I Reviewed Every InFAMOUS Game

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Published 2022-12-15
The following video is a compilation of all of my InFAMOUS reviews. I have also turned down any loud parts of the video, as I'm sure some of you will use this video as a sleep aid.

InFAMOUS Review:    • InFAMOUS: 11 Years Later | Is it Stil...  
InFAMOUS 2 Review:    • InFAMOUS 2 Is Almost a Perfect Sequel...  
InFAMOUS Festival of Blood Review:    • inFAMOUS Festival of Blood: A Critiqu...  
InFAMOUS Second Son Review:    • A Critique of inFAMOUS Second Son  
InFAMOUS First Light Review:    • inFAMOUS First Light: DLC Done Right  
Ranking The InFAMOUS Games:    • Which inFAMOUS Game is THE BEST?  

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- Chapters -
Intro: 0:00
InFAMOUS 1: 0:38
InFAMOUS 2: 27:03
InFAMOUS Festival of Blood: 1:30:40
InFAMOUS Second Son: 1:58:05
InFAMOUS First Light: 2:47:21
Ranking The Games: 3:08:30

InFAMOUS is a series of action-adventure platform games developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. The series follows the adventures of Cole MacGrath, Delsin Rowe and Fetch, super-powered "Conduits" who must decide their own destinies of becoming either good or evil.

The series consists of three main games: Infamous, Infamous 2 and Infamous Second Son, alongside expansion titles Infamous: Festival of Blood and Infamous First Light. A comic book series of the same name was published by DC Comics.

The series takes place in the present-day United States with real and alternate versions of real cities, such as the setting of Infamous, Empire City, which resembles New York City; and the setting of Infamous 2, New Marais, which resembles New Orleans (Infamous: Festival of Blood also takes place in this city). Washington, D.C. is occasionally mentioned, and Infamous Second Son takes place in Seattle. It features American government agencies such as the FBI, NSA and DARPA, along with agencies fabricated for the series, such as the DUP (Department of Unified Protection), an agency with the sole purpose of stopping conduits, now labeled "bio-terrorists", from causing mass destruction similar to what was caused by Cole MacGrath.

In the first two games, the player controls Cole MacGrath; in the third game, the player controls Delsin Rowe; in the 4th game, they control Fetch; the players freely roam around the city, while fighting crime or creating havoc along the way. Cole and Delsin can use their parkour skills to jump and climb buildings throughout the city, along with their powers to help them fight enemies. Their powers come from a gauge which depletes whenever they uses various attacks, and refills when they absorb electricity, ice, napalm, smoke, neon, video or concrete from nearby sources.

Morality, or "Karma", is a major factor in the gameplay and storyline. The player is able to control the course of the game by having Cole and Delsin use their powers for good or evil. The choice allows the player to have a different mixture of abilities, as both good and evil have their own set of powers. The game also uses a Karma meter which changes based on the main character's actions throughout the game and determines whether he eventually becomes a good or evil character.

This Infamous review, infamous critique, and infamous analysis, is of the entire series. This infamous series critique, infamous retrospective, infamous series retrospective, is a compilation of all my older InFAMOUS reviews with all infamous games ranked. Ranking the infamous games and deciding which infamous game is the best was tough because the best infamous game could be any of them. Without any news on a new infamous gam we can look back on the series with my infamous 2 review, infamous second son review ,infamous first light review, and infamous festival of blood review. Hence why I reviewed every infamous game. While my hopes aren't high, I am still keeping my fingers crossed for an Infamous ps5 game or an infamous remastered collection.

