"It's cheesy, it's creepy, and it's pleasantly inconsequential." Boom, etc.Īs a member of the undead, Cole also learns a few new skills, such as the ability to take to the skies as a swarm of bats (although the controls, which have you steering with the right stick while you hold down 'up' on the D-pad are a little strange), and Vampire Vision, a detective mode clone that allows you to see into another dimension in order to track invisible monsters, follow trails of otherworldly graffiti, and move through doors that - spooky stuff - aren't really there. Then you're into upgrades for grenades and rockets. After that, though, you get the Shadow Stake, which is a super-powered ram-attack, and therefore a lot more fun. If I'm doing it right, it's just a colourful variation on Cole's standard knockback move. Punch Blast's the first, and it's a bit of a disappointment, frankly. Then there are the new attack moves, unlocked by repeatedly staking the undead. There's also a huge devil-like Firstborn to contend with from time to time - it can disguise itself as a human, and it continues the developer's slightly irritating fondness for teleporting foes. Enemies like the wall-clinging Harpy, armed, for some reason, with Uzis, and like straight-up vamps, some of whom have pinched Rage's wing-sticks. On top of that, you'll have a handful of new toys to play with. You've got the entire south island to mess around in, and a lengthy section of all-new catacomb that leads from the church down to the Sea Fort. Hopefully without undue, well, collateral damage.įestival of Blood's campaign may be short, clocking in around the two-hour mark, but it plays out in a decent chunk of the city.
With dawn as the deadline, and Cole's Amp replaced with a splintered crucifix (don't worry, he still wields it like a baseball bat, and can pull off a new 'Stakeout' finishing move to boot) McGrath must put everything right again and get himself back to normal. New Marais is locked in the throes of a spooky torchlit festival, the cinema's showing films like Die Cooper and Assassins Bleed, and Cole's had an unfortunate run in with a frosty upper-class vampire lady known as Bloody Mary, who's turned him into a vampire too. It's cheesy, it's creepy, and it's pleasantly inconsequential. Sucker Punch's latest electrical adventure - it's not DLC, really, as you can play it without owning InFamous 2 - is an old-fashioned Halloween Special when you really get down to it. Such hazards come with the territory as far as Festival of Blood's concerned. Some of them were just, y'know, dead - partygoers in fancy dress costumes who I'd been cheerfully lamping for the last ten minutes or so. That's until I started to realise that some of them weren't actually undead. 'Pyre Night' celebrations had gripped New Marais pretty hard, real honest-to-goodness bloodsuckers were thronging the streets, and around the town square, I was laying into the undead left, right and centre, and feeling pretty good about things. Carnival Island, Medieval Moves: Deadmund's Quest, and EyePet & Friends have all been dated for November 15.The thing about hunting vampires at Halloween is, well, you're going to have some problems with collateral damage. Sony offered a handful of dates for other Move-compatible titles today, including Everybody Dance, which drops October 18. These titles include Little Big Planet 2 Move Pack: Rise of the Cakeling, which went on sale today for $10. Sony also said today that there are now more than 80 Move games that have been released or are in development. Because it's a stand-alone expansion, previous Infamous games will not be needed to play Festival of Blood. The pack will feature new missions and themed environments, as well as new characters and enemies. After being bitten himself, Cole has one night to track down and kill the head vampire in order to save both his soul and the city. The motion-sensing interface will be integrated into the core Infamous 2 package as well as Festival of Blood.įestival of Blood centers on an invading swarm of vampires in New Marais. Cole's electricity powers will become a bit more visceral next month.Īlong with dating Infamous 2's expansion pack, Sony confirmed that the add-on will introduce Move functionality to the Sucker Punch-developed game. Those curious to see how Cole gets wrapped up in vampire drama will soon find out, as Sony said today that the Festival of Blood stand-alone expansion will be available on October 25 for $15. The improbable interjection of the living dead has become a popular postrelease strategy for games, and Sony is taking exactly that tack with Infamous 2: Festival of Blood.