As far as I am concerned controlling electricity is not a power I would want to possess if I had my pick because I don’t plan on forgoing showers anytime soon.  Good thing this isn’t The Sims and hygiene really isn’t a concern to Cole, the protagonist reprising his role in InFamous 2.

At the end of game one I happily went about my business running around the city I had just saved from immediate danger, collecting trophies that did not unlock during the main story, gleefully exercising my leveled up powers.  Needless to say I might have created a false sense of calm that did not quite fit with the actual ending of the story.  So color me aghast when at the start of InFamous 2 my playground of Empire City is wiped off the face of the Earth by a human-shaped goliath of a volcano.  What!? You say I was warned about the coming of “The Beast” in the final moments of the story?  My bad.  I was probably too busy looking at a pretty pretty blast shard in the corner of the screen… [Read more...]