Quick Look: Infamous: Second Son

The music of Infamous continues to be stellar as always.

God damn this game looks pretty.

Beyond that it sounds like more InFamous which I still think is pretty rad so I'm on board.

Welp, guess I'm going to buy a PS4 soon. This looks great.

pretty pathetic that these so called next gen games on next gen systems still have collision issues. referring to body parts going through surfaces.

It looks really nice but the combat looks boring as shit.

I wonder if the release of MGSV on Tuesday was the reason for this coming out on Friday? Although I would think it would make more sense to push this back a full week instead. Either way, cool Quick Look for seeing some of the world/powers/gameplay. Looking forward to playing this over the weekend.

From what I've seen and read, this feel like a bit of a step back from what SuckerPunch did in inFamous 2. This feels like its taken some of the concepts introduced there and limited them. You may have only been able to pick 2 powers depending on your alignment but I liked the option of different powers and being able to change them on the fly such as trading out an offensive power for a defensive one.

The biggest thing that's missing if user created missions. Most of them were terrible but it was a cool thing you could do inside this super hero game and gave the user a lot of control but it was limited by memory which wouldn't be as much of an issue with these next gen systems. It's more disappointing when the side activities themselves seem pretty dull.

I don't have a PS4 and I probably won't for some time and I will like to say I'm still excited to play this game (the way Jeff played is so not how I play these games) but I was hoping for a bit more progression in terms of gameplay rather than higher production values.

I am impressed. I am a Infamous fan so no problem there. It's a fun game. Of course I enjoyed Crackdown also.

But this game, and really the PS4 running it, looks very good.

Just spent big time money on a video card.

Sometime down the road.......

See, Ubisoft? This is what an open world game with high fidelity graphics should look like!

Game looks gorgeous! Super excited to play it this weekend, loved the first 2!

I'm surprised so many people dislike these games. This is the only series I would play every year if it was annualized

3 things:

Why cant Jeff be like this all the time.

SOOO much more entertaining to watch than when playing anything on normal difficulty.

Maybe the most lifeless city on earth, other than the one i live.

You say that now...

I don't like the implication that all Seattleites are douchebags with neon under their VW Golfs.

Yeah... I'm from New Orleans. Can't play Infamous 2 without cringing. Or watching pretty much anything for movies or TV written and produced by people who maybe MAYBE visited here once. I liked Infamous 2, but it was pretty shitty realizing all of the "good citizens" had New York accents and most of the enemies were backwards redneck idiots... and no one had an accent that you would find in southern Lousisiana... and Nix made me want to punch my TV. Point is, Seattle got off light lol. I haven't watched the QL yet, but I played some of the game tonight.

It's weird that the first thing I thought was how good those fingers looked. We gamers are a strange bunch.

I just got done playing the game; been playing since earlier. I was probably playing for five hours or so, I didn't keep track. It's a good game so far. I like it. For me personally, so far the weakest aspect is combat, but it's not bad, it's just not all too exciting. I don't really feel right saying how I feel about the game right now and I'll hold that judgement until after I beat it. I just finished getting all of the third superpower. Surprised Jeff didn't know how to get out of the rock-like thing that attaches to the leg, since all you have to do is tap O, the evade button to get out of it.

@gbrading: I think it looks great, but I think Ground Zeroes is a little better, and it runs smoother too. I think Ground Zeroes so far is the best looking new-gen game, granted it's still not perfect, and then Infamous Second Son, and Tomb Raider Definitive Edition.

I cannot believe Jeff doesn't show the graffiti stuff. it puts getting up to shame.

...actually that's probably why he didn't show it!

Second son of a second son, second son of a second soo-ooo-on.

This game looks really cool based on this quick look. If I had a PS4 I would definitely pick this up to play. That neon running effect makes me think that someone could make a pretty cool video game for The Flash on these new consoles. Thanks for the video guys. Now if you'll excuse me I need to go make an alt account for xXSmokePower420Xx.

The world looks so lifeless and there are no ambient sounds... just poor.

YES! I'm certain this is the first time I've managed to buy and play a game before the QL. I haven't been so certain of a purchase since GTA V. This is the first true 'welcome home' to next gen. What I've played so far is stupidly pretty looking and especially fun as this is my first time with an Infamous game.

Goddamn this game looks good.

Please @vinny, please please please up the resolution and bitrate for your amazing videos. It's doing this game (and many others) no justice whatsoever. At least push a 1080p30, 8+mbps version to YouTube and let them pick up the bandwidth tab for you.

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Well it looks really nice!

I would rather have Troy Baker then Nolan fuck face , I hate that Nathan Drake voice , I fuckin I hate it.

Fuck youtube, you'll get awful compression no matter what. Gamersyde is currently the best for game footage. They do ~35Mbps bitrate on their videos. At least Giant Bomb videos can do 60fps. They could introduce a new download option for super high bitrate quality, for people who can handle those huge filesizes :D

yup completely throws me out of the game for a second going what!!!

The day hasn't come were I am sick of Troy Baker yet, but yea video game protagonist voices could use some more variety.

Game looks pretty great, the limited destruction of world objects wasn't really a surprise as they only ever showed you breaking those things when they showed off the game previously. Overall though as someone lukewarm on the whole inFamous franchise it looks more fun than the previous entries.

In one section of the quicklook it gave a prompt to "Drain Concrete" which seems to be the power of the DUP.

I've only been to Seattle a few times 10 years ago (although extended stays) and even I reacted to it.

Pretty. I liked the previous two inFamous games well enough, I'll propably play this once I get a PS4.

I really do feel impressed at the visual fidelity and quality of the city model they've made. It's lifeless as all hell, which is unfortunate, but what is there is really impressive. And it seems like they've made a smooth flowing and playing Infamous game. It's just a shame that, while potentially not as aggressively bad in the story department as the first game, it's still moribund as far as investment in the characters and universe are concerned.

That neon power seems kind of... stupid.

I don't understand the appeal of games like these...

I don't think GB are going to move to Gamersyde!

Cole McG's huh? That's amusing.

It very quickly leads to infinite speedrunning over any terrain so its okay in my book.

They could take a few pointers ;)

no we have not vinnie is the wizard

Looks very nice, but I feel like there are questionable design decisions.

Alignment systems that incentivize choosing one alignment specifically should have gone away years ago. The traversal abilities seem a tad overpowered, especially neon.

They got all the landmarks looking pretty spot-on. It's just where they're placed on the map that's a little odd. It's actually kinda funny how they have all the exit signs on I-5 looking exactly like they do in real life. They even have the exit numbers right. But the freeway itself looks nothing like that.

the game is so damn repetitive that it ruins what would have been a 5 star game, jeff was spot on with the 4 stars

Back in the day, I remember games were released on Fridays. Maybe they are going back to that trend.

What are you guys talking about? Games always come out on Fridays.

Also, the first two Infamous games were pretty fucking terrible. I pretty much hated the combat and everything that wasn't a main story mission got boring somewhere around the fourth repeat. And somehow, this is still selling me on the PS4. Weird.

Ubisoft have to make Watch_Dogs work on three weaker consoles, though.