game).

  • Harmonica #180 3 years ago

    Reading these comments threads just makes me fucking despair. A lot of very eloquent posters and a lot of people who are living right alongside us in the real world who really need to have someone give them a big hug and a cup of warm milk.

    Who are these poor people? I swear when I'm in my local gamestation everyone looks perfectly sane and well-rounded :/

  • Dolihiotis #181 3 years ago

    Eurogamer is the worst review site!!! It has given 10 to many many games. And gives 7 to a game that is highly critically aclaimed.
    MGS4 8/10 LOL!!!! EG sucks...
    IGN, GAMESPOT rulez!!!

  • patchbox360 #182 3 years ago

    this game and uncharted 2 dominates the 360 graphically.....and the console actually works

  • Brutos #183 3 years ago

    @ patchbox360

    Have you played the demo ? The graphics are poor,the textures are low res, blur and jaggies everywhere and it looks like it's running sub 720p.

    Hardly a great looking game.

  • NotSoSlim #184 3 years ago

    @ Brutos

    Yet the game plays great..who would of thought gameplay would be more important. Graphics on sanbox/openworld games are never expected to be mind blowing.

    Eurogamer and Gamesradar are i think the only sites reviewing lower than a 8!! GTA gets rave reviews for basically re-hashing the same game..again!!
    Edited by 1 at 23/05/09 @ 16:49

  • fcpthebest #185 3 years ago

    The graphics are very good for such a sandbox game.

    It has the best hdr lightning ever for a sandbox game you have ever seen, and if u dont know, real time lightning consumes a lot of requirements, so it is obvious that it must a liitle bit worse on other areas.

  • AOFanboi #186 3 years ago

    Ooh, let us classify the asshats into groups shall we?

    1) The asshats who treat Metacritic, which is the subjective interpretation from ONE person of the scores of a subset of game reviews, as if it was fucking Word of God.

    2) The asshats who clearly think the review scale goes from 7-10 not 1-10. 7 is GOOD.

    3) Asshats who fail @ math since they do not know that as long as there is a spread, some scores will be lower than the average by definition.

    4) Asshats who fail @ reading the EG scoring policy but choose to offer their own interpretation of scoring and thus what it really should have been.

    To cull the number of asshats, EG shoud drop numeric scores and instead do a summary listing pros and cons. It is the only solution; unless EG likes the page hits generated by the asshats incessant ramblings...

  • Les #187 3 years ago

    "Ooh, let us classify the asshats into groups shall we?"

    You omitted at least two asshats categories:
    5) Asshats who fail @ understanding that playing a game and then trying to give it an objective score is impossible (or even worse, understand that it is impossible but still do it because it earns them money)
    6) Asshats who fail @ understanding that all opinions are irrelevant with the exception of your own

    Which is why I totally agree with you that scores should be dropped ;)

  • SEVQA #188 3 years ago

    My experience with the demo was the first time i played it i turned it off after the train mission and as I felt it was rubbish. Then I played beyond the train mission and really started to enjoy myself. especially when you went to the dark side. So far I've had many hours out of this demo - which is good. If ill buy the game i'm still in two minds about that. As im finding the instant nature of cole wanting to grab on to every surface quite annoying still!

  • Brutos #189 3 years ago

    @ NotSoSlim

    I was just pointing out to patchbox360 that it's not the best looking game on a console (overall), and as a sandbox game it's probably just below GTA and miles behind Far Cry 2. But obviously there's more to games than just graphics.
    Edited by 1 at 24/05/09 @ 15:14

  • Harmonica #190 3 years ago

    Review scores = site hits, in many different ways.

    There's no reason to drop scoring on EG from a marketing perspective. EG has to get more than just dyed-in-the-wool EG readers on the site in order to support it, and people are attracted in because they hear that x game has scored y. The vast majority would be less inclined to read the site if it just had words, because people are lazy and stupid, as this comments thread obviously demonstrates (most people who have posted their complaints won't have read any of the body text). Yes, people care that much about numbers that relate to words they haven't read.

    I also fundamentally disagree that a scoring system is a bad footer to critical reviews. Yes, sites like metacritic are largely useless because every review site uses a different scoring system, and most sites won't even have a formal or consistent system, and because the vast majority of reviews referenced on metacritic are pap. But this doesn't mean that scores aren't a useful guage of reviewer opinion, or that they're meaningless in and of themselves. EG and other quality sources have built up such a wealth of scores that a 7 equates to a certain feeling about a game, whilst an 8 something completely different.
    Edited by 1 at 25/05/09 @ 00:41

  • Lea #191 3 years ago

    JHuxley: Can I ask if you've completed it yet?

