InFamous Second Son review: one giant leap

If you’ve played the previous inFamous games you’ll remember electric hero conduit Cole MacGrath. You’ll know that while the first game was amazing and innovative, the second one continued the story, but gameplay was same-same, ho-hum.

Infamous: Second Son takes places seven years after inFamous 2. The Department of Unified Protection has been formed to hunt down and capture or destroy conduits by any means possible.

Second Son (understandably if you’ve played the others), gives us an entirely new protagonist, Delsin Rowe, who obtains conduit powers by means of a freak accident. Although his initial powers are smoke and fire based, as he defeats other conduits he is able to channel additional powers, and like the previous games, you have the ability to choose between a good and evil path, earning the praise or the fear of common citizens.

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