Another potential system-seller that ended up inheriting that title by proxy when big-daddy Watch Dogs bowed out last year, Second Son tells the somewhat rushed (yet still easily enjoyable) tale of 90's-esque grunge-kid Delsin Rowe who accidentally comes across a juiced-up 'Conduit', and just by touching them ends up with some superpowers of his own. The Infamous series' combat is a very dividing one, as its inherently floaty nature in traversal rarely transfers well to close-quarters, and when you're attempting to take on double-digit numbers of guards who have been programmed to shoot your eyelids off from a few city blocks away, you'll end up playing the majority of encounters through a black and white "you're about to die" filter, robbing the experience of some otherwise jaw-dropping graphics. Speaking of graphics they're still the best on the PS4, as Delsin's interchangeable powers are more of a palette-swap in terms of which coloured beam of light or explosion would you like to see, rather than anything more game-changing. However when Infamous does come together, when you can dodge the blasts and whip around the landscape zipping up and down buildings firing off shards of energy and occasionally thwacking a guard across the chops before morphing into a cloud of smoke and firing off down the highway as a crowd of onlookers cheer you on....it's definitely worth it's system-seller title.
