Infamous: Second Son is the third game in the Infamous franchise and is a direct sequel to Infamous 2. The game will feature smoke powers, new protagonist, super high-quality next-generation graphics and much more. Infamous 2: Second Son will be releasing alongside the PlayStation 4 at launch later this fall.

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Infamous: Second Son is a PlayStation 4 launch title.

PlayStation 4 will be launching sometime during the Holiday season of 2013. Sony will be revealing the final date and price of the PlayStation 4 at their E3 2013 conference and will be unveiling their entire launch line-up.

Infamous: Second Son – first screenshots unveiled via GameInformer’s cover story. Yesterday, there was a huge influx of all kinds of gameplay and story details about Infamous: Second Son from the magazine and today the screenshots have been finally released.

GamingEverything – has also pin-pointed some of the important story and gameplay details from the GameInformer magazine, including screenshots.

Story

•  Conduits now referred to as bioterrorists

•  New area of government keeps track of the conduits: Department of Unified Protection

•  Condits have been identified, holding them without trial in containment facilities

•  Department of Unified Protection shows its power during an operation that doesn’t go as planned in Seattle

•  Transport vehicle crashes and the conduits escape

•  DUP sets up roadblocks and won’t let anyone enter/leave

•  Condits have been identified, holding them without trial in containment facilities

•  Department of Unified Protection shows its power during an operation that doesn’t go as planned in Seattle

•  Transport vehicle crashes and the conduits escape

•  DUP sets up roadblocks and won’t let anyone enter/leave

•  Lots of security systems are sent out and Seattle is turned into something reminisint of an airport

•  There are elevated walkways with search-lights and security cameras as well as checkpoints and scanners

•  Game has parallels to post-9/11 America setting

•  Security vs. freedom theme

•  DUP is like the TSA

DUP guards

•  DUP guards feature behavior similar to that of SWAT teams/trained military police

•  Others have a seemingly supernatural ability to shield themselves and move around quickly

•  Sucker Punch won’t elaborate on this further

Protagonist

•  Stars 24-year-old Native American Delsin Rowe

•  Delsin is the artistic type with a chip on his soldier

•  Fan of anti-authoritarian street art

•  Likes tagging buildings with his own art

•  Very much an average guy until the conduit-transport vehicle crashes

•  Delsin tries to help those in the wreck, and learns that he’s been a conduit all along with dragging an injured conduit from the area

•  Soon realizes that he can control smoke

•  Natural power lets him absorb other conduits’ power

•  Can use more than smoke power

•  Delsin is excited about his power unlike Cole

Gameplay

•  Delsin can take down different forward-operating bases run by the DUP around Seattle

•  Can get through these areas with force, but eliminating security systems is more effective

•  Smoke projectile at Delsin’s disposal

•  Also can perform a smoke-dash maneuver somewhat like Nightcrawler

•  Air ducts found all across Seattle

•  Can use the ducts to get around or climb like Cole

•  Another technique lets Delsin throw smoking fireballs

•  When Delsin descends, he can perform a “move” like Cole’s thunder drop

•  Forests act as the edge of the game world

•  Another move: smoke cloud; immobilize enemies

•  Can restock on smoke from chimneys, destroyed cars, and even tear gas canister

•  Can also use Delsin’s chain as an alternative weapon

•  Absorb smoke by pressing both thumbs down on the touchpad

•  Touchpad can also be used to free conduits in cells

•  Team wants to simply the controls; inFamous 2 actions required multiple button presses

•  One moment of the demo lets players make a decision about killing a DUP officer or not

•  Can switch between entire sets of power that complement each other

General

•  Sucker Punch recreated the city’s feel instead of specific road layout

Enough of talking, feast your eyes on these in-game PlayStation 4 screenshots of Infamous: Second Son below:

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We’ve been looking forward to inFamous 3 for quite some time now, considering how good 2011’s inFamous 2 was, but we’ve received no confirmation for the game or even a hint that it might exist.

And now? Well, we still haven’t gotten any kind of confirmation, but what we do know now is that developers Sucker Punch are definitely interested in making a third game in the action adventure franchise.

However, Sucker Punch also very vaguely says that it’ll “see where we go next” and that they have a “great relationship with Sony.”

“We’ll see where we go next,” says Bruce Oberg, co-founder of the studio. “We have a great relationship with them [Sony] and adore the PlayStation platform. Not lying when I say that for us is a killer technology platform to work with. Moreover, he media, marketing, and also the approach, allowing us to make the game we want to do is really incredible.”

Well, we can certainly see an announcement in the near future. I’m sure all of us can. But will it be a third inFamous title? Or will it maybe be a PS Vita spinoff, that may or may not be developed by Sucker Punch?

Tell us what you think in the comments section below.

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Sucker Punch is hiring people to work on a new “top notch action title” that will also feature multiplayer. Obviously, everyone’s first guess would be inFamous 3.

Sucker Punch is currently looking for a Lead Mission Designer, a Level/Mission Designer and a Senior Game Designer.

The job ad for the Lead Mission Designer and Level/Mission Designer, over at Sucker Punch’s site, are looking for people with “3-6 years as a mission designer on top-notch action titles”, “the ability to design, script and balance high-quality missions,” and more. Sucker Punch says they don’t just want people who can create good missions, but people who can also ” thread a series of missions together into an engaging tale.”

The job ad for Senior Game Designer shows some other requiremenets- the person applying for this job needs to have “2-5 years as a designer on released AAA games”, “The ability to design, implement and tune ground-breaking gameplay systems” and more. However, most the most notable job requirement has to be the following-

“A range of design experience — mission scripting, combat mechanics, investment systems, multiplayer tuning, enemy design, etc.” Sucker Punch has never made a game with a full fledged multiplayer mode before, so it’d certainly be interesting to see what they do here, especially if it’s inFamous 3. inFamous 2 did have a level designer, but having competitive multiplayer in inFamous 3 would certainly spice things up a lot.

Stay tuned, we’ll keep you updated.

[PS Lifestyle]