You may get shot by an unseen attacker for seconds at a time while you frantically spin your view to find a source, and the black-and-white filter denoting that you're hurt is a further hindrance.
When the screen goes monochrome and there are flashes from your electrical blasts and your enemies' long-range spells, it's incredibly difficult to see what's going on. Thankfully, the enemies have small life bars, and your flying power makes a quick escape possible, but combat has so many problems that it's rarely fun.
Vampires see arrows us mortals never even glimpse. The combat mechanics in Infamous are at their best when enemies aren't allowed to teleport, the speed is kept at a slow pace, and positioning is the most important tactic for survival. The first game in the series used its strengths to create engrossing and exciting battles that rarely felt cheap. But Infamous 2 and Festival of Blood create combat scenarios that clash with the delicate mechanics.
Cole does not move particularly well in tight spaces because he sticks on every piece of solid ground, and the screen quickly turns to black and white after just a few attacks, and stays there a needlessly long time or until you find another electrical source.
Teleporting enemies who attack with flashy pyrotechnics exacerbate these problems, resulting in fights that drag on too long and often with your death coming from an unseen source. It doesn't sap away the fun of Festival of Blood because the other elements are so well developed, but it certainly makes for unavoidable rough patches.
It's a shame that fighting isn't up to par in Festival of Blood, but that's no reason to avoid this exciting addition to the Infamous universe. Depending on how invested you become in hunting down every stray item, it could take upward of six hours to reach the end, and there are worthwhile incentives to getting your hands on those prizes.
Collect the right objects and you can raise your flying power, enhance your combat abilities, or just get to hear Mary's morbid tales. For those who would rather point at the screen to aim than guide analog sticks, the Move is fully supported and is a worthy alternative to the standard controller.
Infamous: Festival of Blood provides a good reason for series veterans to jump back into Cole's skin or a small-scale taste for those wondering what all the fuss is about.
Infamous 2: Festival of Blood is a stand-alone PSN game where Cole is bitten by a vampire and must find the head vampire before the night ends. Upvote 4 Leave Blank. It controls well and saves you the headache of having to scale up the sides of tall buildings if you miss a jump or get knocked of a roof. Your grenades and rockets still drain electrical nodes, but flight runs off of a blood meter that you need to keep charged by sucking blood from civilians. Even with these changes, the basic missions follow the familiar template.
Your ability to fly, use your vampire senses, and swing a cool new melee weapon make these encounters even better. Festival of Blood integrates Move support. The less said about this the better…but here are a few sentences: The only motion-based functionality is aiming and rotating the camera, which works terribly in combat. Also, if you have not already played an Infamous game, you will not want to use Move controls. Not that it really matters, since the entire adventure is a story made up by sidekick Zeke to impress a girl at a bar.
His Amp, meanwhile, has been replaced by a more useful iron cross with a sharp hunk of wood stuck to one end. And of course, Cole still has access to all his electrical powers, although the fun, souped-up versions have to be unlocked by completing missions and other challenges. According to Denny, vampires have descended upon New Marais, and Cole has become one of their victims.
He'll have one night to track down and kill the head vampire in order to save himself from the curse. Denny didn't say anything about new powers, but the trailer did show Cole feeding on a hapless human, so we're guessing we'll see at least some new gameplay mechanics. Festival Of Blood will be available this October.
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