![]() When Delsin and his cop older brother Reggie investigate, Delsin is snatched by one of them. #Infamous second son paper trail wire fullDelsin Rowe starts off as an average human, just a punk kid living on an Indian Reservation who has his life turned upside down when a transport full of powerful "bio-terrorists" (conduits) crashes nearby. But here in Second Son, Cole is dead, but superpowered people, called "conduits," live on. ![]() While I played the original Infamous, I skipped the sequel, so apologies for any gaps in lore knowledge. Ditching traditional powers like Telekinesis, Ice and Electricity, Infamous bends the rules of what's a plausible superpower by introducing Smoke, Neon and a third one so strange, if you had a thousand tries you wouldn't guess it. It's set in Seattle, a location rarely frequented by such games, and stars a young Native American man named Delsin Rowe, a culture usually not featured in games without beads, feathers or tomahawks. That's why it's great to see Infamous: Second Son try incredibly hard to keep things fresh. Hell, even Saints Row 4 completely ditched any and all associations to Grand Theft Auto to dive into the superpowered leap-tall-buildings-in-a-single-bound genre. ![]() We've seen the concept explored in series from Prototype to Darksiders to Crackdown to the previous two Infamous games. A superpowered sandbox game sounds rather par for the course in this day and age of gaming, right alongside near-future military shooters or free-to-play fantasy MOBAs. ![]()
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