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InFamous Review (PS 3)

Posted by James Pikover,
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Open world superhero titles have almost always done poorly, and for good reason: making the experience both realistic and using those superhero qualities is, while still being fun, really hard. Few have managed to come up with the proper formula to give players a serious game for a given character. This generation of superhero titles has decided to be more imaginative.

InFamous, as the name implies, is really two games in one, where players choose to be good or evil. Or more appropriately, a hero or inFamous. Using an open world environment, imagining ways to be both good and evil is fairly easy, and in fact the biggest flaw of inFamous is how pathetic the good and evil system is.

Following Cole McGrath on his quest to fully comprehend his powers and understand why he has them, as well as why the fictional Empire City is under constant attack, we�re introduced to electricity. Cole�s power is to manipulate electricity on a whim, literally shooting lightning bolts from his hands, drawing power from phone booths and throwing electric grenades. Some forty powers exist in the game, in various stages of development, though many are unavailable during the entirety of the game, thus the two games in one.

 Our Rating for InFamous Review (PS 3)
4.0
Replay
Once you�ve played through, there isn�t much to go back to
8.0
Graphics
Very picturesque
8.0
Sound
Goes with the game, but nothing spectacular
7.0
Gameplay
10-15 hours of solid gameplay
0.0
Multiplayer/Online Content
Not Available
7.5
Overall
Great to Rent, Poor to Pay

Rating: 2.7, votes: 4
Comments
  #1 Oct 14, 2009 18:00:00

DrkrZen
1 Comments
Its really too bad that reviews like these get added to the GameRankings totals... especially when they don�t reflect the source content sufficiently, nor do they provide correct information and even contradict themselves throughout. Besides that, the score drags down the average, compared to other, more prominent, reviewers that outnumber these reviews. Although its no wonder that this article has such a low rating when you take that into account. But hey, you can�t expect much from a site that can�t spell the name correctly of the games they review, heh.
  #2 Oct 14, 2009 18:23:09

Christophor Rick (TheSuperGuido)
42 Comments

For your information, the game name is spelled correctly and only formatted slightly wrong. According to grammatical rules it should be infamous and therefore when in the title of the article or at the beginning of a sentence. Infamous. Granted the publisher stylizes it as inFAMOUS but honestly, that doesn�t reflect in any way on the content of the review.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and your �more prominent� reviewers all work for nice big corporations I�m sure who get paid lots of money and sometimes say a game is good when it�s not because if they don�t someone gets fired... or have you forgotten that incident? It wasn�t so long ago really.

If you were to average the scores (4+8+8+7)/4 = 6.75 which would get rounded up here to 7.0, I would say the reviewer was generous with the final score.

Reference our Game Scoring List - http://gamersdailynews.com/page-32.html

7 (Good): This is a solid game in a particular genre, with its flaws outweighed by what it does well in other areas. The game is at least worth a rental, if not a bargain bin purchase.

So there you go. Just pretend you�re an Olympic games judge, drop the highest and the lowest and get over it. The game has 75 reviews and an average of 86% Will you go flame Gamestyle for their 7 out of 10? How about GameShark for C+? Oh wait, Edge Magazine UK...a �more prominent� place... 7 out of 10 and Eurogamer, same score.

So tell me again how GDN dragged the score down?

 





 
 
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