June 3rd, 2011
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The PlayStation Store came back in a electrifying way yesterday by bringing us the demo for Sucker Punch’s soon to be released inFAMOUS 2.This was the first time we sat down with the game, and if one word could sum up how we were feeling after playing it, speechless would be it. From the incredible performance and amount of destruction one can unleash on the environment, to the outstanding visual and audio presentation, inFAMOUS 2 will surely be another smash hit for Sucker Punch – and rightfully so. Below is an HD video from a few missions in inFAMOUS 2 (a ton of destruction), as well as some amazing “in game” HD screenshots. Be sure to stick around and watch the entire video to see the Ionic Vortex, an incredible and new power for Cole. Enjoy!
Now we normally wouldn’t focus on one picture, but take a look at what’s playing at the movies in inFAMOUS 2, Latch it and Skank? Too funny.
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Played the demo yesterday. For an open world game, it looks absolutely amazing. I was flying across the rooftops trying to see if the engine could keep up, and it did it with ease. Didn’t see any pop-in, the framerate was top notch, and things blow up beautifully.
“Hey, Low Reach ”
“No Need For Speed ”
“Epic Hickey ”
“Little Big Unit ”
“Latch It and Skank ”
Something about these titles feel incredibly arousing, in a very sexual way. What kind of theater is that!? Whoever thought up these titles is undoubtedly brilliant.
I’ll need to revisit the theater now. I have been way too busy basting folks sky-high to notice these stuffs.
Man, hopefully when Sly 4 comes out (or I could watch it in the theater now *LOL* ), it’ll also have these awesome hidden little humours.
Don’t forget “Call of Booty” lol.
…That…actually is a real product produced by some guy named Tom Byron…
Don’t bother looking it up though…as it is just another one of those garbage that I happened to pass by on the net…The title was hilarious though…
it actually is in the game….if you download the demo there is a moment when you can run free in the city if you go to the cinema youll see this but a few streets away there is a porn cinema and it has the call of booty movie
….try it 
Also the Red Ring Department Store!! Hahahaha, that was great! I couldn’t believe it when I found that one!
D
Gotta love Sucker Punch!
Also, the demo is incredible, got a preoder for the game, can’t wait!!
Gobsmackingly beautiful for an open world game( not uc2-3 beautiful , but never was going to be due to open world) and frame rate is top notch too. I’m not really a fan of open world games as whole as I find going from a to z and repeating a very limited set number of tasks reskinned a bit very Boring, but really enjoyed this and could see myself getting into it. There needs to be a little more variety in enemies maybe? , but even still it wouldn’t ruin it for me. The combat works well, traversing the sprawling city is both easy and great fun, and gives u a real sense of that superhuman power cole is supposed to have .
Not a day one for me personally I don’t think due to back log of games, but on the must have list for sure
Hehe…the Welcome Back program is available now, so I’ll be off to go grabbing inFAMOUS along with other free stuffs. More details here:
Yip I got infamous and wipeout on download, but gonna save up psn plus for bit, so u can get in on uc3 beta .
It’s bit hit and miss using store at moment though , be warned. You might have to try half a dozen times to download stuff.
I know what you mean, mate. I was constantly booted out of PlayStation Store just by clicking on the games, it’s hilarious.
Why do you keep writing in bold?
Just a personal preference thing, I just like to bold and italic, basically stylize certain words or phrases.
the game is epic!but it lacks some antialising……i hope the original won’t be like the demo
It’s not that bad , I hardly noticed it had none, but hopefully they touched it up for final retail release. Then again in supposed to be running upto 60fps( or that was their target ) and if they managed anywhere near that , it’s pretty epic.
I noticed it when playing on my 32-inch LCD screen, but when I moved to my 50-inch Plasma, I almost didn’t spot any! Kinda odd..
Still, it does not distract from the experince
This game looks amazing! Any chance of a H2H between Infamous and Infamous 2? I’d be interested in seeing how much Infamous 2 has improved graphically over its predecessor.
I totally agree! LoT, please consider making a InFAMOUS / InFAMOUS 2 Evolution H2H! That would be dope!
