The Therapist Gamer

Infamous: Second Son is the third entry in the franchise.  The previous two games were on PS3 and starred a different protagonist who gained the power to wield electricity.  The previous games were marked by their blatant "good or evil" decision trees which eventually led to your character becoming either famous or infamous.  

 

The third game takes a similar premise but develops the main character and overall story more thoroughly.  In this game your character unwittingly discovers he can absorb super powers from others.  He first absorbs the power of smoke and discovers he can shoot cinders, zoom through vents, and use a variety of flame-based super powers.  You gain more powers throughout the game and they are all well developed and fun to use.

 

The game takes place in a version of Seattle that is on lock-down due to conduits (those with super powers) supposedly causing problems.  It's an open world game and it is a joy to roam around Seattle with a variety of super powers.  However, compared to other open-world games, there is not a wide variety of things to do.  In fact, this aspect of the game seems less developed than in the previous games in the series, which is odd.

 

Infamous: Second Son was also the first console game to feature a dedicated "photo mode" where you can pause the action, adjust the camera, and add various effects before taking a screenshot.  Using this mode captures the graphical detail the developers put into the game.  For example, a standard attack with a chain looks amazing when paused as flame rises from the metal.  Dashing by turning into smoke involves your character changing into more than 10,000 individual particles before reforming into a human being, and these things sure do look impressive in photo mode!

 

Overall, I thought the game was a ton of fun and I look forward to the next entry in the series!