*sighs* Okay, I just finished this game. I bought it off the PSN several months back, started it, but got bored and just now decided to finish it after playing through Prototype.
If I remember correctly, there was some drama over the two games on which was the better open world game and such. I'll just give some of my opinions on Infamous in comparison to Prototype:
Rants:
1. Fuck the controls. Aiming at those little flying robots at the end of the game is so god damn awful. Everything felt so sluggish to me.
2. The enemies are bigger bullet sponges then the original Uncharted. At the end of the game it takes forever to kill them even with zooming in to snipe them and such.
3. I'm not a fan of most of the missions. Many are really irritating. I spent a lot of time cussing at this game.
4. Fuck Cole, your fingers are stickier then spiderman, dude. Fucking stop attaching yourself to every god damn surface you come across.
5. Cole can summon mother fucking lightning bolts and blow shit up, but he can't go past a chain link fence. What the fuck?
6. The camera angles really suck sometimes. I go to jump on a line or a pole, but Cole just ends up missing and falling to his death or I have to climb back up the building. It's difficult to figure out how close he is to something at times.
7. The AI is really annoying. Like, this was some of the most punishing AI I've ever faced.
8. I never really felt powerful at all in the game until I got lightning storm, and while that was great, it was still a bit limited in its use. Coming back to Infamous from Prototype, Cole felt like a little bitch in comparison. He ran slow, he climbed slow, his powers weren't nearly as devastating, and he has the worst side kick in history. Damn fat Elvis wannabe retard.
Likes:
1. The game looked fabulous. Protoype's graphics were kinda meh, but in comparison Infamous is ahead by leaps and bounds. A lot more detail.
2. Story was a lot better. I felt bad for Cole as he continually got fucked over. I was indifferent to Alex in Prototype.
3. I mentioned lightning storm earlier, but not how much I liked it. It felt good to finally see a group of enemies and just go "fuck off" and annihilate them.
4. The boss battles were challenging and more fun then Prototype as they required you to think a bit. In comparison, Prototype's AI was stupid, and most of them had unblockable attacks which was irritating.
5. Infamous's world was really fun to explore, but I missed being able to hijack a helicopter and fly around. I really would've liked if he could levitate or something to get around as by the end of the game I was getting rather tired of running everywhere (slowly) or trying to track down power lines.
6. The characters were a lot better. I was actually shocked a bit by the way the end of the game played out too. Really didn't see that coming.
7. Check points. The game was very forgiving if you died and it made certain missions a lot more bearable because if you made a mistake you could go "Oh, shit, so THAT'S how you do it." and then just pick up at the spot you died rather then having to go through this entire long ass mission again. I'm really not down with punishing gamers for making a mistake, and I'm glad that they're on board with this idea too.
Overall:
It was an enjoyable game. Definitely had its moments, and I will pick up the 2nd one, but there's really a lot that can be improved upon gameplay-wise. I hope they improve the melee attacks and make them not suck, and I really hope that climbing and exploring isn't such a huger clusterfuck. Some improvements on the control side as well would be appreciated. And Cole needs better and more substantial powers. He's supposed to be this guy with nearly infinite power that nobody can fuck with, but you really don't feel that at all when you're getting your ass kicked by AI 300 meters away shooting you from the top of some obscure building.
I'd say that my fun factor with Prototype was definitely greater overall then Infamous. I had frustrations with both, but while the story is lacking in Prototype, and the characters are meh, the gameplay is fucking crazy and much more fun - and you can just plow through people and objects to get where you need to go - not to mention climbing buildings with little effort and practically being able to fly. I just had a damn good time with that game.
(waiting for the delivery).
