In an interview with 1up.com, Sucker Punch game director Nate Fox revealed a few new details on their upcoming 2009 PlayStation 3 exclusive, inFamous. In addition, 1up was also able to obtain some new screenshots on the title, depicting Cole’s super-human abilities.
One of the main points that Fox touched on was creating a superhero game that works: "Our hero, Cole, has powers that are designed from the ground up to work well in the context of a videogame," said Fox.
"For instance, he can shoot lighting bolts out of his hands — why? Because shooting in videogames works really freaking well. Same with being able to climb everywhere in the world and jump between buildings — it’s fun to do! This is our core strategy in crafting our superhero — we’re building the world around his powers and his powers around what’s fun to do in the world."
He also revealed that the team’s most significant challenge was the application of Cole’s climbing ability, allowing him to seamlessly move about the city and scale any building.
"The biggest challenge was getting Cole’s climb ability to work just right," said Fox. "We’d promised ourselves that the whole city was going to be scalable. This is, as you might imagine, a hard promise to live up to, but now that it all works, it was clearly worth all the effort. Being able to smoothly skulk along the rooftops and then jump down onto the heads of a bunch of bad guys is great. You really feel like a superhero."
To read the rest of the interview, pop on over to 1up.com. Also, be sure to check out the latest inFamous screenshots here.