inFamous

Overview

Infamous is a 2009 action-adventure game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. You play Cole MacGrath, a bike messenger caught in the centre of an explosion that flattens several blocks of the fictional Empire City. The blast leaves him with electricity-based powers while the city falls into chaos.

It is an open-world game played from behind the character. Cole stores electrical power, which he refills by draining generators and other powered sources, and uses it for sixteen powers used in movement, offence and defence. He cannot use vehicles or touch water, but he can climb nearly every building and fall from any height without harm.

A Karma system tracks whether you play as a Hero or as Infamous. Karma moments pause the action and offer a good and an evil choice, and paired side missions lock out the other path. Your Karma changes how Cole looks, which powers you can buy, how the story plays out and how the citizens treat him. There are two endings, depending on your rank at the end.

Empire City is built on three islands, the Neon District, the Warren and the Historic District. Each is held by a gang, and you free sectors by taking on side missions. Collectibles include blast shards that raise your power storage and dead drops that fill in the backstory.

About sixty people at Sucker Punch worked on it for three years, after they finished the Sly Cooper series. They wanted something louder and more comic-book, and took inspiration from the comics DMZ and Batman: No Man's Land. Nate Fox directed and Bill Harms helped with the story. The music was written by Amon Tobin, James Dooley and Mel Wesson, with electric cello by Martin Tillman.

It went on sale on May 26, 2009 in North America and on May 29 in Europe. Reviews were generally positive. Critics praised the powers, the climbing, the mission structure and the story, and noted repetitive combat, a limited Karma system and some technical roughness. It reached nearly two million sales by June 2010.

A sequel, Infamous 2, followed in June 2011. The game was handed out free as part of Sony's Welcome Back programme after the 2011 PlayStation Network outage, and it came out again in 2012 in the Infamous Collection with Infamous 2 and Festival of Blood.

Official trailer

inFAMOUS Superpowers Trailer, PlayStation. Watch on YouTube

Gameplay

Infamous (PS3) Full Playthrough (No Commentary), Rellings. Watch on YouTube

Screenshots

Game details

Genres

Action-adventure

Developer

Sucker Punch Productions

Publisher

Sony Computer Entertainment

Series

Infamous (first game)

Directors

Nate Fox

Producers

Brian Fleming

Composers

Amon Tobin, James Dooley, Mel Wesson, Jonathan Mayer

Writers

Nate Fox, Bill Harms

Platforms

PlayStation 3

Modes

Single player

Yes

Local multiplayer

No

Online multiplayer

No

Release dates

Editions

Buy this game

Subscription history

Disc IDs

The serial printed on the disc and the case. It tells you which region a copy is from.

Trophies

Trophies50

Platinum possibleYes

Platinum

1

Gold

1

Silver

11

Bronze

37

Total

50

Points

1275

Platinum time

35 hours

100% time

35 hours

Difficulty

5 out of 10

Playthroughs for platinum

2

Playthroughs for 100%

2

Platinum without online

Yes

Online trophies

0

Boosting needed

No

DLC has trophies

No

Platinum includes DLC

No

100% includes DLC

No

DLC still for sale

Yes

DLC note

The Gigawatt Blade adds no trophies.

Missable trophies

2

Chapter select fixes a miss

No

Separate trophy lists by region

No

Only in a language other than English

No

Region note

One list for every region.

