

Why? Well, if you’d played it for any length of time, you’d know that Sucker Punch’s open-world superhero epic is one of the unsung heroes of the current console generation a richer, deeper and more enjoyable game than rivals like Prototype or Crackdown, and packed with brilliant ideas. Original ideas? Maybe not, but not every game can steal ideas from GTA, Prince of Persia, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Gears of War and make them all work together. inFamous could, and inFamous 2 does it even better. If you didn't play it, inFamous took place in the fictionalised New York of Empire City, and featured a rebellious young courier, Cole, who finds himself hired to transport a mysterious device which promptly explodes, resulting in the catastrophic near-destruction of his hometown.
