Hinted multiplayer, hinted Cole customisation!

Sounds pretty hot, and that G4 exclsuive gameplay they had made the combat look awesome. Much better than the E3 demos.

If it’s a more linear game then lengths like God of War and Mirror’s Edge make sense.

If it’s a non-linear sandbox game though, it’s standing up against the likes of Grand Theft Auto IV, which managed to prove that longevity and quality can be evident within a sandbox game. I did like GTA IV at the end of the day, too. I just hated having this fat bloke yell at me about tits every few minutes, but I digress.

If it’s a non-linear sandbox game with stats though, it’s probably in deep shit. That would put it in the same arena as Fallout 3, and I haven’t enjoyed an RPG so much since Mask of the Betrayer, tbh. And that is high, high praise from me. So Fallout 3 proves that a game can have brilliant content, and be open and long.

I just hope for their sake that InFamous is more of the first of these examples than anything else, because as ingenious as it is, I really doubt that an 8-12 hour game within those categories would fly. Not even with the most dedicated of fans.

Some of the unlockables in those games were bastard hard but worth it. (like the time-trial level runs that would unlock developer commentary).

God of War is a pretty decent length given that it’s not padded out with back-tracking or collect quests and that there’s a fair amount of set-piece events. God of War and Kratos is probably my favourite franchise from the last generation is as text-book stuff for how to convey sheer visceral action on screen. I imported the sequel and intended to play it slowly and soak it all in but I still stormed through the game like an addict in a smack house.

Speedruns for God of War weigh in at 2:16:23 for the original and 3:07:25 for the sequel. Quite a few exploits in the sequel though.

I thought this was a sandbox game, though? Sandbox and ‘short’ don’t go together, surely?