I just got the game today, the beginning is pretty awesome and the graphics have definitely improved a lot. The only thing is that the city almost looks the same as the first one except with more detail and lights. I also kind of hate that dead drops and blast shards have returned again because it feels like I’ve done this already. I’m sure it will get better as I get farther, but these are my first impressions.
Do u mean that u have the retail copy already? if so, is there any difference between demo and retail copy?
Yeah I got a retail copy, but sorry I never played the demo.
I played this demo thrice, and loved every second of it. Day one purchase here.
Loved the Demo. Can’t wait.
7.5 on gamespot
Another ps3 exclusive fails to deliver on its promises.
I expect the ps3 deluded fanboys to go Blah blah blah at least the ps3 is getting exclusives at the moment blah blah blah.
At least uncharted 3 may give you the high metacritic score for an exclusive that the ps3 has been craving for since yakuza 4, white knight chronicles 2, killzone 3 and others have failed to do lol.
What hot new Microsoft exclusives are we playing on our 360′s right now?… oh yeah right, there is none right now.
Unless you are playing something i don’t know about.
And come on referencing a Gamespot review, really? really! was that the lowest one on Metacritic you could find?
How low have you sunk, here i was thinking some of your posts actually had gotten better, but i guess you hit rock bottom again. Its a long climb up.
Lol android, love the way you ignore the majority of review scores there which are 8 and 9′s out of ten .
Killzone 3 also got consistently high scores too, and little big planet got huge scores .
Anyway let’s review those 360 exclusives shall we ? How about kinnect sports 23 or zumba kinnect edition etc etc
Blah blah blah blah.
There’s always uncharted 3 to give you that massive score SUAREZ07.
It’s just infamous 2 doesn’t look like it’s going to do it.
They hyped this up so much, we are using the full atomic bomb destroying power of the cell for this game, no other machine can compete with what we are producing blah blah blah blah.
And yet all i hear about is framerate problems in certain places and it’s not a technical masterpiece that the deluded fanboys wanted.
The face off of dirt 3 is up btw at eurogamer if you want to read it lol.
did you check out the portal 2 faceoff or the la noire faceoff? LoL 2 revolutionary games superior on the ps3 with many more to come lol. This year you get no core exclusives android just some kinect stuff and “More Entertainment” lol microsoft gave up on it’s gaming developement a long time ago. They paid 8.5 billion for skype while not even thinking of buying a gaming studio to help out it’s exclusive deficit. Xbox has no gaming future just “More Entertainment” from now on lol. Leave gaming to the ORIGINAL gaming system the Playstation.
Oh just shut up and play the game to decide for yourself already instead of relying on the pompous opinion of one of gaming’s most notoriously fickle and Microsoft-biased websites. You’re such an epic troll android. yeah we all know you lack attention and troll to death to suit your pseudo-sociopathic cravings/fetish but if you have even half a brain it’s obvious you as a gamer would love to play Infamous 2. It’s such an unapologetic romp in nonstop fun and exploration of the purest kind that any shortcomings fade into afterthought once you dive in. Play it already you big ol’ sourpuss you.
Lol android, love the way you ignore the majority of review scores there which are 8 and 9′s out of ten .
Killzone 3 also got consistently high scores too, and little big planet got huge scores .
Anyway let’s review those 360 exclusives shall we ? How about kinnect sports 23 or zumba kinnect edition etc etc
Yakuza was always an acquired taste and very much aimed at Japanese Market ultimately , who love it.
Ur tradition of ridiculously biased Fanboy views continues without falter, congratulations good sir lol
Anyway for those interested here’s dirt 3 face-off from EG
Unsurprising 360 win , with both versions being 720p but 360 runs msaa whilst ps3 has qaa( why lord , why???), and 360 gets slight performance advantage and less screen tearing.
eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-dirt-3-face-off?page=2
Its only a demo first of all, which we all know means more work would be done before release. Ive yet to read anything about frame rate issues, other than occasional drops when it gets hectic on screen. Game is best looking open world game on consoles , obliterating any game of the genre on 360, utilsing engines that favour 360. Name an open world game on 360 that looks better? I’ll be first to say , I’m disappointed it didn’t have mlaa in demo, and hoping retail release does, but then again looking at gears 3 which is far more linear and can’t run with aa , then maybe this might be a step too far for this gen of consoles . Infamous 2 is an open world game thats running a whole host of post processing effects and even has god rays and tonnes of lighting sources built in, particle effects etc etc, so it’s more impressive than any other open world game available currently on consoles.
