2009-10-25T17:18:00.000-07:00

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2009-07-23T17:38:00.000-07:00

This is the story of inFAMOUS:

Setting
The game takes place in fictional Empire City, laid across three islands; the Neon District where many businesses and entertainment venues are located, the Warren District where goods are shipped into and out of the city (also the biggest of the three), and the Historical District, the smallest of the three islands. The districts are connected by bridges, and each district has its own elevated train system. At the start of the game, six blocks of the Historical District are wiped out by an explosion from a bio-electrical device called the Ray Sphere which knocks out power across the entire region. A plague develops soon afterwards, forcing the government to quarantine the region. In doing so they block the only bridge to the mainland from the city, causing societal collapse within the isolated city.

[edit] Characters
The playable protagonist is Cole MacGrath, a bike courier for Empire City who happens to be the center of the explosion, surviving it and gaining electricity-based super powers. His best friend is a fellow courier Zeke, who takes initial refuge from the chaos on the streets at a rooftop pad and becomes both impressed and jealous of Cole's newfound powers. Trish is a doctor and Cole's girlfriend at the start of the game, but rejects him after accusing him of causing her sister's death. Shortly after the explosion, Cole meets with FBI agent Moya, who assigns him missions to complete in Empire City in hopes of finding an agent named John, working in another agency, who was trapped in the city while investigating a case when the quarantine was enacted and has left numerous encoded messages on satellite receivers. Moya lied to Cole, telling him that John was her husband. A rogue DJ, "The Voice of Survival", manages to broadcast his panic-provoking messages across the city from a TV station.
As Cole explores the city, he comes across three others with super powers like himself. Sasha is a scorned lover, trying to earn Cole's romance, but has the ability to use a tar-like plague-inducing substance to control the minds of others, and is in control of the Reaper gang of the Neon District. Alden is a wizened old man with powerful telekinesis abilities that leads the Dustman gang in the Warren District as well as mechanical golems under his control to try to fight the First Sons, an ancient fraternal organization that works out of the Historical District. Kessler, a man with many super powers including abilities similar to Cole, controls the First Sons, using them to seek out Cole and the Ray Sphere, the device that caused the explosion in Empire City.

[edit] Story
While the basic story of the game remains unchanged whether the player opts for the "Good" or "Evil" karma path, there are some story elements that change depending on the player's choice at that time.
Cole is instructed by an anonymous customer to deliver a package to a location in the Historical District, and then to open it; unbeknownst to Cole, the package contained the Ray Sphere, which activates upon opening and wipes out six city blocks. Cole manages to survive the blast and is nursed back to health by Trish. When the Voice of Survival pinpoints Cole at the center of the explosion, the city turns against him, and Cole and Zeke try to escape the quarantine with Cole's new powers but are overwhelmed. Cole is convinced by Moya to return to Empire City to seek out the Ray Sphere and her husband John in exchange for Cole and his friends' release from quarantine. Cole proceeds to follow Moya's missions, restoring power to the city to be able to fight off the various gangs that have taken over. As he comes to interact with Sasha, Alden, and Kessler, he learns that Kessler displaced Alden from the leadership of the First Sons and initiated construction of the Ray Sphere, while rejecting Sasha's attempts for romance. Cole is able to defeat Sasha and capture Alden, but during a breakout attempt by the Dust Men, Zeke's own heroism antics allow Alden to go free, much to Cole's irritation. Later, Cole and Zeke track down Alden, who has recovered the Ray Sphere; Cole is able to distract Alden long enough for Zeke to recover it. However, Zeke realizes that he could gain superpowers himself through the Sphere and attempts to activate it, but nothing happens. At that moment, Kessler shows up and offers to help Zeke fix the Ray Sphere to gain powers. Zeke agrees and departs with Kessler.
Cole is finally able to track down John, but learns that John is neither from the FBI nor Moya's husband, but instead an undercover NSA agent who assisted in the creation of the Ray Sphere. John explains the Ray Sphere consumes the bio-energy from those around it and transfer that power to the person holding it, granting them super abilities at the cost of thousands of lives, and urges Cole to help him find it and destroy it. As they search, Cole discovers that Kessler has kidnapped Trish along with six other doctors, and forces Cole to choose between saving her or the other doctors. Regardless of the player's choice, Trish suffers from a fatal wound from Kessler's trap. If the player has good karma, Trish is able to reconcile her feelings to Cole before she dies, while if the player has bad karma, she will curse his name with her dying breath. After mourning for his loss, Cole works with John to discover the Ray Sphere; the player can opt to destroy it or use it to further enhance Cole's powers, but either option causes the Ray Sphere to malfunction, disintegrating John. Choosing to use the Ray Sphere will result in Cole being infamous and unchangeable.
Cole goes to face Kessler at ground zero. As they fight, Zeke appears and tries to intervene but is tossed aside by Kessler. Cole eventually mortally wounds Kessler, and tries to seek answers for Trish's death from him. Kessler uses his last actions to implant memories into Cole's mind, revealing that Kessler is Cole from the future of an alternate timeline. In that timeline, Cole (as Kessler) and Trish were happily wed with children, but soon the appearance of an entity known as "The Beast" plunged their world into chaos. Kessler and Trish fled with their children, but The Beast eventually caught up to them and killed Trish and their children. Kessler realized the only way to stop the Beast would be to use his powers gained by the Ray Sphere to go back in time and prepare his past self, Cole, for battle against it. Kessler seized control of the First Sons from Alden, shunning Sasha's advances due to his past love for Trish, and ordered the construction of the Ray Sphere much earlier in his timeline and was the anonymous customer that directed Cole to use it. Kessler further used Trish's death as a means to prepare Cole to make the harsh choices in battle with The Beast. As Kessler dies from the battle, Cole gets Kessler's last message transported into his brain, and tells himself that he'll be ready when The Beast comes.
The ending of the game depends on the player's karma. If the karma is good, Cole considers what the future holds, still lamenting the loss of Trish and the strain on his friendship with Zeke, while the city works at rebuilding itself, idolizing Cole as its savior. If the player's karma is evil, Cole recognizes himself as the strongest person alive with the failing Empire City for his taking.

