INFAMOUS 2 KUO FREE

Grenades can be powered up to stick to enemies or bounce into the air before exploding. Rockets can split into bolo-like pairs, connected by a string of lightning. This time, however, there are a lot of variants, which you can quickly switch between using a d-pad menu.

Should you earn the trust of anti-Militia rebels by letting Nix put on a Militia disguise and attack them (thus enabling you to swoop in and save the day), or by helping Kuo drive an ambulance loaded with medical supplies to them? Should you help Nix take control of an army of monsters, or help Kuo expose the people who already control them?Īs for the powers themselves, Cole has the same standard, gun-stand-in attacks that he did in the first game (most of which get stripped from him at the start), including pistol-like lightning shots, energy grenades, force-wave “blasts” and lightning rockets. Nix favors plans that are destructive, devious and guaranteed to get people killed, while Kuo pushes Cole to do the “right” (and frequently boring) thing. In addition to his annoying buddy Zeke (who actually manages to become likable and sympathetic this time around), Cole gets some help from two women: Kuo, a by-the-book NSA agent who starts the game as Cole’s handler, but eventually gets superhuman abilities of her own and Nix, a swamp-dwelling sociopath with flammable, oil-based powers.Īs you can probably guess, Kuo and Nix are a big part of the game’s morality system, and each major decision tends to come down to which one you want to side with. Lucky for Cole, he’s not going it alone this time.

INFAMOUS 2 KUO FREE

(You’re free to ignore this stuff, of course, but it does help keep New Marais from ever feeling empty or boring.) Like in the first game, there are side missions to pursue (which help you reduce Militia influence in chunks of the city) and energy-boosting Blast Shards to ferret out, but there’s incidental, karma-affecting stuff as well, like street musicians you can terrorize, or muggers you can stomp mid-holdup.

There’s also plenty of stuff to do and see, even when you’re not paying attention to the story missions.

The difference is that now, instead of activating electrical transformers in repetitive sewer levels, Cole charges up several above-ground ones using remote-controlled “Tesla Missiles” (which can also fry enemies mid-flight).Īs a game world, New Marais is a lot more interesting than the crumbling Empire City for starters, it features a lot of diverse areas, ranging from neon-drenched urban centers to miles of swampland and a completely flooded suburb (this is a city patterned after New Orleans, after all). Also, like in the first InFamous, parts of the city need to be “powered up” before you can safely operate in them. As a human Tesla coil, Cole’s ammunition and health are replenished by electricity, and the city’s filled with convenient power sources for him to drain when things get dire. Like its predecessor, InFamous 2 is set in a sprawling open world, which you’ll get around mainly by climbing buildings and grinding on power lines (there’s no fast-travel feature, though, which can make getting from one end of the city to another kind of a chore).

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