As for looking for high scores on metacritic, I make my own mind up about games. La noire bored me to tears and wouldn’t get those high scores from me.
As I said shall we analyse those 360 exclusive scores?
Just to continue the theme of looking at ps3 exclusive review scores on metacritic I thought I’d our together following tables for kz3, lbp2, yakuza 4 and infamous 2.( I ignored the Other u mentioned as it’s crap without doubt )
Kz3
70-79% =13
80-89 %=29
90+ %= 41
Total of reviews scoring 80% or above =84%
Infamous 2
70-79%=2
80-89%=5
90%+=3
Total of reviews scoring 80% or above =80%
Lil big planet 2
70-79%=5
80-89%=12
90%+=68
Total of reviews scoring 80% or above =94%
Yakuza 4
60-69%=4
70-79%=16
80-89%=28
90%+=10
Total of reviews scoring 80% or above=65%
So ur criticisms of those games is from a statistical point of view , well.. Total bollocks to put it bluntly.
No game is going to be to everyone’s tastes and that’s a pretty good set of 80%+ review scores and at least I have the choice of these games. Some of them are not to My tastes , but I can say same about multiplat games too, so really u need to find a better line of argument as this one is very weak.
You can give us all the scores you want suarez, but triple A titles are rated at 90% and over.
The year started with so much hype on the ps3 and its exclusives but yet they’ve disappointed slightly(apart from lbp2).
Killzone 3, yakuza 4, white knight chronicles 2 and even infamous 2 have not fared as well as people had hoped(nowhere near 90% on metacritic).
Yes there’s been a lot more exclusives on ps3 than 360 this year, but has any of them made much of a difference?
Not really(imo).
Maybe Uncharted 3 will change all that.
I would rather have 15 AAA-titles in a year, rated 80% +
vs.
2 “AAA”-titles rated at 90% + in a year, Android123..!
Ratings is based on the reviewer/reviewers. Example: I saw Hangover 2 and though it was one of the funniest films I had seen in a long time. Reviews? Negative.
Just because a game is lower rated, doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it more or as much as a 90%+-rated game.
So stop waving around with reviewscores to make yourself feel better and grow up.
Thank god there’s some maturity and sanity to counter the idiocy of android and truehurts
lol @ the irrelevant Dirt 3 mention. So the 360 FINALLY got a superior multiplat version. A shame there’s also a PC version which shits all over it.
Bigger LOL for thinking 80+ rated games < no games.
The pc shits over everything.
There’s been loads of multiplatform wins for the 360 recently, it’s just LOT haven’t covered those games(lucky for ps3 owners lol).
Rubs hands together in anticipation for gears of war 3 and forza 4 soon.
Now these will get 90%+ on metacritic, real triple AAA titles lol.
There’s been many ties too, and few ps3 wins. This is the point, the differences usually aren’t sufficient to care unless u own both consoles and have a preference.
The difference is, u can’t play the ps3 exclusives and ps3 users can play those multiplats with slight advantages to 360.
Again u miss point about scores being subjective ,and if I had to rate gears 2 it would be a 7 at best, triple A only in appearance ,with a dull single player , and only the co op redeeming the game, whilst forza is of no interest at all to me. What makes the 90% + reviews more valid than those that score it lower? Only ur experience of it . So , if millions of ppl enjoy those games, then they are triple A , at least for them, but if another doesn’t enjoy it, it’s not triple A , just another bad game . This obviously applies to titles I named too.
Your xbox exclusives weren’t so aaa either. Alan Wake is @ 83 Metro 2033 @ 81 Fable 3 is @ 80 and Crackdown 2 @ 70 All you had last year was halo reach @ 91, and you were saying?
