The combat is as fast, fun, and fluid as it has ever been. Infamous: First Light doesn’t break any new ground for the series, it just serves as a fun experience for fans. You can beat the main story in about 3 hours, and you can knock out that platinum trophy in around 8-10 hours. You heard that right, this standalone DLC has a platinum trophy, and it is a fun one. There is a leaderboard to challenge everyone you know, and a ton of challenges to complete that lead to that platinum trophy. The formula here is once again held up by the awesome combat. It’s a very typical setup that involves you killing increasingly harder waves of enemies until you die. They are just fun to chase your friends high scores and to do various challenges. The challenge rooms don’t do anything particularly new. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that they are actually quite a bit of fun though. Maybe its just me, but challenge rooms just don’t excite me. Infamous is never a game I felt needed anything like this. If the idea of this causes you to scratch your head and wonder why, you’re not alone.
The one new feature Infamous: First Light brings to the table is a series of wave based challenge rooms. This is a problem that I wish didn’t exist, but thankfully to the very fun and fluid combat, you notice it a little less. Each mission mainly consist of you just going to a certain area and killing any number of enemies. The uninspired mission design from Second Son still finds its way into this game unfortunately. The main game in First Light doesn’t do anything to move the series forward in any meaningful ways. Running around Seattle with super powers is as fun as ever, although nothing has really changed. They are tweaked to make it a little more interesting since it is the only powers you will be using. Fetch‘s neon powers are a little different from Delsin’s though. Personally, my favorite powers in Second Son were the neon powers.
This may be a bigger problem for some than it is for others. As to be expected in First Light though, you are limited to just Fetch‘s neon powers. The one downside is coming from the main game where you are used to having the ability to switch between all your other powers. If you have played Second Son you know exactly what you are getting yourself into. The gameplay in Infamous has always been where the games shine the most and Infamous: First Light is no exception. One of the weakest aspects from Second Son was its story and while First Light does not have an amazing story it does a better job thanks mostly in part to its troubled main character. The story revolves around Fetch and her brother, who are both homeless and trying to leave town. Unlike Delsin from the main game, Fetch actually has a certain amount of depth to her which is a much welcomed improvement. In Infamous: First Light you play as the side character from Second Son, Fetch. The good news is that I was wrong to not be excited, because this side story is all sorts of fun. I’m also not that big on challenge rooms, so this DLC just didn’t have me all that excited. Despite how much of a fan of the series I am and how much I enjoyed Second Son, I just wasn’t ready for more. When I heard Infamous: First Lightwas coming, I’ll be completely honest, I was not all very excited. Its been five months since Infamous: Second Son was released and now we have our first stand-alone DLC expansion. While it may not have fulfilled all the potential it had, it was still a great game.
Let us know if you have received this new update for the game in the comments below.When Infamous: Second Son launched in March it had quite a bit of hype behind it. The update for First Light is around 2.5 GB in size.
Sony has confirmed PS4 Pro support for Infamous: Second Son as well as its standalone expansion, First Light, which featured a different protagonist. Despite being 3 years old now, the game still holds up pretty well compared to other launch games. Infamous: Second Son was one the launch PS4 games that surprised everyone with its gorgeous visuals. This update reportedly adds PS4 Pro support. Infamous: Second Son was also one of the confirmed games to support PS4 Pro and it has received a brand new update today that is around 3.6 GB in size, according to NeoGAF member CyberChulo. Sony’s first party games are also getting updated and the latest one to receive this update was Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Remastered, which now renders at native 4k resolution on the PS4 Pro, as well as adding improved audio and HDR support for the standard PS4. Since the hardware is being used by the press, developers have started to roll out new updates for the PS4 Pro support. PlayStation Pro is all set to make its debut on November 10th and Sony has already sent the PS4 Pro hardware to selected press members for review purpose.