Infamous Festival of Blood is a Bloody good time. Puns aside this add on is probably the best vampire game ever. Infamous was already a great game and this standalone version of it does not disappoint. The basic plot is that Cole has been turned into a vampire and unless he wants to be a slave for the rest of his days he has to kill the queen before the sun rises. Being once bitten, twice shy, has it’s perks though and your new abilities are put to great use in the few hours you have left to survive.
The first thing you may notice that changes is that Cole finally gets that Teleport ability that he always wanted. Unlike the other conduits though his ability comes with a heavy price. Your vampiric abilities will force you to drink the blood of countless civilians around you. Sadly the only real recourse for this is a a chewing from Zeke and your own self remorse. There is no Karma meter and so when you drink someones blood or stake a vampire you just stay evil. I wish that Sucker Punch had implemented a choice system for this game because without it Festival of Blood has almost no replay value.
Having no replay value would not be an issue if the game was not so darn fun to play to begin with. The section of New Marias you are given to toy around in is packed to the brim with the Pyre night festival. Pyre night is sort of a mix between Marti Gras and Halloween and the perfect time for creatures of the night to come out and play. Not only are some vampires having feast fests on the roof tops, some are actually roaming the streets in human skin. This is where your new vampire abilities come into play in a sort of vamp vision. When you are using vamp vision certain “humans” will stick out and you will be able to see all the collectables and the “dead drops” as well. The collectables suffer from the same problem that the rest of the game does, being that there just is not enough of it.
I really enjoyed this add on but as everything in this review had pointed out it was not enough. Festival of Blood was so short that I beat the story, collected all the blood jars, unlocked all the powers, and messed around defeating vampires all in one sitting. Every second of that time I had a smile on my face but it just seemed like the ideas implemented could have been extended to a larger experience. If you were to do just the critical path through this game you could probably beat it in less than an hour. It does introduce some more User Generated Content abilities and pieces though so if you are craving some more basic gameplay then the option is there.
For how much fun I had with Festival of Blood I would highly suggest it to any Infamous fan. For those of you looking for a long and intensive story I suggest you look elsewhere. Festival of Blood is great for what it is, and for the price, but totally falls flat in comparison to the only other standalone add on in the same vein, Read Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare. I wish that I had more to say about this game but there is almost nothing else to talk about that is not a direct story spoiler. Festival of Blood is really great but could have been so much greater and I was just left thirsting for more.
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Is this stand alone DLC or do you need to own inFAMOUS 2???
You do not need Infamous to play this. It is a complelty stand alone product.