    Jup, completed. And we did two different runs on eg.de - i've played the nice guy, my co-reviewer did Mr. Asshole-style. But in the end we both had the same opinion about the missions/sidemissions. If they just put in a bit more variety in the missions, it would have helped a lot.

    @M_of_the_sys: Ummm..i can't really compare these 2 games when it comes to missions. I haven't played that much of GTA (i prefer superhero games, sorry), but from what i know GTA 4 had lots and lots and lots of missions. inFamous has its share of missions but there aren't enough of them to oversee that they only range from a handfull of missiontypes.

    edit: sorry, engrish overall :(
    Edited by 1 at 25/05/09 @ 10:08

  • KreyAtiv #192 3 years ago

    "Empire City is vast and vastly detailed, but there isn't all that much to distinguish particular areas."
    Didn't seem too detailed when I played the demo or vast, the draw distance wasn't that great at all.
    Wouldn't pay full price for it, like most I'll probably wait for the price to go down and then pick it up.

  • EvilBob_leeds #193 3 years ago

    I didn't have too much issue with the draw distance on the demo, and thought it looked pretty good, a good way better than the only other current gen sandbox game I've got, GTA4. The detail was good. The incidental detail was good. The AI of the enemies was good, and the AI of the public was good too - not once did I catch one running at a lamppost, or stuck in scenery. The camera didn't do anything stupid (not so much of an issue these days, but it still does come up). Where it did shine as far as I'm concerned was the intuitiveness of the controls - whatever I tried to do worked, and worked how I expected it to. No idea about the repetitiveness of the missions; there aren't that many on the demo, but the demo was more than good enough for me to want to buy it.

  • NotSoSlim #194 3 years ago

    @ Brutos

    Fair enough!!

  • onyxbox #195 3 years ago

    Had fun playing the demo over the weekend and thought it felt a lot like Crackdown (which is a good thing). I'm really looking forward to this on Friday.

  • onyxbox #196 3 years ago

    OK visually but worse than Crackdown (another sandbox) three years later is not something to crow about as the guy did originally in the thread (which was why people responded).

    Really?

    I loved Crackdown and thought it looked ok but inFamous looks better IMO. Crackdown got away with a lot by having a different art style.

  • kinghunter64 #197 3 years ago

    A 7 out of 10! Really!?!? I made an acccount just to bash this site. Go on wikipedia.org type in Infamous (the game) scroll down and look at the reviews. You'll see nothing but 9s and As except for this crap sites review. Also if you think this game looks bad you clearly havn't played it.
    Edited by 1 at 26/05/09 @ 23:22

  • XxTotalzxX #198 3 years ago

    More bloody PS3 exclusive hate from Eurogamer then...ah well who cares I'm going to get this anyway.

    So is it better than Darkfall? :p

  • Andreas2402 #199 3 years ago

    It's 4 times better than Darkfall! 2/10 + 2/10 + 2/10 + 2/10 = 8/10!

  • makeamazing #200 3 years ago

    Those who use reviews as the standard... Eurogamer Portugal gave the game 9/10 (another of the sites gave it 7 along with the UK site).. looking at the reviews across the board, the game has received more 9-10's than any other score, more 8's than lower, and very few 7 (shown below).

    21 - 9 or above
    18 - 8
    5 - 7
    1 - 6

    So to me it seems some people will probably find it not bad, while alot of people will find it very enjoyable.

    I try not to take reviews as the be all and end all, it also depends on what the game means to me.. I dont care if a game gets a 9 or 10, if its a Japanese manga game for example..I am unlikely to play it. I played the infamous demo and it seems like a well made game, story seems good and so does the voice acting. So now the demo has passed the Makeamazing test its time to get on and risk buying it :D

  • Twin_snakes #201 3 years ago

    Game Central gave it 6/10, \o/
    Edited by 1 at 30/05/09 @ 09:58

  • Emth #202 3 years ago

    Translation of kinghunter64's post:

    Hey, why did you post your opinion of this game! Look at the metacritic scores, everyone else gave it the same high score so why the hell aren't you just posting a 9/10 like everyone else regardless of score policies being different on different sites?!!?!?

    I am a fanboy and the game has been out in my region for less than 2 days but I am definitely in a better position to pass judgement on the entire game than you are!

