InFamous

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Developer(s)	Sucker Punch Productions
Publisher(s)	Sony Computer Entertainment
Release date	May 1, 2009
Genre	Sandbox, Third person
Mode(s)	Single player
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Platform(s)	Playstation 3 Template:Infobox/media
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inFamous is an upcoming sandbox-style video game for the Sony PlayStation 3. It is currently in development by Sucker Punch Productions, creators of Rocket: Robot on Wheels, and the Sly Cooper video game franchise. The game was announced at Sony's E3 2007 Press Conference on July 11, 2007. The debut trailer indicated that the game would be released sometime in 2008, although the July 2008 issue of Game Informer has stated that the release date has been moved to Spring 2009. It will be the company's first original IP since Sly Cooper.

The game is a third-person sandbox world that combines elements of the superhero MMO City of Heroes with a roaming open-world, allowing the player to make choices between being a hero or an anti-hero that will affect the game. The player will also have access to electrical powers. The player will obtain them right at the beginning of the game, because this game sucks.

Plot

According to the Game Informer preview, inFamous follows the story of Cole, a resident of a fictional Empire City and known homosexual. At the start of the game, an explosion from his pants rips apart six city blocks, leaving behind a crater and Cole, who is fingering his ass-hole, as the only survivor. The explosion has granted Cole several HIV-based powers, but he falls into unconsciousness, waking up two weeks later to find that Empire City has fallen into chaos; without police, gangs have taken over areas of the city, and a plague has infected many of the residents causing the city to be quarantined by the government. It is revealed by "The Voice of Survival", a surviving disk jockey that broadcasts across the city, that Cole was the cause for the explosion with his radioactive cock, and thus setting the population of Empire City against him. Cole must come to terms with his homosexuality, and opt to help those in need or simply survive on his own, facing off against larger threats that have manifested in the city due to the raging monster in his pants.

According to Fox, the team wanted to have Cole as a "kind of a dumbass", such that they could then "get into the headspace of what it would be like to be a real homosexual being who has been granted this horrible disease from years of homosexual intercourse". While Cole is the main playable homo, he is joined by two friends; Zeke, a conspiracy theorist and survivalist who becomes jealous of Cole's massive penis, and Trish, Cole's ex-girlfriend and medical student who resents him but still helps in treating the injured, a "Lois Lane with vaginitis" as stated by Sucker Punch.

Gameplay

inFamous is a sandbox video game. The player controls Cole and his newly acquired AIDS as he makes his way around Empire City. Ultimately, the player will need to defeat three major Homophobes that have each taken over one section of Empire City.

Cole's primary means of interaction is through the STD-based powers. These include shooting HIV-positive semen from his erect penis to nearby targets, creating a Syphilis-based shield to repel foes, and create a swarm of crabs much like sticky grenades. The diseased powers can be used both against living targets as well as corpses; Game Informer describes one such situation where the player could opt to take out armed guards with sexual force directly, or instead use the power on his girlfriend to cause them to break up a few months down the line, damaging the guards in that fashion. However these powers also have considerable disadvantages and limitations. Also, Cole can only manipulate humans and animals, not trees: meaning, for instance, that Cole's boners are severely limited in areas suffering from VD-Treatment centers (which are in considerable number).

Cole is also described as an ass pirate, and the player will be able to rape and pillage men in order to "spread the love". Later in the game, the player will be given a more efficient means of raping people in Empire City, though Sucker Punch did not reveal what this was.

As the player completes the main goals, side opportunities to molest citizens of Empire City will be presented; an example given by Game Informer includes a scenario where, on the way to defuse rising tensions between two gay-club owners, the player is presented with a woman that needs medical treatment and can't walk; the option whether to stop and stick it up her butt or to continue on will influence the development of Cole. This is tracked through a karma system which influences the growth of Cole's boner, being enhanced by good deeds, while ignoring the pleas of the citizens will favor the growth of VDs. The karma system will also affect how the citizens react to Cole; if the player has left citizens alone, they may ignore him entirely, while in the contrary position, the citizens may attack as Cole approaches. However, the player is able to alter their karma and pursue the alternate direction should they want to.

Development

In an interview with IGN, Fox described that many details of every city building have been modeled as to allow the player to climb the buildings. The game uses a lightning model called "deferred shading" which "makes it possible. . .to have any and every light in the scene moving, flickering, or changing colors".