LOL its so funny,u said ps3´s games are overhyped and then u put “gears of hype” on the table… xD
Lol, still laughing at how heavy the preorder rates for Gears 3 dropped after that shit shotgun fest that Epic called a beta. XD
Ah yes of course your imaginary PC again. Just curious but how is that dated hunk of crap specs doing these days? With it’s imaginary geforce 4 graphics card, pentium 2 processor and 256 GB RAM. This clearly explains why you process thoughts at 8 frames per second and you can’t form an opinion without tearing a ligament.
It’s funny how you pick the only site to give it a bad score, while pretty much every other site has been giving it 9 + scores. I’ve been actually playing it, unlike you and that guy on Gamespot, and the game is excellent. The only way one can hate this game is if they don’t like sandbox games. As far as sandbox games go, this game gets pretty much everything right. Sites like Gamespot and IGN are confirmed pro-360 sites. The only people who deny this are Xbots because the bias is obviously in their favor. I find it sad, fandroid, that people like you lack the intelligence and individuality to even think for themselves and develope a legitimate opinion. Read a book titled Farenheit 451 sometime. It’s morons like you that are leading mankind into a dark future.
Infamous 2 is a fantastic title and a must own for PS3 gamers. I’ll see you guys in the UGC.
Looking forward to this. The demo is great. 83% average on Metacritic too. 90% of the reviews are positive.
i played a lot of sucker punch than this!!
I love my single player games so can’t wait to play buy this, thought Infamous was a great game and I trust this will be even better. It’s also another reason to own a PS3. Most 360 games are made for Co-op and MP and I prefer SP myself hence I prefer the PS3 as a console but still dig my 360 (which was my fave console up until 2009).
Going to play the devils advocate here but I remember arguing with those who thought it was going to be Uncharted level of graphics and I was like woah slow down this is an open world game you can’t expect that but they wouldn’t listen. And lo and behold as expected it’s nowhere near as good looking as Uncharted and it’s not the best looking sandbox either. That honour goes to LA Noire and RDR. The destructible environments and frame rate is amazing though there is a lot of sub pixel aliasing and shimmering caused by the use of MLAA (which also makes it look a little blurry).
To call la noire open world is a stretch of the truth to say the least, and whilst RDR is good looking , it really doesn’t have that much going on in it, with much of world made up of dirt and grass, with little in the way of buildings, whilst everything in world takes place on one level of ground more or less, and theres even less in the way of post processing effects. Guess artistic preferences will partly decide which u think looks better, and I’d be inclined to choose infamous 2 .
Like yourself I had no doubts it would not match uc2 in visual stakes as uc2 is very linear and let’s be honest naughty dog are without doubt the finest programmers on ps3, and no matter how much help sucker punch got from them via communicatio. Etc, this doesn’t translate to having that experience and skill naughty dog has.
Very true, IF2 is doing more than RDR and yes I agree L.A Noire isn’t really that open world. I really dig clean and sharp looking games and I think RDR has that especially on my TV screen.
Presume u playing it on 360 then ? As sub 720 on ps3 ( even if only by same amount as crysis 2 or halo reach are on 360) I do like look of rdr on 360 though no doubt, just has less wow factor, the impressiveness is in the landscapes being picturesque, with animation of characters etc being not that impressive , and as we said little else in terms of impressive effects going on.
I think if2 is very clean looking tbh, although there are some jaggies at play, even if post processing hides a lot of this,which is sane gameplan epic using for gears 3.
Each to their own I guess, this gen of consoles clearly reaching their limits now, with each having to make compromises to achieve what they set out to do.
my mistake RDR on ps3 is also reduced res on the vertical too, so not same as crysis 2 on 360. (1152 x640 as opposed to 1152 x 720p)
had to correct myself lol
Beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder. IF2 is more impressive in some of the tech used (some destructible environments, HDR coupled with a mostly smooth frame rate) then in real eye candy imo. It almost looks low res due to the post processing effect used (looks kinda blurry). I don’t know if it’s using AA or not. Either MLAA or a custom solution or none at all. MLAA doesn’t smooth out sub pixel edging which could explain the jaggies but the characters look well AA’d especially during the cut scenes. It’s not the looker I was hoping for (when compared to the mighty GOWIII, KZ and UC) but will buy it regardless and it’s still a technically impressive game. Another bonus I must mention is it seems to be triple buffered (I hate obvious screen tearing like in Assassins Creed).
