inFAMOUS 2 is also currently available for free to Playstation Plus subscribers. The game shows that Cole has gained new powers (including an electrically charged melee weapon), including potentially Ice and Fire powers.Īt Sony's E3 2011 conference, Cole MacGrath was revealed to be a Guest Fighter for the Play Station 3 and Play Station Vita versions of Street Fighter X Tekken. While Cole's character design was initially meant to undergo a major change, a high amount of fan criticism caused Sucker Punch to backpedal and promise that these changes would be less drastic than first planned. It takes place in New Marais, a Fictional Counterpart of New Orleans, where Cole tries to save a scientist who holds the key to defeating the Beast, who is going on an extended tour down the American East Coast, leaving nothing but death and destruction in its wake. Cole can also climb things and traverse rooftops like a certain assassin from the Holy Land/Renaissance/American Revolution or more like a certain kleptomaniac raccoon.Ī sequel was released in June 2011. Likewise, choices will change how citizens react to Cole. Things take an immediate turn for the worse when Dallas, a DJ known as "The Voice Of Survival", lets out closed-circuit camera footage of Cole as his package exploded, resulting in Trish resenting him for her sister's death in the explosion, as well as Cole's relationship to the citizens of the city beginning on a sour note.Ĭole's lightning powers will develop differently based on the player's morality some abilities function differently as good or evil, some are exclusive to one path. The game's open-ended sandbox nature along with a morality system give the player free-reign to decide Cole's actions: help the people of Empire City survive the catastrophe and save what's left, or watch/help it all burn. The biggest and most enigmatic gangs taking over town are known as The Reapers, the Dust Men and the First Sons. Notably, Cole does not generate electricity, he can only use it after storing it.īy now, Empire City has been quarantined due to a spreading plague no one gets in or out, and gangs are spreading like wildfire as basic social services are failing left and right. Immediately, it's apparent that Cole isn't so much of a Joe Blow anymore, what with getting zapped by a sparking electric grid that should have killed him, and shooting bolts of lightning from his hands. Inexplicably alive, Cole is found by his buddy Zeke and cared for by his girlfriend Trish, resulting in a two-week recovery period at the hospital. While delivering a package one day (actually a Super Empowering device called the "Ray Sphere"), Cole finds himself at the epicenter of a vast explosion that rips apart several city blocks. The player takes on the role of Cole MacGrath, average-joe bike messenger in the New York stand-in of Empire City. InFAMOUS is a game developed by Sucker Punch, known for the Sly Cooper series, released in May 2009.