InFamous: Second Son review and system requirements

In 2014, the third part of the Infamous series of games, subtitled Second Son, visited the PlayStation Store app store. This article is a brief overview that will also cover the system requirements of Infamous: Second Son.

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Plot

The developers introduced in the third part of Infamous a new protagonist - a teenager, Delsin Rowe, who was originally played by Troy Baker, familiar to many gamers from characters from BioShock Infinite and The Last of Us.

Delsin is a young man who loves “illegal” fun. He is engaged in street art, which is perceived by the Seattle authorities (where all the events of the game unfold) as vandalism.

Once, hiding from law enforcement officers, he is faced with a bioterrorist who has super powers. He is trying to catch employees of the Ministry of Unified Defense (MEZ), led by the main antagonist of the game Augustine.

In fact, the MEZ seized power in Seattle and imposed martial law there, governing the city in a way convenient for this organization and its leader.

From this moment, the confrontation begins between Delsin, who received supernatural forces from bioterrorists, and the departments of Augustine.

Throughout the game, the hero will be helped by his brother, a policeman who wants to save Row from a mutation, a girl with an “interesting” hair color, who spent most of his life in a drug trip, as well as a sociophobe gamer who dreams of translating his virtual desires into real of life.

To fight Augustine, the player will be able to use his character’s super-abilities, which, as necessary, will need to be charged (using neon or video, smoke or concrete), and also developed using the “ability tree”.

In previous parts of Infamous, a karma system was present. Second Son is no exception. There is also an opportunity to choose Delsin’s behavior: you can save residents and behave like a respectable citizen, or you can conquer a quarter of a city after a quarter, substituting and killing everyone who gets in your way. The choice is up to the player.

Gameplay inFamous: Second Son

Infamous: Second Son System Requirements

Many critics award the third part the title of “The Most Beautiful Game of 2014”. And this is quite deserved: the graphics even now, in 2018, are at a very high level. However, before discussing the system requirements of Infamous Second Son, it is worth making a reservation: this is an exclusive for the PlayStation 4, from the moment of its release on March 21, 2014 to this day, the game is not planned for personal computers or consoles of other manufacturers.

In this case, the question of system requirements disappears by itself. Consoles in this regard are a very convenient platform. The game simply will not work for a particular generation of consoles, if they cannot support it technically.

The third part of Infamous was developed by Sucker Punch on its own game engine, so it was much easier for the company's programmers to optimize the Infamous: Second Son system requirements for Sony's consoles.

For computers based on Windows and Mac OS, there is no such privilege, and it is unlikely that it will ever appear.

Moreover, it is worth noting that playing in the PS Store is much cheaper than analogs on a PC. And this despite the fact that a powerful personal computer is much more expensive than the PS4 for $ 400. Earlier, many users of Sony’s set-top boxes justified themselves to their friends and acquaintances why they spent such money, but now, with the release of Infamous: Second Son, the need for this has almost completely disappeared.

The game clearly demonstrates the capabilities of the PS4. In many ways, it was able to serve as an example of what the projects for the console from Sony should be, and the manufacturing company itself is doing everything possible to ensure that its customers receive only the best content.

From the above it follows that it is useless to try to find the system requirements of Infamous Second Son on a PC. After all, they are still nowhere to be found, like the games for this platform.

If we consider that the game is reproduced without any problems on the first generation of PS4, then obviously the owners of PS4 Pro do not have to worry about system requirements at all: they will always have it without problems at high graphics settings.

Therefore, the question of the system requirements of the game Infamous Second Sun can be considered closed.

Gameplay inFamous: Second Son

Feedback from users and critics

One of the most popular Metacritic game evaluation portals, where users themselves provide feedback on various projects, awarded Infamous: Second Son 8 points out of 10, which is much more than Call of Duty: World at War 2 and Star Wars Battlefront 2.

Critics, by the way, rated the game at 80 points out of 100, which is also a very high indicator compared to the games described above.

Gameplay inFamous: Second Son

Conclusion

Thus, in this article, a brief overview of the plot of Second Son was made, the opinion of users was described, and the question of what system requirements put forward by Infamous: Second Son was described in detail.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/E26692/


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