All Comments (21)
  • @ThatBoyAqua
    Hey, so since I saw some confusion regarding the compilations I'll just clarify; these kinds of videos won't be super common. I just figured it would be a fun end of the year thing to do. Expect a new video in a week or two and then that's it for me until January. Take care, and happy holidays!
  • I never understood why people didn’t like the voice for Cole in the first game. His grungy, dark voice just fitted perfectly with the setting around him.
  • God watching this just made me realize a 60 fps remaster of infamous on modern hardware would look fucking incredible
  • I actually like how Reggie’s final dialogue doesn’t change regardless of your karma rating. At the end of the day, Delsin is Reggie’s brother and loves him (as far as we know) unconditionally, so his last words would be to tell Delsin that despite how much Delsin’s messed up, he still views him as his brother and cares for him. This goes great with the game’s themes of brotherhood and family, which I think it handles exceptionally well. Another way to interpret the scene would be Reggie’s last attempt at getting Delsin to change his ways by showing him despite how far he’s gone, Reggie still cares for him and wants him to do the right thing. Also the dialogue where you decide to redeem Eugene, I think Delsin is putting on an act there, trying to be this cool older brother/best friend vibe in hopes it’ll give Eugene the push he needs to get out from his hideout. It is a bit out of character, but I think it shows how much he wants to be this cool and/or respectable figure for others, which is something a lot of us can relate to.
  • I’ll never forget the first time I booted up second son. It still blows my mind how much effort they put into that game
  • @kathara6542
    I personally like the fact that Delson's powers in Second Son feel half finished. They are not his powers originally and Second Light shows that the original users can use them more effectively than he can. Delson's power is simply the ability to absorb other's powers, but he can't use them to their full potential.
  • The inFAMOUS series holds a nice place in my heart, to me Cole Macgrath is one of my favorite PlayStation Exclusive characters of all time right next to Nathan Drake from the Uncharted series. And while not being Cole, I still enjoyed Delsin Rowe as a character as he’s pretty relatable with how he acts and such throughout Second Son. It’s honestly sad how Sony keep ignoring the series, and while Sucker Punch released Ghost of Tsushima which was a great game, to me..I’m hoping one day we can see inFAMOUS return in some shape or form. Maybe a remaster of the first two titles or maybe a new game entirely, continuing off of Delsin Rowe’s story or a new character entirely.
  • @corhex2365
    I want another InFamous game so badly, such a great series and theres so much they could do with it
  • @Kodiakhunter
    Truly a masterful franchise. Second Son got heavily criticized upon release so I’m glad people are finally realizing that it was a worthy continuation and a great game all on its own. It’s a shame that the series might never continue, especially since second son was so open ended. But whether Sucker Punch’s next game is infamous 4, GOT 2, or a new IP entirely we can always count on quality from this studio. Great vid as always Aqua!
  • @kin4386
    This series and Ghost of Tsushima has cemented Sucker Punch as probably my favourite game development studio.
  • @Kjf365
    My one big issue with First Light was the way they did the whole drugs thing which was wholesale not what Second Son said happened. In Second Son the story was that she and Brent were addicts and the reason she killed Brent was because they ran out of their supply one time and her withdrawals made her paranoid and thus killed him because she thought he took them. It was a dark story about what hard drugs do to people and how they take over people's priorities and will even hurt people they love over them. Meanwhile in this she had no apparent history of voluntary drug use and got drugged once...? And then killed him because she was out of it and didn't know who he was...? It was done to her on purpose too. None of this should logically lead into her war on drug dealers, but for some reason it does according to the story. Drug dealers had nothing to do with what happened, she was just poisoned by some prick and her brother suffered for it.
  • @grenha8
    A remake treatment like Tlou part 1 would be so good of the 1st two games
  • @JakeTheL3mur
    1ST We had A Lofi Arkham Series Retrospective to Sleep/Relax/Study to NOW We Have A InFAMOUS Series Retrospective to Sleep/Relax/Study to!!
  • A small thing, but the way Kuo got her powers were explained a bit. She was hooked up to the power transfer machine we use later in the game, connected to the ice conduits that were sealed in the same room. It's explained those ife conduits were given their powers forcefully through experimentation
  • Infamous 1 blew my mind as a child. I think is was the second or third ps3 i ever played. Even now 15 years later i still love it ❤️
  • @ed_pontes
    I love the fact that Delsin"s vest in the villain playthrough shows the red bird killing the blue one and then wearing its skull
  • My one complaint with Trish's death, is that she's not just unsaveable, but that she's specifically always on the tower that you aren't. If she was in some third location that you only found out about after, then that'd be fine- but the fact that the narrative has to do a Schrodinger's Cat and say you always chose The One Wrong Answer.
  • @eric_t123
    16:34 something interesting i found about picking the heroic poster. After you decide to choose the heroic poster, if you change your karma rank to evil, those posters end up being vandalized which is a pretty cool detail.
  • @Syuurp
    The shield in the first game felt like a godsend and the upgraded one refilled ur energy. I found myself using it endlessly, it also had a satisfying sound when stuff would hit it lol
  • @Omphalite
    2:35:17 I would have never noticed that in-game but that expression actually is gold. That is a perfect "Oh god, what the fuck, what is wrong with me, why"