Infamous 2

Overview

Infamous 2 is a 2011 action-adventure video game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. The second installment in the Infamous series, it is the sequel to the 2009 video game Infamous.

The story follows protagonist Cole MacGrath on his quest in New Marais to grow powerful enough to face his nemesis, the Beast. Cole has electricity-based powers that he uses in combat and to get around, and the player gets chances to use them for good or selfish purposes in the game's Karma system. Karma affects which powers become available, how the city's people react to Cole, and the story.

Played in the third person in an open world, Cole can climb buildings, grind along power cables and powered train rails, and hover for a short time. Experience points are spent to strengthen powers or unlock new ones, and depending on the player's choices Cole can gain ice or fire powers from the game's female characters, Kuo and Nix. Hundreds of Blast Shards around the city raise how much electricity Cole can store, and Dead Drops fill in the back-story. A feature called User Generated Content let players make their own missions and share them through PlayStation Network.

Development began right after the first Infamous, led by returning game director Nate Fox, with a core team of 65 to 75 people. The music was composed by James Dooley, Bryan Mantia, Melissa Reese, the New Orleans band Galactic and Jonathan Mayer, and both the music and the fictional city were inspired by New Orleans. Jason Cottle, the original voice of Cole, was replaced by Eric Ladin because Sucker Punch wanted someone who could also perform Cole's movements with motion capture.

The game came out in North America on June 7, 2011, in Europe on June 8, in Australia on June 9, in the UK, Ireland and Germany on June 10, and in Japan on July 7. A Special Edition and a Hero Edition were announced for pre-order in February 2011. Infamous 2 was later released together with Infamous and Infamous: Festival of Blood as the Infamous Collection on August 28, 2012.

Reviews were generally positive. Praise went to the city design, traversal and graphics, while the Karma system and the camera drew criticism. The game was nominated for Best PS3 Game at the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards and was ranked 14th on IGN's Top 25 PlayStation 3 Games. According to the NPD Group it sold 369,200 copies in North America in June 2011.

A stand-alone expansion, Infamous: Festival of Blood, followed on October 25, 2011. A stand-alone sequel for the PlayStation 4, Infamous Second Son, was released in March 2014.

