Infamous: Second Son
Infamous: Second Son, a PlayStation 4 exclusive , brings you an action adventure game where surrounded by a society that fears them, superhumans are ruthlessly hunted down and caged by the Department of…
Infamous: Second Son is an adventure developed by Sucker Punch Productions, released 21 March 2014 on PlayStation 4. The main story takes about 16.1 hrs to finish.
What Infamous: Second Son is
Infamous: Second Son is an adventure game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and released in 2014. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Second Son takes place in 2016, seven years after Infamous 2's Conduit protagonist Cole MacGrath sacrifices himself to cure humanity of a plague and destroy The Beast. Cole uses the powerful Ray Field Inhibitor weapon, which kills him and most of the other Conduits. The U.S. government establishes the D.U.P. to hunt down and capture the world's remaining Conduits, dubbing Conduits with the pejorative "Bioterrorists ". The protagonist is Delsin Rowe (Troy Baker), a 24 year old graffiti artist and the local delinquent of the Akomish reservation. Delsin has the unique Conduit ability of Power Mimicry, allowing him to copy the powers of any Conduit he comes into contact with. His brother…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Infamous series
Infamous: Second Son is the 12th of 15 entries we hold in the Infamous series. The next entry was Infamous Second Son - Special Edition in 2014. Its critic score of 79 is 2 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Infamous at 86.
How it was received
Infamous: Second Son holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 10 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 78, across 534 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 16.1 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 22 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Infamous: Second Son launched on 21 March 2014, within three weeks of South Park: The Stick of Truth, Dark Souls II, Hearthstone and Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: South Park: The Stick of Truth, Dark Souls II, Hearthstone, Diablo III: Reaper of Souls.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Infamous: Second Son yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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