Infamous second son paper trail review series#

The game casts players as Delsin Rowe, a toque-wearing 20-something slacker in a small Pacific Northwest town, who delights in tagging billboards with graffiti and causing grief for his police officer brother, Reggie. Second Son is set seven years after the events of Infamous 2, when the few surviving Conduits – people with the ability to manipulate, control and weaponize specific forms of matter – have been rounded up and imprisoned by the Department of Unified Protection (sort of a scarier, heavily armed version of the Department of Homeland Security), overseen by a powerful Conduit named Brooke Augustine (sort of a scarier, super-powered version of Hillary Clinton.)

But it doesn’t have quite enough substance to balance out its sizzle, like exquisite icing slathered on a cake that turns out to be lacking an ingredient or two. With this being Sony’s first major PlayStation 4 exclusive of 2014, and coming out less than two weeks after the Xbox One’s own Titanfall juggernaut, expectations for Second Son have been as high as the iconic Space Needle in the game’s virtual recreation of Seattle.Īs a technical showpiece, Infamous: Second Son doesn’t disappoint: it’s an absolutely amazing-looking game, and edges out Killzone: Shadow Fall as the PS4’s most visually impressive title to date.

Infamous second son paper trail review series#

Infamous: Second Son is the third game in Sucker Punch Productions’ critically acclaimed series about normal people with extraordinary powers. So while I’ve never actually believed that nice guys finish last, if there’s one thing the Infamous games have taught me, it’s that bad boys have more fun. But games give us licence to act out in ways that we could never get away with in the real world, especially when we’re playing as characters we didn’t have a hand in creating. We all want to be the heroes of our own stories – save the day, be cheered by friends and strangers, win the affections of the girl or boy. Morality is a tricky concept to play with in video games. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.