One of the hottest games to come out this year and a PS3 exclusive is inFamous. You play Cole, a bike messenger turned super powered hero/villian after a package he tries to deliver explodes. The explosion kills thousand and destroys a good portion of Empire City. It also endows Cole with the power to store and manipulate electrical charges. Now it is up to you to decide how to use that power. Make good decisions and your electrical powers are blue and more precise. Make evil decisions and your power is red and more destructive. Most of the missions will essentially the same, but the NPC's will react differently to your decisions based on whether you good or evil. The are specific side missions that are only for good or evil. Do one in that are and the other gets locked out. Trying to do both at the same time is an exercise in futility. To reach your full good or evil potential you must go all the way in that direction which will take most of the game.
GOOD - Played by Dead-Weight
Staying on the good path will give your powers precision. Your friends will stick with you and your girlfriend will forgive you for killing thousands. This is typically the easier path to stay on because the more people you help the more they will love and defend you. Eventually normal citizens will pick up rocks and throw them at baddies to defend you. Cops will be more abundant and helpful when roaming areas of the city that are still overrun by gangs. At the end you will learn the truth of your powers and what your purpose is in the new order.
EVIL - Played by Maverick
If your feeling a little naughty, progressing through the story as evil will really test your willpower. I have never felt so shitty playing these types of games before. The first "evil" decision you get is to zap the people that are around you and take all the food for you and your friends to horde. How fucked up is that?! And it just gets worse. I really felt like a horrible person once I was done playing , and I have never felt that type of emotion before in a video game. Anyways, on to the powers. Every new power that you gain throughout the game become more destructive. You get more bombs, more electricity, more everything. Add in the fact that with those powers you can do more collateral damage, gives you the ability to destroy pretty much anything that gets in your way. Down side, since you are the most hated person in town everyone is out to get you, the baddies AND the citizens. Instead of the citizens throwing rocks and the bad guys, they throw rocks at you! Not only that, they also come up and punch/kick you. Fortunately for you, your bad, so one zap will take care of them (evil laugh). You pretty much get the idea from here, everyone hates you, your powers are crazy destructive, and you end up not giving a shit about anyone.
This game keeps me on the edge of my seat. It's exciting and fun. Being able to fry people, blow up cars, grind powers lines and summon a ferocious lightening storm out of thin air is awesome. Climbing on almost anything like Spider-man is pretty great too. This game plays a lot like the Spider-man games as a matter of fact. If you liked those you will definitely like this one. I would say that this one would be a rent though. It has a high replayability but only once to see the other side of the story that you miss the first time around. The game's length is decent enough though if you don't play it everyday you might have to purchase it.
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Since I am drunk on a Monday evening with nothing better to do, I thought it would be a good time to post a review of Prototype. This game has gotten some pretty mediocre reviews from other critics. Well I hate everything except for Captain Morgan's and the new Ghostbusters video game right now so don't expect much.
