inFAMOUS 2: User-Created Missions Give Infinite Possibilities, Limited Beta in April

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Here at Sucker Punch, we’ve spent the last couple of years hard at work on inFAMOUS 2. Over the last nine months or so, we’ve talked about a lot of things that make I2 awesome—things like crazy new powers for Cole, super-powered sidekicks, radically improved graphics and special effects, a cool new karma system with branching story lines and multiple endings—but we’ve managed to keep one major feature completely secret.

Until today.

Sandbox games like inFAMOUS 2 are a ton of fun. There’s a whole city to explore, and we provide lots of stuff to do in the city… but no matter how many missions and mini-missions and systemic opportunities and branching story lines we add to the game, eventually the story ends.

We thought inFAMOUS 2 would be better if it didn’t end—if you never ran out of missions and mini-missions to play and things to do. So… we spent the last two years adding a User-Generated Content feature to the game. With User-Generated Content, inFAMOUS 2 players can build new missions, then share them with the world. I think you’ll all quickly discover that while building missions is a lot of fun, seeing people play and enjoy those missions is even better!

There really aren’t a lot of limits to the sorts of missions you can build. Sure, you can build the sort of missions that will ship on the inFAMOUS 2 disk. Mission creators have access to the same set of characters, creatures and props—so if you want to set a pack of Hive Lords rumbling after Cole through the streets of New Marais, you can do it. If you want to have Cole and Zeke face off against Nix and Kuo, you can do it.

If you want to bend the rules of inFAMOUS 2 to create new kinds of missions, you can do that too. Wish I2 had pure stealth missions? No problem, you can create stealth missions. Looking for more of a challenge? Try taking away some of Cole’s powers—see how the player does facing a platoon of Militia wielding only his Amp. Or add an old-school platforming challenge, or a race, or… I could go on all day.

It’s pretty easy to do missions that are more like mini-games, too. Skeet shooting? No problem. Disc golf? Assuming you’re happy tossing around cars instead of Frisbees, sure. How about a mission where Zeke just tells you bad jokes until you shoot him? Um, yeah, you can do that, too.

Building missions is only half the story, of course—we make it super easy to upload your missions to the network, so other players can see your cool new missions.

User-generated missions show up in the world just like regular missions. When you walk up to them, you see the PSN tag of the mission creator, plus extra information like the mission’s current rating. And back at Sucker Punch headquarters, we’ll be watching—missions that get high scores will get promoted to the Sucker Punch Featured Missions list, and those missions will end up just about everyone’s copy of New Marais.

We think this is a neat opportunity for people to become famous for the missions they build. We know there are lots of creative people out there, people who love third-person action games like I2, and have great ideas about what they’d do with the game if they had the chance. Well, now we’re giving you that chance! Let’s see what you can do!

There will be a limited public beta of inFAMOUS 2 UGC starting in early April. We’ll be announcing how to sign up for the beta on March 14… watch infamousthegame.com for more details! And be sure to watch the video above to whet your appetite…

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  • I sure hope that “limited public beta” is code for Playstation Plus members only!

  • Please answer SUCKERPUNCH:

    Is this all the modes in infamous 2 or are there stuff still unannounced??

  • Hmm wow I wasn’t too sure about getting Infamous2 however after reading this and seeing the video I think I am sold on it now. This looks amazing!

  • I’m trying to be a cheapskate and rent the game and wait a year to buy the collector thing when it’s much cheaper. you people are making me feel like a jerk now.

  • Pure Epic!!

  • Looks like this one will never be traded. Heck I traded inFamous in months ago but just bought it again this weekend to freshen my memory up on the story.

    This though is COMPLETELY unexpected! I love the create/share revolution that is going on now and hope to see it in even more games. I don’t create jack squat but I love the replay ability afforded to me by my peers. Way to go SONY!

  • PLAY, CREATE, SHOCK! HELL YA! sony, PLEASE be smart and advertise infamous 2 as a part of the play create share brand…

  • PROBLEM WITH WEB SITE FOR inFAMOUS 2, ERROR with REGISTRATION Keeps occuring.

    Hey guys,
    After I read the story, I clicked on the link to the web site, and upon entering my birthdate & entering my email address, after I clicked “Submit”, up came a message in RED lettering saying “Registration failed. Please try again.”

    I’ve unsuccessfully tried to Register going through Internet Explorer and also on AOL5 times on each engine, and I just
    cleared my cookies and cleared Temp files, but to no avail.

    Please Advise,
    Haskell420

  • wow, didn’t see this coming… this is pretty epic!

  • I know what I’m doing

    Cole is in the middle of a rotounda, The Militia is attacking him with an Allied D-Day type invasion force, with lots of standard weak guys, tons of buff guys, and tons and tons of trucks with machine guns, you must fight them off, for there is no escape.

