Video Games- Old and New

                    Infamous 1 and Infamous 2: Playing as the Electric Man

Cole Mcgrath was a delivery boy mainly just to make his parents mad and help the people. But one day, a package found him. The Ray Sphere, a ball that gives people super powers, people like Cole. When Cole was delivering this package it was like a bomb, when it exploded, a few square blocks were completely gone, and everybody around him died, except Cole. In a few moments Cole finds out he now has the "Conduit" gene, giving him superpowers. In the first game Cole finds the man who gave him the package, Kessler, and tries to find him and hunt him down. However, because of the explosion the entire city is quarantined and Cole has to do various missions to help, or terrorize the people. The game also has a Karma system, allowing people to do good or bad deeds to get special powers unique to that karma. Infamous 1 and 2 also has different endings depending on your Karma, which encourages the player to start a completely new game at the end with the opposite karma to unlock everything else. In both games, Cole will gain new powers and improve old ones. Some players might just want to have fun and just run around pulling enemies off roofs. However, in Infamous 2, the game introduces User Created Content, special "side missions" made by players like you to just have fun with. These side missions also rewards you like any other mission, giving you a lot of experience points. There is little chance of there being an Infamous 3 however, because of the fact of the ending of Infamous 2 if you chose the good Karma side. Both Infamous games are fun and addicting, and are very long and have replay ability. The only real problem that was in both games was the fact that you died really easily and in the first game melee was useless. They changed this in the second game by making melee very very useful, and giving you the fact that electricity is all around you almost always so you can get your health back. I rate Infamous 1 an 8.5/10 and I rate Infamous 2 an 8.75/10. Even though both games are great, they are still a few problems with dieing in Infamous 2 and there are a few bugs in both games.