It’s a rule: When you become a superhero, you get a city. Spider-Man swings all over Marvel Comics’ version of the Big Apple, Superman’s got Metropolis and everyone knows Gotham City is Batman’s town. In the best interpretations, the stomping grounds that heroes patrol reflect the core truths about them, and vice versa. So Batman [...]
The one good thing that comes from being a sequel is the new story avenues that get opened up. In Infamous, gamers got to play the origin story of Cole McGrath, a bike messenger who got electrical powers in an explosion that ruined his hometown of Empire City. So, what you won’t be doing in [...]
The PS3 exclusive inFamous games wear the influence of superhero comics more strongly than most video games. Series hero Cole McGrath gets a classic superhero origin story–where the blast that destroys much of his city also endows him with electromagnetic powers– and the cutscenes in the first game unfolded in panels like those found in [...]
I loved the first Infamous, because the PS3-exclusive, post-modern superhero game developed by Sucker Punch delivered a unique symbiosis of hero and city. After Cole McGrath was granted electromagnetic powers by an accident that leveled much of Empire City, he–at the player’s command–could use his powers to help heal its citizens or leech their energy [...]
Please don’t suck. Please don’t suck. Please don’t suck.
There have already been a lot of movie screenings at Comic-Con – a lot of big cheers for Harry Potter and sneers each and every time the trailer for Devil, bearing the name of one M. Night Shyamalan, screens.
Described as “Alice in Wonderland with machine guns,” Zack Snyder and Steve Shibuya’s Sucker Punch takes place in the 1950s and tells the story of Baby Doll (played by Emily Browning) and her elaborate plan to escape from a mental institution with the help of her friends. Besides the obvious eye candy, I want to [...]
