I strongly disagree with you. Their is absolutely no aspect of inFamous 1 that is better than inFamous 2. I love both games. But inFamous 2 is such a better game.

Well I've played the game through entirely now, I'm on my second play through, and I still feel the same way, if not even more in favor towards Infamous 1. I respect your opinion entirely, however allow me to bring up a few things I've noticed which I think will explain why I feel this way. As I mentioned, Infamous 2 is beautiful, and physics-wise it tends to be a drastic improvement. In terms of original scores, it has some of the most epic and amazing music I've heard in a game. It's definitely a real step forward in those areas, and overall it's a quality game with hardly any other sandbox games that come close to it.

The areas I have had problems with though, are having to do with story, gameplay, AI, and glitches. Story-wise, I felt like they jumped through important topics too fast, and didn't spend enough time on character development in comparison to the original. I never really felt as strong of a connection to Nix or Kuo as some of the characters we've met before, and even old characters seemed to be brushed over.

I wanted to feel a certain amount of progression throughout the game, but too often I felt like the story was more shallow and unmoving than the original. Unlocking the second island didn't seem to have that same sense of urgency or accomplishment as Infamous 1 did. I was also disappointed with the final "boss" battles which were overly simple, and especially unhappy with the ending that we were left with (which I don't want to spoil for anyone who hasn't played it).

In gameplay, I've felt that there was generally less variety of side missions available than the original, so it tended to get repetitive (certain side missions such as removing the security surveillance on the sides of buildings, are completely gone). On both my good and evil play-throughs, I've reached the 3rd tier and full karma long before unlocking the second island without going out of my way to do more than half the side missions. In Infamous 1, I’d be much farther before reaching that point. I was also displeased with a lack of actual bosses (I don't really count the mini-bosses since you fight them so often, and they usually take a matter of a 1-2 minutes to kill), aside from the one that you know about from the beginning of the game and the end of the first island, both of which are very simple and unchallenging battles.

In terms of AI, I noticed that very often the game had civilians running into your line of fire instead of away from it. The AI for the enemies was just as bad, and had them either committing suicide or similar problems due to walls being in their way when throwing grenades or shooting rockets. The rocket-launcher enemies were also a major frustration, as they seemed to be spawned far too commonly, and made dying from unseen places a consistent annoyance/issue. All these problems were much less prevalent in the original.

Lastly, I've also come across some bad bugs and glitches. More than once now I have fallen through the geometry and died, meanwhile other problems like the "start menu freezing" issue, has occurred many times for me. In two and a half playthroughs of the first Infamous, I've had only one lock-up and no glitches through the entire game.

Now, all this isn't to say that Infamous 2 is a bad game, because it’s not. It's because of these key issues that I thoroughly enjoyed the original more, as well as having the original voice actor. You may feel differently than I do, and maybe you've had a better gaming experience than I have with it, but this is simply how I have experienced it up till now. If anything changes between now and when I beat this second playthrough I'll let you know, but I hope I've provided a clear explanation of why I feel this way.

I got 90% done and finished the good side already, i just going through dark side now. The voice was way too different and could of been better, my guess they replaced the original voice actor cause he prob wanted more money. Unless someone else tells me otherwise. I still preferred infamous 1 over the 2nd.

The only complaint I have with inFamous 2 is that Hard was a complete joke in terms of difficulty(Good Playthrough). I had alot more trouble beating my evil playthrough on normal.

I would recommend that you re-read your reviews a few times before you post them. Several sentences don't make much sense, especially in the gameplay paragraph. Most of the time it's small things like writing they instead of the or you instead of your but other times the ordering or choice of words makes it hard to understand.

Otherwise good review with plenty of detail, much better than most N4G user reviews. I'm looking forward to picking this up once I get some spare time next week.

@tachyon_nova thanks for the feedback

Hahaha yea was one of my very first games i owned on ps1 as a child, great memories!!

Love to hear there other people out there that enjoyed the gem of a game that is croc 👌

Yea sly would be cool, i never got into those so would be a good opportunity for me to do so.

But yea theres so many games in sony catalogue we coukd be here all day listing titles.

Hopefully we all get the ganes we are hoping for.

RDR2 for me they can boost that up to 60fps with better graphic settings than last gen

I think there would be money if they made PS3 games downloadable through PSNow and added a bunch more.
Edit: I would get it if MGS4 was available

@DethWish

That would be an emulator. You're not making any sense.

Mr Logic, really? If PS5 could emulate PS3 games (BC) and PSNow would let you download and play PS3 games locally instead of streaming (like it lets you download PS4 games), wouldn't that be awesome? PSNow has some really interesting PS3 games, but I'd prefer to play them locally