The setup makes it so melee strategies are very unappealing, you’ll instead probably spend most of the game shooting from a distance before ducking behind cover.ĭelsin is a bizarre character to me, he’s of Native American heritige to the point that he lives in a Longhouse, and because he is a male main character in a video game in 2014 he’s voiced by the noticeably “not native american” Troy Baker. Baker always does a fine job, and his work here is no exception but (and I may be alone here) I still had a bunch of little issues with the character. Delsin doesn’t really have anything by way of health upgrades so I was a little bit frustrated towards the end of the game when it starts to throw really tough enemies at you and your only real strategy is to run away and wait for your health to regen before diving back into the fray. Hunting them down is a fun distraction and because the world is fairly open right off the bat you can stop everything and go collect as much experience as your heart desires.Ĭombat feels good for the most part. Experience is earned in the form of shards which you’ll primarily be extracting from automated drones patrolling the city. Each power has its own tree with different abilities for you to purchase. There are of course plenty of upgrades to be found. It’s definitely the weakest of the three powers and you’ll almost abandon it completely once you acquire abilities like “Neon” which will let you simply run up the side of buildings rather than searching for a vent to zip up. It doesn’t particularly detract from the game, but it also doesn’t add anything to the experience either.ĭelsin will be spending most of the game’s time with three total powers and they all handle differently and are a lot of fun to play with. For example, Smoke powers will let you breeze through chain link fences and utilize vents to climb the buildings of the city. Not only does graffiti make full use of the DualShock 4 but you’ll also frequently be asked to use the controller’s touchpad, usually in times when a simple button press would have worked just fine. Similar to Killzone: Shadow Fall, it feels like Sony wanted this game to at least be part tech demo. Just make sure you don’t hold the controller wrong like I did for the first two or three spray paint segments of the game. When it’s time to make your glorious stencil art you turn the controller sideways and shake it like a spray paint can, the speaker built into the controller makes a nice rattling ball sound and then you get to pull L2 to let the coloring begin. Graffiti in the game feels a little gimmicky. Instead the campaign wraps up at a rather brisk ten or so hours, and while I had fun playing, I can also say I was ready for it to be over at the same time. Luckily Second Son doesn’t languish in its world for forty hours. Although the activities are fun enough I began to find them a bit too repetitive as the game went on. There are about five repeating activities that you can do in each zone, these include things like destroying cameras, tracking down a secret agent disguised as a citizen, and spraying inspiring Banksy-esque graffiti on walls. The game’s map is split up into zones which are all peppered with different activities for you to perform in order to peel back the D.U.P’s stranglehold on that particular neighborhood. Seattle feels lively enough but is also noticeably small. It’s not long after this discovery that some tragedy befalls his tribe and he must set off to the big (kind of) city of Seattle. His mostly peaceful existence is of course not meant to last as Delsin soon discovers that not only is he a Conduit, but he is in fact a very special variety who is able to absorb the powers of other fellow Conduits through touch. whose primary goal is to round up Conduits and send them off to a nice secure prison.Īll of this of course isn’t of great concern to our hero Delsin Rowe, who mostly spends his days performing minor crimes within the small Native American reservation where he lives. To answer the chaos associated with ordinary joes having superpowers the government has funded the Department of Unified Protection or D.U.P. Conduits (folks with superhuman abilities for newcomers) have begun to re-appear throughout the world. The world assumed that it had solved its Conduit problem but of course superhero powers never go away that easily. Second Son takes place seven years after the traumatic events of Infamous 2. So is it worth your hard earned cash? Let’s take a look. ![]() Second Son certainly didn’t topple Titanfall but it probably played a sizable role in helping Sony maintain its hardware sales lead even as Microsoft launched what could wind up being its biggest exclusive this year. With Titanfall making waves over in the Microsoft sector the Playstation 4 needed a killer app to match. ![]() Infamous: Second Son is a well planned and much needed release this month for Sony.
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