inFamous

inFAMOUS
SONY (PS3)

Your city has just been destroyed by the equivalent of an atomic bomb, and you’re to blame. Well, sort of. Bike messenger Cole McGrath was used as an unsuspecting pawn by a shadowy covert agency, but only McGrath, the agency, and the FBI know that. The survivors all have it in for him. He has to use his post-explosion ability to channel electricity to unravel the agency’s plot and clear his name.

Rocks: You don’t need to make exact jumps to scale buildings and race across the city on lampposts and pipes—a feature from the developer’s previous game, Sly Cooper, that we agree was worth keeping. That city race shows off the game’s excellent camerawork. The visceral cut-scenes left us longing for a follow-up graphic novel.

Flops: The karma system is an interesting way of allowing the player to level up, but we’re getting a bit weary of this now-popular gimmick.