  • makeamazing #203 3 years ago

    @Twin_snakes, yes one site did give it 6 out of 10, but considering the large number of higher scores I think you can pretty much ignore that :D

  • Les #204 3 years ago

    "the game has been out in my region for less than 2 days but I am definitely in a better position to pass judgement on the entire game than you are!"

    Of course he is. He is the master of the only opinion that's relevant to him: his own.

  • MilkYMoO #205 3 years ago

    The highly reliable gamecentral gave it a six and the fanboy backlash has been hillarious on its mail section. The demo did not impress me unfortunately, but a good session of Noby Noby boy cheered me up again.

  • makeamazing #206 3 years ago

    Well people do love to complain :D

    But if out of 30+ sites its the only one to rate it that low, either they really dont like this type of game or they know something that everyone else doesnt :D. To me one bad score does not make a bad game. But then lots of bad scores doesnt mean a game isnt enjoyable... so it does come down to personal taste after all :D

  • byron_hinson #207 3 years ago

    Haven't read the Eurogamer review but bought the game yesterday and I'm really enjoying it. Those worried it may be repetitive like Assassins Creed need not worry - it is never like that. Graphically the game isn't that hot - animations are good, lighting in great, but textures and facially (bar the main character) are poor, but it does run at 60fps which it needs to.

    Have to say I'd give the game at least 8 right now after 7 hours of playing and surprised if the game got lower than that as both the gameplay and story are pretty damn good and I haven't enjoyed playing a game as much as this for a few months. In saying that though I haven't completed it and would wait til then before I gave a final verdict.

  • El-Dev #208 3 years ago

    Did GTA HD not only have like 2 mission types?
    1. Drive annoying person here, do something annoying and drive back.
    2. Drive annoying person here, shoot a lot of people and drive back.

    Only played a few hours of inFamous so far and it's pretty enjoyable, controls feel very floaty or something I can't quite put my finger on. Graphics are what are expected of a game with a world this size in game. As for the comment about it being miles behind FarCry2 in terms of graphics; I thought FC2 looked horrendous.

  • wankerw #209 3 years ago

    Omg I love this game =D was a total impulse-buy aswel and it's just so awesome, just finished neon and taking a break before I go through the warren (?)

    Gameplay wise it's quite typical but the feel you get off it is just great, platforming is brilliant too except it it can make it awkward when you obviously don't want to stick to the nearest ledge

    AND it was only 45 euro =D score ;)

  • pap #210 3 years ago

    There will probably be no-one reading this after all this time, but what the hell, my 2p.

    I've played through this twice now and I reckon the review is a little off, but only a little. On the EG scoring system, I'd probably hover between 8/10 - Very Good and 9/10 Excellent. Closer to 8/10 if I had to choose.

    It's a nice mix of Crackdown and Tony Hawks with some heavy influences from Star Wars.

    A shame that Cole sounds almost exactly like Snake from the MGS series - it'd have been better if his voice had its own distinct identity.

    Loved the story, although I twigged a semblance of the ending quite early on. Have to agree with the Richard Leadbetter review that it starts off uncompelling before becoming something much much better.

    Platforming aspects of the game are most welcome - been awhile since had this much fun hitting jumps. Controls are a bit weird to start with, and you get a little overwhelmed with the new powers you're expected to memorise. Was nailing everything on the second playthrough.

    On the replayability front, I started my second game immediately after finishing the first - blasting through it at a rate of knots. Now that I'm done, I can't see myself going back to Empire City to grind out the remaining objectives for a platinum trophy. I mined the side-missions pretty heavily both times, and got around 30 hours out of the game in all. If you're OCD for collecting stuff, you might get more.

    In conclusion on inFamous, great game with a short lifespan. As far as review scores go, don't think EG was that far off - a bit stingy maybe. Can easily understand the euphoria of the other reviews - when it's got you, it really has you. When you're done, you'll be looking for a good trade-in price.

  • HuggyAtHome #211 3 years ago

    @pap

    There are still people reading...

    Just finished the first play through on the good side - enjoyed it a lot and spent time completing the side missions and collecting dead drops etc. Now about a third of the way through the evil playthrough, much more fun because of the havoc you can create and the fact that the shards/drops become less important. What I have enjoyed in the Evil side missions, so much more fun than the good escort and protect missions.

    Overall really pleased with it - will have sunk about 25-30 hours in total, hit about 60% of the trophies and will get a decent trade in price to go and buy Overlord 2. Can't grumble.