At this afternoon's inFAMOUS 2 presentation and demo the big reveal was user-generated content. Citing the problem with inFAMOUS as "at some point, it ended" the possibility of limitless missions created by players was introduced.
Sucker Punch's development director Chris Zimmerman and designer Karl Deckard revealed the full-featured tools - with the same assets and behaviors as those used to create the game - available to players of inFAMOUS 2. Including the game's own templates of defense, escort, survival and search and destroy players and creators are not limited to those types: "if you think inFAMOUS 2 should be a platforming game, go for it". That you can create a level independent of existing canon and using the tools write the story to go with the level makes inFAMOUS 2 something of the ultimate fanfic possibility. inFAMOUS 2 is a sandbox game, and Deckard asserts, "We feel like we're the first people to let players into that sandbox".
From the main menu and choosing "Create Mission" you can enter the environment and begin structuring your missions and game - even changing the game's existing rulesets if you want. That means a Cole without certain powers, or a game with combat similar to the core game but perhaps with a re-imagined storyline. Placement of enemies, triggers, rings for racing, time limits, even things like after defeating X number of enemies Cole is granted one of his powers. Within the creator you can easily hop back and forth between the editor and testing the mission.
Having created a mission, it exists alongside the campaign. There is a ranking system that will focus what everyone sees in their game, with Sucker Punch's featured content appearing by default - missions that are not only great but that the guys at Sucker Punch like. Levels that are well-received by the community will appear as "Famous". Filters allow players to narrow that content by mission type or by time of creation of "best shooters".
The user generated features will be part of the game when it ships in June, with only certain elements dependent on latter portions of the story locked until completion (Just Say "No" to Spoilers!).
Public beta for inFAMOUS 2 starts in April, details on signing up March 14th on the game's official site.
Getting some play time earlier today
The friendly folks over at Razer recently sent us their full size Kishi Ultra mobile gaming controller, and this thing didn't disappoint.
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."
Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.
Still a good game though.
3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them
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God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best
TSA go hands on with the beta for Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road, but how is the game transitioning to the post-stylus era?
Nice
I WANT TO BE THERE...... this looks interesting. Thanks for the Details.
So doing 1 vs 100 of the strongest enemies in the game. LETS GO. Thanks for the coverage
Few typo's in this here article but I am going to let it slide. I just hope they are lack of sleep induced and not Martini induced =P
Sounds great about infamous 2, Loved the first one and this one sounds every bit as good...but I have to admit I am a bit skeptical about a "Mission Creator" in a sandbox game. but I both see how it could work and also how it could be a total failure.
Guess we will find out soon enough, I will keeps my hopes in the middle so I can be surprised either way.
Proof that Sony, as a company, really are trying to stick to their philosophy of Play, Create, Share. What's next, map editor in Uncharted 3, Resistance 3, and/or Twisted Metal?
I support any game that encourages prolonged replayability through community support. This is great news and can't wait to test it out.