New Marais is also more natural to traverse. The culture’s really interesting, the music, there are loads of different styles of architecture – things you don't see in a more generic New York-alike city.” “There are a lot of things that are interesting about the New Orleans-type city. “We’re really focussing on variety for the environments now,” says Bridges, asked why the studio changed the setting from skyscrapers to swampland. Against stronger foes, though – like the mutant that bursts out of the ground and charges towards me towards the end of the demo – rockets are a more reliable fallback. Up-close fighting is choreographed, mapped just to the Square button against multiple enemies, you can choose the direction of Cole's next strike. Cole can – rather inappropriately, now that I think about it – bring down entire streets with electric tornados, and smash enemies through delicate balconies and down to street level.Ĭole now has a new electrical melee weapon, which significantly changes the feel of combat. New Marais’s quaint and varied architecture, with its verandas and pillar-propped balconies, is much more suited to destruction, which in turn makes you feel like more of a superhero. The enemies in Infamous 2 come from a well-equipped army that wants all mutants – including Cole, the lightning-powered superhuman – cleansed from the city of New Marais, the swampy New Orleans-alike that provides the action's backdrop. I can’t squeeze anything out of Darren about the ice powers hinted at in the reveal trailer, but I do get to pick up cars and throw them at militia guard towers in one scenario, and throw electrically-charged vortexes that destroy entire streets in another.
Infamous 2 is the story of him already as a superhero, in this new area, becoming - I don’t know what’s next - a demigod.”
At the beginning of Infamous 2 Cole runs into the Beast, this guy who is way more powerful than him, and he realises that where he’s at is not powerful enough he has to continue to grow his power set. People might already have heard of you from Empire City. “Infamous was a story about going from zero to hero, an origin story,” elaborates Darren, ”but in Infamous 2 you start out as a superhero. Instead, the developer has had to find a way of making you feel even more powerful than before. The player starts Infamous 2 with all of Cole’s original powers – electro-rockets, pulse grenades, electric storms – intact there’s no mysterious event that conveniently strips him of his abilities, leading you to reassemble them over the course of the game. Having established Cole as a likeable superhero in Empire City with Infamous, Sucker Punch is facing a different sort of challenge with the sequel. Just prior to inFamous 2’s public outing at the Eurogamer Expo this weekend, Sucker Punch’s Darren Bridges talked us through a kickass new demo, showcasing improved, punchier melee fighting and super-destructive new powers.Įxcuse me for eschewing the erroneous capitalisation from now on.
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