E3 2013: Get Toasty With Six Minutes Of inFamous: Second Son Gameplay

I played the other games and liked them well enough, but I wasn't too excited about playing this. After watching the video though, I am much more interested. Looks really fun.

@soviut said:

Others? Like what, Crackdown 2? Infamous 2 was hands down the best superpower-drivens open world game game as said by many, take your jadedness elswhere.

It's almost like the game is still in development or something!

This looks great - although the gliding stuff is as unrealistic as ever.

So I'm pretty sure my favorite part of new gen graphics are smoke and fire effects. I felt like they never really got smoke right this generation but a lot of the next gen games look like they have awesome smoke and fire. This generation I think we came pretty close to mastering water and it looks like fire and smoke are going to be mastered next generation. Also this game looks fun. Pretty much the same as the last game but still fun.

I thought hipsters wore blazers, scarfs and fedoras, or am I thinking of the wrong ones? ;p (a superhero game where you play as an old man would be awesome though)

Not sure I like the reticle always being on display but i'm sure everything hud related is still under wraps. I kind of wished they'd improved the platforming but seing as you can pretty much fly now that's probably a non-issue. Everything else looks great though.

Man, those smoke shooting hand animations are janky as all hell.

I'm really disappointed he didn't surf down that Dinosaur skeleton...

Love the ingenuity of the protagonist shooting through the vents to quickly get on top of buildings. Thought that was really smart.

I miss Cole and the more stylized comic bookyness of the first 2 games but this looked quite good

I just don't know if I can support a hero in skinny jeans.

Edit: Never mind, this game looks f***ing awesome.

Every time he jumped down onto the ground I thought "okay now press square for the big drop" ...and it never came, until the scripted cutscene thing at the end. This better be a normal attack in the game. I simply cannot play an inFamous game without the drop-down attack.

It mostly looks like more inFamous to me, but that it completely fine. I absolutely adored the first two games. Really digging the destructibility in the environments.

Great to see that the main playable character still moves exactly like Sly Cooper.

Has a bit more of a Prototype feel.

Man, if nothing else, the best thing about this is how fluid it looks to play, in a way that's actually manageble to do.

Baller.

I'm glad Cole won't be back either. He was a pretty lame character, and now at least this kid has some personality.

Yes. I want this.

.. I don't get it. what makes this guy look emo?

Looks like he has Cole's AND Nix's powers!

@apoloimagod: He actually has the power to absorb other 'superhumans''s powers.

I like how dynamic the effects and world look. Hopefully we see that ramped up during this new generation now that we have the CPU and memory to do it

Looks like another infamous game. Really enjoyed the first 2,( didn't get the finish the second because my nephew corrupted my hdd). Should be good.

Same old. Same old.

Looks fun, no one thinks about mobility like Sucker Punch. I should really get around to finishing inFAMOUS 2. Kind of wish this was a launch game.

Bioterroist ain't got nothing on the errorist.

I'm definitely picking this up when it comes out... or maybe I'll borrow it from a friend.

Too bad this won't be a launch title(hope that changes). wow now this was pure bliss! can't freaking wait!

This looks pretty great. I hope they make huge improvements to or get rid of the moral choice system from the first couple of games.

Man this graphically looks really good and smooth, apparently to jeff and other people at E3 the videos online don't do it justice. I would love to see a better encoded video of this at 1080p

Wow...

You are correct that the jump to next gen is not as noticeable as previous generations because of diminishing returns.

However there is a lot more that can go into making a game look better. We aren't even close to being topped out yet. Just give developers a while to play with their new toys and we will be seeing some amazing stuff in no time. Game scope, for one, can be way bigger now. You can get a lot more detailed with the extra power you are going to be packing, too. And let's not forget framerate, advanced lighting techniques, tessellation, and antialiasing that have to be sacrificed right now just to get current games running on the PS3 and 360.

Kind off disappointing to see that final move was, what appeared to be, a locked animation. Looks like fun though. I'll be playing this. But I am kind of hoping for a Prototype 3 too.

Looked pretty cool to me; there was a weird disconnect between the look and sound of the character (he looks like a 20 year old slacker - which I am totally on board with as an everyman protagonist - but sounds 10 years older), but the effects and the fire powers in general looked quite cool.

Flying looks really cool, but AI could be better.

Also, his power is to absorb other Conduits powers.

@radioactivez0r: Well he IS played by Troy Baker so that's why he sounds older.

@def: That last attack is a confirmed power. It's called Orbital Drop.

TOASTY

I wish this was a launch title but Q1 isn't that far out. I bet this is either a January or March release.

All I hear is Kanji in Troy Baker games

Kinda wish his fire attacks were more 'flamey' and less just ash and embers.

I had the same thought. Not really gameplay wise, but definitely thematically with the "we are here to help but it turns out we are evil" army guys. Hopefully they they do what they did in the other InFamous games and have you fight more than one "gang", 'cause if the entire game is fighting more military guys, that would be a bummer.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the Prototype games...but I don't know if I want Prototype in my InFamous.

@crithon:

Actually there WILL be recharging AND a hud, they just didn't want to reveal it yet in this video. I got this info from a gameplay video on IGN that had a commentary and Q&A with a higher up from SuckerPunch. I'm sure it would be easy enough to find.

Only if my character can wear a suit and tie.