[edit] Gameplay

Cole can extract electricity from nearby power sources for later use.
Infamous is a sandbox video game, combining elements of platforming, shooting, puzzles, and role-playing game elements. The player controls Cole and primarily interacts with the world of Empire City through his newly gained electricity-based powers that are used for movement, offense and defense in combat, and either for better or worse in dealing with the citizens of Empire City. In order for Cole to use his powers, he must have stored electrical power, represented by a node meter; Cole can be recharged by draining electricity from powered sources (requiring that Cole has restarted the main generator for that area) or from living beings; recharging also restores Cole's health, though if the player stays out of battle long enough, Cole's health will regenerate over time. Seventeen different electrical powers are featured in the game, ranging from simple bolts that consume little of Cole's energy to wide-field lightning storms that drain most of Cole's energy.[5] The player can use such powers against both live targets and the environment, giving the players options in certain situations. For example, the player may fire at a generator near foes to cause it to explode and cripple his opponents, or to fire at the body of water that an enemy is standing in to take advantage of water's conductivity to kill the enemy. Due to being vivified electricity, Cole is unable to use vehicles about the city, take up weapons, or swim. However, Cole, being an urban explorer, is able to easily climb buildings and other structures as well as fall large distances without taking damage;[5] these maneuvers can be combined with Cole's electrical powers for unique combat situations. A number of "stunts", requiring the player to kill enemies under specific conditions (such as killing an enemy while both Cole and the foe are in mid-air), are available to complete.
The powers are acquired over the course of the game; once acquired the player can use experience points, awarded for specific actions, stunts and missions, to increase the power's effectiveness or to purchase new powers. However, the growth of these powers are affected by Cole's current Karma level, ranging from Good to Evil, with the game starting the player in the middle of the scale. Certain actions, such as stopping to help injured citizens or draining their energy to restore Cole's will affect the Karma level in either direction.[5] Normal story missions may also alter the Karma level. During the game, the player will come on Karma Moments, when the action pauses and the player is told through a monologue by Cole of two actions that could be taken, the choice which will affect the Karma level; for example, one choice the player is asked to make is to either complete a short mission for a man who promises him a small reward, or the opportunity to kill the man and take all of the reward without doing the mission. There are also a number of paired Good/Evil side missions in the game; completing one will lock out the other mission but will reward the player with a large amount of Karma towards their selected Karma goal. Completion of these missions helps to unlock a unique power and its upgrades based on the Karma level. However, the player is not locked into choosing either Karma path, and may opt to play towards one extreme and later switch to playing towards the other extreme mid-game.[5] In addition to altering Cole's appearance and certain aspects of the game's story,[6] Karma will also influence the behavior of the citizens of Empire City; citizens will come to help Cole in battle if his Karma is Good, but will turn on Cole and throw debris at him if he has Bad Karma.
Empire City is broken into three islands, and the player must work through main story missions on each island before being able to access the next one, though future missions may require the player to return to an earlier island. Each island is divided into a number of sectors, at the start of the game controlled by the three gangs. The player can undertake a side mission in each sector, once certain main story requirements have been met, to free that sector from gang control, reducing or eliminating the presence of the gang in that sector. Other side missions may also unlock medical stations where Cole will re-awake should he fall in battle. Though Cole must travel on foot across the city to get to missions at the start, he will later gain powers to allow him to grind along power cables and powered elevated train rails and to glide across open spaces. Scattered around the city are hundreds of "blast shards" which Cole can collect to increase the amount of electricity he can store. There are also several "dead drop" satellite transmitters that help to reveal more of the back story in the game. A mini-map on the player's HUD can be used to locate blast shards, dead drops, and nearby power sources.

Adapted from Wikipedia

2009-07-08T21:10:00.000-07:00

michael jackson dies of cardiac arrest! he deserves it because he takes drugs!

2009-05-06T21:01:00.000-07:00

More swine flu reports in Canada!

2009-05-02T15:26:00.000-07:00

There is swine flu! So wash yer hands frequently!!!!

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2009-04-29T08:23:00.001-07:00

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