If it seems like I’m hard on this game, it’s because I love the franchise so much. If you’re a trophy hunter, these acts also get you trophies, and are not that hard to accomplish. You can study Glyphs that contain stories from Bloody Mary, collect Blood Jars to extend your blood meter, or kill enemies to gain powers. While there are no side missions, there are other things to do on the side. The length of this game is very short you could finish this game in less than 6 hours if you focus on the story. Most are run to this area while fighting off gangs of the first three enemies, get to the area and kill a Firstborn, end or repeat. It’s this low variety that makes some of the missions, especially the UGC missions, really formulaic and repetitive. With the exception of the Firstborn enemy (A big half Bat, half humanoid creature) the other three do just about the same thing: teleport around the room, and shoot at you. There are four enemies introduced in this game (five if you count Bloody Mary herself). There’s only one new area in this game, and that’s the Catacombs underneath the church. That’s another thing - half the map is blocked off for whatever reason for this game, too. Its actually really well done and I enjoyed the look of the city for the game, even if it was only half the city. Huge balloons with demon faces, fireworks in the sky and on the street, glow sticks are all over the city, and citizens are dressed as monsters. The city of New Marais is redecorated as a huge festival called Pyre Night (get it?) is in effect. And those cool fire or ice powers? They’re not here either. In fact, you lose a few powers that you gained from inFAMOUS 2, most notably the car throwing power. As for your electric powers, there’s nothing new. They could have just ripped off Alucard’s powers from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and I would have been happy. I was very disappointed with this, as they had room for quite a few powers here. Cole only gets two powers to work with here: Vampire Vision and Bat Swarm (a form of flight). I was expecting a lot when Cole became a vampire, but they once again got lazy. Once you do get the powers, there is no real reason to fight anymore, and the game just turns into rushing from one mission marker to another.Īnother thing about inFAMOUS is the cool powers and the various ways Sucker Punch thinks to utilize those powers. Heck there’s not even XP to gain! Any powers you get are due to defeating enemies or finishing User Generated Missions. There are no stunts, no side missions, no blast shards, no karma, or dead drops.
INFAMOUS 2 FESTIVAL OF BLOOD REVIEW SERIES
A very big missed opportunity by Sucker Punch.Ī lot of mainstays from the series are gone here. They could have had Cole struggling as a “Vampire with a Soul” or going to the dark side and siding with Mary. This is a huge shame as this game had potential to be so much more. That’s a big deal, and makes this DLC feel like an inFAMOUS game in name only. There is no karma meter, and there are no choices to make that effect whether you are good or evil. There’s a reason I spoke about choice earlier, it’s that choice that’s the soul of the game. Now if I could sum up the game play and presentation in one word… it would be lazy. Cole and Zeke battling vampires was a nice distraction from the norm in inFAMOUS. While the game itself is really short (Story is only 8 chapters long), I did have fun with it. Now a vampire, Cole must deal with not only a vampire uprising, but try to regain his humanity. In the tale, Cole is bitten by a vampire lord called Bloody Mary and turned into a creature of the night. The story is made up by Zeke, who’s telling it to a girl he’s trying to score with (very Zeke-like, indeed). This game unfortunately doesn’t expand upon either ending in inFAMOUS 2, but rather is a one-off story. In a surprising move the DLC is stand-alone, meaning that you don’t need inFAMOUS 2 in order to play it. InFAMOUS: Festival of Blood is the first downloadable game in the series. So imagine how happy I was to hear they were working on DLC for the game. Do you keep all the food for you and your friends, or share it with others? Do you fight in the street and endanger civilians, or move the fight away to protect them? Do you kill the guy to move forward, or reason with him? All this and Cole’s story really made me look forward to any and all sequels for the franchise. This is decided by choices you make in the game. The game allows you to decide how you want to go about using those powers, and whether you are going to be a beacon of hope or a source of fear for the city that you live in. The franchise places you in the shoes of Cole MacGrath, a man given special powers over electricity. InFAMOUS is one of my favorite franchises on the PS3.
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