inFAMOUS - My Speed Is Electric

I had a lot of fun with this last night. I think I played it for like 8 hours straight and had just finished 100% of the side missions for the first island and beat the boss to unlock the 2nd. The boss fight was pretty good to. The game had an interesting way of fighting the boss which isn’t done too often. Doing all the side missions wasn't necessary, but the game gives you great incentive to do them as they keep enemies from spawning in the areas you take over after you do.

I'm doing this playthrough as good, but I really want to play through again as an evil character to use the evil powers. The game is very sly in making you want to do that by showing you what the leveled up powers of each side does when enter the power menu to upgrade them. The story is decent so far, but I'm having tons of fun scaling buildings with ease and jumping off the top of sky scrapers to land on the ground and make a huge explosion. It looks really cool when you do that and gives has the exact same feeling of falling Mirror's Edge had when Faith falls off a building.

The other thing it does super well that I wish GTA did is make finding all the secrets doable. There are 32 locations spread between the 3 districts where you can locate these transmitters and find hidden messages. Every time you tap L3 the it points you in the direction of the nearest one if your within range and lets you know when your getting closer without holding your hand. Also there are these shard things you can collect that'll give you more special attack energy and when you tap L3 if any are near you it'll flash the locations on the mini map. If GTA did this I'd probably find every package every time.

The game does have some flaws though, namely the people who inhabit the city. You can save them from an assault from enemies, even bring some of them back from the brink of death and they’ll celebrate you for about 10 – 15 seconds, then they’ll go right back to cursing you for being a terrorist. Also you will do the exact same side mission over and over again with the only variable being the location is slightly different. Also, you have to keep returning to the sewers and do the same mini-mission multiple times to gain new powers and restore electricity to the city.

This'll probably be a 20 hour game for me considering how long it took me to complete the first act, but you can probably run through it in 10 if you don’t spend that much time exploring and doing all the side missions like I did. If you like jumping off skyscrapers, gliding through the air on beams of electricity, and blowing stuff up, this is your game.

No score due to me not completing the game as of this writing.