Online-only version

No

Digital-only

No

Disc-only

No

Players with the platinum

10.17%

Missable trophies

• Good Finish
• Evil Finish

Grind

• Blast shards and dead drops
• Karma upgrades for both sides

• inFamous Platinum Trophy Collect all other inFamous trophies. Platinum 10.18% of players
• Good Finish Beat the game as a Hero. Silver 38.9% of players
• Evil Finish Beat the game while Infamous. Silver 27.68% of players
• Hard Finish Finish story mode on Hard, without changing the difficulty setting. Gold 19.3% of players
• Community Organizer Take over all territory in the Neon District. Silver 45.68% of players
• Civic Leader Take over all territory in the Warren. Silver 31.53% of players
• Urban Designer Take over all territory in the Historic District. Silver 30.73% of players
• Just Scratched the Surface Collect all Dead Drops in the Neon District. Bronze 31.48% of players
• Further Down the Rabbit Hole Collect all Dead Drops in the Warren. Bronze 27.1% of players
• You're so Sly Collect all Dead Drops in the Historic District. Bronze 30.51% of players
• Junior Geologist Find 25% of the Shards. Bronze 46.01% of players
• Member of the Mineral Club Find 50% of the Shards. Bronze 30.38% of players
• Rockhound Find 100% of the Shards. Bronze 11.74% of players
• Frequent Flyer Travel 5 kilometers using Static Thrusters. Bronze 48.51% of players
• Hotfoot Travel 25 kilometers while riding the rails. Bronze 25.74% of players
• Electric Hobo Ride the train for 2 kilometers. Bronze 52.87% of players
• Evil to the Core Purchase every negative Karma upgrade for each power. Silver 15.74% of players
• True Hero Purchase every positive Karma upgrade for each power. Silver 22.85% of players
• Casey Jones Take down 25 enemies while riding on a moving train. Bronze 14.95% of players
• Road Kill Take down 25 enemies while riding on the roof of a moving vehicle. Bronze 56.13% of players
• Drop Everything Thunder Drop for a total distance of at least 500 meters. Bronze 56.18% of players
• AC/DC Drain 750 megawatts of power from Empire City. Bronze 42.09% of players
• Get Off My Cloud Get 100 High Fall take downs. Bronze 20.65% of players
• Red Baron Take down 100 enemies while they are airborne. Bronze 58.28% of players
• Fish in a Barrel Kill 50 enemies by using water. Bronze 54.17% of players
• True Potential Purchase every upgrade for a single power. Bronze 61.97% of players
• Oh, You've Done This Before Take down 50 enemies by sticking them with a grenade. Bronze 27.89% of players
• The Hunger Bio Leech 100 enemies. Bronze 20.04% of players
• Doctor Cole Heal 250 pedestrians. Bronze 32.27% of players
• Goody Two Shoes Reach full positive Karma. Silver 50.11% of players
• Truly Infamous Reach full negative Karma. Silver 28.81% of players
• Good Eats Good guys feed the needy. Bronze 76.78% of players
• Evil Eats Bad guys never share their food. Bronze 55.08% of players
• Good Riot Good guys stand up and take the heat. Bronze 79.97% of players
• Evil Riot Bad guys love starting riots. Bronze 49.56% of players
• Good Train Good guys proactively facilitate transportation solutions. Bronze 61.2% of players
• Evil Train Bad guys make it clear who the boss is. Bronze 36.22% of players
• Good Exposure Good guys are heroes to others. Bronze 55.56% of players
• Evil Exposure Bad guys love to be seen. Bronze 33.03% of players
• Good Sphere Good guys put a stop to the madness. Bronze 41.29% of players
• Evil Sphere Bad guys always want more power. Bronze 28.87% of players
• Good Intentions Good guys work for the greater good. Bronze 41.33% of players
• Evil Intentions Bad guys can't say goodbye. Bronze 34.53% of players
• Back With Trish Reconciled with Trish. Bronze 49.81% of players
• Confirmed Bachelor Trish Hates You. Bronze 29.38% of players
• Clean Up Your Act Defeat Sasha. Silver 65% of players
• Taking Out The Trash Defeat Alden. Bronze 52.04% of players
• Stunt Man Complete any one stunt from the stunt list. Bronze 90.76% of players
• Stunt Coordinator Complete 10 of the stunts on the stunt list. Bronze 58.72% of players
• Stunt Master Complete all of the stunts on the stunt list. Silver 12.25% of players

Space and patches

Space neededAbout 6.9 GB

Update patch01.02

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

DLC

The Gigawatt Blade power was a pre-order bonus, and it became a free download on the North American PlayStation Store, where it is still listed.

Items

Name	Date	Adds	Price	Obtainable today
Gigawatt Blade	2010-12-10	A melee power that is stronger than any other melee weapon in the game but uses a lot of energy.	free	Yes

Playable today

Playable offline todayYes

Single-player, and still sold on the PS3 store in the inFAMOUS Collection.

Online

Online servers runningNo online features

Plays offlineYes

The game has no online features.

Services

Service	Status
Online play	Does not exist

Reception

Aggregates

Outlet	Platform	Score	Scale
Metacritic	PS3	85	100

Critics

Outlet	Score	Scale
1UP	A-	A to F
Eurogamer	7	10
GameSpot	9	10

Staff and cast

Staff

Role	Name
Director	Nate Fox
Producer	Brian Fleming
Story	Nate Fox
Story and dialogue	Bill Harms
Music	Amon Tobin
Music	James Dooley
Music	Mel Wesson
Cello	Martin Tillman
Music direction	Jonathan Mayer

Cast

Character	Actor
Cole MacGrath	Jason Cottle
Alden Tate	Jason Cottle
Zeke Dunbar	Caleb Moody
Trish Dailey	October Moore
Moya Jones	Kimberli Colbourne
John White	Phil LaMarr
Sasha	Jessica Straus
Kessler	Sam A. Mowry

Notes for collectors

• Early copies came with a voucher for the Uncharted 2: Among Thieves multiplayer beta, which started on June 3, 2009.
• The Gigawatt Blade was first only a pre-order bonus at GameStop. It was made free in North America in December 2010.
• A power called Minionize, which would have let Cole control civilians, was cut from the Evil path.
• Riding the elevated train rails was added in the last month of development, on a play tester's suggestion.
• The Platinum needs the story finished as both a Hero and as Infamous, so it takes two endings. Hard Finish has to be done without changing the difficulty setting.
• It was released a few weeks before Prototype, which shares many ideas with it, and the two were compared often.
• Japan got the game on November 5, 2009, about six months after North America.

Credits

Publisher

Sony Computer Entertainment

Developer

Sucker Punch Productions

Director

Nate Fox

Released

2009-05-26

Age rating

ESRB T

Disc ID

BCUS98119

Region

US

Time to beat

about 15 hours