Re: inFamous 2
Previews for Festival of Blood and it's now going to be $9.99 and not $14.99. $7.99 for PS+ too.
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Previews for Festival of Blood and it's now going to be $9.99 and not $14.99. $7.99 for PS+ too.
IGN
In terms of gameplay, there's plenty of differences between the Infamous and Infamous 2 experience you may be used to and the gameplay provided by Festival of Blood. Because of the fact that Cole is a vampire in this story, and is thus inherently evil, there is no Karma Meter. Instead, a Corruption Meter takes its place, allowing Cole to channel his evil vampire energies. By pressing and holding the R2 button, Cole can use his Vampire Vision, allowing him to see who has been corrupted and turned into vampires around him. Cole can even feed his Corruption Meter by sucking human blood and earn special vampire-related attacks that would be otherwise unknown to Infamous and Infamous 2 veterans.
Sucker Punch was kind enough to show me plenty of the game, and I got a lot of hands-on time with it. I also saw quite a bit of the game's story, which I won't spoil for you here. But you can rest assured that Festival of Blood is very much an Infamous game in terms of how it feels and how it plays, regardless of some of the aforementioned new additions. Parkour is still the name of the game in Festival of Blood, and the entire city of New Marais is available for you to explore, albeit updated to reflect the Halloween-like celebration of Festival of Blood. Cole still has access to his basic electrical attacks, and he still recharges his power using whatever electrical devices are around him. In other words, if you know how to play Infamous already, you'll know exactly what to do the second you pick up the controller.
Interestingly, for such a robust experience, Sucker Punch and Sony have decided to put Festival of Blood out on the cheap. It will only run you $9.99. And better yet, for those who enjoyed creating UGC missions in Infamous 2, there will be a whole new set of tools for you to use in Festival of Blood, allowing you to make Festival of Blood-specific missions (that will unfortunately not cross-over with Infamous 2). You'll even be able to make your own cutscenes this time around, adding a distinct story-telling option to your creations.
Festival of Blood will also be PlayStation Move-enabled (and will automatically patch Infamous 2 for identical functionality), though I wasn't able to get hands-on with Move controls during my demo.
I'm excited to see more of Festival of Blood, and if you're a fan of Infamous and Infamous 2 like I am, you should definitely keep this cheap download on your radar. Complete with in-game collectibles to find and PlayStation Network Trophies to earn, Festival of Blood is a bite-sized expansion into the Infamous universe that will tide people over until Sucker Punch hopefully does more with its newest series, whether on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita or beyond.
Sucker Punch was kind enough to show me plenty of the game, and I got a lot of hands-on time with it. I also saw quite a bit of the game's story, which I won't spoil for you here. But you can rest assured that Festival of Blood is very much an Infamous game in terms of how it feels and how it plays, regardless of some of the aforementioned new additions. Parkour is still the name of the game in Festival of Blood, and the entire city of New Marais is available for you to explore, albeit updated to reflect the Halloween-like celebration of Festival of Blood. Cole still has access to his basic electrical attacks, and he still recharges his power using whatever electrical devices are around him. In other words, if you know how to play Infamous already, you'll know exactly what to do the second you pick up the controller.
Interestingly, for such a robust experience, Sucker Punch and Sony have decided to put Festival of Blood out on the cheap. It will only run you $9.99. And better yet, for those who enjoyed creating UGC missions in Infamous 2, there will be a whole new set of tools for you to use in Festival of Blood, allowing you to make Festival of Blood-specific missions (that will unfortunately not cross-over with Infamous 2). You'll even be able to make your own cutscenes this time around, adding a distinct story-telling option to your creations.
Festival of Blood will also be PlayStation Move-enabled (and will automatically patch Infamous 2 for identical functionality), though I wasn't able to get hands-on with Move controls during my demo.
I'm excited to see more of Festival of Blood, and if you're a fan of Infamous and Infamous 2 like I am, you should definitely keep this cheap download on your radar. Complete with in-game collectibles to find and PlayStation Network Trophies to earn, Festival of Blood is a bite-sized expansion into the Infamous universe that will tide people over until Sucker Punch hopefully does more with its newest series, whether on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita or beyond.
After getting some hands-on time with Festival of Blood, I can gladly say that this is not a cash-in attempt to complete the retail game. This is the guys at Sucker Punch having fun with the inFAMOUS franchise, providing an interesting twist to the inFAMOUS universe and play style.
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