The climbing mechanic in this game is not bad, not too frustrating, just a tedious bother. The game comprises of 3 islands much like Grand Theft Auto but there’s not really much about them that sets them apart from each other, all 3 are just New York style environments. You can however complete side missions to get rid of the enemies out a certain area but I’d find myself still coming across them in areas which I had cleared. InFamous is an “open world” game however you can never sit back and relax enough to explore as you’re constantly being shot at by enemies. Due to this I just ended up running on the ground from one point to the next, ultimately taking longer but I just could not be bothered climbing a building. What you’re meant to do is travel from one marker to the next using electrical lines but I found it very frustrating to climb a building to start travelling rather than just starting fast-paced travel from ground level. The travelling around in this game is something I found very annoying. A person with super powers jumping about a city, fighting villains, while using the city’s infrastructure to travel at pace. The gameplay of inFamous feels very much like the precursor to Spider-Man on the PS4. If I’m not mistaken, Moya Jones the FBI agent was introduced in a very short “so now there’s this FBI agent….” and that’s it? It was a very abrupt and short way of introducing a main character. I wasn’t a massive fan of the comic book style cutscenes but I realise there are going to be a lot of people who are so into it that’s just a personal preference. Zeke, Cole’s friend’s running animation was absolutely bonkers but I’m putting this down to “this animation is of its time”. Right off the bat I thought the movement of Cole was actually too fast in comparison to other games such as Fable II which I had just played prior. Among my small collection of PS3 exclusives was inFamous so I thought it was about time to give it a go.

After excitedly buying a PS3 Slim last year I thought it was about time to play something on it.

Infamous 2009 download