    It will be epic. or maybe a hole in every ps3

  • i tried repeatedly to register on the infamous 2 website, but it wouldn’t let me register! is it cause i live in Canada or something?

  • This is a really neat idea! I can’t wait to try out these features! This is easily my most anticipated game of this already huge year.

  • Very cool that you guys implemented a mission creator into you sandbox game! Big compliment ;)

  • This is Truley AMAZING!!!!! I beleive this is why Naughty Dog was working together with Sucker Punch?

  • fricking awesome sucker punch cant wait til i design my own missions :)

  • AMAZINGG!!!!!

  • holy i thought there was going to be over 1000 story missions! but instead create your own!

  • Also this video will go on my youtube channel as a featured video after Black Ops DLC releases

  • WOW!!!! Can’t wait to get my hands on this game. Also is the original Cole skin only going to be available in Europe?

  • only thing it needs now is same console multi player

  • Man, I wasn’t that interested in inFAMOUS 2 until now. I bought inFAMOUS on the first day I could, and it was worth every penny. Smoothest animation in games!

  • …User created missions?

    Whaaaat.

  • This is inFTW!

  • Want game now!

  • This is the most blown away I’ve been by a piece of video game news in a long time. If this is done right, and it looks like it will be, it is a huge deal.

  • So is this only for the beta or will this feature be in the real game too?

  • Honestly, this game was a ‘most likely going to get’ game for me and just became an ‘absolutely must get’ game.

  • I don’t mean to downplay what SuckerPunch is doing here– this is definitely awesome– but, man, I can already see 1,001 “Fight the giant crowd” missions. Sort of like LBP’s ‘pile’ of “Instant Trophy” levels involving jumping on a button or walking into a box full of bubbles.

  • the song just gives me a brain wave. if they going to make infamous 2 sequal. I hope they can do with cole with his “conduit friends” vs beast with his “conduit underlings” BAM!! there we go… we have sucker punch’s epic super heroes war battle ever!! :)

  • Sounds absolutely amazing. Let’s just hope its not too complicated and hard to use…

  • *throws laptop over shoulder and goes to pre-order Infamous 2* ……… gimme game NOW!!!

    PS – Will Infamous 2 be at PAX East 2011?

  • Wow, just wow! With all of the amazing games coming out this year this and Uncharted 3 have been on the top of my list. Thanks for making it look like you will somehow exceed those lofty expectations.

  • Holy Guacamole! There was a lot to do in the first inFamous! User created missions added on is pretty epic…

  • OK one thing that needs to be implemented in this is MULTIPLAYER..i hope thats ANOTHER WELL KEPT UNEXPECTED FEATURE.Being able to play the created missions with friends our would the CHERRY on the top of this EPIC USER CREATION SUNDAY!..SERIOUSLY..ATLEAST TWO PLAYERS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO PLAY TOGETHER..KOLE AND ZEKE..DOING MISSIONS TOGETHER..JUST THINK ABOUT IT! PLEASE! BUT YEAH GREAT WORK KEEP IT UP..PLAYSTATION4LIFE!

  • I love you guys for this, but I really hope you have a feature to turn it off too so the entire world isn’t just full of those green tags.

  • What the

  • I am sorry if I sound like a broken record, but MIND = BLOWN!!

  • This is cool and everything but please for the love of god no anoying trophies for this mode.

  • would this mode feature online coop?

  • Wow…sony’s really in a creative mood…
    you got little big planet, this, modnation racers, etc…

  • I was already gonna buy the game, you keep stuffing it with awesomeness. Reviewers should put this over 9.5 easily with the addition of so many innovations.

  • BOOOM HOMERUN this is just too amazing …i will surely pre-order my hero edition early

  • SuckerPunch, please answer!

    Do you guys eat awesome-sauce for breakfast, lunch, or dinner? Cus this is amazing!

  • Sucker Punch has just well Sucker Pucnhed us all with this! lol :D Definitely gonna buy this game!!!

  • [DELETED]! Yes, I never expected the “play, share, electro-shock” going down on Infamous2! Yes, this is a day 1, I loved the 1st one, but the user creativity will be awesome in this big ol’ sandbox of the N.O!

  • will the hero edition be available in CANADA ???

  • simply amazing guys. blew me away. great work! will annoy all my friends to death to buy this game!

  • Yeah, this is pretty much a must buy. Like many people said already, this means we create our own “DLC” and makes the possibilities endless.

    Naughty Dog may need to take notes with this one.

  • Can’t wait!! I have my hero edition preordered :)) I proudly own the platinum trophy for inFAMOUS 1!

  • every game should have some kind of user created missions / levels …

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