It's strange that this game is a follow-up to Infamous 2, because all the new cool powers you get in Infamous 2 are gone. Cole is back to his standard lightning blasts and lightning rockets and there is no way to add additional powers. It's a puzzling step back, and considering I only recently finished Infamous 2, it was very noticeable.
To somewhat make up for taking away so many of Cole's powers, you do get one new vampire power: the ability to turn into a swarm of bats and fly through the city. At first that isn't that useful, because your power drains away quickly. But by collecting the 99 blood jars around the city, you gradually build up your blood meter. Normally I'd have no interest in tracking those down, but after you find 5 of Mary's 10 Teachings, you get the ability to find the nearest blood jar on your map. So at that point it was easy to track them all down. I kind of appreciated that method, they don't just hand it to you, you have to get to that point, but they also don't expect you to track them all down either. This actually made finding them fun, which is normally not true of this type of objective.
After how terrific Infamous 2 was, this game just felt mediocre, a step back. I think the decision to make it a stand-alone game hurt it here. Had this game been a simple DLC pack, I think they could have built off the existing Infamous 2 infrastructure.
With this game in the books, I am now completely ready for Infamous: Second Son next month. I doubt that game will build off anything from this game. It's unlikely that vampire mode will become a regular feature in this game ala Call of Duty's Zombie mode.
The game was decent, and the vampire twist was interesting. Biting the necks of innocent bystanders surprisingly got old very quickly, but I had to do it 100 times to get the trophy. . I probably wouldn't advise against buying this if someone was dead set on getting it, but I wouldn't recommend buying it either.
Completed: 2.1.2014
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