InFamous

I heard about this game from Game Informer a LONG time ago and at the time I couldn't wait to see what I could do on it, but then after a YEAR of waiting I finally got around to finally playing it!!! XP

First: The basics. A normal package carrier living in New York is able to jump from building to building as your everyday 'Spiderman' ((before he even gets his powers)), making him the perfect mail carrier (and yes, people really do climb up buildings and jump from roof to roof and emergency staircases to do this stuff. When you have talent, why not do what you love ).  He then gets nosey and decides to open a package just for it to literally blow up in his face. By the time the dust settles, he finds himself in the middle of a huge crater with electric powers. Now, given the decision that we all so desperately always want in a game, the choice to do a good deed or the evil one, you need to either save the people or tell them to go fuck themselves and bow down before me.

He can jump from buildings and glide through the air with electricity, or skate on top of power lines as well as chain people up with...electric handcuffs? By the end of the game you realize that the creators of this game weren't making it to let people choose their fates, but rather to make you play the game twice and allow you to get the cool prizes at the end (the prize of being good SUCKS compared to the arc red lightning you get from being the evil).

After a while, with so many choices of good or bad, no grey area is what I don't like about it. In one of the first missions, you have to save a large food crate that was dropped in to the people, but it got stuck. Using your capabilities to climb walls, hang from poles and all around 'Spiderman' your way up there, you get 2 choices: Drop the crate and let the people get it; Or take the entire crate for yourself and kill everyone below you. Why not just take the crate and laugh as people are asking "Hey, where's he going with the food?"

I'm not a bad guy, but I can't help but do the evil stuff over the good. Later thinking, maybe I took things a little too far there.

After the game is over you get your 2 choices and you get to play it over as either the good or bad guy all over again to see what could have happened as the opposite half.

Not a bad game at all, but many moral dilemmas, I give this game an A-.