Kotaku‘s “Best Game Music of 2011″ is a multi-part series in which we’ll be discussing the best video game soundtracks of the year. Today, we’ll take a look at the New Orleans-tinged superhero music of Sucker Punch’s inFamous 2.
I’m in the middle of playing the new Infamous: Festival of Blood DLC, which gives series hero Cole McGrath all sorts of new powers by virtue of his getting in turned into a vampire.
One of the things that’s always a challenge in superhero games is giving the character new powers as they go. Infamous 2 got to bypass Cole McGrath’s origin story, and as a result introduced new powers while presenting a faster-moving, more enjoyable story than the first game.
Sony Computer Entertainment has acquired Sucker Punch, the studio behind titles like Infamous and Sly Cooper, the Tokyo-based game giant revealed today.
Complicated stances for ideas that lack near-unanimous support in American society remain rare in games. If they appear, how do they even get in there?