Yikes, tear it apart much? Every review I see gets progressively worse. Guess I was right in skipping this.

X-Play gave it a 5 out of 5...

I trust X-Play

I tried the demo, it was fun...

I trust inFamous

Don't skip this game! It is awesomely fun to play. Yes, it does suffer from a convoluted story that could have been told better. And the moral system isn't as deep as advertised. But that unfulfilled potential is overcome by how awesome it is to level up and blast heads with your electric powers!

...while everyone else is mostly focused on having too much fun with the game to actually give a damn. Too bad the article was a colossal waste of time.

I love the way the cutscenes were animated, they were very well done

Wow, don't know what the guy's problem was but I found the story to be excellent, and I did indeed "Identify with the hero."

I think the bad reviews are mostly done because like any game that gets a lot of credit as being decent or good, there are those who think it's cool to trash it.

Then again, reviews are people's oppinions, so . . . but back up your opinion with some merit and not "I think, therefore it is!"

Great, fun, entertaining gameplay > 'good' story.

If I want a good story I'll read a book or watch a film; if I want to blow shit up with electric grenades and grind on wires whilst firing bolts at the Klu Klux Conduits I'll play a video-game.

Not to say both together isn't nice, as MGS for one example has demonstrated, but if a game can nail the gameplay aspect as well as inFamous then it's already going to be above average, imo at least. So long as the story is half-way decent then it's absolutely fine.

The last game I bought was LBP. Burnout Paradise was more recent, but was a gift. I had planned on getting KZ2, but decided to wait for infamous. It's just because of the incredibly tight nature of my bank account that I'm so goddamn picky (as I don't have a job; I don't mix school with work).

And yes sir, I do say the same thing about the games I follow. Yup.

As said above man, you don't really play a game like this for the story anyway, it's more about the gameplay. That said though, that's the first negative I've heard about this; I've been hearing only good things about it all up till now. I heard the graphics can get a bit glitchy cos there's no load times, but again man, who gives a shit if it doesnt draw away from the experience you can overlook it. I doubt we'll see a 360 release, but still I'd buy it for x box if we did man.

Eh, it wasn't too bad. I would have preferred motion cutscenes but these comical cutscenes make it creative. Not too big of a problem for me, doesn't affect my overall view of the game at all to be honest.

Actually, the ending made the rest of the story that much more compelling, but I won't ruin that for anyone. The game is great, by the way, really great.

I gotta say that I agree with the article. Maybe I play different games normally, but the story telling was thin and felt rushed.

I spent the whole game mindlessly doing tasks for various people without thinking. I get talked back to anytime I do. Who the hell is Moya? We never even see what happens to her. Do we even see her face? She doesn't have an ending. Sasha is stilled wrapped in mystery. What happened there?

Kessler and Zeke are the only ones who had feelings in this game. Zeke had no ending and was a royal spazz. Kessler was made out to be a random bad guy that we later find out is the central character.

Such memorable story moment included:
spoilers -> "John just died. Whatever."
"My girlfriend just died. Whatever."
"Zeke almost killed everyone again. Whatever." <- spoilers

Cole's only response throughout the game is anger. We don't even need to hear him talk; we can just assume that in all dialogue he says something anger-based about kicking someone's ass. Despite this he just runs around following orders.
"Cole, you don't know me and I know you're the most capable and powerful person in the city but I feel the need to give you orders."
"Don't worry I'll follow them and shrink back anytime I become assertive"

Don't get me wrong about the gameplay though; it's a great game that I thoroughly enjoyed playing. The constantly shifting environment and array of tools make it interesting to keep playing. Then there are the random swarms where they let you let off some steam, like the prison mission of the generators ones with the lightning storm.

As far as story-telling goes though? Probably the worst of my PS3 games.