Sucker Punch was kind enough to show me plenty of the game, and I got a lot of hands-on time with it. Cole can even feed his Corruption Meter by sucking human blood and earn special vampire-related attacks that would be otherwise unknown to Infamous and Infamous 2 veterans. By pressing and holding the R2 button, Cole can use his Vampire Vision, allowing him to see who has been corrupted and turned into vampires around him.

Instead, a Corruption Meter takes its place, allowing Cole to channel his evil vampire energies. Because of the fact that Cole is a vampire in this story, and is thus inherently evil, there is no Karma Meter. In terms of gameplay, there's plenty of differences between the Infamous and Infamous 2 experience you may be used to and the gameplay provided by Festival of Blood. So don't worry about any continuity issues. Cole is a vampire chasing an enemy known as Bloody Mary all over New Marais in Festival of Blood, and he only has eight hours to find her, but it's all a made up story designed to impress Zeke's cleavage-showing bar buddy. YES NO Now, Infamous 2 itself is obviously fictional, but when I say Festival of Blood is fictional, I mean it is within the context of the Infamous universe. In fact, you could conceivably play it without having any familiarity with Sucker Punch's franchise at all and still get something out of it. But as you'll find out when you watch its intro, Festival of Blood doesn't tell a subplot that's at all important to your enjoyment of the game that inspired it. Throwing gamers back into the fictional New Orleans-inspired city known as New Marais, Festival of Blood takes place during the events of Infamous 2. Initially announced at GamesCom in Germany this past August, Festival of Blood isn't Infamous 2 DLC per se, but rather a full game in its own right, one that you'll download directly off of the PlayStation Network when it's released on October 25. There's little more Infamous fans could ask for from the Infamous 2 experience.īut it's this lack of a natural fit for DLC that makes Festival of Blood so fascinating. It tells its plot pretty well on its own, and regardless of if you took the good or bad ending (or both), you got a lot of bang for your buck in bringing Cole MacGrath through his second dedicated story on the PS3. Unlike some titles on PlayStation 3 like LittleBigPlanet 2, Killzone 3 or Resistance 3, Infamous 2 wouldn't strike many as a game that needs DLC.

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