Playing other users' UGC will help prolong Festival of Blood a little bit more, but UGC wasn't really my thing in Infamous 2, and the same can be said here (mostly because the tools are too complicated for me to wrap my head around). You can again create your own missions, this time with some new tools that help you tell the story you're weaving just a little bit better. Festival of Blood reintroduces the notion of Infamous UGC - or User-Generated Content - that was first revealed in Infamous 2. You won't be able to explore the northern island at all, which is essentially half of New Marais.Ĭole+isn't+too+worried+about+vampires. Bloody Mary has also left some more cleverly-hidden rune-like collectibles around New Marais itself, but these items are easy to find due mostly to helpful in-game tools and the small nature of Festival of Blood's map. There are 100 Canopic Jars to find strewn around New Marais, and these will help raise Cole's blood meter, a new addition introduced in Festival of Blood that primarily governs his ability to use the aforementioned flying ability. Cole automatically leans evil in the game because he's been turned into a vampire (which forces him to do things like drink the blood of New Marais' citizenry to stay alive), but what if I wanted to play as a different sort of Cole? Isn't that what Infamous has always been about? If you want to play beyond the main story, you can. There are no side quests to distract from the main quest, and one of Infamous' great pillars - choice - is nowhere to be found in Festival of Blood. I beat the game, beginning to end, in 80 minutes. But as I played through the main story, I came to realize just how short the narrative is, and how Festival of Blood gives you no compelling reason to play it again.
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New moves have been added in, too, giving Cole something called Vampire Sense and allowing him to fly all around New Marais as a group of vampire bats, giving you mobility even a parkour-heavy series like Infamous has never provided before.īloody+Mary+is+brutal. He can grind on rails or hover in the air. Cole's moveset is generally the same as you remember he can shoot electrically-charged bolts, grenades and rockets. Regardless of the subpar nature of the story being told, Infamous: Festival of Blood still plays extremely well. It admittedly comes off as rushed and half-baked. Infamous' humorous slant has returned, and the tongue-in-cheek story is entertaining but poorly fleshed out. Zeke narrates the story as you play through as Cole, who finds himself bitten by a female vampire named Bloody Mary and turned into a vampire himself. When a busty woman sits down next to him, he attempts to impress her with a completely made-up story about how he and Cole vanquished vampires from New Marais. But while Festival of Blood delivers a solid gaming experience worthy of the Infamous universe, I was still left a bit disappointed not only with the muddled nature of the story being told, but with the short length of this adventure as well.įestival of Blood begins with Cole's best friend Zeke sitting alone in a bar. As a standalone title that takes place within Infamous 2's setting of New Marais but doesn't actually require you to own or have played Infamous 2, there was promise with this downloadable $10 title to tell a different sort of story. The thing is, now that I'm finished with the game, I realize that Festival of Blood wasn't quite what I expected or wanted it to be. So needless to say, I was excited to finally get my hands on Infamous: Festival of Blood. It was the solid nature of both Infamous titles that had me beat each multiple times, earn Platinum Trophies in both, and generally rant and rave about the series. I'm a big fan of Cole MacGrath and his intriguing rise from every-man bike messenger to reluctant superhero (or supervillain). Infamous was one of my favorite games of 2009, and likewise, Infamous 2 sits high atop my list of best games of 2011.
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