FYI I bought RDR on 360.
Disagree. I own all three games and love em all but pound for pound, pixel for pixel, effect for effect or what have you Infamous 2 is without a doubt the most overall graphically impressive 3rd person open world game on consoles (among the currently released titles of course). Sure RDR, Just Cause 2, AC series and Noire do certain things better graphically in the areas of “photo” realism and fluidity of animation but as a total package graphical performance wise Infamous 2 runs circles around them and any other 3rd person sandbox out now for consoles. It manages to accomplish something none of those games ever have and that is deliver God of War 3/Uncharted 2 caliber set piece action and cinematic presentation all happening in real time in a open world setting without frame rate or tearing problems. The transition with the exception of occassional cutscenes is seamless too.
There is just an insane INSANE amount of action onscreen at one time in real time with boss battles against huge beasts reminiscent of God of War, chases and environmental chaos reminiscent of uncharted 2 without so much as a hiccup or tear in sight. Usually in open world titles attempting such a feat does not come without huge consequences. RDR and GTA IV (at time of release) for example beautiful and huge but rampant with technical glitches and bugs. Just Cause 2 breathtaking vistas and
water but at the cost of horribly robotic animations, stale set pieces and too many copy and paste duplicate pieces. LA Noire and AC series gorgeous no doubt and actually more technically sound than RDR and GTA but small and confined for open world with very minimalist happenings–not a whole bunch ever going on at one time.
RDR was doesnt look better than infamous 2 its a sub-hd port. You need to get your eyes checked dumbass.
Yet u still choose to deal with fact that various reviews gave those titles 90% or plus, so they were triple A in eyes of those reviewers. So if we going on basis that a triple A game has to get 90% overall then I’m guessing No games would constitute as triple A titles as you can always find a review that doesn’t match that criteria. There’s reviews for halo reach as low as 70 and 80 for gears of war, so no triple A score for those titles, which are generally regarded as the best of a small bunch of exclusives on 360.
Either way, depending on how you personally enjoy the games and how you’d rate them( reviews being subjective afterall ) there’s more high quality/ triple a games that are exclusive on ps3, and no matter how u spin it, that’s never a bad thing, that’s why s lot of 360 owners are angry at ms for focusing on kinect and having little in way of exclusives .
Generally I’ll accept the 360 is the go to machine for multi plats in terms of peak performance,even if the divide has got almost non existent on most titles, and some favour ps3, but we all know most of that is engine related , so it’s a cross we have to bare, but one I’d take happily to have access the ps3 exclusives . Clearly not all games are for everyone. I wouldn’t buy a system for gears or halo, as I like them, but just not enough to get excited about.
I’d recommend those with time and money to own both systems , always have, as otherwise u might miss out on some great games , but if u think having a greater choice in high quality titles available to you is bad thing, well, you’re clearly beyond help.
Ps not getting pc version?? It’s vastly superior on even imaginary pc’s
Tried the demo, its a great game, but def not the impact the first 1 had.
I’m going to hold off, just because I got screwed with the KZ 3 collectors, they dropped it 1 month later by 50$ and now you get it free with any PS3 Purchase at EB games Canada.
True the game doesn’t have the same impact, it does feel pretty identical to the first one. But more of the same isn’t always bad.
Will pick it up when it drops in price at some point.
I also saw a store called Candie’s Inferno lol.
demo was freaking amazing , cant believe how well this engine runs with the amount of things going on at one time .
another thing.. why do you people bother with the likes of android123 and company??
you people realize hes doing it to piss people off cause no sane person is that delusional
Best looking sandbox game PERIOD! Day one buy! I can’t wait for this game!
It certainly does look GORGEOUS and they did have a minor assist from Naughty Dog to say the very least. Looks better than the original for sure. Will purchase when done with 1st inFAMOUS game (Welcome Back program).
i hope the graphics will get better in future,because this graphics sucks(a lot of news about innovative engine…). Really bad explosion effects and lighting and i miss you anti-aliasing..
you are a retard, congratulations.