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Game details

Genres

Action-adventure

Developer

Sucker Punch Productions

Publisher

Sony Computer Entertainment

Series

Infamous

Composers

James Dooley, Bryan Mantia, Melissa Reese, Galactic, Jonathan Mayer

Directors

Nate Fox

Modes

Single player

Yes

Release dates

Editions

Buy this game

Subscription history

Trophies

Trophies52

Platinum possibleYes

Platinum

1

Gold

2

Silver

9

Bronze

40

Total

52

Points

1350

• inFAMOUS 2 Platinum Trophy Collect all other inFAMOUS 2 Trophies Platinum 16.12% of players
• Pain Builds Character Finish the game on hard difficulty. Gold 20.49% of players
• Just One More Pick up all the blast shards scattered around New Marais. Gold 31.07% of players
• With Great Power Comes Greater Power Unlock and purchase all powers. Silver 23.55% of players
• Shardcore Pick up 50% of blast shards scattered around New Marais. Silver 49.23% of players
• Fight the Good Fight Unlock the good ending. Silver 51.76% of players
• Forging Your Own Path Unlock the evil ending. Silver 34.81% of players
• Land Lord Take over the first island in New Marais. Silver 35.44% of players
• It's My Town, Now Take over the second island in New Marais. Silver 30.04% of players
• Well inFORMED Collect all Dead drops. Silver 23.97% of players
• Arch Villain Earn full negative Karma. Silver 31.94% of players
• Incorruptible Earn full positive Karma. Silver 49.52% of players
• Behind The Curtain Collect 50% of the available Dead Drops. Bronze 52.29% of players
• Closed Casket Affair Give Bertrand what he wants. Bronze 59.68% of players
• A Streetcar Named "Boom!" Complete BOOM! Bronze 42.94% of players
• Quid Pro Kuo Complete Leading the Charge. Bronze 62.39% of players
• Playing Both Sides Complete Fooling the Rebels. Bronze 38.77% of players
• Ambulance Chaser Complete Hearts and Minds Campaign. Bronze 60.08% of players
• Status Kuo Choose Kuo in Storm the Fort. Bronze 58.98% of players
• Get Nix'ed Choose Nix in Storm the Fort. Bronze 40.05% of players
• Am I The Daddy? Complete Nix's New Family. Bronze 38.18% of players
• Exposure Complete Exposing Bertrand. Bronze 54.53% of players
• The Cleaner Complete the assassination side missions. Bronze 29.57% of players
• Frozen Asset Complete the Ice Conduit side missions. Bronze 33.4% of players
• Dazed and Defused Take down the Blast Shard Bomber. Bronze 45.15% of players
• Back to the Bayou Return to the swamp blockade. Bronze 28.47% of players
• Mountaineer Climb to the top of the 3 tallest buildings in New Marais. Bronze 31.84% of players
• Extreme Makeover Destroy 30 verandas or other large objects. Bronze 21.52% of players
• Watch That First Step Defeat an enemy by destroying the object they stand on. Bronze 90.1% of players
• Finish What You Started Perform 100 finishers or ultra melee combos. Bronze 53.69% of players
• Knockout in the Blackout Defeat 50 enemies in powered down areas while no missions are active. Bronze 23.27% of players
• Go Long! Hurl 50 objects using the Kinetic Pulse ability. Bronze 65.65% of players
• Cole' Blooded Defeat 100 civilians. Bronze 45.57% of players
• Army Of Me Defeat 300 enemies. Bronze 73.22% of players
• Hero to the People Stop 80 crimes in progress. Bronze 46.01% of players
• Nothing Can Bring Me Down Stay off the ground for 130 meters. Bronze 43.03% of players
• Return to Sender Send a Helicopter's rockets back at it using any Blast ability. Bronze 36.84% of players
• Vehicular Manslaughter Defeat 25 enemies by throwing cars at them. Bronze 35.02% of players
• Take Them For A Spin Hit at least 6 cars in a single Ionic Vortex. Bronze 43.18% of players
• Shock and Awe Thunder drop into a group of 5 or more enemies. Bronze 61.89% of players
• Thunder Flop Thunder drop from the highest place in New Marais. Bronze 32.78% of players
• Head Hunter Use the Precision ability to rack up three head shots in rapid succession. Bronze 39.17% of players
• Discerning Taste Take down a street performer who is imitating a statue. Bronze 74.31% of players
• I'm As Shocked As You Are Defeat an enemy or civilian by stepping in water. Bronze 73.38% of players
• Don't Fence Me In Climb a chain link fence and rejoice. Bronze 84.24% of players
• Express Elevator Ascend 50 vertical launch poles. Bronze 42.47% of players
• Heavy Hitter Use your Ionic Powers 30 times. Bronze 65.8% of players
• Matching Set Unlock and purchase a power of each type by performing stunts. Bronze 51.89% of players
• Level Up Create a new mission using the UGC level editor. Bronze Needs online 36.68% of players
• UGC Curious Play 10 user-generated missions. Bronze Needs online 26.31% of players
• UGC Veteran Play 25 user-generated missions. Bronze Needs online 21.45% of players
• Trail Blazer Play 5 user-generated missions under the Newest filter. Bronze Needs online 23.22% of players

Space and patches

Space neededAbout 14 GB

Update patch01.04

These are the patches Sony still hosts for this disc ID. The game's real history can be longer.

DLC

Extra powers and missions were sold on the PlayStation Store, and the Hero Edition bundled most of them. Festival of Blood is a separate stand-alone game.

Items

Name	Adds	Date	Price
Stalker Grenades power	A new power
Sniper Blast power	A new power
Three extra Subway Missions	Three more missions
PlayStation Move support update	Move controller support across the whole game and a cutscene tool for the mission creator	2011-11-02	free
Infamous: Festival of Blood	A stand-alone vampire-themed spin-off with a non-canon story set in New Marais	2011-10-25

Playable today

Online

Online servers runningNo

The service for sharing user-made missions was switched off on August 31, 2026, so missions can no longer be shared or played online.

Services

Service	Status	Shutdown date
User Generated Content mission sharing	ended	2026-08-31

Reception

Aggregates

Outlet	Platform	Score	Scale
Metacritic	PS3	83	100

Critics

Outlet	Score	Scale
IGN	9	10
Game Informer	8.75	10
GameSpot	7.5	10
Eurogamer	8	10
GameTrailers	9.2	10
Giant Bomb	4	5
GamesRadar	4	5
GameSpy	4.5	5
1UP	B+	letter grade

Staff and cast

Staff

Role	Name
Director	Nate Fox
Composer	James Dooley
Composer	Bryan Mantia
Composer	Melissa Reese
Composer	Jonathan Mayer

Cast

Character	Actor
Cole MacGrath	Eric Ladin
Zeke	Caleb Moody
Lucy Kuo	Dawn Olivieri
Dr. Sebastian Wolfe	Michael Ensign
Joseph Bertrand III	Graham McTavish
Nix	Nika Futterman
John White	Phil LaMarr

Notes for collectors

• Three trophies ask you to play other players' missions, and that depended on the mission-sharing service that closed on August 31, 2026.
• The game has a good and an evil ending, and a trophy for each.
• The disc has a North American ID, BCUS98125, and two European ones, BCES01143 and BCES01144.
• Good and Evil Cole also appear as playable characters in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, and as costumes in LittleBigPlanet 2.
• Cole was redesigned for this game after fan feedback, and the first game's voice actor was replaced.
• The score came out as two albums, the Blue Soundtrack and the Red Soundtrack.

Credits

Region

US

Time to beat

about 12.5 hours